St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-05
"CLIFFE HULL AGAIN
He Returns Home to Find
Ghosts in the Gel
lar.
Explosions Which Caused His
Whiskers to Turn Red,
White and
The Wind Blew Through
EN- on the Cellar
Stairs.
And "CIiffa' Will Ono tho c;+v
And "Cliffe" Will Sue the CITY
for $4,000 Dam
ages.

"You will remember, no doubt. that
went on a vacation last SUMNER" re-
marked Cliffe Hull, at one time a con-
tributor to the columns of the GLOBE,
as he slammed the door behind him and
dropped into the nearest chair. last
evening.
YES, L really took a vacation, and
Just returned. Had great time, and
now want to tell you about some strange
doIngs over at nay house on the East
side. You must not think that mind
these peculiar goings on, but as they
have upset the nerves of Mrs. Hull and
scared the babies into conniption fits,
feel it my duty as citizen to tell the
public about them.
w hen returned from nv trip and
had my terra Gotta whiskerettes sem
arated from the ice which had become
mingled with them, my wife let fall
bomb by remarking that there were
ghosts in the cellar and that must hunt
up another house at once, no matter if
we mad to go out in the Eighth ward
and live. Well, the idea that ghosts had
taken up their abode in my humble. but
aecldedly pleasant home, was just a
Il
could not help but laugh.
That's right, Cliffe HULL exclaimed
my better half, Indignantly. THAT'S
right. Laugh all you want to. but you
cannot induce me to remain in this
house another week. So, thereg
AS Mrs. Hull never uses the so,
there! except when she means business.
L became interested, and asked her to
tell me all about the ghosts, who and
what they were, and. in fact, all she had
learned OF their antecedents, for was
well aware that not even ghosts would
be allowed i'll my house during nv alb
sence, unless they could produce proof
OF having belonged to the upper class of
the people whose spirits return to earth
ana mold high carnival in divers and
sundry places.'''
Well began Mrs. H. about two
days after you went away began to
near strange noises in the cellar. Then
the hired girl came in one morning and
gave me notice that she was going to
leave, as she said she was afraid of
Them things as do be making strange
noises in the cellar" l Gained her.and
she promised to remain. That night the
noises were worse than ever, and the
girl left in the morning, and l have
since learned that she has been spread
ing the story that you had a den in the
cellar, where you killed a man every
few hours by blowing has head off,
Her story now began to interest me.
for had not my name been brought in az
brutal murderer, whereas | had never
killed anything except time? Then T
asked Mrs. Hull TO tell me what the
strange noises Were.'
drawing long breath, the sharer
OF my sorrows and joys, and also NV
salary. began: The noises down in the
cellar are just awful, and thew sOund
like big eXploSions-just as though some
one had fired off revolver down there.
l first noticed them early in the morn
ing. There were always three-boom-
neutrality-suspicious. half a minute
apart. They were so violent that thew
ratified the dishes in the china closet.
and even shook the entire house, Then
they began to grow more frequent, aud
now they come two or three times eyery
night, and about h 4lf dozen times dur
Ing the day. 1t sounds lust as if some
one fired revolver three times. and the
effect on my nerves, especially at night.
is not at all pleasing.
"One evening | was undressing tho
baby when caller came In. She was
sitting near me. when all OF a sudden
those dreadful explosions came, shak-
ing the floor and setting all the dishes
IN the emma closet to rattling. My WIS.,
ltor gave one howl, grabbed the infant
and t1ed.tO the street, calling to me as
she did SO that some one was irving to
blow up the house. She would not
come into the house again, even when T
told her that the explosions were MOTH
ing to be afraid of. Another evening
the minister and his wife called. inst
as the reverend gentleman was telling a
beautiful little story about how mich
he thought of you, those three exnlo-
sions came. Like flash the minister
Jumped up. and getting behind a chair
called out that Ii you would only let
him go this time he would never call
again. No explanation that l could
give would satisfy him, and he and his
Wite LETT FULLY convinced that you had
shot at him from one of the windows.
I'll never hear the last of it at the sew
ing circle, suppose. That's the way il
has gone all the time. No one calls here
any more, and am getting afraid to re-
main In the house. The baby is afraid
or the noises that he has lost several
pounds In weight and stays awake
nights so that he crawl way down under
the bed clothes when he hears them.
The explosion upset everything in the
celler, SO took out what l needed and
nave naIleQ The door Shut
II determined to show Mrs. Hull that
the noises were purely imaginary. and
that L was not afraid of them.
After removing the dozen or so nails
from the door last night, I went
down stairs, lamp in hand, TO inyesti-
gate. Everything looked all right, and
Inc only evidence of any departed
spirits visible to me was case of
empty bottles in one corner, reminding
me very forcibly of week when Mrs.
hun and the baby were visiting in Du-
luth, and had few choice friends as
guests. Oh, 4hose jags-but [ digress.
mad made full examination Of the
cellar, and started up stairs again, when
suddenly | stopped. The steps seemed
to be shaking, and as waited came
Boom!
: Which my hair stand on an end and
my knees to knock together.
Boom!!
The whole staircase seemed about to
fall, and l jumped back to the floor
again. Even that was shaking, and in
my fright | fancied that cold, damp
baud had me by the throat. Half
dazed, began to hunt for the stairway,
my lamp having been knocked from my
hand, when
BOOML!l
This third explosion was too much
for me, and [ dropped senseless to the
floor. The next remember was when
the firemen pulled me out and began to
pour water into the cellar, for in falling
my lamp had set fire to the boards ON
the floor. My whiskers were singed, as
you can see, and had such fright