Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-04-20
Tom williams cornet.

About twenty years ago the papers w...
full of an Internal machine that haf; -
found, and which came near BLOWING 81.
family. We were living in Whitew5,sIpa
that time, and everybody was taIkin.
about the devilish continuance. uns
morning In the summer q little black yraI
nuf box was discovered under the s,ais-
east OF Coles block. 1t was about To-,
square, and had coffin-handie ON to-,
The nrst man who noticed il was Trnopf.
Wakely, who lived across the stree, ms
had been reading about the internal w..
chine, and he went into the store and ,aII
Dir. Cole there was q suspicious IooL;r.
box under the stairs Mr. Cole and ,hss
clerks looked at it and shook their heal
and soon il was noised around the strae.s,
that an internal machine had been fond
and hundreds of people fiocked 10 see !,
but all kept at safe distance. Finalln
Winchester stepped out of the crowd and
walked toward the box as though he Wa
going to pick it up, and every man held
his breath, expecting to see Wincb1
blown into million pieces But ssWincbn
did not touch it, Then j. L. Pratt went
little nearer and said he didn't BELIEF
there was anything so very dangerous
about il. Then he turned pale and said
Cravath looked over Dick Connor's head
and said if he could get through the crowd
he would examine il. The crowd sena
rated for him to examineit, but he said be
could see well enough from where bo
stood. Some one told him TO put his foo,
on it. He wore number eighteen's. bnt
he always was particular about his feet
along when he found j. WASH I a fight. ana
they asked him to examine it. He said he
would if he had time, but he had got -
90 out on Hackett's Island TO attach a yoke
of steers. Then :. Sep" Wintermute came
over, and they held consultation as 10
the safest way to find out what the con.
founded thing was. Wintermute had
billy-goat that could never see a bow
going from him without buttine
him. 1t got so that no boy ever
thought of going from the hotei to the
mill when the goat was around without
waking backward and watching the goat
1t was finally decided to rig the box I'M
with pair of pants and things, so that il
would look like boy down ON his hands
and knees playing marbles, and let the
goat see il, and he wonld take a run and
Jump and buck the box for all that was
out. Wintermute said he would risk his
goat If they would risk their internal
machine. So they got pair of pants and
fixed it up, by the use OF long sticks, so
that ii looked good deal like Brewers
youngest boy, and they drove the goat
around by the stairs The goat saw what
Finally Seth Billings, the constable, came
he supposed was boy, on his hands and
knees, and the goat laughed. He looked
at it, backed up about ten feet, raised up
his hind feet, blatted a couple of times,
and went for it at the rate of about forty
miles an hour The crowd surged back,
expecting an earthquake. There was
crash, and the goat came out with pair
of boys pants on one horn and an Z fiat
silver cornet on the other. The box be-
longed to Tom Williams, leader of the
Whitewater Band He had left his box
under the stairs while he went down to
the mill, and when he saw the crowd, and
came back and found his new silver cor
net on that goats horn, and smashed out
of shape, his feelings can be imagined
We never saw a crowd SO ashamed, and
now you can't find man in Whitewater
that will admit that he was there at ALL
The boys bought Tom new horn, which
he plays every Sunday now at Myron
Reeds church in Milwaukee.--La Crosse
(WIs.) Sun.