American Mall Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1904, Page 4

American Mall Items.

CURIOUS INSURANCE CASE.. Transcript of an action Iras been filed from Jefferson county which has some peculiar features, Use chief Hvwrmenl of the deliinidam being ttrat the plaintiff attempted to rein--161 re the life of her husUutd after lie w»s dead. The suit is brought by iiury Si-heser, administratrix of the uiluie oi John C. Sclneser, who died mtestate, against the Prudential Life Insurance Company. It is a suit to recover a GOf/nol. policy. The defence asserts that Scheser enlisted in the army, but deserted in Kan Fralncisco. He was captured and imprisoned at Columbus, Ohio, mid on his attempt to escape from tirere was shot ami wounded. This was On Oct. 7, 1(101, and on the next day the wile tried to renew the intAiiasnce, which had not been I/aid, it is alleged, for four months. Knowing his condition. On the same day the wounded man died. A HEAL lUIIR IX THE WOODS. Little Emily Schoffner, the three-ycar-otd child who left home at tlrceivboio, N.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 16, toddling behind her father's waggon, was found Friday afternoon lying under a tree in a pine thicket not a mile from tier home. This is a leni-arkable case of jjreeervation of a "babe in the woods.'' It rained hard Tuesday night, the next day, and Friday it was very COM aw* the little one had nothing to eat. Search for her had continued, despite the fact that it was expected that the Child had attempted to cross a stream which had become swollen by rain and been drowned. When found the child was nearly frozen, but was soon able to hap the story of her adventnre. saying that she had been walking about Jn the thicket all the time colling for mamma and papa, airnd she could not lind Uicm or the big road. HEAD OF FIVE GENERATIONS. Spared her life after being chased by a bear when eleven years old, Mrs Hannah Test, of Kokomo, lnd., eigod eighty-seven, has eighty descendants, anid is trie head of five generations. In a group which was soon recently were Mrs Test's daughter, Mrs Murphy ; her granddaughter, Mrs Kentner ; her greatgranddaughter, Mrs Winliekl, and her great-great-granddaughter, Frances Winnekl. Mrs Test's descendants include eight chiUdrcn, twenty-seven gnaaklthildrcn, forty-three greatgramdahildren, and two great-great-BrarJJchikben. She ran tell her grandchildren a true bear story, amd often docs relate it.' She lived at Dublin, lnd., when a slip of a girl, ami while out gathering turnips in eti open place in the woods came face to face with a 'bear. She escaped, and later a party was l organize! and captured the atii al, the claws of which she has as mementoes of her experience.