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Show LIGHTNING'S QUEER FREAK8. Dog Killed In Lap of Painter Whe Escapes Uninjured. Many strango freaks of lightning are reported from a recent storm, says a Clayton, N. J. dispatch to the Philadelphia Record. While a man was painting a sign at Landlsville a frightened dog jumped on hl6 lap. A streak of lightning encircled tho man's neck, passed down to the dog and killed it Instantly. The sign painter was blinded for about three minutes, but felt no othor effects of the lightning light-ning after his sight had returned to hlra. Tho bolt that struck Walter Keen made a hole through the floor directly under his foot, but did not make the slightest mark upon the rug. A window win-dow pane, 30 by 3C Inches, in the Keen houso was taken out by the lightning and stood up against a walnut treo without cracking the glass, the lightning light-ning having m el tod 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 tho tree. A tin can at the McWllliams houso was shaped by the lightning like an accordion plaited skirt. A bolt of lightning filled Harry Essler's cellar cel-lar with denso smoke, but made no marks whence It came or whither It went. Lightning Jumped from a wire fence surrounding a poultry yard and gave Mrs. Francis Hill a shock from which she has not yet fully recovered. |