Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-11-18
Incidents and Accidents,

snake IN uDa county, California, recently,
saved his life by keeping the wound
saturated with hartshorn.
"A paper recently read before an East
ern society CLAIMS that CONGREGATIONS have
increased sixty per cent since the use of
petroleum. u.r
"A young lady at Galya, ILL.,, the other
day, was sitting near a stove when her
clothes caught fire, burning her so badly
that she died in less than two hours.
A young woman died the other day,
at New Haven, Conn, from the effects of
arsenic, which she took for the purpose of
rendering her complexion white.
During a thunder storm flock of
sheep shut up in a pasture in Lisbon VT,
and huddled close together near a wall,
were struck by lightning, and thirty of
them were killed.
"A fireman of the Central Pacific Rail-
road fell off the locomotive when travelling
at high rate of speed. After going ten
miles The engineer missed him, backed up
the train, and found him asleep against the
bank.
An aerolte burst recently in South
west Georgia, in the day time, with an
explosion that was heard for thirty miles
around, and the several fragments fell in
different parts OF the surrounding country
Edwin Tuttle of Panton, VT, was
going under barn with loaded gun 10
shoot skunk, when from some unknown
cause the gun was discharged and he was
shot through the head, dying instantly.
He was 16 years old.
Patrick Crowley, residing near Ma
rengo, I'll, recently left his three little
children at home alop9, and the clothing of
his little daughter, only four years old,
caught fire, and she was so badly burned
that she has since died
"A lady living near Iowa City was
suhppnaed to testify in case in the dis
trict court the other day, when, the day
being cold and clustering, she wrapped
her infant up so closely that on reaching
the courthouse it was found to be dead
In Chicago, few days ago, a mother
placed a pail of hot water on a chair and
stepped to hydrant for some cold water
when her little child, just learning to
walk, reached the chair and upset the boil
ing water on its head and shoulders 1t
died in a few hours after the accident.
AT shooting match in Wells, vt,
the other day, lad, named Charles Lewis
after setting up chicken for an old man
to shoot at, lay down in the grass a little
way off The old man mistook the boys
light-colored hat for the chicken, fired at
it, and put bullet through the poor lads
brain, killing him instantly.
AT Chill Ind, the other morning, two
little girls of John c. Belew, one thirteen
and the other eight years old, got up to
build fire. their mother being sick and
their father absent from home, and using
the can of coal OIL an explosion followed
their clothing caught fire, and both were
50 badly burned that they died that night.
--Elihu Gregg, recently convicted of
setting fire to the court house at King
wood, Preston county, West Virginia,
when called up for sentence, was allowed
to choose one of two modes OF punish
ment tor his crime hanging or imprison-
ment for life, and selected the former.
Judgment was accordingly pronounced,
the time fixed for the execution being the
2Sth of January next.
"A farmer in Gardner, Me, the other
day, hitched his horse to a platform car
standing on side track. He was sur
prised on looking around, few moments
afterward, to see that the train had started,
and the horse was doing his level best to
keep up with the locomotive, and was fast
approaching the time Of the famed Dexter.
Fortunately for the horse, the engineer dis
covered the state of affairs and stopped
the train
-Anon.expesive lamp, filed with non
explosive oil, and capped with patent
non.explosive burner, exploded in Cleve-
land, Ohio, the other night. A gentleman
in the room suddenly noticed that the
lamp seemed to enlarge; he drew back
step or two, when the lamp exploded,
sending hundred pieces of glass flying
through the room" II was standing on a
bureau at the time, and was properly
trimmed and in good order yet, with ali
these mon explosives" it did explode.
AT Rolling Prairie, Ind, few days
ago, man engaged in feeding thresh.
ing machine from loft in a barn, made a
misstep and fell headlong from the loft, his
head striking the cylinder, which was run
ming at full speed. He was instantly
drawn into the machine, head first, and in
less time than it takes to tell it, his head
and the upper portion of his body were
reduced to so shapeless, unacceptable
mass by the teeth Of the cylinder and con-
cave.
About seven months ago, lady in
Santa Clara, Cal, in kneeling down for the
purpose Of religious devotion, knelt on the
edge of a spring to her noop skirt. She
experienced some little pain in the knee at
the time, but thought it no serious matter
However, the limb commenced swelling,
and became intiamed causing her intense
suffering. u continued to grow worse
until few, days ago, when her physicians
determined~tha the amputation Of the
limb was necessary to save the woman's