The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-09-18

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Very strange happenings ar con
st2ntlE being reported in the nnWs-
papers. Here are a feH, culleI from
recent Issues Of the daily press:
Two inches OF snow fell a. Lad
vile, Col, on May 81.
In the northwestern part OF How
ard. Co, Neb, a terrific electrical
storm occurred May %, during
which the lightning killed a nine
months Old child of Ignatz Sintek. a
farmer, which was asleep in its moth
er's arms. The mother was not hurt
but is nearly crazed with grief.
Five persons in enc family had mar
row escapes on the same day. This
item comes from Baltimore. The
family is, that of Edward B. Upton. 4
carpenter =
When working in DANGEROUS sit.
uatIon Mr.: Upton lost his balance AMI
sSst managed - sAiza a projecting
scantling and save himself trcm .
fall of hundred feet. At almost the
same hour one of his sons was caught
in 4 belt while standing near some
machinery and his clothes were torn
to shreds. A few hours later a1loth.
er sons hand was caught in a piece
CT machinery, and hardly was the
news Of this accident received when
another son escaped being ground to
death by train And as the house
was crowded with friends sympathiz-
ing and congratulating the family,
the Youngest son was Suddenly strick-
en- with a dangerous fever.
Tn the midst of life we are in
death'i; but It is not often that the
fact is SO wildly brought home to
any enc family as in this case.
At Chester. Pa. on June 1, Emma.
the 3-year-old daughter of Mrs. Mary
Laird, had thrilling and unique es-
cape from being crushed to death be-
Meath the wheels of a heavy wagon
near her home The child ran di-
rectly into the vehicle. She was
whirled around by the rear wheel elf
the wagon, and was saved from seri- |
Gus or perhaps fatal injury BY hold !
ing tightly to the spokes with her !
chubby hands, turning around until |
the wagon stopped She held to the |
wheel until her mother arrived. The |
child escaped with a few slight !
bruises
Five-year-old Angelina Me,andy, Of
No. 106 East One Hundred and Six
,eenth street, ran from her grand
side into the middle of Lex
ngton avenue in this city in time
o push her little brother out of the
way of a heavy coach that had just
lred and Sixteenth street. Scarcely
mere than a baby. she accomplished
he deed her courage and love prompt
ID her to, but was herself run over
md injured internally and was taken
o Harlem Hospital.
The Moffiat. of the power fishing
leet, while off the New England
oast picked up a lump Of ambergris
Weighing twenty-six pounds. This sub
tance is an excrement from a dis
ased whales lungs, and is used for
he manufacture of perfumery. 1t
las a market value of from $40 to
Is an ounce, according to the quail
y. The lump found by the Mof1iat
vas worth $3.50.
A dispatch to the World from Pitts.
urgh. June 13. says. DR.. Allen ].
a professor at Carnegie
'ech, discovered near Mi.lva.,e. a
Mushroom 22hx$2 inches in dimen-
:cns, nine incses thick and weighing
hirty-three and half pounds. 1t is
aid to be the biggest ever found ex-
EFT ore, which weighed forty-f1ve
ounds. The mushroom appears to =
ave grown within forty-eight hours.
grew so fast the blades of grass
ut through it. yu-r i