Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1900 — MISFORTUNE CAME IN CLOUDS. [ARTICLE]

MISFORTUNE CAME IN CLOUDS.

New Jersey Family Was Visited by an Extraordinary Series of Mishaps. Francis Fielder, who lives at Turkey, a small village near New Brunswick, N. J., Is wondering why misfortune is persistently pursuing him and his family. Recently his sou Edward fell from a scaffolding at Long Branch and was so badly hurt that for a long time his life was despaired of. , Then Mrs. Fielder slipped from the stoop of her home, breaking her collar bone and several ribs. The next day Mr. Fielder slipped on some loose hay and fell out of the mow. He'was shaken up so badly that he bad ‘to keep in his bed for several days. Next a favorite horse died of glanders and all his live stock had to be quarantined and the outbuildings disinfected. While this was being done a message was received from a son, Elbert, at Asbury Park, announcing that he had lost a horse by theft. The younger son, Garfield, was the next victim of the family Nemesis. He was riding his wheel to work when he ran Into a chicken and was thrown against a post, having a collar bone broken and a shoulder dislocated. Now that all the members of the family and’most of the live stock have been victims of misfortune in one way or another, Mr. Fielder hopes the fates have been-satisfied and that brighter days are about to dawn.—New York World.