Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-27
QUEER FREAKS OF FORTUNE.
VEIN OF GoLD DISCOVERED THRouuu
a SERIES or DREAMS.
Flames Develop Documents That carr,
an Hcirship-A 1h'eS Lcn Behind
More Than lie Took
Away.

'''!lu OCCUR III human experience is that
| embodied In the cuSe of persons who.
suddenly oyertakcn hy misfortune, find
| that that reverse is actually the means
| whereby they come in possession of
wealth of which they would certainly
| never otherwise have dreamed OF this
| There are plenty Of instances They may
| not all be as curious as the following
| but many " them are strongly tingcd
| with romance.
one very striking case in point was Ina,
| or pretty Western girl, who some time
back, was heartlossly Tilted by her lover
on the eve of marriage. She was in
duccd tp sue him for damages at law.
| With It's combination OF the humorous
ana romantic, the proceedings would
! have made tho basis of "A capita1 nolo-
drama, For the defense ID was urged
mat she had flirted with other men: but.
ny the inorest chance. a letter. written
by the defendant TO "a friend, was found
ana produced at the trial with startling
consequences. In 1t he remarked that
ne was about to terminate the court
snip, as there We're mo signs OF the
gold business ever becoming a fact"
Asked what this might mean, it trans
snired that superstition on some matters
had always run in the defendants fam
lily. and that he had dreamed a dream
which led him to think that marriage
with the plaintiff would be much to his
worldly advantage.
a COAL NINE IN 4 DREAM
VA tllAtt consecutive nights TINS dream
had come to him. and the substance of
1t was that the plaintiffs father. a farm
er who owned Two fields had found be-
low one OF them wealth in the shape Of
rich seam of coal. He further con-
feSsed to having made several secret
and abortive attempts to discover the
whereabouts of the said seam. hut that
as the time went by, he had come TO
the conclusion Of Mark Twain's dream
cr His vision had fooled him and
O sft Al NJ
inglS, his love for the girl grew less
and finally dwnded to nothing-for
which evidence of fckleness he paid the
light penalty of $3.50. The curious part
of the affair, however, lay in the sequel.
As matter of fact, the farmer had
never suspected that his field covered
seam Of coal but the circumstances
of the triple dream impressed him so
now he commenced operations. 1t might
hardly be credited but he found the
queer premonition verified to an eN-
tent that brought him and his daughter
n small fortune. 1t may he surmised
that the eN-loVer gnashed his teeth well
over the affair.
Recently Liverpool vestryman had
an exciting experience in this respect.
His house took fire and, with it's con-
tents. was practically destroyed-which
meant that he had to face the prospect
OF comparative poverty for years to
come. Strange to say, however the fire
riches. When a dividing wall collapsed
a fireman brought TO light an iron box
that had evidently been walled up in the
masonry 1t was found to contain
number Of documents and certificates
relating to some disputed land of con-
siderable value which the vestryman
and his family had for years been en-
dcaVorinE to trace. The law was at once
set in motion and shortly afterward the
lucky Vestrymdn became a landed pro-
prietor in the splidest sense of the term
Just over ten years ago, young coll
logian, having been hopclessly "plucllcd"
for his degree, quarreled with his father
and went off in a huff to a remote West
crn state. For a time he prospered and
became fairly wel-to-do; then his for
mer i'll luck returned At the end of
nine years his affairs suddenly collapsed
and he found himself face 10 face with
absolute ruin He was weak enough to
go 20 the river and take a plunge into
oblivion, but was. however. rescued in
the nick Of time.
Subseuuontlv the incident together
with the wuuld-be suicides, photograDh
was published i'm "A san FrarCisco news
paper. a. copy of which. hv one of those
condolences which makes truth strang-
cr than fiction. found lis way to the
hands Of his fathpr's LAWYER Tho latter
specdily wired for uarticllars and the
,.rIUaUay's identity bairr cstabIisbad in
formed bim mar Ills drnd father mad ieft
him n large sum of mnrnv, So tN n.
lucky twist, his misfortune merged into
"a fortune