The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-09-02

species cast OF the Rockies. II is forty
one feet In girth at the base OF the
trunk. and for years il has been one OF
the sights OF Northern Ohio. Near 1t
Colonel Crawford was burned at the
stake by Indians, and the tradition Is .hat
he would have been burned at the very
roots OF the tree had not the chief feared
the vengeance OF the Great Father for
such an act of sacrile9e.
Miss EMMA LINDSAY, while quarrelling
with her brother-in-law in Ohio Falls.
Iud., suddenly became spcechlcss and
blind and fell to the floor. The girl. at
last accounts, was still blind and dumb.
The experience Of John Bahler, OF Battle
Creek, Mich. is quite the reverse Of Miss
Lindsay's. Thirty-two years ago it was
found necessary TO remove both his eye
balls. A year ago he suddenly saw
light-a lamp upon table. II was
found new cyeballs were growing on the
ends Of the optic nerves. Since that
time Bahler's eyesight has been gradually
improving, and he can now distinguish
pronounced colors.
RICHARD HoDGsoN. LII. d., secretary
OF the American Society OF Psychical
Research, tells the following instance OF
remarkable duality: Ansel Bourne, an
itinerant preacher, disappeared from his
home in Greene, II. L., while apparently
in his usual health. Two months after
ward he was discovered IN Norristown,
Pa, where for six weeks he had been
keeping small variety store under the
name Of A. j. Brown. lie appeared as
normal person, but was, in fact, in n
somnambulistic condition all the time.
Two little girls, wards in chancery,
and heire5ses to 500, 600 each, were, it
Is said, recently arraigned as vagrants in
a London police court. Their fortunes
are so securely locked up in chancery
that by 40 process Of law can the money
be obtained until the children are Of age.
They are at present practically destitute,
and unable to procure decent surround
ings, clothing or education.
AN India paper says that the young
Rajah of Poodookota recently went on
hunting expedition to Travancore.
India, and shot an elephant whose tusks
weighed 10 lbs. This beats the record
by two pounds, Mr.. Sanderson, whose
record was the highest, having killed an
in Southern India whose tusks
weighed "a lbs.
The following curious accident is re-
ported from Calcutta. The driver OF a
ticca gharry, which was at the stand at
Burtollah, was performing his devotions
on the roof Of the conveyance when the
horses bolted, and the driver was thrown
TO the ground on his head. He was re-
moved to a hospital In procarious con-
dition.
A SON Of Sampson Barker, Of Ozark,
Mo-, while playing in the sand on the
banks OF the White River. near his
fathers home. uncarthed several tin
cans which contained 81 800 in gold and
silver coins ranging in date from lS40 to
been buried by some one during the
war;
VINCENT AND JOHN HALE, brothers,
in 1914, one going South and
the other Wet. One entered the Union
md the other the Confederate service,
md each thought the other dead, until
recent Monday, when they met by acci-
dent in Ashland, Ky. They have for
years been living within half n days
ride Of each other without knowing it.
Mr.. JouN LENFERT and wife of Mil
ford, Me-, have been married sixty-fve
years, and have occupied the same
house nearly half century. He is
ninety three years old and she eighty
two