The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-04-02
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
s "A child in Grafton, VT, owing to q
cold, lost both its eyes, which ran out,
and became deaf and dumb, and has
lately died after an illness of two months.
"A man in Chicago named Bross re-
Gently undertook to draw load from a
gun, when the powder exploded, discharg-
ing the load into his body, causing instant
death.
"A man in the Cincinnati jail cele-
brated the beginning of his 10-yes- term
to the penitentiary by marrying q
girl to whom he had been some time en-
gagged.
=" Poor little fellow, aren't you cold !"
said pretty young lady to newsboy of
whom she had made a purchase. " Yes
ma'am, l was before you smiled" was the
gallant response.
Two Ssndusky boys, of the age of 10
years, took a jug of whisky few days
since, and, retiring behind warehouse,
spent the day in drunkenness, coming out
towards night with bruised and bloody
faces.
DIR. Carnochan, distinguished New
York surgeon, has come near dying from
the consequences of poisoned wound
mis- system having received the virus, in the
course of an operation, by small pune
ture in the right hand.
The Memphis Aualanche has been
shown centiped or Thousand legs"
which was recently elected from the stom-
ach of lady, of Raleigh. Some three
eight or nine "bots" or earthworms !"
from her stomach.
"A German named Charles Oeh Inn, en-
ployed in Miller's brewery in Galena, Ill,
fell into a vat of hot beer, and was so badly
scalded that he died in five hours. He was
alone at this time. Jumping out of the
vat, he ran to pump and pumped cold
water upon himself His sutferings were
intense.
I'm Indiana a railway engineer was re-
Gently killed by an accident, and the ad
ministrator Of his estate brought suit for
damages against the parents of three boys
who had placed distractions upon the
track and caused the accident, ana YER
dict was rendered in his favor in the sum
of $1,000.
"A man, sixty years old, let the train
leave him at Palmyra, No, the other day,
and he ran after it some distance, but f -
ing to overtake it, returned almost out F
breath and asked if there would be another
train that day. Receiving the answer, no,
he exclaimed, "Gone! gone gone I" and
Immediately expired.
"A man, about fifty years of age, while
playing cards with three other persons, at
tavern in Bethany, Conn, was noticed
suddenly to straighten out his body and
gradually slip out of his chair on the floor.
The next moment he was taken up corpse,
having expired without speaking word
or receiving moments warning.
"A young man named Clark, of Herki-
mer county, attended a church festival, at
Fischer's Ferry, New York, few days
ago. and made the acquaintance of beau
tiful young lady, with whom he fell des-
perately in love. Next morning he learned
that she was engaged, and soon to be mar
ried; and thereupon he straightway took
a rope and hanged himself.
"A party of hunters from San Fran
cisco were chased by a grizzly on the
Coast Range, and one of them dropped a
smelt of the bottle, set himself down on
his launches and taking the flask in his
paws drank like sensible human being,
rubbing his hirsute stomach in satisfaction,
utterly forgetting his enemies.
I'm New York, the other day, heart
less father took his bright, golden haired
Justice Mansfield and asked that she be
sent to the poor-house, alleging that he had
recently married second wife, who in
sisted that he should get rid of the child.
The Justice expressed himself strongly in
rebuking the fathers cruelty, and Adopted
the little girl himself.
= Steam towing is hereafter to be tried
upon the New York canals. 1t is an
nounced that company has been formed
in Syracuse to build a steam tug and ap-
ply it to q new plan for towing on the
Erie canal The tug is to tow canal boats
in trains. It is claimed that the new method
will reduce by one half the cost of freight
ing and the length of time, between Buffalo
and New York.
"A shrewd man in West Penn Town
ship, Pa, the other day, undertook to
grind some coarse blasting powder in his
coffee mill. He had not made many revo-
lutions of the crank before there was a
noise heard, and the room was filled with
flying fragments of coffee-mill, window
glass, furniture, crockery ware and Dutch
man. The ingenious experimenter was
not killed, but he was badly burned, and
we have no doubt that some time will elapse
before he will again turn his attention to
scientific researches in the pulverization of
powder.
The Poison of Mathematics.
Or. s. W. Mitchell, of this city, has just
completed q second carefully conducted
series of experiments upon the venom OF