Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-10-21
Incidents and Accidents.

Fifteen men and number of horses
were drowned few days ago, in the st.
Maurice river, Canada by the upsetting of
a sCow.
The Canadian schooner Kate Burley
was recently lost on Lake Michigan Six
OF the crew, including the captain and first
mate, persisted.
While Connecticut man was getting
married some one stole his hat, and he
swore so hard over 1t that the bride rode
off home alone, and divorce has been
asked for.
The bones of human skeleton were
found in Clearield county, Pa, lately.
Upon examination they proved to be those
of a Miss Burg, who has been missing
since the fall of 1866
James Allen, of Providence, recently
made balloon ascent at Norwich, Conn.
lie dropped a kitten attached TO para.
chute, at an altitude of 1900 feet. Both
Allen aud the kitten came down safely.
A torpedo of large size was recently
found in some coal delivered at the
Howard University. II is not known
NbNthNi ~ W DO IiltNHdtd W DlON uID 1llt
University, or the schooner which brought
the coal from Philadelphia
AT Ann Arbor, Mich, few nights
ago. blacksmith named Christopher
kearns was burned almost to cinder
while in an old barn, which took fire
about midnight, and, from various cir
cumstances, 1t is suspected that he was
stabbed, and the barn then set fire to hide
the deed.
John Cox, at Georgetown, ID. g., used
blue-stone as remedy for toothache, and,
about a fortnight ago, his jaws become hard
and rigid and are now so firmly set to.
gether that liquids even cannot be intro
duced into his mouth, and the slightest
movement of the body throws him into q
violent spasm. He cannot recover.
"A six months old infant in New Ha.
ven swallowed large needle short time
since, After several days of suffering,
which reduced the little fellow to almost u
skeleton, the needle, which had passed
from the stomach down to one of his knees,
was at last discovered by his mother, while
engaged in washing him, and at once ex-
tracted
While engaged in repairing drain
near the machine shop, in Salem, n. Y,
recently, the workmen unearthed bottle
Of whisky which was placed in the wall
when II was bullt-seventeen years ago.
One of the hands who was assisting James
Murdoch in laying the wall at the time
hid the bottle in crevice, and Mr.. NJ,
pretending not to see it, built the wall
over it.
"A few weeks ago woman residing in
Marion county, Ky, while spinning, was
so unfortunate as to have some grease off
the wool get into a cut she had on one of
her fingers. The hand and arm became
inilamed, and erysipelas soon set in She
was taken TO Louisville for treatment, but
the disease could not be arrested, and she
soon after died.
"A few evenings ago man named
Daniel Sumner, at Boston, made wager
of S15 that he would leap from Il three
story window and receive no injury.
When il got dark enough to prevent him
from being seen at a distance he appeared
at the window and spreading large UNI
brella, he leaped out into the air, and
gradually he hoated downward until he
reached terra frma, winning his wager
handsomely
"A number Of Hebrew women in Vale
10, Cal, while chatting together became ex-
traordinarily amused over some relation,
and their laughter was unusually hearty.
After they had quoted down, ii was oh.
served that Mrs. still sat with her
mouth wide open and unable to articulate
word. Examination led to the discov-
cry that she had displaced the lower jaw,
and a surgeon was sent for, who soon re.
placed it.
In Berkshire, Mass, the lead body of
a young woman, who died Of consumption,
was recently disinterred and the heart,
lungs and liver were taken outand buried.
This was done in obedience to supersti-
ton that near relative, also afflicted by
the fell malady, would be thus cured. The
superstition is based on belief as old as
the disease, that when one of a family dies
of consumption the body is nourished in
the grave by the life-blood of the person
next on the list Of victims. That it should
find believers in this era Of intelligence is