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Show - . LIGHTNING'S QUER FREAKS. Dog Killed In Lap of Painter Who Escapes Uninjured. Many straiiRo freaks of lightning aro reported from u recent storm, says a Clayton, N. J., dispatch to tho Philadelphia Record. While n man was painting n sign nt Landlsvlllo a frightened dog jumped on his lap. A streak of lightning encircled the man's neck, passed down to the dog and killed It Instantly. The sign painter was1 blinded for about threo minutes, but felt no other effects of tho lightning light-ning after his sight had returned to him. Tho bolt that struck Walter Keen made a holo through tho floor directly imder.hla foot, but did not make the slightest mark upon tho rug. A window win-dow pane, 30 by 3G Inches, in the Keen house was takon out by the lightning and stood up against a walnut tree without cracking tho glass, the lightning light-ning having melted the putty, and glazier's points. A tree in North Clayton was struck by a ball which appeared as big as a barrel and stripped entirely of its leaves without otherwise Injuring the tree. A tin can nt the McWilllamt house was shaped by the lightning like nn accordion plaited skirt.- A bolt of lightning filled Harry Esslotfa eel lar with denso smoko, but made nc marks whence it came or whither il went. Lightning Jumped from a wire fence surrounding a poultry yard and gave Mrs. Francis Hill a shock from which sho has not yet fully recovered |