Show I SOME FREAK HAPPENINGS HAPPENING I I I 1 Chicago Inter Ocean W W Colum caused a sensation when he be appeared before the Wabash county Indiana board of review an announced announced announced that the assessor had neglect neglected ed to list his personal property and asked that it i be b assessed against him The personal property could not have hae been found and it was not to protect himself that he appeared but merely he thought he ought to pay taxes on nil all he owned This almost act of Mr Coburn an act to which all aU tax dodgers do ers should take notice has induced induce the writer rier to call rl forth several incidents Incidents strange happenings that you read rea about from day to day odd found In news of tho the world for as is well known the world is full ful of Df phe phenomena phenomena wel and odd accidents and amid quaint conceits Indeed comedy goes arm ar in inar arm with wih tragedy and more extraordinary extraordinary ar occurrences occurrence happen in real life than are told in fiction For instance a strange coincidence was recently observed in the Leaven Leavenworth Leavenworth Leavenworth wa worth Kansas penitentiary The po police lice ice were looking for a colored man Ulan a murderer named William West Test A negro by b the name of William Wilam West Vest was arrested for a minor miner o enle and andas vas as promptly charged charge with Ih being bel g the I murderer He Ife declared his innocence but when measured by bytho bythe bythe the tho system It was that ne was of exactly the size and shape shupe of thu tha murderer Only one test remained if t f the finger tips When an impression of them was taken and compared with wih that of the murderer it was proved prove that he could not be the missing miming mur murderer mm murderer derer This was wa confirmed a few days later latu when the time guilty gi William West Vest was arrested The police that this test is infallible as the impression of one ono mans finger tips never corre corresponds corresponds exactly with wih that of any other otur man manAn manAn manAn An illustration of Keeping at It I ev everlastingly everlastingly brings success was indi indicated Indicated recently in the result rul of a court courtship courtship courtship ship covering a period perio of ot years ears and strange to relate the par parties pr parties ties concerned during this time had never met in person and is presented in the case of J W V Reed aged age 64 of ot Ky K and Miss Helen Jenkins aged 63 of Quincy Quiney Ill I They have recently been married marrie The bride is a sister of a dead ded wife of Reed Red Another case caso is that of old man Erastus Erstus Singer who advertised for a wife In his case however it IP is so s to speak sp ak one on old man Singer As stated state he advertised for a wife and misrepresented his age Mrs Mr Nettle Nettie Nette Fanner of ot Anaconda Mont answered I She said sid she was a young widow and she did not misrepresent her appearance They met and old man Singer found Mrs Farmer was his own daughter He had not seen sen her since she Tas was a child when on the death of her mother she was adopted by a woman named Cooper Old man manSinger manSinger manSinger Singer had always posed po d as a bach bah bachelor bachelor elor After an engagement of four foul years year pretty Jennie Seller Solier Soler became the bride of Mariano G who is 39 years old They were married marred with the consent of the brides parents and will wi live lve with wih them th m The bridegroom has been in America for five years ers re residing residing residing siding all aU of ot the time at Worcester Mass and said sid he had written to his mother in Naples for permission to marry The bride left lef the fifth grade of ot the public school to wed Mariana Marlana Perhaps the most mo peculiar will wi ever written was probated In England at Doctors Commons July 17 1789 It I ran rn as follows I give and bequeath When Then hen I am laid underneath To my m two loving sisters most moat dear der The whole of my store Were Vere It twice as much more Which Gods goodness has granted me rue here And that none may ma prevent This my will wiil wi and ana an intent Or Or occasion the least lost of of law racket With Ith a solemn appeal appel I confirm sign and seal sel This the true act and deed dee of Will VI Because he was knocked knocke down by an a automobile running at a high rate rte of speed sped Harry Hank Haak Hak of ot Battle Batte Creek Mich formerly deaf and dumb has hs regained his speech and hearing About seven years ago Haak Hak who was an engineer while running his train on the Grand Trunk was struck on the head by a water spout and lost both his hearing and speech For that reason when the shouted a warning and blew his horn he stolidly pursued his way He was thrown t own vio violently violently yb and says something snapped in his head and he became nauseated He went home to bed and in a few hours was amazed to find that he cul both hoar and talk tUt The most pronounced c case caa of ele elephantiasis brought to the te attention of the medical fraternity at i iia ia Pa 1 8 and probably the most mot remarkable in the country is that of Mrs Mr David I Lynch who is at the home of her son In Harry Lynch of ot State road read rd near ner Fifth avenue McKeesport Suffering from the disease dI Mrs Lynch weighs S pounds pound Just below blow the knee her left leg ie Is I seven sven feet fet in circumference or over two and a half halff feet f et in thickness It I is ma i still larger above the knee kne and weighs over lou 10 pounds The he right leg measures four teet eight inch Inches above the knee kne The disease disse is Ii one of the tl rarest in inthe Inthe inthe the country As AB Mrs Mrs Lynch lies le in her bed the tho lower limbs fill fiU its Is width and she is helpless She suffers little pain pan After his ha wife had bad refused retus to cone eune back and live lve with him because bause of his drinking habits George Georg Kummer u a quarryman of Monroe N Y went to lo lothe the barn bar at the rear of his house hOUS and lay down on the floor for and blew himself to pieces pie with a stick sUck of dyna dyn dynamite mite mie All Al that was Wa found r und of ot him after the explosion were his legs Having been ben refused refu a bleeding by his physician Andrew Lanson Ln n aged 71 1 of Akron Ohio carried crrie out his fre frequently frequently frequently repeated threats to do the Joo joe himself Cutting a gash in his leg Before Defore neighbors could reach reh him Lou Lon Lonson Ln Louson son n bled Bc to death deth While walking a wire Ire rope rop across South Boulder canyon near ner Denver Colo Cob Iry vy Baldwin suddenly was stricken blind but by b talking to the tha themen themen men at the other end he retained his nerve and finished in safety probably probably the most perilous walk ever undertaken undertaken undertaken ken by man The wire was feet above ground and from end to end was wa iO feet teet An autopsy upon the body bo of William WilliamE E Alexander of ot Havana Cuba who recently committed suicide there dis disclosed disclosed closed clos that although death had ha result resulted resul ed from wounds inflicted with a re xe revolver revolver e volver the man had slashed himself in inthe inthe Inthe the abdomen with wih a razor and had then sewed swed up UD the cut with wih an ordinary ordinary nary nary needle and thread The cut WIS w is isa a 8 deep through the ab abdominal abdominal abdominal wall and the suffering th tho thoman man must have endured while sewing it I up was doubtless most excruciating |