The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-04-28
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.

| man Ficton.
THE Frankfort Gazette publishes a
story of abominable cruelty practiced
on a soldier in Padua, Italy. Accord
ing TO the Gazette a recruit named
Evangelista reported himself TO be i'll.
| His superior officer thought, or at
least pretended TO think, that he was
shamming illness as an excuse to
escape riding exercise. Evange-
lista was ordered TO report at the
riding sch pol, and he staggered there
! in obedience To the order. He de-
clared when there that he was so
/ weak he could not mount his horse,
but his officers whipped him until he
tried three times TO mount. Each
time he fell TO the ground exhausted.
AS he was lying on the ground n
horse was brought up and teased into
! kicking the PROSTATE recruit. Then
! in a playful mood the officers threw
buckets of water over him. Evange-
lista implored his torturers to leave
/ him alone, declaring that he was
dying. His appeals, however, fell on
deaf ears. The officers procured a
rope and this was tied to the arms OF
Evangelista. Then he was bumped
up and down and otherwise mall
treated until he appeared to be dead.
Not satisfied with the torture they
had inflicted upon the helpless re-
cruit the officers caused him to be
dragged by the heels to the barracks,
where he died the same night.
THERE is settlement near Mobile,
Ala, called Little Africa" which
has strange history. Its people are
pure-blooded Dahomeyans, who set
tied there after the war, and have
never married or given in marriage
outside themselves. They are said
to be exceedingly fine specimens OF
the African race. They are the rep
resentatives of the last cargo of ne
groes brought into the United States
from Africa. They were brought here
in 1889 as the result OF bet made in
1897 by the Captain of river steam
boat in Alabama with four Northern
men, passengers of his, that he could
bring over n corgo of slaves in two
years in spite of the strictness of the
law against such traffic. The Fed
eral officers learned of the arrival OF
the vessel, and the Captain was COM
PEELED to get under cover The plant
ers who had promised to purchase the
slaves were afraid to do so, and they
were, in consequence, never sepa-
rated. Mrs. Carolina Dali, OF the
Woman's Anthropological Society,
| rnaH "A rnnantlxr IN ,rhinh hn
facts were brought out, and a more
thorough investigation is promised.
WHILE digging cellar on his farm
near Earl's, Yates County, n. Y, the
other day, Martin Larson unearthed
the skeleton OF man who must have
been nearly seven feet high. With
the remains were found stone knife,
a curious red clay pipe, and guam
tity Of shell beads. After removing
his interesting find, the farmer went
on with his digging, but had not
worked long before he came upon an
other skeleton and more Indian rel
les. These were added to the other
collection, and the cellar digging
proceeded. Soon Farmer Larson un-
covered a third skeleton and third
collection Of relies. Then he went to
mining regularly in search OF these
buried reminders Of former people,
and in a short time unearthed nine
more skeletons, and a miscellaneous
collection Of pipes, arrow heads, and
other Indian relics. The locality was
a fayorite Indian camping ground be-
fore the whites came into this part
of the State. None OF the skeletons
was under six feet in length, and all
are in a good state Of preservation.
THERE is a nurse at the Cincinnati
City Hospital whose strange power
over patients is attracting much at
tention among those who know Of it..
She is Mrs. Mutchler, "a petite, good
looking widow. She calls her power
hypnotic, and the manner in which
she handles obstreperous or insane
patients is wonderful. No matter
how violent they are, at IA word and
touch from her they instantly be-
come mild and tractable. A few
days ago an insane girl who required
several stalwart policemen TO handle
her was brought to the hospital.
Mrs. Mutchler was called, and in five
minutes the patient had ceased her
struggles, disrobed and was taking a
bath. Recently n colored giantess,
who long had been "a terror to the
police, was taken TO the hospital.
She could whip any three men and
was very vicious. Mrs Mutchler
first saw her in one OF her violent
fits. ar~l quieted her at once. Mrs.
Mutchler says she cannot account
for her power, but never saw a woman
she could not control.
MESDICASCY would appear TO be
almost as profitable in the outlying
suburbs Of Paris as in the city itself,
where beggars sometimes die leaving
substantial legacies behind them for
their next OF kin. Victor Hayet,
aged 40, was supposed TO be one Of