Middletown transcript., 1893-07-22

part In the news. One young lady mas Dee
bitten by tiger in Chicago, another by
diamond-back rattler in New York, AM
another by tarantula in San Francisco
Now comes tidings of "three long and ex
citing hours" in Boston "a most unutua
thing this must have been) during which
Austin and Stones Museum men chased
gorilla named Jocko. A fierce struggle en-
sued between Jocko and his head keeper
Dick Smith, and Dick was fearfuAy bitter
and clawed in the encounter. Twice Jockc
raised Dick high over his head and offered
| to hurl him from the shooting gallery fal
down into the pit, and twice Smiths life
was spared by the infuriated monarch Of
the jungle in response to his piteous en-
treaties. Jocko was finally cornered and
captured, but not until Mr. Dick Smith
suffered almost as much as Miss Be. gmann,
Mrs. Dot Sonwell or Miss Eustachia Petit
bone.
Mrs. F. H. McIntosch is the wife of a
young professional man of Bloomington,
Illinois. She died apparently on Monday
after week spent at 1.-THE point Of death. :"
Later in the day she came back to life, said
she had been in heaven talking TO Christ,
and had received promise of continued
life She Immediately began to recover.
What story could be told by real visitor
to heaven who came back to earth with
ewes open and memory freshl
Fifteen congresses convened in the White
City Monday, and the flow of oratory al
most turned back the current of the Chi
cago River. Prof w. D. McClintock. su-
san B. Anthony, Clara Doty Bates, Prince
Serge Wolkonsky, Chancellor Barnard aud
United States Commissioner of Education
Harris were there. All possible phases of
education were discussed by college profess
sors and students-"the deaf, dumb and
blind" the typewriter, the stenographer, |
the physical culturist the business educa
tors, the manual trainers, and the Chau-
tauquans. For the benefit of those con-
cerned it is to be hoped they were Short
Talk-Ones.
The legal fraternity of the Phi Delft Phi |
opened its tri-ennial convention in Chicago
this week. Greek-letter societies try any
port in storm, and Chicago is henceforth |
to be the Athens of America, the capital of
Grease.
The silver miners of Phillipsburg and
Granite, Mont, are out of work and seem
not indisposed to confirm the impression |
that "the devil still some mis-
chief finds for idle hands to do" The dis |
patches say they "have inaugurated reign |
Of terror" At that rate the worst may be |
They have forced the suspension |
Of banks and are holding up unprotected
women and actually tortured some of |
5hem into a disclosure of their hidden |
boards. Among 5000 ore diggers in a min
ng camp it would seem easy for every
woman to find a score or two of protectors. |
Bones Williams was switchman on
he line of the up. and Andrew Lyons
vas his pal, a gallant man to see Both
owed dame, May was her name, of easy
manners she, and wheu they fought Bones
,ut the heart of Andrew into three.
Fair Alice Semple hied her north to the
Niagara Falls; she thought the river ran
champagne and tried to drink it ALL She
couldn't and, shut in cell, her throat she
ried to squeeze with silken scarf worn
IN her calf when she was at her ease.
Poor Alice Semple's trade it is to sing
songs; her real name is
elliott and we may guess her wrongs.