Wichita eagle., 1889-02-05
STRANGE STORIES.
Odd Incidents and Accidents OF
Modern Origin.
A Mutually Strange Fascination-Carried
On by an Essic-A Singular Attach
ment-Engaged by Letter-Tray.
els of q Needle, Etc.
from Many Sources.l


from Many Sources
I Many people from both Georgia and
South Carolina. says an Augusta (Ga.) J
special, have been in the city for the past
week attending the Holiness Camp-meet.
ing. Among the number was Mr.. George
N. Williams, of Marion. s. G. During tbs
services of Saturday evening his attention
was attracted by a young lady in the
choir, and he found himself strangely
drawn to her. Vainly he tried to devote
himself to the sermon. As soon as the
services were over he found that the young
lady was Miss Alice Hadford. He sought
an introduction and obtained permission
to accompany her homo. The next morn
Ing he called again and accompanied her
to the services in the tent He told her his
strange fascination and the interest proved
mutual. After the services he informed
her that he was compelled to leave for
home on Monday night. and begged her to
accompany him as his wife, She consen :.
ed, and it was arranged that they should
be secretly married. He procured car.
rage, and, accompanied by Rev. G. W.
Walker. called for her. Under the pretext
that they were to attend the Holiness
meeting they drove to a friends house
and were there married and left for Ham.
burg.
recent Montreal special saws that, as
the wife of Jean Baptiste Romilly,
farmer in st. Vincent de Paul, village
about ten miles from Montreal, was feed
ing her fowls, while her child, aged about
two years, was playing around, suddenly
a large bald headed eagle swooped down
and bore the little one of in its talons.
The child screamed and extended its arms
to its mother, who was beside herself with
mental agony, but was powerless to rem
der assistance. The screams of the child,
however, attracted the neighbors, who
with shot-guns pursued the eagle. The
bird was seen to alight with its prey upon
the roof OF barn a mule distant Lifting
up its head, with one powerful stroke it
drove its beak into the child's head, and
then began its horrid feast. At the near
approach of the neighbors, who were fir
ing guns to brighten it, the eagle took
flight, leaving the child behind. When
the body was recovered life was extinct.
The skull was split in two, and part had
been devoured.
According to the Lawrence (Mass.)
american singular attachment has been
fled in that city. The murder of Benja-
min j. Belts by John Dwyer at Bradford,
September 3d. is fresh in the mind of the
public. Rose Belts, wife of the murdered
man, has entered an attachment in the
sum of $4,000 against the murderer, John
Dwyer, for the suffering caused her hus-
band just previous to his death, the time
he lived being about ten minutes This is
a singular ttachment, and was served on
Dwyer at the jail in this city, Tuesday, by
Deputy Sheriff Johnson, of Salem, and
suit has been entered at the next term of
the Superior Civil Court. Dwyer is a man
OF means and has never been under arrest
before. He is now lying in Lawrence
Jail. He says that he had some words
with the deceased man and struck at him
with knife in his hand, but with no in
tention of sticking it into him. The knife
did enter the victim, however, and he died.
The following engagement by letter is
reported by the Syracuse Standard: Near
ly three years ago young man of this
place, named Clifford Fuller, began a cor
respondence with an unknown lady in
Virginia. When few letters had been
written, the young couple exchanged pho
tographs, and, after a continued corre-
spondence of two and hall years, they,
were engaged to be married. The first of
this week they Were to meet at a hotel in
New York, and the lady was to be recog-
nized by Dird-cage, which she would
carry, possibly with the idea of appear
ing at her worst. By some mistake MIR.
Fuller reached the hotel after the lady had
arrived and was comfortably seated in
her room. Mr.. Fuller, in the mean time.
anxiously scanned every car in hopes of
seeing the cage. The lady, after waiting
two hours, went to the office, found his
name re ,istered, and left her card, with
the request that he would meet her in the
parlor. This he did. They started for
his home that afternoon. The marriage
ceremony was to be performed at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Fuller's parents Thursday,
but the bride was taken seriously i'll, and
in consequence the wedding has been post
poned indefinitely.
Lafayette Qnd.) special describes the
travel of needle as follows: A rather re-
case in surgery was performed
to-day in this city. Miss Amanda Stur gis
had habit of putting pins and needles in
her mouth, and on the 10Th day Of last
month she accidentally swallowed a
needle. In the last few days she has COM
planned OF pain in the left knee, and this
morning it became SO intense that she APP
Piled to surgeon for relief. On examina-
ion the presence of the needle was visi-
Die, which he extracted by the aid of
'calpel. He says the most remarkable
feature in the case is in the fact of the
needle having Travelled from the CLOTHS to
he knee in SO short time.
According to an Upshaw (Ala-) corre-
pondent there IS a man in Wills Valley,
,ear Collinsville, named Turner Ransom,
Who has a well-developed tail Il grows
rom the base of the spinal column, is
bout nine inches long, aud resembles the
all of a common black dog. It is said to be
he result of an e-netal scare
At Bridgeport. Conn, Montgomery
igbert and John White, firemen, were
iding recently when the team took fright
nd both men were thrown out. Egbert
vas picked up insensible. His Jaw was
roken, and has false teeth went down his
hroat-