Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-10-16

species east of the Rockies. It is forty
one feet in girth at the base of the
trunk. and for years it has been one of
the sights of Northern Ohio. Near it
Colonel Crawford was burned at the
stake by Indians, and the tradition Is that
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 sacrilege.
Miss EMMA LINDSAY, while quarrelling
with her brother-in- law in Ohio Falls.
Ind. suddenly became SPECIFICS 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
Llndsay's. Thirty-two years ago it was
found necessary to remove both his eye
balls. A year ago he suddenly saw a
light-a lamp upon a table. It was
found new eyeballs were growing on the
ends of the optic nerves. Since that
time Bahler's eycsight has been gradually
improving, and he can now distinguish
pronounced cOlors.
RICHARD HoDasoN, 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,
fa., where for six weeks he had been
keeping small variety store under the
name OF A. j. Brown. He appeared as
normal person, but was, in fact, in q
somnambulistic condition all the time.
Two little girls, wards in chancery,
and heirosses to 800, 900 each, were, it
is said, recently arraigned as Migrants in
London police court. Their fortunes
are SO securely locked up in chancery
that by no 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
lngs, clothing or education.
AN India paper says that the young
Kajah of Poodookota recently went on
hunting expedition to 1ravancore,
Indie, and shot an elephant whose tusks I
weighed rs lbs. This beats the record
by two pounds, Mr.. Sanderson, whose
record was the highest, having killed an
elephant in Southern India whose tusks
weighed IA lbs.
THE following curious accident is re-
ported from Calcutta. The driver of
ticca gharry, which was at the stand at
Burtollah, was performing his dcvotions
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 hospital in precarious 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. unearthcd several tin
cans which contained 81, 500 in gold and
silver coins ranging in date from 1910 to
1850. The money is supposed to have
been buried by some one during the
war.
VINCENT AND JOHN HsLE, brothers,
separated in 1874, one going South and
the other West. One entered the Union
and the other the Confederate service,
and each thought the other dead, until
recent Monday, when they met by acct
dent in Ashland, Ky. They have for
years been living within half Il days
ride OF each other without knowing it.
Mr.. JOHN LENFERr and wife of Mil
ford. Me-, have been married sixty five
years, and have occupied the same
house nearly half a century. He is
ninety-thrce years old and she eighty.
two.