Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Reveled In Sensational Experiences. [ARTICLE]

Reveled In Sensational Experiences.

In City Hull Park some timo ago I met a man whom I first saw in Scranton, t Penn. I hardly recognized’ him in his ragged clothes, pinched fuconud starved look. His remains now lie in a little plot of ground buck of the Hillsdale poorhouse, near Wilkesburre, Penn. Tho man's name was John Eagan. His fattier located on a farm in the Lackawanna Vulloy some forty years u/'o. There wus coal underneath ids farm, and one day Eagan was ottered $500,000 for tl». land, and this ho accepted. A year afterward lie died, and bis grout wealth reverted to his son. Tho latter made tilings hum for a while. Om summer night about two years ago 1 saw Eugun riding down Lackawanna avenue, Scranton, on horseback. He was going along leisurely playing on-a violin, and he could play with remarkable skill. Finally lie espied the open door of a saloon, and straightway drove Ids horse through tho doorway into the barroom, si ill playing on Ids favorite instrument. He ordered drinks for the crowd, wheeled about and rode out again. < hie day lie rode out into the country and gave a farmer S'2,OOJ to set tiro to his barn, lie said be wanted the excitement which tho burning of the hay und straw would occasion. Another time he gave SIOO to a tramp to let the tramp punch ids oyos until they were black and blue. One Fourth of July tho same inun paid IJililK) for a spooial train to curry him eight miles. When the .Molly Muguiros were condemned to the gallows he went to Harrisburg with a certified check for SIOO,OOO and ottered it to Governor Hurtrunft if ho would pardon the Mollies. He had two locomotives built and shipped to his farm. Ho built a track 300 feet loqg, and after both engines had got up a good head of steam he caused the two throttles to be opened. The two engines came together with a terrific crash. Eagan suid tho sight of seeing them collide was worth what they cost. — [New York News.