AMERICAN MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LX, Issue 9345, 16 April 1909, Page 6

AMERICAN MAIL NEWS.

FIREMAN'S AWFUL PERIL

A strange negro, probably insane, stole the detached locomotive of a freight train on the Central Georgia railway in the Sinithville yards and started" the ponderous engine out of the

yard;. Beneath the locomotive, at work, was the rire.nan. When it began to move he grasped for ami clung to the driving rod —his only chance for escape from death. Whirled up and down within a few inches of death for several minutes, lie finally succeeded in climbing over the rods to the running board along thtj engine, then gained the cab, while the engine, with throttle wide open, was making fast time toward

Dawfc'ou. At sight of the fireman, the negro engine thief jumped from the cab. A crowd of men, who saw the fireman's narrow escape, pursued ami caught the negro. REMARKABLE OPERATION. Doctors of the Georgetown University Hospital witnessed a remarkable operation performed thero by Dr George Tully Yaughau, of this city, George A. Kelly, aged :.".). Tho bones of Kelly's knee were so badly diseased that Dr Yaughau decided on amputation. In the hospital was a man about fo die. Dr Yaughau obtained permission from the dying patient's family to iemove the left leg in the event of death, and it wad decided that the knee of the dead man should be grafted to the leg of the living sufferer. The transfer was duly made. Tho boues were rivetted together by slender strong wire and the most delicate phase of the operation, that of joining the ligaments, caused the surgeons to work as they probably never laboured before. Every tissue, tendon aud muscle was joined and the boues fastened together. Kelly is said to be improving rapidly.

INSANE MAN'S TERRIBLE WORK Two persons are dead and three seriously injured as the result of murderous attacks made by Georgo Stewart, a young fanner of Maple Valley. Stewart, who is mentally unbalanced, was staying with his brother at ReddickviJle. He started out in the early morning with a rifle. His brother attempted to restrain him and was attacked and beaten. Stewart then went to tho nearby home of John Spanhouse, and fired upon Mrs Spanhouse twice, wounding her iv tho eye aud arm. Her husband rushed to her assistance, aud was shot dead. A son, James, who was sieepiug upstairs, ran dowu at the sound of the shots and Stewart beat him to death. Stewart then started for Jus own home, but stopped ou the way at the house of Edward Pounds. Here ho attacked the hired man, George Beaumont, and the housekeeper, Mrs Gowaus, beating them both uucouscious aud fracturing the hired man's skull.