The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-12

an irate dog might have worried her to
| death; but poison, no,
But since remembered, my brother
| had a pet hooking bird once and
/ catbird, jealous of its singing. poisoned
! it. Gave it some sort Of insect that
! grieveously disagreeing with its internal
mechanism, had dealt instantaneous
| death.
/ 80 you never can tell. A neighboring
cat, jealous of the melody of Chinchilla's
new, may have offered her a choice
morsel in the shape of a poisoned mouse
Poor Chinchilla! Chilla!
'sThe blonde girl appeared at the gate
! She coughed once or twice. I took the
| hint Being a stranger with no personal
| interest in the graves 1 had outstayed
my time.
| ct thanked her and left the dog grave
/ yard with sigh, thinking Of my own lit
I tie Toodles wrapped in her blue baby
! blanket, all faded by now, and buried
! way out there. in Kansas, under the
/ cherry tree, without a slab or flower
or even a bit of upright board above
her with her name"
A PENNSYLVANIA GHOST.
! A dispatch from Connellsville, Pa, to
the New York World has for its con-
tents this: This town has no congrega-
! ton Of spiritualists. There does not
flourish here any coterie palm readers,
seance enthusiasts or miracle manufac-
! turers.
But just now the whole town has a
| decided interest in real, live spook
story The ghostly visitor has come
not only once but several times, and
unlike most ghosts it has come when
not only one man or woman was pres
| ent, but has come when no less than
| eight people have seen it, touched it and
| talked to it.
The scene of the ghostly visit is in one
/ of the Oldest houses in Fayette county,
| and enc of the most noted. On Main
street. this place, is what was for a
century the Page House. 1t is a print
| tive looking stone mansion house, with
curious pyramidal chimneys. When the
house was erected Connelsville was only
an e!ght-year-o infant in the heart
| Ct the Allegheny Mountains. There are
many tales of adventure and romance
coupled with the old hosiery.
Some old citizens state that the guests
| in those Gays here did not register, and
! this removes one of the connecting links
! between the ghost and the cause Of the
! ghosts return to the premises For
one night, when a fierce mountain storm
was raging, to the hotel came a man
and a woman, drenched with rain, seek
| ing lodging for the night. At this time
Samuel Page, the original proprietor OF
the house. was the landlord. The weary
corners were sheltered. In the morning
| there was a revelation.
| The man and woman had disappeared
! in the night.
In their room they had not left sign
! Of their going. Nothing was ever heard
again of the woman.
| Out in the rear court Of the hotel was
found the dead body of the man. stabbed
| All evidences of identity had been re-
moved from the pockets Of the dead
man, and nothing had been left to give a
! clue to the guilt of the woman.
| For several weeks back the old house
| has been strangely disturbed. The house
| is occupied by two families and both
have been startled by the strange sounds
| heard at night. In one side of the house
J lives Mrs. Amanda Kerr and in the
and children. With Mrs. Kerr lives her
| brother. John GrindeIl, and with Mrs.
Rowen lives her brother in law, Bert
Rowen. Mrs. Kerr's daughter Miss Han
| nah. also lives in the house with her
mother. The sounds were not so bother
some as the material evidences of the
| visits of the spook. Mrs. Kerr and Mrs.
! William Rowen in the morning, for al
most a week. roticed that the flowers
| in the rear court would be uprooted in
| their beds. the soil was dug up around
q coal shed, and a board walk through
the court leading 20 this seemed to be
an especial attraction to the spook, who
| invariably overturned it each night
| Then came the climax. Mr.. Greindell
! was lying upon a couch on the rear
porch In the doorway sat Bert Rowen
and Miss Kerr, and on the porch were