Coffins Ailzed In Transit.
Mrs. Samuel Purman's remains were shlpped from Parkersburg, W. Va., to Cambridge Springs, Pa., for Interment several days sÃnce. The same day the body oL a man named Ellsworth was shipped from Sistersvllle to Erie, Pa. When the coffin supposed to contain Mrs. Furman's remains was opened at Cambridge the family was astonished to flnd that lt contained the body of a man. The man proved to be Ellsworth. The cofflns had got mixed somewhere, and it took several days to straighten the affair and get the bodies to their respective places ol burial. Connected with this is the strange coincident that Mrs. Furman and Ellsworth had at one time been next-door neighbors.
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