DEATH OF THE STRONGEST MAN IN AMERICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1069, 13 February 1883, Page 3

DEATH OF THE STRONGEST MAN IN AMERICA.

Biil Hood, a oolired giant, recently died at h» home in Jackson Country, nged 70 • oirs. Hood was a remarkable man in many 'aspects, and for sirei gfch was without an equil thirty years ago. He was a teamster, and while often engaged in hauling rock', wou'd lift with p.irfi ct ease, ant place on hiwaggon , fl'gstonea t at wouli require the strength of three or four men When Irs team would s'all in chuckhol-s h. would plica his bick under the axle of the wagon, and hoist the load our, of (he hole When in his cups be was somiwhat quarrelsome, and conscious of his great strength, would deff the officer* of the la* a"d their men. Upon more than ms occasion the officers hxi to shoot and disable him before they could arrest him. Once a crowd of rail roaders caught him in a Iq-ior store, and by doubling teams on hi'n, thought, they could whip him. They accordingly locked the do.ir to prevent his eacapo, and then informed him ofth'h intention, when he immediately commenced to defend bimsrlf by taking the ringleader by the nape of the neck and the seat of tie pantaloons, and raising him above his hean", threw him clean out of the shopwindow and out on the pavement. He then began to knock the others down with his fists and floored them right and left, until he had the whole crowd down, when he quiet y unlocked the door and made his way home, bi,b not without a good many bruises, ts hi* anfcigonisis had been basy ah the time be ab r him with axe-handles and such like weapons His superhuman strength was such, however, that ho soon overtime things which woul i have killed an ordinary man.