Life has proven one trouble after another for Lawson A. Dubel, of Frederick, Md., who believes the bad-luck jinx has followed him more persistently than any other man in this country. He must undergo an operation for a growth on his eye. Recently a growth was removed from the other eye. His other mishaps since childhood have been: Left hand almost cut off, right arm broken, severely scalded, jaw broken, tramped upon by a horse and three ribs broken, one ear torn off, and a hole pierced in his head, left foot nearly cut off, kicked by a horse and leg broken, pinned beneath a 1,500-pound derrick, and every rib broken and both hips injured.
Boy Kills Panther in Fight.
Milton Coats, a seventeen-year-old boy, is at a Marked Tree, Ark., hospital here with a terribly lacerated body, due to a fight he had with a mammoth panther.
Young Coats was hunting when the animal leaped from a tree and attacked him. He fought it, but the wild beast overpowered him. As it sank its teeth into his body, the boy managed to get out a hunting knife and cut its throat.
Little Child Saves the Home.
When Police Sergeant Duley, of Tacoma, Wash., answered the telephone at the Central Station the other night, a baby voice said: “I’s alone. My papa and mamma is gone, and the stove is turned over. I’s afraid, and I want you to come out here.”
The firemen found the smoke pouring from the doors of the home of Andrew H. Stoltz, which was saved by the presence of mind of his four-year-old boy. How the little fellow knew the police-station number is a mystery, said the mother.
Girl Saves Drowning Man With Her Auto.
A young woman of rare presence of mind, an automobile tire, a rope, and an automobile worked together to save the life of a man who was pulled out of a deep pond just as he was becoming exhausted.
Miss Elsie Ditson, of Paterson, N.J., is the heroine of the story, while William Young, of Jackson’s Mills, is the man in the case. Miss Ditson was driving her automobile through Cedar Grove, near Caldwell, N.J., when she passed the pond there and heard the shouts of a man in distress.