There was some trouble between father and son, but the son finally succeeded in securing his father’s consent to the marriage, but before the day came for the wedding the girl was taken sick and died after a few days’ illness.
From the day of her death, Bill Alexander was a changed man. He went into the forest, high upon the mountainside, and built himself a rude cabin, where he lived until he died. At first he would see no visitors, and came near killing several persons, including his father.
Not many months later his father died and two sisters married, leaving his younger sister and mother alone. He received them in his cabin, and they remained with him for two days, when they sold out the farm, with the exception of his house and one acre, and left the country. The two sisters who married had already gone away with their husbands.
So Bill Alexander, the dashing young college man of eighty years ago, came to be simply “Lonesome Bill” to the mountain people, and he was left to brood over his lost love alone. All traces of his people having been lost, he was buried by the side of the cabin he called home. The cabin contained nothing of importance, further than an old tintype of a young and pretty girl dressed after the fashion of the mountaineers a century ago.
Suit Over Nail in the Bread.
A nail and a tooth of a woman’s comb or a piece of a toothpick found in loaves of bread that had not been touched by a human hand in the preparation or baking or delivery are the causes of a suit for damages brought by C. A. J. Qeek-Berner against the Ward Bread Company before Judge Aspinall and a jury in the Kings County Court, New York.
Mr. Qeek-Berner claims he found the nail and the other foreign substances with his teeth, and in so doing inflicted damage to said teeth and mental anguish to himself to the value of $50,000. The plaintiff testified he found a wire nail an inch and one-half long in one loaf of bread, and in trying to masticate it, he ruined five teeth. Later, in another loaf, he found a tooth from a woman’s comb. Counsel for the defendant insisted that it was but a common toothpick.
Thirty-mile Race to Save $25,000.
With a package containing $25,000 in cash perilously near falling out of the open door of an empty express car, a Union Pacific fast-mail train speeded westward, from Omaha, Neb., pursued by a special train carrying the messenger who had missed his car.
The race continued for nearly thirty miles before the mail was overtaken. The package of money was found just a few inches inside the open doorway.