Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-04-05


which Befeii Pennsylvania Family.
A gentleman OF undisputed truthful
ness and veractty gave the following
interesting bit OF family history, and at
his request we viii not give the name,
but tho facts contained in the recital OF
the following can be verified at this
office at any time. The gentleman said:
sOf the family. besides mother and
father, there were nine oh ldren, six
boys and three girls. Father was
blacksmith by trade. skilled worss-
man, and lived an upright, consistent
Christian life He was passionateiy
fond OF his home and children, and
worked hard for their interests. At
the proper age all Of tho boys learned
trades, as follows: George, the oldest
boy, became blacksmith; Charles,
candy manufacturer, and later he
learned the locomotive engineers trade;
/ Frank, carpenter Richard, a printer;
| Henry, professor in business college.
William was studying chemistry when
/ he met with sudden and violent death
from lockjaw. caused by cutting his
foot while in bathing in the river. You
/ can call it series of strange fatalities
If you wish, or by any other term, and
yet dare say there is no family Of the
same number Of ours that has passed
through an experience in any way sim
liar.
THE father was twice confined to
the house with severe Illness, once with
smallpox and another time with typhoid
fever in its most malignant form
when deputy sheriff OF the county
he was sunstruck while out on official
business. and fell from the sulky on to
the horse, which caused it to run away.
horribly mutilating father and laying
HIM up for several months A year OF
two later he fell from church steeple.
where he had been repairing light
ming rod, distance OF forty -nine feet,
but from this he received no percepti
bic injuries A few years later he slip
ped and broke his leg while getting of
passenger train, and last summer hs
died suddenly from heart complain
while standing On the porch at the bach
door OF the house.
The mother died as suddenly Of tn.
same complaint in 1876. Charles. tn
engineer, died a violent death, almos
instantly, by being injured by the carr
in 1872. In 1869 George, the black
smith, while working at his trade ha,
his nose accidentally broken by q stee
hammer, which slipped from the handt
. and hitting him in the face I think
, was in 1860 or 1861 that sister Kat
|, broke her arm while jumping rope
Frank, the carpenter, broke his lie
while skating in the year 1872. VIII
the brother who died of lock-jaw, broh
,, his arm in 1874, while picking cherries
by falling from the tree to the GROUND
!. A few hours later on the very same da
. the bandsges were removed, he agai
broke the same limb by slipping an
falling, the break being but two inche
/. above the former one. In 1885 Henri!
: the school teacher, while visitin
!. friends in the country, had his lie
! broken By being thrown from the ca
riage attached to runaway horse.
. 1886 Anna, the eldest of the children
: slipped and fell downstairs, breakin
her arm
While this story may seem almo
: incredible to others, it is nevertheles
= true, every word of it, and the on
;, thing I can't understand about it
why should one family more than a
other have such an experience II
= can't answer that question, neither %
any one else. oil City Derrick.