Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-03-03
| SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Adven-
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Sfronuor than Eipfinu

| queer EplSOueS anu HTllilHg Aufeh'
lures Which Show that Truth Is
Stranger than Fiction.
The Kansas "wolf- drive" is q great in
sitution, for it satisfies the natura
craving of man to kill something without
| exposing himself to danger, and it is
therefore exceedingly popular. In the
townships of Walnut, Sherman, Grant,
and Crawford wolves and foxes, which
multiply alarmingly fast, have been
driven by the severe cold this winter to
acts of depreciation surprising for theil
boldness and ferocity. The farmers
have risen up and organized for the pur-
pose of clearing the country of the four.
footed raiders. Upwards of 1000 ,ner
engage in the wolf-drive, and they beat
over u tract ten miles square. The affail
is conducted with military exactness and
| discipline. A general is chosen, and he
in turn picks out his staff and battalion
and company commanders. The sigma
for starting is fusillade of shots fired
by the leaders of each squad. With
1000 men ON each side of the square
there are 100 men TO the mile, or one al
intervals of about fifty feet. The lines
are supposed to move one mile each hall
hour. Every man has a horn or q drum
and his instructions are to make as much
noise as he can. Wolves are not to be
killed until rounded up in the common
centre. They may be clubbed into q
run if necessary. AT distance of one
mile from the centre the report of u can
non announces that the battle is about to
begin, and the forces are aligned and put
in readiness. Only such of the hunters
as are designated by the general carry
firearms; the Others are armed with clubs
to prevent the beasts from escaping. A
great number of wolves are often rounded
up, and when the word is given they are
picked off by the appointed sharp
shooters. While the "drive" is the oc-
casion for good deal of fun, killing is
the business of the day, and the best
marksmen attend to this.
A STORY of heroism is told among the
usually prosaic announcements of the
London Gazette in explanation of the ser
vices for which the Queen has conferred
the decoration of the Albert medal of the
second class on George Hoar, boatman
of the Tynemouth Coastguard Station.
On the occasion of the wreck of the
schooner Peggy during a severe gale
with very heavy sea, after four men
had been rescued from the wreck by
means of the rocket apparatus, tho Cap
tain of the Peggy informed the chief
officer OF the coastguard that there was
another man still on board the wreck in a
disabled state, he having fallen out of
the rigging on to the deck of the vessel
in attempting TO get into the breeches
buoy. George Hour Immediately volun-
teered to go off to the wreck and bring
the man on shore and was hauled off to
the wreck, distance of one hundred
and fifty yards, through the heavy sea in
face of a tremendous gale from the
southeast. He found on arriving at the
vessel that he could not reach the man
owing to the hawser having been secured
fourteen feet above the deck (where the
man lay helpless and in an unconscious
state). He then signaled to be hauled on
shore again, to confer with the chief Off
Ger; shortly afterward he was again
hauled off, and on reaching the wreck the
hawser was eased so as to allow him lin
breeches buoy to reach the man on
less George Hoar, with his legs seized
the man round the body and held him
with both hands by his coat collar, and in
this manner the two men were safely
hauled on shore, the sea at times wash
ing completely over them.
The Juniata Valley Sentinel says that
on one of the cold mornings during the
cold spell large hawk pounced upon
one of Benjamin Haller's tame ducks
that at the time were in a pool of fresh,
unfrozen water in the canal bed short
distance beyond the "third lock" at Ma
cedonia, Penn. The hawk fastened its
claws around the neck of the fowl next
to its body, but the duck was in deep
water, and. true to its nature, it ducked
and drew the hawk with it under the
water. Again the duck dove, which was
too much for his hawkship. The hawk
released its hold on the duck and with
difficulty Topped its way to the shore.
The weather was cold and froze the
feathers of the hawk together so that it
could not fly. William Haller was a wit
ness of the capture and escape game be-
tween the hawk and duck, and when it
was all over he took hand at the game
by capturing the hawk, the hawks
feathers being so frozen together that
it could not fly away. The bird meas
ured 3 feet inches from the tip of one
wing to the tip of the other wing.
ALTHOUGH Alfonso, the late King of
Spain, died six years ago, his body is
still unburigd. Clothed only in simple
linen garment, the corpse rests on u
slab OF rock near running stream, in u
cavern of the mountain on which the Es-
curial Palace is built, twenty-five miles
from Madrid. There the body is des-
tined to main until it becomes natur-
ally mummitied; then it will be reverent-
ly placed in the jasper vault under the
dome OF the Escurial Church, wherein re-
pose all the sovereigns of Spain since
Charles ", in inches. No body is placed
in this vault until all moisture is eyapor-
ated--until it is as dry ds a mummy
The body of Queen Isabellas father re-
mained on the stone slab twenty-five
years before it was sufficiently drv to
be removed to the Escurial jasper vault.
THIS story of q capture of alternating
bears comes from the State of Washing.
ton. 1t is related by two citizens of
Skipanon who saw the beasts in captiv-
ity: Their owners said that in cutting
down one of the giant spruce-trees COM
mon to that region he 1iscoyarad that