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The Penn's Grove record., 1895-08-16
Pennsylvania
v Items.

Printer William Woods, of Rankin,
near Plttsburg, fell from a train and
was fatally injured.
Moses I.abar, who abducted 14-year-
old Lydia Counterman, at Stroudsburg,
has been arrested and the girl returned
to her home.
Patterson Danner, aged Is, and
Frank Kirke, aged 10 years, ran away
from their homes, at Harrisburg, and
were caught in New York. 8
Burglar John Hickman was captured
at Reading.
A party of Scranton capitalists will
prospect for coal near Stroudsburg.
~Ten-year-old John Day was fatally
injured by runaway horses at Bethle-
hem.
In a saloon fight at Lancaster Frank
Walter fatally injured Christian Bird by
striking him with a beer glass. 4
Jacob Kreider fell from his wagon at
Petersburg and was killed.
A heavy mine drill fell on Robert
Ryder, at Pittston, and killed him.
| A child of Peter Buchanan, near
Geigertown, had a narrow escape from
being eaten by hogs.
Lancaster Councils will accept the
provisions of the act of 1874 for the
government of cities of the third class.
Lebanon County has an ~S0-year-ofd
man, J. D. Fehring, who thinks it moth
ing extraordinary to walk 40 miles a
day.
The trustees of the State Hospital
for the Insane, at Harrisburg, have
found charges of poor management at
the institution to be without founda-
ton. 5
Lebanon is threatened with a water
famine.
Wilson Klein, of Blandon, Berks
County, was struck by a train and
killed.
| Mrs. Peter Campbell made an unsuc-
cessful effort to drown herself at Mil
ton.
Dependent because he was out Of
work, William H. Schiller committed
suicide at Reading.
The Carbonate Traction Company
is asked to pay $3.50 00 by Miss Lizzie
Gilmartin, who was run down by a cal
and lost a foot.
Ulysses Coffman, Of near Uniontown,
was probably fatally stabbed by a
neighboring farmer named Huffman,
/ with whom he quarreled over the di-
vision of some apples. l
Mrs. Rhosds, housekeeper for Elain
Trout, a Pottstown invalid, bravely
drove a burglar out of his house.
After FIVE years pumping at the
Wolf Creek mine, near Minersville,
coal was again broken at the old col
liery.
A slick stranger robbed Jonathan M.
| Ruth of a bank book and all his cash
while trying spectacles on Ruth's eyes
at Reading.
John Welsh, of Scottdale, was stab
bed to death by John Gallagher, OF
Everson, during a quarrel at a Scott
dale picnic. z
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Marriage OF the Dead.

A strange custom prevails among d
certain tribe in the Caucasus. When
a. single young man dies some one whc
has carried to the grave a marriagea
BILE daughter in the course Of the yea
calls upon the bereaved parents anc
says: your son is sure to want
wife. I'll give you my daughter, anC
you shall deliver to me the marriage
portion In return" A friendly offer o.
this description is never rejected, ant
the two parties soon come to terms al
to the amount Of the dowry, which
varies according to the advantages
possessed by the girl in her lifetime
Cases have been known where thu
young mans father has given as muci
as thirty cows to secure q dead wife TO
Ms dead son.
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NEWS OF THE week,
Eastern ana
fiddle States

The Red opp steamer Venezuela,
which arrived at New York from Cue
racoa, brought five distressed seamen
among her passengers. They were the
crew of the Norwegian brig Hebe,
which stranded on Little Curacao on
July 10 during a heavy gale of wind.
William F. Doty, a commission mer-
chant, Of Bridgeport, Conn, has dis
appeared and his creditors say, that he
took about $4,000 in cash with him.
The Governor of New York, has re-
ceived a letter from Vice President
Alfred II. Love, of the Pennsylvania
Prison Society, urging that the sentence
of Marie Barberi be committed to i'm
prisonment for life. 8
The funeral of Mrs. I. Dewitt Tai
mage was held at Brooklyn, and the
burial wa in Greenwood.
Jealous OF Louis Kuntz, who loved
the same girl, George Mordof, q New
York sneak thief, shot him fatally.
A bolt of lightning struck the Fail
River line steamship Priscilla as she
vas entering her New York dock and
splintered a flagstaff.
o. o. Cottle, of Baltimore, has posi-.
lively identified Mcdonald, alias Allen,
as the man who drove up to his resi-
dence and took him to the house on
Baynes street, where he was put in
irons.
Sarah Barton, 90 years of age, jumped
from the roof of a four-story tenement,
in New York city, and was fatally in
jured. She was temporarily insane.
James McManus and his wife, ped.
dlers, were waylaid and robbed by
tramps at ColonIa, near Railway, New
Jersey. McMauus was seriously in.
jured. 4
1t will cost 50, 200 900 to complete
the Capitol at Albany, N. Y.
Mrs. Margaret Walsh was assaulted
and almost killed in the shadow of the
Grand Central Depot, New York.
Three trainmen were killed and five
other men were injured, one perhaps
fatally, by a collision on the White
Mountain Division of the Boston and
Maine Railroad, near plymouth, New
Hampshire.
In New York city, Filippo Giampata,
an Italian, aged At, stabbed and proba'
bly, fatally injured Kate Weiss, 1Syesr;
of age, and her sister Rosa, aged 81. {
While leading a horse at Milford,
Conn.,, Coschman Thomas Lowry wa,
kicked in the face and probably fatally
hurt.
Robert Harris, 80 years old, of Phil
adelphia, a stoker on the T~onawanda,
fell from a gang plank at Brooklyn and
was drowned.
A. w. Huestes and Miss Helen E.
Randall were killed by a train at Oneida,
| New York.
Miss Alice Jewett, daughter of a new
York broker, committed suicide by
jumping from a third-story window te
the inner courtyard at the Windsor
Hotel, where her family has been stop
ping temporarily. Miss Jewett was In
sane.
Just after Mrs. Newton Bradley, o.
West Haven, Conn, put her children
on the floor, lightning struck theil
bed and set it on fire.
Charles Wolf and Maggie Clarity
were drowned in the reservoir at Leo
minister, Mass.
Vincenzo Nino, the Italian who mur
dered his wife last February, was tc
have been executed in the electric
chair at Sing Sing, but the lawyers Of
the condemned man appealed his case
which acted as a stay.
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PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. AUGUST IL. 1896.

DR.. A. g. EllIston, of New Castle
county, Kentucky, shot and killed R.
A. Dickerson, a druggist, at Elliston. 5
William c. Murdaugh and Arthur
r. Gatewood were killed in q trolley
car wreck, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Mrs. Mary Psuley and her 3-yesr-
old daughter, Irene were killed in
Toledo, Ohio, by being struck by a
train.
The house of s. P. Brown, manager
at the Gordon Mine, 20 miles from
Leadville, Colorado, was robbed by two
masked men, Of diamonds and gold
ore, said to be valued at many thous.
ands of dollars.
Ben Cravens and Bill Crittenden, the
latter a half-breed Cherokee, escaped
from the prison at Perry, Oklahoma,
by saving the bars. A posse of &c
men started after the fugitives. They
were overtaken at noon, and a battle
eDsued, in which Cravens was killed.
Crttenden made his escape. l
P~rospectors for gas Dover, o.,
struck a vein of what is thought to be
| silver ore.
DIR. J. III. Whitford, Of Wilmot, S.
D., while temporarily insane, shot and
killed his wife and himself.
Philip Skinner, of the Seventh Cav.
airy, who has been in the service thirty
years, blew his brains out at Camp
Douglass, Wis.
The body of Frank Clancy, a missing
Kalamazoo (Mich.) man, was found
yesterday in a picking vat of the Ann
Arbor University Medical College.
When John Blum, of st. Joseph,
Mo-. asked his wife to explain the pres
ence of a stranger, she attacked him
with an axe, and he beat her brains
out.
William Haas, at Detroit, Mich,
attempted to shoot bis wife, who had
left him on account of his abuse, when
Michael Kreig, her father, interferred,
and Haas fatally shot him. Haas is in
hail.
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CENTRAL AMERICAN FEDERATION.
Ar Experienced Opinion OF the sentimen,
of the Five Republics.

All LApefIehc5u OpIHlUu UT tHb 5eHIILudHI
of the Five Republics.
General Pierce n. B. Young, United ststea
hinister to Guatemala Inc Honduras, now
at home on leave, says: IT believe a large
majority Of the Intelligent patriotic citizens
of Central America would like to see a union
Of all those republics, as greatly to the adj
vantage OF all. l believe that at this time
all the Presidents are patriotic, conservative
men. The Government of the United States
has but M sentiment for these republics,
and that is affection.
'In the i've republics there are, perhaps,
1000, 900 OF people. The population oil
Guatemala Is, In round numbers, 1000, 900.
The people are intensely American in senti.
nent, and are great believers in the United
states. Their idea Is that federation should
20 based On the Constitution of the United
,tates."
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Production of Aluminium.

The production Of aluminium IN the United
states In 1894 was 555, 900 pounds. The i'm
been found in sufficient quantities to be COM
n~ercially valuable In only three localities In
The United States. These are In New Mexico,
Arkansas and the Coosa valley Of Georgia
md Alabama. Aluminium has now found
he position in the arts predicted for it, and
he demand Is increasing. Its metallurgieal
Use has proved more valuable than was ex-
aected
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Doctor ito fair patient)-"Put QUE
-FOUR tongue" Meantime he writes
out q preScription.) '"There. that will
do"
Miss Chatterbox-"But, doctor, you
did not even look at my tonguer
Doctor-"No, 1 only wanted you to
keep quiet while I wrote the prescrip-
tion."LGeillustreerd Stuiversblad
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Stern Father-"Do you realize, young
man, that up to the present time It has
cost me at least $4,000 to bring mp and
educate that girlf"
Fond Lover-"Yes, sir; and from my
point Of view I should say, sir, that she
V fully worth it"-Somervills Journal
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Her State.

'what state are you from, LITTLE
girl?" said a lady at a summer resort
> mischief" was the reply.
"Mischief?" repeated the Questioner.
"Yes'm. When I'm at home papa
says I'm always In 3 state Of mischief
Detroit Free Press.
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Talk Of women being timidl Non
sensel Why q little meek-faced, thin
slip of a girl will YEA balloon sleeves
right in the middle Of the cyclone belt
and that without 6inching.-Bostor
Transcript
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The post of British Ambassador to
no.~on, bo offarad IN Sir philin

The post of British Ambassador to
Germany may be offered to Sir Philip
Currie, the Ambassador to Turkey.
The harbor of Havre will be enlarged
at a cost of So, 400, 900, and an $780,
600 loan has already been author
rsd, 4
An Anarchist miner, named Camille
Decoux, attempted to assassinate NJ.
Vuillemin, managing director of the
| coal mines at Aniche. near Douai,
France, during a celebration of the
completion of the iftieth year of NJ.
Vuillemin's connection with the mines.
Decoux was himself killed by a bomb
which he attempted to throw.
The German squadron left Cowes,
saluting the Emperor's racing yacht
Meteor as they passed.
British imports for July increased
SIG, 400, 900. and the exports $40, $780,
600 I'VE those of July last year. 3
Baseball has been introduced at
Homburg by the American summer
visitors.
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Magistrate-"If you were there for
no dishonest purpose, why were you In
your stockinged feet7"
Burglar-"I heard there was sickness
in the family, your worship."-Rich.
mond State.
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Report of a Spanish general in Cubs
to the home government:
I'VE have Just won q great triumph,
which will carry CONSERVATION into the
ranks Of the insurgents. We have shot
one Of our officers for cowardice."-
Buffalo Express.
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have 10000 volumeS.~

Mats-"I have 10000 volumes"
spratts-"And yet I have your whole
library condensed into n book"
Matts-"What's thatf"
Spratts 1.-THE dictionary."-Ne New
York World.
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Glad of It

Collector-"say, look here; II tired
Of calling here about this BILL"
The Debtor-"Wel, I'm mighty glad
70 hear it"-Life.
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Mr. elocuru Unkind.

ri can't have whistling at the table,
Mr.. slocum," said the boarding-houss
keeper.
II thought you said yesterday you
liked to hear a man whistle at lis
work." replied the boarder, as he made
another in~effectual attempt at cutting
his piece Of Observation-Disclosures States.
man
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GOOD AdvIes.

Mother ARRANGING for the summer1-
Vt want the girls to go to some plac
where the incest men are, of course"
Tather-"Then, my dear, you had
natter let them stay in town."-Detrov
Free Press.
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IT don't see why they call this a
growing country" said the tree, as 1t
tried to strike root In Kansas.
"You must notice that 1t Is on the CO."
replied the cyclone, as 1t played check
ers with FIVE or six townshipe-Truth.
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Teacher-"Can you tell me, Johnnie.
why Satan goes about the earth like {
roaring lion?"
Johnnie-"'Cause he can't cut any Ice
in the place where he lives when he's t.
home.r-Boston Transcript
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Properly Approached

Youth-"Excuse me, sir, but ! am
highly DESTROYS Of procuring your rare
and valuable autograph"
Rising Author-"Aheml Certainly.
How will you have it,"
Youth-"On the bottom Of a check for
your last months laundry bilL"-Town
Topics.
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Young Man-"What did your daddy
Eay when he heard 1 had kissed yco'
sister,
Little Girl-"He said that was ey
couragtng."-Td-Bits-
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~ hAn t"oohSS"
Biggs-"Why does Brown always
write his Jokes on such thin paper"
Diggs-"So the editors can see
through them, I suppose."-Albany
Journal.
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How Could she7

"No. Victor" said Atalanta, peDsive-
"; "how a I be yours when IL cycle
club, The Bloomers,' has just taken
for Its motto, Divided we stand, united
we fall 2 Life.
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SUPPOSE WE SMILE.
HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS FROM
THE COMIC PAPERS.

Pleasant Incidents Occurring b world
o~vor-sayings That Arc chserful to the
Old or Young Funny Selections mi
Everybody VIII Enjoy Beading.
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Better Than He Hoped For.
Mrs. Hashmore-"You'Il have to set
tie up or leave"
Summer Boarder-'Thanks, awfully,
The last place I was at they made mn
do both."-Life.
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.I tell you." said Mr.. Proudpaush
nthat boy Of mine is a wonder. lie
has the signs Of extraordinary genius
stamped all over him in display type"
"Indeed2 He must be a phenome
non."
"He is. He Is only 8 years old and
writes q hand like Horace Greeley's,
and sings worse than Trilby."-oaE
land Times.
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"I've got more money than ] know
what to do with"
"weil, don'tbe discouraged; Just start
q newspaperr'-Atlanta Constitution
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Appropriate

Appropriate.
He-"Wasn't Browns wife named
Stone before she was married?"
She-"Yes, and 1t was q very suitable
came"
He-"What do you meanf"
She-"Oh, nothing; only she threw
herself at his head."-world's Comic
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She-"T think it's absurd for a ma
10 EXPECT his wife to share his tro,
bles."
He-T don't know. He wouldn'
have many II 1t wasn't for her."-Do
troit Tribune
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40 Ear and Yet So Near.

Instructor-"Why, lady, wot made yer
come of them Yer was getting on sc
nicely"
Fair Pupil (poindng to the distant
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Budget
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Handy Piece Of Furniture.

Poet-"Do you digest all the poems
you readT
Editor-"oh, no, I have a goat to DO
that for me."-New York World.
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Thorns grow fast while a lazy man
sleeps.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-07-10
A Big Success In One Sense.

An ordinance requiring bicyclsts to
carry bells and lamps, and not to travel
more than six miles an hour within the
city limits, was passed a week ago by
the city council of Topeka and has
caused lively rumpus. The wheel
men object to the ordinance, especially
that limiting speed to brisk walking
pace, and the night after its passage ev-
cry bicyclist in the city turned out with
the loudest bell and the brightest head
light he could procure, and a procession
started round the town making hide
GUS din. There were COW bells, sleigh
bells, dinner gongs, house bells, TRAN
giles and trolley gongs, while one man
had a trolley car headlight, and half a
dozen carried big stable lanterns The
uproar was tremendous, and the demon
stration big success, in one sense. The
wheelmen claim they are simply obey
ing the ordinance, which does not speci-
fly the kind of bell or light that shall be
carried, but the chief of police threat
ems to arrest the wheelmen wholesale
for disturbing the peace if they persist
in their novel demonstration. = Elk
change.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-07-10
TOO HIGH FOR HER.
a Lady Loses Her Mind While Crossing
the Rocky Mountains.


Mrs. Lydia Spalding, widow of DIR.
Volney Spaldirg formerly of Virginia
City, New, is in Colorado under pecul-
lar circumstances. While crossing the
mountains in Pullman car Mrs. Spald-
ing lost her mind The treatment ac-
corded her by Pullman employees has
greatly lncensed Mrs. Spalding's friends.
! 1t appears that the lady, who is among
the wealthy women of the Pacific coast,
lost her mind while the Denver and Rio
Grande train in which she was riding
was ascending the western slope of the
mountains. She was taken from her
berth and locked up in a stateroom in
charge of the porter of the car. AtLead-
vile she was delivered to the sheriff of
Lake county.
Mrs. Spalding was completely re-
stored to her senses upon coming to a
lower altitude and expressed great in
dignation that she had been taken from
the train at an altitude of 10000 feet.
Upon examining her pocketbook she
found that $3.50 was missing. She re-
membered indistinctly that she was car
ried from her berth TO the stateroom in
the sleeper and locked up in charge of
the colored porter.
Mrs Spalding declared that she would
make every effort to find out what had
become of the missing money.
The officials of the Denver and Rio
Grande road are interested in ferreting
out the mystery connected with the dis
appearance of the money and promised
every assistance.
One of the peculiar features of the af-
fair is that demented passenger was
taken off the train at Leadville 1t is
not uncommon for passengers to lose
their usual "reckOnings" on reaching
high attitudes, but in almost every in
stance the mind is restored as lower al
titudes are attained. The ordinary course
is for such persons to be taken to low
er altitude at the earliest time possible.
Friends Of the California lady cannot
imagine why the ordinary course was
departed from in her case.
Mrs. Spalding is proprietress of the
Bella Vista hotel in San Francisco, one
of the most fashionable hotels of the
city. She is a woman of large social
prominence and is noted for entertain
ing wealthy people of the east when
they visit the coast. She was on her
way to Carlsbad, Germany, to test the
waters of that celebrated resort, when
she was delayed by the unfortunate in
cident in Leadville. She is handsome
woman of so years San Francisco Elk
aminer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-07-10

The methods of the Salvation Army
are being widely adopted by religious
workers not identified with the Army.
On Sunday afternoon 1 counted four
open air services being held on the
streets of Brooklyn. In each case there
were preaching and some singing by a
small band of men who assisted the
preacher in the conduct Of the services.
In one case two pretty and styishly
dressed young women assisted with the
singing. New York World.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-07-10
A Few Fools Still With Us.

Another expedition has set out in
search of the Mexican lost mine" that
has been as vainly sought during the
present century as Captain Kidd's
treasure. The mine and the treasure
will be found when the American heirs
of the "vast English estates divide mp
the millions lying in the Bank Of Eng
land' awaiting the settlement Of their
claims. It is a true saying that the
fools are not all dead. "-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-07-10

piobard Talbot Has Narrow Es-
cane, but Her Husband Finally Rescues
canture of One Hundred and
.,,uetv Pound "Silver King" TarpOn.
with one end of rope about her arm
IA the other end tied to the tail Of
"silver king weighing 100 pounds,
Nc Richard Talbot was dragged
.brongh the waters of the gulf of Mex
;ao a few days ago at terrific rate of
Snood The lady, with her husband and
s sPn Willie, aged 10 years, went down
~ tho beach to search for turtle eggs.
Mr. Talbot soon got tired of this sport
and cot into his boat to go down the
hav 10 fish, leaving Mrs. Talbot and
Willie still hunting for eggs. Soon after
how husband left Mrs. Talbot noticed a
croat cOmmOtion among a school OF
1ornoises near the shore. They seemed
70 he pursuing something, and in few
r,;nutes a great wave landed monster
tarpon on the beach.
There were four porpoises clinging to
tbe fish and it seemed greatly exhaust
ID nv the attack of it's enemies. With
an oar Mrs Talbot drove off the por-
noises and shouted to Willie to bring a
rome from the boathouse, which was
near When the boy came with the rope,
tbe lady lashed one end about the river
kings tail and wrapped the other about
her arm. Then she and Willie tried to
draw the great fish higher up on the
beach As soon as the tarpon felt the
ing on the rope he gave flounce and
rolled into the water, dragging Mrs.
Talbot and the boy with it. Fortunate
willie was free Of the rope and scram
bled back to the shore, but the rope was
wound several times about Mrs. Tai
bots arms and the "silver king" re-
vived by the water, sped down the bay,
dragging the woman behind. Mrs. Tai
bot had given a piercing scream as she
went into the water, and this was heard
BY her husband, who was fishing 800
yards down the bay.
He instantly realized that his wife
was in deadly peril and made prepare
4 tons to save her if possible. He rowed
& out into the bay SO as to intercept the
fish. Soon the tarpon came by at ter
rife speed. AS it passed Mr.. Talbot dealt
Il it a blow with an oar and partially
stunned it, and then he dragged Mrs.
Talbot, who was nearly unconscious, in
to the boat Stunned by the blows and
greatly exhausted by dragging Mrs. Tai
bot through the water, the tarpon was
easily captured, and Mr. Talbot rowed
to land towing the fish. Mrs. Talbot
was soon revived and was found to be
but slightly injured. Her arm was bad
ycut by the rope and wrenched by the
strain. She says that she remembers
but little after being dragged into the
water, Her sensations, she says, were
similar to those of one in half sleep.
The Ialbots came from Wisconsin last
year, and Mrs Talbot has often ex-
pressed wish to catch a "silver king, "
but she says that she never anticipated
and does not enjoy being caught. Dis
patch to Boston Journal