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Show FORTUNE IS BURIED WITH BODY, BUT IS RECOVERED Special Cable to The Tribune. BRUSSELS, Sept. 17. An extraordinary extraordi-nary story Is Just made public ln respect of the chief prize of JCS000 in the exhibition exhibi-tion lottery. It was long unclaimed, ana the Identity of the possessor of the winning win-ning ticket hns only just been established estab-lished in a curious way. A young Belgian miner, who bad pur-chaicd pur-chaicd a ticket for the lottery, was killed while at work through a stone falling on his head some days bofore the results were announced. According to custom, he was .buried ln his best suit of clothes. When the weeks passed and t lie i;S000 reinnlned unclaimed, the young man's relatives remembered that he had a lottery lot-tery ticket ln his waistcoat pocket, and applied to the authorities for permission to-exhume the body. After some delay this was granted, and the winning ticket was found. Tho miner was only nineteen years of age. |