Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-18

IT all came about from the laea oi
Girl az the lunch hour says the
| Kansas City Journal, that she eould
nave some fun soaring her oompan'
Ions by exploding q squib IN Stove
mere was the not unusual miseaicui@'
ION The squib confined in the stove
New it to pieces aud the Tying sparks
.ei of the store Of powder In the ROOM
..rhe building seemed 10 heaye up at the
..,opd explosion, ana several girls ran
INTO the street. their hair and dresses
aare, screaming in agony
Really 1t was only a joke" was the
exclamation OF three men when they
,tere arrested at Middletown, n. Y.
ana indicted Tor assault. They had
tiel Andrew Clark. a nervous boy In a
stall with a kicking mule. The boy
lad commissions and II was many days
before the doctors pronounced him out
al danger OF losing MS life by the
Joke.
A white ROBBED figure appeared In the
rode I'm font OF the carriage In which
Frank DAILY, OF Summit, Utah, was
irving with the woman he had just
made his wife. The ghost scared the
horse. which ran away. When II was
fnally checked Daily suddenly threw
up his arms over his head and fell
Imply across the dashboard. The iOk-
fr only learned OF the tragic sequel
when Mrs. Daily drove into town with
the dead body Of her husband.
Peter Kuhn was frightened 10 death
BY weird noises In the night az Norris
City M. His body was found In bed
IN the morning with look OF horror on
bis face A nail driven I'm a shingle Of
the roof above the head Of his bed held
"a tln can. 10 which long string had
been attached. The practical jokers,
by rubbing this string with rosin, pro-
iuced the sounds Kuhn was known
BY the jokers to be firm believer IN
ghosts.
Some young men Of Crowley, La,
thought II was a good Joke 20 lock SUI
san Washington in the room with an
empty coffin. The girl thought so. too,
al first but became terrified when hours
passed and all was still, the iokers hay
ing left her 70 spend the entire night
IA the room. She died a few hours az
ter being released.
OF course people ought not to die Of
flight. Neither should they go crazy.
Either results from the natural cheer
fulness Of the Joker.
3. r. Messer, a farmer. IS years old
Al Huntington, W, Va, is hopelessly
insane as the result Of a joke played
on him by his grandchildren. At a
family reunion. six Of the grandsons.
ranging from Is 10 50 years Of age, re-
siding al a distance, planned as joke,
that each should write the old man a
letter the following week. Each was
10 express s0licitude for his safety,
since the writer had dreamed that his
grandfather had died,
The letters arrived one by one. ON
Monday came the first, Tuesday the
second. Wednesday and Thursday like
letters followed, all with the same dark
foreboding The matter preyed upon
the old mans mind 80 heavily that by
he lost his reason.
Frank DaWley, mechanic at East
Rochester, accidentally shot a neighbor
IN the thigh. The wound did not prove
very serious. and Dawley was not ar
rested. Then the fool Joker happened
along He told Dawley the man he shot
was dying. that he would be surely ar
rested. Dawley took the Joke serious
ly. went to his room, got a revolver,
and told his wife he meant TO XIII him
s.t She took the weapon from him.
ba, he found II again and fired It into
hs head
Joker OF ihe lying type, told James
" 1 600 a. Nkffrrpfaufnp nf1 that his
brother had died at sea. Lacy became
frightened and was seized with hys-
terical commissions, which resulted In
his losing control OF his vocal organs.
He had come 20 town TO meet his broth |
En- but fell into the clutches OF the fool |
i0ker. who represented himself as the
FIRST mate on his brothers ship that |
had lust put into port The shock so |
dazed Lacy that he fell into spasms |
OF weeping, and later lost his power Of 4
speech.
4 practical Joker nearly killed VIII |
lam r. Jones Of Boston by one Of the |
best known methods. Jones was with |
"a fishing party at AYerne-by- the-Sea. |
when one OF his companions drew a |
chair out from under him as he was |
g bout 10 sit down. Jones fell violently. |
Ne was taken 10 the Far Rockaway |
hospital in commissions, suffering from |
injury 20 the spine.
James Foftus Of Weehawken. mem /
her o. the Mercury Athletic club, lost |
HIS life by this same joke. 4 member l
% the club shifted his chair when he \
attempted 10 slt down He died from /
spinal meningitis, due to the injury he
received in the fan.
The loaded cigarette Is one Of the
old favorltes OF the practical Joker II |
cost Edward Neinschrieber Of VIII