Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-14
Incidents and Accidents.

Two cats set house on fire at Sand
wich, Mass, few days ago; hey were
playing with matches,
Within the last three years seven per
I sons have been killed in going into
menagerie cages and facing lions and
tigers,
"A Troy barkceper, looking for a per
sistent till-thief literally smet rat,
catching the rodent as he was devouring
his eighty-seventh dollar.
The other evening man named
Smith jumped from the third story window
/ OF the fremont House at Attica, Ind,
striking on his head and bursting his
skull.
A negro man and woman were found
! dead, locked in each others arms, near q
Charleston, 5. c., camp.mceting, few
days ago. They were stupg to death by q
rattle-snake.
"A little girl near Caldwell, Ohio, was
recently fatally poisoned by eatinga piece
of bread containing arsenic, which had
been prepared for rats, and had been over
looked and left lying behind door
In Wheeling, w. Va, the other dav,
an artist brought his camera to bear on a
well known topper lying on the sidewalk,
and soon had him on exhibition in all the
show windows. The old reprohate, on re-
turning to consciousness, signed the
pledge.
Miss Walker, young lady, daughter
of VIM Walker, of Orange County, Va,
endeavored, on the 18th ult., to wrest a
pistol from the hands of her father as he
was about to shoot himself and received
wounds from the effects of which she re-
Gently died.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, on a recent Sun
day afternoon, little boy seven years old
was shot through the head and instantly
killed, while leaning out of an upper win
dow. No one seems to have seen the
shooting, or to have heard the report of
the gun.
The other night an employee of a
livery stable in Chicago was driving a
span Of horses attached to carriage, and
when in sleepy state drove off one of the
approaches to the Wells street bridge, the
bridge being open. Driver and horses
were drowned.
"A man died of congestion ofthe heart
and arteries in Pickins county, Ala, the
other day, and, although the pulsation of
his arteries ceased ten hours before his
death, he walked about during that time
and gave directions about his affairs to his
family, and drank coffee an hour before
his death
"A few nights ago, while four of the
employees in the Gardiner, ILL.,, coal mines,
were being lowered into the shaft in the
car the wire rope attached thereto sud
denly broke, precipitating the men to the
bottom, distance Of $50 feet-fataly in
juring three of them, and seriously Grip.
ping the other.
"A gentleman living in this city has
large pet coon, which is very fond of him.
A few mornings ago, as the gentleman
was walking through his garden quite
path, who disputed the ground with him,
and seemed determined that he should pro
coed no further in that path. Having al
ways been on the most friendly and init
mate terms heretofore, the gentleman was
not little astOnished at this seeming bel
ligerent demonstration on the part of his
coonship, and being determined not to
give way, forced him to retire, and, pro-
ceeding along the path few feet, he dis.
covered a very large live rattlesnake coil
ed up in the path, which the coon evil
IDENTITY knew was there, and was, doubt
less,trying to prevent his master from fall
ing victim to its fangs.-Pulttski, Tenn,
Citizen.