A STRANGE STORY.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 286, 4 December 1886, Page 4

A STRANGE STORY.

An Aeronaut, Supposed to Have Been Lost, Loading a Princely Life.

New Yokk, October 17.-The " World's" j Providence, R. 1., special says : As strange and startling as was the story of tho disappearance of Frederick A. Gowor, the telephone inventor and aeronaut, is tho information of his reappearance, nlivo and well, in Bombay, India. Gowor, who was a newsboy and subsequently editor of the "Press," in this city, loft his news paper desk when the; first public exhibition was given here of the telephone. He contracted with Prof. Reid to deliver a lecture throughout the country' and afterward took the Frsnch capital as a field for introducing the tolephono. Soon after reaching Paris he amassed a fortune. Having satisfied his thirst for discovery and invention in one direction, Gower set to work experimenting with machinery for aerial navigation. He made extensive preparations for ascending in a monster balloon from Dieppe. The balloon went out to sea, and the only vestige of it that was ever found was the baßket. Gower was given up for lost. He had, not very long beforo, married Mile. Nordica, the prima donna, who, however, did not live happily with her rich American husband. Now comes the story that on Malabor Hill, in Bombay, tho vanished American is living in good health, while his brother, George Lewis Gower, is in France taking care of his interests, Gower, it is said, is a great friend of a handsome Indian Princess, and is the lion of a very lively Europoau circle.