Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-17
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adyen-
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.

II Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adyen.
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.
A SAVAGE battle took place recently in
the suburbs of San Francisco between
August Whitemore's valuable horse and
his bulldog. The horse, in going out OF
his stable, kicked the dog, whereupon the
latter bit the horse. Then both animals
became infuriated. The dog jumped and
got a good hold on the horses flank. He
took mouthful and set his jaws hard.
%hitemore and his hired man rushed to
Me rescue. The horse, however, was in
the fight, and not at all afraid. He shook
the dog loose and then sent him flying in
the air with well-directed kick. As
soon as the bulldog could pick himself
up he made another savage rush, jump
ing ut the horses throat. His sharp
teeth found Judgement in the throat Of
his foe, and in flash he had torn it hor-
ribly, partly severing the horses wind
pipe. The horse screamed with pain
and terror, and fell to the ground,
while the dog kept on tearing at his
throat. Whitemore and his hired man
had made several vain attempts to sepa-
rate the animals. Whitemore got pitch
fork, with which he struck at the dog and
flnally drove him from his victim. The
maddened brute then turned on his mas
ter and caught him by the thigh, White
more, aided by his hired man, beat the
dog off, escaping without serious injury.
The bulldog then returned to his pros
trate adversary and began to chew his
throat. Finally, seeing that the horse
VS. nearly dead, Whitemore procured Il
rifle and sent bullet through the dogs
head. AS the brute was dying he fastened
his teeth again in the flesh of the dying
horse, locking his jaws so tight that the
teeth had to be broken before the bodies
could be separated. The horse was
thoroughbred roadster, and cost his owner
81 200.
ONE OF the most remarkable inmates
of the New York institution for the Deaf
and Dumb is Richard Clinton who, though
deaf, dumb and blind, has in the four
teen years he has spent in the asylum
acquired an education and self-sup-
porting trade. He was born in Dublin
with the sense of sight and hearing per-
feet. One eye was destroyed in child
hood by an explosion and an attack of
scarlet fever cost him the other eye and
his hearing. He was for time in
q school for deaf mutes in Ireland,
but it was not until he entered the
View York institution that he derived
benefit from the instruction given him.
There he has been taught the ordinary
branches OF education and has acquired
the trade of bottoming chairs. He learned
to write by using rule TO guide his hand
OF late he has learned to use the type
writer and has discarded the pen. Gin
ton uses the sign language in CONVERSE
tion and reads the replies of his COM
panions by touching their hands. His
touch is abnormally sensitive, as is often
the case with the blind. By touching
the hand Of a friend he recognizes the
person, and he recalls an old acquaint-
ance from whom he has been long sep
arated by feeling his face, hands and
form. The other boys in the institution
treat Clinton in their play as roughly as
it be had sight. He never resents such
treatment. He is only angered when he
is pitied When he is pushed, he recog-
nizes the persons attacking him by the
manner in which they touch him. Many
Aricks have been played upon him, but it
rarely happens that he gets caught twice
by the same trick.
AN almost incredible story of Russian
brutality, in which Gen. Gourko of Plev-
ma Pass fame, bears q prominent part
comes from Warsaw. Last May the little
daughter Of Gen. Pouzereff, while playing
in the SAKE Gardens, hit n-year-old
boy named Winter with her ball. The
lad threw it back, whereupon the nurse
in charge of the little girl, began to beat
him. He resist, u and called her by sew
eral unpleasant Polish names. A full
report of the incident was sent to Gen.
Gourko, who ordered that the boy should
receive twenty-five lashes. According
to the law, corporal punishment can only
be administered to children by their
parents, but Winters father was dead.
Tho police, therefore, ought to have ap-
piled to the boys mother. They pre-
ferred seeking out Mr.. Olchefski, his tutor
or guardian. They told him that if he
did not carry out the sentence they would
close his business house, cafe and con-
fectionery shop. The tutor reluctantly
SohSShtCu' ho htlo lhcA
made in due form. The prison doctor
was called, the boy was brought from his
cell and stripped, and the hogging began.
At the seventh stroke the sufferer tainted
and the tutor refused absolutely to con-
tinue the barbarous punishment In this
dilemma the police telegraphed to Gen.
Gourko for instructions, and received
peremptory orders to complete the execu-
tion of the sentence. The fogging was
finished by the police, and the boy was
sent back to his mother, insensible,
bleeding, and in convulsions. The Lon
don Times gives the story great promi-
nence, and ascribes it to % Il correspond
ent"
"TEN years ago." says big million
aire, 81 stood without nickel in my
. pocket outside of a restaurant door in
San Francisco. | was indulging in an
optical feast and wondering how all those
| good things in the window would taste if
they were sliding down my hungry palate.
| / was trying to think how could get the
/ price of meal, honestly or dishonesty
| it mattered little. Before had evolved
plan of action a prosperous-l looking
man, Mho was hiPPihS hull-uollur Ill his
hand, dropped it through an iron grating
and it fell into the subway below. He
gave an almost unconcerned glance in
the direction the coin had gone and then
walked away. 1t was "ground-hog'
!, case for me, and | determined to secure
1 that coin, so | walked into the restaurant
and asked the proprietor if l might re-
trieve a $5 gold piece which had
drnnnnd into the cnllnr He rnnliel