Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-17
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MIDDLETowN, N. Y, August 16.-Near
Black lake, Sullivan county, Smith
Schoonmaker, an aged farmer and keeper
of a large hotel for summer boarders on the
shores of the lake, was killed by a vicious
bull. The animal was known to be ugly
and as a check on its ferocity its horns had
been tipped with brass buttons. 1t attacked
Mr.. Schoonmaker as he was crossing the
field in which it was kept, and after knock
ing him down banged and bruised him with
its horns and hoofs so severely as to cause
his death soon after he had been rescued.
Honey bees have singular and intense
aversion to the odors exhaled by a sweating
horse. as James Owens, farmer and aplarist
of Cannonsville, Delaware county, has good
reason to know. The other morning he
started his moving machine behind a $500
team in a meadow adjoining his apiary.
The horses went around the field twice un-
molested by the bees.
THE THIRD ROUND.
But when the team had got we'll heated
up and were passing the hives on the third
round the bees attacked and stung the horses
at first in small numbers and afterward in
enormous and angry swarms. The horses
became frantic with pain and terror. Mr..
Owens set at work to detach them from the
machine when countless numbers of the an
CRY insects attacked him.
By supreme effort he escaped with his
horses out of the range of insect enemies.
Mr.. Owens came near dying of the bees
stings and lost one of the horses.
Mr.. George Hovey, of New York, rented
the Schultz House, at Leurenkill, Ulster
county, for the occupancy Of his family
during few weeks of their summer vaca-
ton. The house had for some time been
tenantIess. One day Mrs. Hovey went into
the cellar after some vegetables for dinner.
As she stopped to pick up the vegetables
rattlesnake stuck its fangs into one Of her
fingers with such force that she had some
difficulty in shaking the reptile off. A
cool-headed member of the house imme-
diately applied a lgature to her wrist,
bathed the wound with ammonia, admins
tered liberal doses of whisky, and sent for
doctor. Mrs. Hovey is recovering. The
snake seems to have crawled out of the
cellar and escaped.
ANOTHER SNAKE STORY.
Lewis Thompson lives near OAK Ridge
station. on the New York and Susquehanna
Railroad. He was walking in his garden
on Sunday afternoon, wearing slippers on
his feet. Suddenly he came upon a big cop
per head snake. On the rash impulse Of
the moment he jumped upon the snake. in
tending to crush and kill it. He landed on
the back of the snake, but his slippered feet
failed to harm il. The reptile raised Its
head and twice sunk its fangs deep into his
unprotected ankle. Heroic doses of whisky
were given him at once, and as soon as pos
sible physician was summoned. His feet
and legs swelled to nearly double the
natural size and turned of q mottled black
color. He will get we'll. His neighbors
hunted up the snake and killed il.
Not far from the scene of the last incident
st Swartzwood lives Farmer Philip Black
ford, who has 0-year-old daughter named
Norma. The little girl was playing in the
barn the other day, when she stepped upon
q bunch of hay. under cover of which lurked
q good-sized rattlesnake. The first intima-
tion that the girl had of the snakes pres
ence was when it struck its fangs into the
calf of her leg. Here again the readiest and
now almost universal antidote, whisky, was
promptly resorted to until medical treat
ment could be had. The girls body and
limbs swelled prodigiously, her eyes became
bloodshot and her skin took on the horrid
spotted appearance which indicates poison
ing by rattlesnake venom. She is conval-
escing.