A Woman World Girdler.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 8 June 1900, Page 3

A Woman World Girdler.

Miss Annie Londonderry, the globe girdler, who is finishing a world's tour on a bicycle for a wager, has-had a pretty warm, time, j according to an account of an American paper :—" Outside of Stockton a few days ago she. met with a bad accident. As she was riding along, the driver of a buggy ran her down and ran over her. She was .picked up unconscious and carried into Stockton, where she lay in the hospital for two days. She coughed up a good deal of bloOd, and the doctors said she could never recover, but talking of the accident, the plucky little woman said, 'Here I am,_ and what is more, 1 intend to complete' the journey.' While going from Paris to Marseilles, Miss Londonderry rode nearly day and night, and when in the neighbourhood of Lacone she was held up by three masked men, who sprang out from a clump of bushes by the wayside. She pluckily drew her pistol, and was just about to shoot, when one of them grabbed her from behind and took the pistol away. All they secured was Sfr.. and they left her, swearing a variety of French oaths, as they had expected to get all the 1 money she had made in Paris. So far, Miss Londonderry has been able to gain SIOOO by selling advertising space on her wheel, &c„ and she expects to make the balance of the SSOOO between California and Boston by lecturing on the Chinese-Japanese war. While in Japan Miss Londonderry made the acquaintance of two Avar correspondents, with whom she went to Port Arthur. Her two companions rode ponies, while she rode her bicycle. She had hard work, the roads being very bad, but she managed to keep up with, the native ponies. She was in the thick of the battle at Gasan, and went over,all the battlegrounds of last year's campaign in Cofea.,"