Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-16
Incidents and Accidents.

found in a New York city basement, starved
to death.
"A man fell into slaughter house vat
in Chicago, few days ago, and was fatal.
ly scalded.
The lightning recently struck a cliff
over the Ohio at Louisville and tumbled
fifty tons of rock into the river.
"A young lady at Fort Wayne, Ind
recently died from the effects of a coal.oil
burning, after suffering in terrible agony
for twelve hours.
"A Mississippi steamboat passenger
fell overheard and screamed for dear life
till he thought of standing up, and found
the water just knee-deep.
The hair of an actress in Troy, having
caught fire the other night while she was
playing, she extracted a hair pin, removed
the hair and cast it from her
A man in Waterbury Conn, who en-
gagged carriage on a recent morning to
attend funeral in the afternoon, subse-
Quently countermanded the order because
" the woman wasn't dead yet"
An Indianapolis drunkard lay down
on the railroad track, and would have
awakened in another world had not his
faithful dog ran after couple of police
men and dragged them to the spot
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day, a
lad fell down flight of stairs, striking
upon his head, and when raised up he was
found to be in state of total blindness,
caused, it is supposed, by conclusion.
"A young man under age applied at a
Minnesota land Office for farm under the
! Homestead law, but was denied on account
Of his not being married He returned in
just an hour with reme dy for the dinlcul.
ty hanging on his arm.
Within very short time five young
ladies of Louisville have been seriously
poisoned by the use of imported face pow.
| der adulterated with lead. In each case
the effect Of the cosmetic was paralytic
both to the systems and facial beauty of
the maidens.
A correspondent Of the Country Gen.
tlemaa gives two cases in which the milk
| Of COWS bitten by mad dogs was used until
! the cows showed signs of madness, no in
! furious effects following. Few would care
! to knowingly try the experiment; but the
facts might tend to allay uneasiness in ac-
! cidental cases of the kind
"A horrible accident occurred on board
a canal boat at Buffalo few days ago. A
man engaged in shoveling wheat in the
boat, and who had been laboring almost
necessarily for day aud night, became so
exhausted that he fell asleep in one of the
! matches and was covered up and smothered
to death by the shower Of grain from the
! elevator.
"A man and his niece, at Batavia, n.
| Y, were suliocated by the gas froma char
coal fire a few nights aga. II is supposed
| that during the night he needed attendance
and called up his niece, who was found
! dressed and lying on the sofa in the room,
the man himself sitting in chair. Both
had probably fallen asleep, and were over
| powered in that insensiblc state by the suf-
locating vapor.
There was funny scene at the Holt
| day Street Theatre, in Baltimore, one
| night recently. The operctta "A Rainy
! Day y was performing, and the mimic rain
| behind the scenes was well managed In
| the midst Of it real rain began 10 descend
! through ventiatOr in the dome, and
| sprinkled the occupants of the orchestra
chairs and themusicians, GGd wet the front
Of the stage There were several umbrel-
las raised among the audience, amid the
cheers and laughter of all who witnessed
the scene.
AT Nashua, N. H., just as the train was
starting off, President Grant noticed lit
tie girl yainly endeavoring to get to the
car that she might shake hands with him.
The child, in LEr disappointment, burst
into tears, and the President, pointing 10
her, asked some one to bring her to him.
Two men seized her, and holding her
above their heads, rushed with her TO the
car, and the General had Just time to en-
brace her with both hands when the train
bore him rapidly away Many OF the
crowd saw the act and their parting
cheers broke forth anew.
"A man named billiard, while recently
engaged in digging well on the turnpike
three miles above Portsmouth, o., became
affected by "damps' in the well, and
dropped down inseEsible No one was
present but Welsh woman, and she satu.
rated handkerchief with camphor,
went down the well and spread it over his
face. She then tied a rope around him
and assembled, and then drew him out. He
was insensible for three hours, but finally
recovered. 1t was en- act Of heroism 10
the woman, and saved the mans life
The Boston Herald says that a lady in
thai city gave her little daughter, as she
supposed, dose Of rhubarb. Takingupa
newspaper few minutes later, her eyes
rested on a paragraph giving an account
OF administering paregoric for rhubarb,
which resulted fatally. She thought to
herself that perhaps she had done the
same thing, and upon examining the bot.
tie from which she had taken the medicine,
she discovered that she had An emetic
was given TO the child Immediately, and
by unremiiting attention for several hours
its life was saved,
/ The Wells & Fargo coach, which left