Show modern witchcraft in salem daring a recent rainstorm in salem mass electricity played borne queer pranks at porters market on the roof of the building is a clothesline during the storm a towel blew from thia line and lodged upon an electric lighting wire below being wet it wound around the wire and the electricity passed through it and shot down into the ground where it came in contact with the water pipes leading into the build S it ran along the pipes and the first thing it encountered in the basement was a pot of hot lardy which was boiling on the stove the lard was illuminated and the young man in charge thought it must be burning he started to remove it from the stove and received a shock that cent him against the basement walls pale with fright he rushed up shaira where a fellow workman noting his pallor reached for the water faucet to get a glass of water no sooner had he touched the faucet than he had occasion to pick himself up from a tar corner of the room for a few moments everything seemed turned into an electric battery the nails in the wall became red electricity flew from the water pipes and flashed around the bands on the water pails at length some one found the canse of the trouble and the towel was removed portland transcript |