The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
GRAB-BAG OF ODDITIES. X
Brief Resume of the Years Happenings DiscIoses
Facts Which Fiction Cannot Equal.


While &C. Reths eli, candidate for
Levy court commissioner III Whining
ton, De-, was about to vote at the Sep
tembeT primaries lightning tore down
one Of his political posters from teie-
graph pole and knocked the ticket from
lis hand. He was defeated by large
majority.
Mrs. w. A. Redwick of CooperstoWn,
y. Y. was carrying a lighted lamp
downstairs duSi1.s storm when a bolt
tore the lamp from her hand, putting
il out at the same time. :pped open the
N.Oman'S shoes. but left her personally
uniniuTed-
In the stomach of a steer brought
from Nebraska 20 the Pjttsburg stock
: ards was found an issue of Mr., By
, ans COmmOner- undigeste
United States Senator Aukeny of
" ashington state, was an invalid III
January, all because his pet dog was
so glad to see him that he upset the
! Olitician in their greeting and the lat
ter broke his arm in the tumble.
mail train on the Illinois Central
read Was wrecked in January by sJTik-
ing COW. The body was hurled
| against a switch and in some manner
opened it, ditching the train.
y pointer dog sent from st. Paul into
North Dakota for hunting training.
y as frightened by the noise of a NOW
ing machine and ran all the way home
| &c his OWneT--3S9 miles
Jacob Harlem of Union City, Ind,
| dreamed one night last January that
| his father had been killed in a runaway
accident His terror brought on a chill,
" mich resulted IL death
| An i'll fitting shoe. rubbing the heel Of
] Benjamin Ady, of Baltimore, was the
: cause of his death The doctor called
! it blood poisoning.
A Nineland IN. j. contractor, Feast
! er by name, died Of fright at the sight
of the surgical Instruments laid out
preparatory to an operation upon him.
/ Harry Lehr attended a Newport the
atre one evening in July wearing d
! bright necktie with his evening ciot hes.
The Missionary Society of the Ken
Osha CWis.) Methodist Church refused
| to accept a legacy of $4,000 because
the donor had met death while attend
| ing a theatre.
! Mrs. William Leroy, Of Louisville. KY.
: being their fifth boy born on that day
| of that month since 1900.
| Frank BrOOking, Of MacOmb Ill.
/ while tearing out "A sparrOw's nest,
/ found a 81 bill among the straw. With
! this as rent money ne put back the
birds home and they are again living
| with him.
The steamship Alaska, which reached
New York in August from Honolulu,
made nearly $4,000 for its owners by
being delayed three days in a storm
during which time the price of sugar,
! with which the vessel was loaded, rose
| considerably.
In April last A j. Gender, a brake
man employed by the Ontario and
, Western road predicted he would meet
death while coupling; his prophecy
was fact six days later
| y game of seVen-up broke an elect
ton deadlock in MOnOng3hela. "a
last February. Clark Boyd, Republi-
can, and James Hendrickson, Demo
crat. each received 113 votes for regis
ter assessor and played cards for a de-
cision. The Democrat won.
| James A Jennings, New York
electrician, was run over by a train
and killed the morning after he had
dreamed that he was dead.
During a June storm at FIT. Scott
| thousands Of small fishes and frogs
/ fell from the sky. The market place
! was covered and scores of fish We're
taken from the pools left by the rain
A mule born on a farm near Leban-
: on came into the world with seven dis
! tinct hoofs-three on the left front leg
/ and two on the right.
NO mother should be weak enough
to allow her baby TO scream off the
key. She should carry a tuning fork
/ and when the child is about to begin a
prolonged howl should give IL the prop
| err notes" That is the recipe for do
nestle harmony which Miss Amelia
Weed Holbrook gave the professional
| Woman's league last June s
The manager of a New York city
theatre solved the theatre hat question