Boy Drawn Over Cliff in Coffin

1909

JACKSON, California — Lying unconscious in a coffin, Cecil Miller, 16 years old, was drawn up a 150-foot cliff on the bank of the Cosumnes river, near Plymouth Sunday.

While hunting on the banks young Miller stepped out on a large rock on Eagles' Nest bluff, which gave way suddenly and precipitated the boy down the bank to the water's edge. A companion ran to Plymouth, three miles away, for assistance. Believing that Miller was dead, a coffin was taken along by the rescuing party.

After much difficulty two men were lowered over the bluff with the coffin. The boy was alive, but unconscious, and terribly injured. He was placed in the coffin to be raised to the top of the bluff.


Shoots Both Wife and Himself

DES MOOINES, Iowa — Dennis Sweeney, connected with the coal mines at New Saylor, near Des Moines, shot his wife, from whom he had been separated for some time, and turned the revolver on himself. The body of Sweeney was found in a cornfield. The woman cannot recover.


Surprised, Regains Voice

POTTSVILLE, Pennsylvania. — Surprised by friends, Miss Sallie Sterner suddenly regained the loss of speech she sustained during an illness of five years ago. Physicians, puzzled by the loss of articulation, are still more mystified over the latest developments. The patient now talks as well as ever.