Evening star., 1909-05-16
Household Thrown Into Panic.

normally mischievous and only falr stu
dent
Household Thrown Into Panic.
The first uncanny happening occurred
March 9, when, as the boy entered the
kitchen of his home. a SNOWFALL came n.y.
ing out of space, struck him In the mid
die OF the back and knocked him fiat on
the floor There is a wide open lot on
that side OF the house, and there was not
soul In sight outside. Precisely the
same thing happened the following day
when the boy came from school.
The next evening series OF events put
the household in a panic. Cups few from
the table and broke; lamp chimney was
shattered. and the spool of thread on the
sewing machine began to unreel rapidly
of it's own volition.
The boys grandfather became dis
tracted with terror. News of the strange
events spread rapidly.
The next day there was funeral In
the village. which the boys mother at
the home Of her parents. That night
things were particularly nimble, and
some Of the neighbors were sent Tor TO
compose grandfather Lund. who was on
the verge Of collapse
The. Rev. Mr. Mostrom. with Sam
Thompson. another respected citizen. re-
sponded to the call, but as soon as Mr..
Mostrom entered the sitting room a Bible
| twice and fell to the floor at his feet
There" exclaimed the old couple, you
see how 1t is
| The clergyman tried to explain matters
nationally. and finally sat down at the
| organ to play a hymn. Meanwhile. Mr..
Thompson was sitting about three feet
from the table. with the boy on his
knee. when the boy suddenly exclaimed:
instantly % T a big carving knife. which
had been on the table. few through the
air and stuck In the floor in front Of
them. The boy could not have touched
| it, Mr.. Thompson says. The same phe-
| nomena occurred with hatpin.
| Mr. Thompson and the minister owned
up afterward that they could not sleep
for hours that night.
200 Visitors See wreckage.
For several days such events contin-
ued to happen. People from the vii
flock to the house. until one night. 1t
is said. 200 visitors went through the
rooms to see what would happen.
There were no manifestations. however
| when the crowd was there. though all
| could see the wreckage that had been
wrought In the rooms, where pictures
and china and glassware had flown from
| their anchorage and broken on the floor
| Some OF the citizens finally declared
that the house, which was equipped with
electric lights and telephone. had become
electrified, causing the disturbance. Ac
| cordingly, two well known citizens went
| to the house one night, and, despite the
| protests of the family. who feared to be
| left in darkness, had the electric wires
disconnected.
| This failed to effect any reform, how
ever. The boy. finally becoming sus-
pected either of possessing unusual pow
| ers or marvellous sleight-of-hand abili-
| ties, was sent to the home Of his uncle.
| Andrew Lund. in Springdale.
AS soon as he entered his uncles house
a pail of water in the kitchen went spin
| ming over the floor. upsetting its co.i-
tents. A spooky night followed. All sorts
| of household untensils apparently went on
| spree. and this proved that the boy.
| Willingly or unwittingly. was RESPONSE
BILE for the manifestations.
You had better take down that look
ing glass;" said the boy to his uncle soon
after he arrived. His uncle laughed,
a crash.
AS in Mount Horeb. country people
came in droves to see the boy.
A neighboring boy. who cams over to
rified by the queer actions of the mar
bles that he ran home and told his
mother about 1T. He said that when 1t
became his turn to shoot he was utterly
bles. which would fly directly from his
fingers into Henry's pocket. Also he
said. when Henry shot. the marble would
stop short when going swiftly and fly
back to the shooter.
Andrew Lund declared. too. that the
boy would sit on a chair with a cigar
box containing marbles in his lap and
that the marbles would jump out of the
box without the boy touching them.
Finally it was decided to send the boy
to a specialist for an opinion, and he
was sent to Dr. George Kingsbury Of
Madison, who observed him closely for
several days. Since his return the boy
has apparently been more normal or.
at any rate. the family Is reticent about
the notoriety and have practically closed
their doors to callers.
Recalls Norwegians' Superstitions.
The manifestations never appear when
the boy is asleep. One well known clair
| voyant says that when he saw the boy
he was conscious himself Of three spir-
| its. two women and a man, lowering
| about the boy.
Such stories have recalled all manner
of superstitions among the old Nor
| wegian settlers and brought out the al
legged fact that a grandfather Of one of
| Mount Horebs Oldest citizens asserted
| folk before that interesting people dis
appeared from Norway. sitting on
| greensward playing on his fairy oboe
Memories of Wise Knut" Wise Knut)
the hero of Bjornson's story of that
| title, are also recalled.
The case Is attracting the attention OF
scientists and societies of psychic re-
becoming shy of visitors and frequently
cries when they come