Crawford avalanche., 1892-09-22

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERY DAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which show That Truth Is
Stranger Than Fiction.

dancer was performing at local music
hall when the wire suddenly broke and
she fell from giddy height right on
the unfortunate conductor of the orches-
ira, who was so overcome by the shock
that he tainted and when he recovered
consciousness was found to be deaf and
dumb. The affair created no little cx-
citement in the Norman town, and a
tremendous controversy soon prevailed.
The inhabitants, indeed, we're divided
into two camps one side inclining to
the opinion that the unlucky conductor
was only shamming, while the other
stoutly and Indignantly maintained that
there could not be the slightest doubt
us to his good faitn. Although nearly
two years have elapsed since the accident
occurred, the unfortunate musician has
not uttered q syllable, nor has he shown
by the most feeble sign that he can hear
a word that is addressed to him. His
application for damages, however, has
been rejected. In the Judgment it is set
forth that If he became dumb it was not
owing to his receiving" the tight-rope
dancer on his head, but to the ''saisisse-
ment" resulting therefrom, and attribu-
table to his excessively nervous tempera-
ment. This judgment is exciting n GER
tain amount of criticism, considerable
sympathy being felt in many quarters for
the unlucky victim of the music-hall ac-
cident.
CHARLES w. DUNTz lives on the Land
ing road, Undertook, N. Y, near the
Halfway house. One morning recently,
while his wife was engaged in cleaning a
| portrait that had been in their possession
more than q quarter of u century, she
accidentally broke through the cover on
the back and saw underneath it piece
of paper She pulled it out and found
that it was an old 81 bill. She called
her sons attention to it and the lad took
the cover off. Underneath it they found
two $500 bills issued by bank in Mas
sachusetts, one in 1856, the other in 1861.
During the day Mr. Duntz took the bills
to the Union Bank and learned that the
bank of issuance was still in existence,
and that the bills were probably genuine
and worth their face value. Mr.. Rey-
polds, teller of thesbank, communicated
with the Massachusetts bank people and
learned that it had $500 bills of the old
state issue still out and was ready to re-
deem them If they were genuine. About
.wenty-eight years ago, says Rough
Notes, this picture was sent to Mr.. DuntZ
by wealthy relative, who requested
that it should doc carefully kept in the
family, the portrait being that of a
daughter who is still living. Mr.. Duntz
thinks that the donor placed the money
where it was found, expecting that it
would be discovered some day when it
would be of some real benefit to the
finder. She was very peculiar in her
ways at all times.
MINERAL SPRINGS (Ohio) comes to the
front with monstrosity. The head of
the child, if such it can be called, resem-
bles a rhinoceros, and is of soft cartilage
and almost transparent BY close obser-
vation the blood can be traced. The
least touch will cause the child to open
its mouth and make noise like an en-
raged animal, says the San Francisco
color extends entirely across its forehead.
The case is vouched for by DR.. Connor,
N. w. Cross and +. w. Johnson, of
Mineral Springs. The freak consumes
about three quarts of milk daily. The
child belongs to family residing near
Blue Creek, in that county. IFS left eye
is black, while the right eye is deep
blue. It's hair from its nose back to the
right side is light and fine, while the
opposite is coarse and black The left
hand and foot resemble the claws of an
animal. 1t makes short barks like a
dog.
A SUIT for breach of promise of mar
riage was recently brought against a
woman, and decided against her, too,
at the Assizes in Chester, England. The
plaintiff was young farmer named
Albert Timmis, and he sued Miss Mary
Birch, young woman of small fortune.
The plaintiff said that for two or three
years Miss Birch had "kept him dang
ling at her heels just to please her vanity,
without the slightest intention to redeem
her promise to marry him. At the last
moment she threw him over in a most
heartless fashion. She said she was too
good for farmers wife" She also in.
sinuatcd that he was after her money.
The young farmer said he wanted to
clear his character of these aspersions.
The Judge said the young man had real
grievance, his letters revealed manly and
touching sentiments, and he had been
badly treated. The jury gave him $50
damages.
/. HoUGH. laborcr at Castle Rock,
Col, was driving a pin in the ground
with hatchet, when bolt of lightning
descended from clear sky and struck
him. The top was taken off his hat and
consumed and the rim of the hat was
split His hair was singed all over his
head and upon the crown it is burned
in precisely the shape of tonsure,
spot about the size of quarter being
left wholly bare. A livid mark is left
across his breast from shoulder to shoul-
der and directly above his heart hole
was burned in his shirt. Around the
body, below the waist, extends belt
of flesh about four inches wide, black
and blue and dotted with numerous small
holes. Down his back and legs are
streaks, and the inside of his logs are
burned. Hough remained unconscious
till 10 o'clock, when he recovered his
senses and is still alive.
THERE is nothing unusual in hair
turning white, but case in which the
hair turned black again after being white
was recently told by gentleman from
Detroit. A lady of that city originally
had black eyes and hair, but in the
course of time, when she had attained
the age of about seventy, her hair turned
pure white. This was expected, but
about year ago her hair began darken-
ing and is now as black as jet. There
is no doubt about the change, nor was
any artificial means used to produce it,