The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-05-23
LONG SLEEP OF
YOUNG ITALIAN
Youth Lost His Money In New York
and Went Into State Of
caIaIepsy Several
Weeks Ago.
GOOSE WAS RESCUED
Buried In Earthquake Ruins for Three
Months, Was Taken Out and
Seems None the Worse for
Experience.
IBy Alice Rohe, United Press STAFF
COrrosnOndonf I

IBy Alice Rohe, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
ROME, May Shy mail to New
York. francesca Messina Of Pal
nero who was stricken with strange
case OF catalepsy in New York city
and who was brought to Naples sew.
eral months ago, Is still Immersed in
sleep. Tbs YOUNG Italian collapsed
following the loss of $1,000. Prof
Ferrari at the hospital for incurables.
Naples, has worked with unusual In
terest on this strange case, but all
his efforts have failed to rouse Mes
sina from his deep, sleep.
The catafeptfc, however, has re-
sponded to electric currents to the ex-
tent Of losing the corpse like rigidity
Of the body and has, been forced to
walk like an automaton. Messina
being strongly impressionable to
music the effort was made to arouse
him through this means A band was
placed under his window and 1t was
noticed with interest that the sleep.
ing man started visibly at the sound
Of the drum. Relatives of Messina
say that twice before following a men,
tai trouble, the young man fell into a
cetaleptic state. The first time 1t
lasted one year, the second time eight
months.
The case Of the youth who lost his
money; in New York with much tragic
results has attracted the attention of
the most famous physicians and scien-
lists in Europe. The doctors who have
studied cases and who have expert.
mented with every known method, In
Guiding hypnotism, believe In an even
tual cure.
The sacred geese who saved Rome
are scheduled to second place in
goose lore of the Eternal City. The
goose who was saved from the ruins
of Avezzano after sixty-two days
burial in the earthquake wreckage
has a special place allotted in the ZOO
logical gardens at Rome where it may
end its days in honor and comfort.
Aside from being a real curiosity of
endurance the famous long fast goose
is regarded with generation.
It was eight o'clock at night when
several citizens of Avezzano heard
suffocated cries coming from mass
of masonry. Calling to squad of
soldiers, excavation work began at
once. Though hope of nescuing a
human being was beyond credence,
the sounds which came from beneath
the ruins indicated that some living
creature was calling for help.
Rescue work began in earnest and
under a network of wood a large
goose was discovered The poor crea-
ture squawked piteously and, as the
soldiers declared, seemed to beg them
for water and food. This living VIC
tim of the terrible disaster OF Janu-
airy 13 was given warmed bread in
water and was cared for with all the
skill known to the earthquake sur
vivors.
To the surprise Of those who exam.
ined the goose no trace of food was
found nor was their evidence of any
having been digested. The bird is
sound and whole. Instead OF fatening
this lone survivor for an Easter feast,
the Impoverished citizens Of Avezzano
begged that tho goose be taken to
Rome and given a permanent home
where it might end the life in com.
fort for which it had struggled so
bravely through sixty-two days burial.
Quite the most unique strik.s exper-
fenced in Italy has just been called
in Sicily. The young women of the
Syracuse university taking exception
to the reading OF certain passages
from Dante by a professor presiding