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Show KILLED ULACK SHEEP. , Uklla All YVklla lines ot Ik Santa ,1 rioek ll.inaln.,1 Inaestlied. p "A moat lingular freak ot lightning i! occurred on my farm and In Ita vicinity vicin-ity a few daya ago" tild Mr William . Arndt of Van Wert county. O "A . thunder dorm hid patted over the locality lo-cality Jud before noon I had a flock of 40 theep In a pasture a abort dlt- tance from my farmhouse, and they had huddled under n big maple tree In t the field while the rain waa falling They wire allll there when the great . thunderclap broke the stlllneiw sue- c coding the storm Illghlren ot the sheep were black I found that every one of them had been killed by the elrange lightning while not one of tho t other aheep was Injured Each dead sheep hsd a round hole In the back of the neck, around which the wool was 1 burned away The killing of the 18 black ahecp wn the extent of the damage dam-age done on my farm On an adjoin Ing farm a flock ot aheep waa standing In a circle, and every sheep on the out-aide out-aide row waa killed, 20 In all None ot the reat win hurt. On another farm n flock of aheep, among which wat ft big black ram, the only black one In the flock, waa In a paature. huddled about 4 the big ram The rnm at found detd L In the field with a burned hole In hit V neck, and hla black fleece had been J turned aa white hy the ehoek at that ot any ahecp In the flock W |