Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1891-06-18

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE
Queer Episodes aud Thrilling Adven-
lures Which show that Truth 10
Stranger than Fiction
A CURIOUS freak of a somnambulist re-
cen..y occurred near DewittevilIe, N. r.,
which nearly cost the sleep-walker,
Horace Ransome. his life. Ransome is
young man, but has always been NOR
bidly afraid Of venturing into the water;
but on recent night arose from his bed
while asleep, and made his way 10 a
large submerged rock about fifty feet
from the sh re of Lake ChautauQua. Ran
some says that he is entirely ignorant OF
the net of swimming, never having been
in water over two feet deep in his life,
but IL Is said that it is an impossibility
for him to have reached the spot where
he was found without swimming and
the only conclusion to be arrived at is
that he must have unconsciously struck
out on finding himself in the lake. An
other remarkable feature of the affair is
how the somnambulist could have re-
NAMED asleep after entering the water,
which is quite cold, but the adventure
was too perilous to have been hoax.
Ransome was found a short while after
dawn standing on the rock and holding
up his head to keep himself from drown
ing, the water reaching nearly to his
chin. He was utterly Frustrated with
the shock and the exertiou, and for some
DAYS suffered intensity from rheumatism
brought on by his cold bath. He says
his first knowledge of what he had done
was when he found himself endeavoring
to keep his footing on the slippery rock,
and was then afraid TO try to SWIM to the
shore. He has a faint recollection of
having a dream, in which a woman was
drowning before his eyes, aud of plung-
ing in to save her.
THERE is much excitement over the
discovery Of portion of the treasure
buried by the Bonner party in 1S46-7.
In the early days of gold excitement the
Bonner party attempted to cross the
mountains into California by an untried
pass. They were showed up in the noun
tains, and suffered great hardships,
many dying from cJld and starvation.
Relief expeditions were sent out, and a
few survivors were rescued. During
their sufferings the party buried guam
tity of treasure, the amount of which
is estimated by some at $4,000. A
search has frequently been made for this
treasure, but without success. There Is
authentic history of the burial of several
hundred dollars by Mrs. Graves, one of
the members Of the party, on March 3,
1SA1 nanr the eharas- naa~sr Iseiro,
and it is supposed it was this money
which was found recently by a miner
named Reynolds, who was prospecting
on the hillside near the lake. He found
spot where the earth had been torn up
| by a fallen tree, and his attention was
accidentally called to some dark looking
pieces of metal lying on the top of the
ground. He picked up ten one dollar
| pieces, and upon investigation uncovered
a large quantity Of silver. The coins are
anIiquated, of all dates prior to 1S43.
THE old Jacob Tourtellotto homestead
in East Thompson, Mass. which was
built over one hundred years ago, has
obtained great local notoriety from a GU
rious incident. For many years Mr.. aud
| Mrs. Windsor Bates and Mrs. Sally
there and were known as industrious,
| plain honest people. Mrs. Sally Bates
died March 26, 1885, at the age OF nine
| ty-ive. Some time ago travelling pho
taoranher took u view OF the premises.
| The picture shows the house from the
front with Mr.. Bates holding horse,
and his wife seated on chair, while at
one of the windows in the sitting-room
lNf.S . ha ifo- ~ IL
Bates dead mother, Mrs. Sally Bates.
The face stands out clear and bright,
and has been recognized by many former
friends and acquaintance. Mr.. Bates
says that when the house was taken not
a picture OF any kind was hanging in the
room. Nor is it reflection from any
one standing by. He says it was the
custom OF his mother, when attracted to
the front OF the house, to rush up to this
up and down the road exactly as the
image appears in the photograph.
TT. WORTH, Texas, possesses COW
which is unique in being carniverous and
a cannital, as we'll as an infanticide. Her
peculiar propensity was discovered while
she was yet calf by the finding of the
bones of cat, which was in the habit OF
frequenting the stall where she was con
fined, and the blood smear d upon the
calf's mouth revealed the startling fact
that puss had actually been eaten by her.
Since then she has been seen to catch
mice and rats venturing near her and de-
your them alive, while she has twice
killed and eaten her day-old calves. She
exhibits no popularity beyond her car
nivorous appetite, but appears gentle
enough, and has never been known to be-
have i'll humoredly, except when in sight
of freshly-killcd meat or when shown
blood. She is of common breed, and was
calyed on the ranch of William Sunder-
land, in Potter County, and is now the
property of James Link. She feeds on
grass, corn, etc., but will eat eagerly any
moisel Of meat thrown her, and for sew
eral days after tasting flesh will refuse
with disgust all other food. She is now
nearly six years old.
Oh his recent homeward trip from San
Francisco 9. Il. Huntington and his
party had unique experience. The
special train bearing them left San Fran
cisco, and, after passing through some
beautiful sections of country, stopping
at Oroville, Los Angeles. Santa Monica,
Deming, FL Paso, San Antonio, and
Houston, approached New Orleans. For
about twenty miles before reaching the
last named city the train passed over
soft, yielding track through what APP
reared to be lake. That particular
section Of country was flooded from the
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