The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-04-16
FRIDAY JINX
UPSETS PEOPLE
ALL OVER TOWN
Visiting Auto Spills Milk Man
and Horse Turns Over on
Main Street.
TUGS BETWEEN STEED'S
LEGS ROUTE A DRIVER
Hoodoo Day Ends as Two Bicy-
Gle Riders are Bucked Of
Wheels.

Yesterday was Friday and the Jinx
was our for an airing.
About o'clock in the morning, a
dairy wagon driven and owned by
Tom Collins, was struck by an auto
mobile, near the corner of Broadway
and Lorimier streets.
The auto bore an Illinois license and
was driven by strange negro.
The crash came unexpectedly to Mr..
Collins, who had seen nothing of the
approaching automobile. When the
collision occurred, Collins was spilled
from his seat among the overturned
milk cans, and when he succeeded in
extricating himself from his sudden
embarrassment, he scrambled out of
the rig and began to look around for
the cause of the disturbance.
He addressed the colored chauffeur
in an emphatic manner, and was not
long in convincing the stranger from
Illinois of the fallacy of the old ex-
preston that there is no use crying
over spilled milk" The argument was
so impressive that the darby seemed
delighted for an opportunity to pay a
cash consideration for the damage he
had done.
The transaction was closed salts
factorily, after which the colored
brother steered straight for the ferry
boat that would take him back'to his
native shores, and the dairyman drove
away with what remained of his
morning milk supply.
Later in the day street car traffic
on Main street was blocked for some
time when horse belonging to Mic
kles the kindling peddler, stumbled on
a rough place in the track, in front
of the Missouri Utilities office and
fell between the rails.
The nag was stunned by the fall,
and it was sometime before the animal
cauld be persuaded to get up and let
the street car pass. The horse was
not seriously injured, but the harness
was broken and one of the shafts
splintered.
Later in the afternoon H. Smetzer,
ball player and lineman for the Mis-
souri, Utilities Co., in hitching his
horse to the wagon that carries his
tools and supplies, got one of the tugs
between the rear limbs of his dumb
friend who took umbrage at the in
dignity before he had travelled far, and
gave expression to his feelings, by
trying to kick the dash board off the
vehicle to which he was attached. Mr..
Smetzer finally succeeding in con-
vincing the enraged beast that it was
all mistake, and after everything
had quoted down the tug was unfast-
ened and the error corrected.
This misunderstanding occurred at
the intersection of Frederick and
Good Hope streets, and before the ex-
element had completely died down,
Ed Kendall, while doing some trick
bicycle work, met with misfortune
about a half block further west on
Good Hope street.
He was riding his wheel without
any saddle, and when he attempted to
cross the car track, the wheel skidded
and Mr.. Kendall suddenly relinquished
all claim to the bicycle and sailed off
for distance Of nearly twenty feet,
when he dropped in a sprawling posi-
ton on the firm concrete street.
While Mr.. Kendall was making his
landing, Putt Fulbright, passed on a
bicycle going east on Good Hope
street. He was going at high speed
on considerable incline, and when
the chain broke on his machine, he
seemd to take renewed impetus and
being unable to stop, he was compelled
to guide the apparatus into the curb
where he made safe but abrupt land
ing,