The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-07-12
Queer Things that Happen

@Ethiplggs$Iss strange and intcrcst;nu a,.a
ilafWsgise otihlerWise The world is full Of pbe-
Sarlella nSomena and odd accidents and quaint
A3efohnceiits. Assf.ntcseeiits. Comedy goes arm in arm
@flltPAhIAtragedy and more extraordinary
aecldents happen in real life than are
pld in fiction.
For example, down in San Bernar-
Valley, CAL, two playful wild
Ht Off the electric lights of sew
SFaT TtoNns for nearly 4S hours, and
every hcAme. and store, hotel and fac
tory in Ie entire valley was in total
5 Darkness. The young catamounts,
Il evidently while romping, chased each
b other up a poX carrying The main
B wires of the p HHc lighting company
" between the po(NE house and The dis
81 tributing point, In their play the
S cable parted, th9 circuit was broken,
5 and every light went out. Both ami
W mails were killed by the shock and
|S their bodies lay on the ground at the
so foot of the pole when the linemen
81 came to repair the break.
81 One Of the queerest lawsuits I ev-
AZ er heard of is pendin" in the courts
81 Of the county-Sam Bernardino, Cali
81 fornia. Paul Schlardum bought re-
% volver from hardware finn TO COM
81 nit suicide. For some reason the
81 weapon was defective and would not
Il 90 off. Schlardum has sued the COM
n pany for damages.
Men die sometimes from exceed
inly queer causes. For example:
COL j. B. Anderson, Of Colfax,
WASH, laughed so hard at funny
story told by a neiehbor that he had
an attack of apopleXy and died with
in an hour.
David Dorso, Of Harrison, N. j.,
was shaving, when mosquito lit on
his chin. In making motion with
the razor ITO drive the insect away he
cut deep cash in his throat and bled
to deth within a few minutes.
Elmer Kerchoff, while carryin" a
keg OF beer at a picnic in Reading.
Penn, last summer. stumbled over a
croquet hook. The kcg went down
with him and crushed his head so that
he died shortly after.
While fishin" from Stecplcchase
pier, Coney Island, not long ago,
|, Charles LindherG of Brooklyn. n. Y.
n suddenly disappeared, and Charles
Y Nelson. who was with him. thought he
was drowned. His surmise was cor
a rect. LindberG had fallen asleep as he
sHsat on the pier, and, falling into the
X 5water, was carried out before he
raise an outcry or take meas
to save himself. He had on a
E$93heavy overcoat.
Returning from mcrrymakin"
|Swith several companions, George Fo-
of Beverly, N. j., met death
I,@55@hile carrying the "dare' sci by one
&gpf the party. Challenged to climb the
arm Of a safety gate at the
ii8sSP Pennsylvania Railroad crossing at
5s}Cooper street, Beverly, Forearty, who
was telegraph lineman, accepted
the task. When nearing the top Of
\ the "finger of dcath' has weight
caused the wooden barrier to snap
and Forgarty was hurled to DEATH
A tragic fate has befallen Signor
Gladetti, the famous chemist, who for
the last IS years has been engaged in
devsing a new process of celluloid
manufacture. Signor Gladetti was
carrying out experiments in his Lab
ratory with sulphuric acid and chlor-
um. These he mixed in very large
quantities, with the result that he
was suffocated by the voluminous
gas produced. Signor Gladetti was a
veteran of the Italian war of indie
pendence.
Although people sometimes die in
peculiar manner, their lives are al
so saved in queer manner. Here is
q case in point: DR.. Marion Hart
zell, of Noblesville, Ind, owes his life
ito a silver dollar. He was met on the
street one day last year by James
Parrish, a farmer, who said: "You
have wronged me, and Pm going to
kill you!" Parrish drew a revolver
and fired, the bullet striking the dol
lar in Dr. Hantzcll's pocket and flat
tening ont. The physician was unin-
jured. The dollar was punctured and
may, when weighed, show a loss of
AZ cents.
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