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Show The ( lin k Stopped When lie Died. Tho sentimental and superstitious who are given to tracing the laws of coincidences coin-cidences will find an interesting subject for their attention in the recent death of a jeweler iu Bucyrus, O. For many years it has been tho office of a skillful German watchmaker, named Frank Kehrer, to attend to tho town clock, which is in tho steeple of the court house. During tho p:ist few months tha health of Mr. Kehrer has been poor, mid tho clock, deprived of his careful attention, atten-tion, has been keeping indifferent time. Monday morning the timepiece struck 5, and a few moments later it stopped. Early risers who heard the chime nf firm that there was something indescril). ably weird and peculiar about it. Late! risers, noticing the clock hands pointing to 5:03, commented upon the subject and its aged guardi an. Later in tho day the news spread that Mr. Kduvr's condition bad suddenly become worst- and that ha had died at 5:05 that morning. The hands of the old town (dock still point to tha identical time when the active mind and skilled hand of its muster were paralyzcti in death. Jewelers' Weekly. |