Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-12-02
Incidents and Accidents.

uC SdtuOllC at DlioAl, Vulss.,
was demolished by the recent storm.
"A little boy, two years old, was recent
ly fatally poisoned In Chicago by eating
colored candy.
"A Nashville serenading party travelled
ten miles to fiddle two hours in front of a
house before they discovered that it was
empty.
"A little child four months old, Sleep
ing with other children, was accidentally
smothered to death in bed in Chicago, a
few nights ago.
"A young lady, eighteen years of age
died recently, at Baltimore, of hydropho-
bia produced by the bite of dog nearly
two years previous.
"A colored man in Texas went into a
blacksmith's shop with his coat.tail pocket
full of powder. When he came out he
made hole in the roof
"A man named Gardiner died in Am
herst, Va, few days since, of well.de
veloped case of CHAMBERS. 1t is supposed
he contracted the disease from some horse
-Mdlle. Sagrino, flying trapeze per
former, while recently exhibiting in ST.
Louis, fell distance of thirty-five feet
and was very severely, if not fatally, in
jured.
"A few mornings ago, a large new
stone front building in st. Louis fell with
terrible crash, burying from nine to
thirteen men at work in the basement,
killing several and badly injuring others.
AT Newark, N. j., one day recently,
Catharine Ward, 96 years old, was at work
in her kitchen, when her dress caught fire
from the red-hot stove, and she was
burned SO severely that she died next day
In La Crosse, Wis, the ether day, a
gentleman, suspecting that some person
or persons were stealing his wood, charged
few sticks with gunpowder, but the
wood pile fell down and mixed the wood,
so that one of the marked sticks got into
his own stove. He doesn't know who
stole the wood, but he is satisfied about
the way it "goes off" He bought new
stove, and will burn coal after this.
"A grindstone six feet in diameter, and
weighing about two hundred and half
tons, recently exploded in file grinding
shop at Newark, N. j., bursting into frag.
ments, one Of which crushed through the
floor above into the second story, and
one or two others broke passages through
the wall. Five men were severely in
jured, while several others made narrow
escapes
"A gentleman in New York having
occasion to go into his sitting room, the
other day, found it full of smoke from a
smouldering fire. On throwing open the
window to let out the smoke flame shot
up directly in front of the window, in
which stood large glass globe, contain
ing goldfish. This had acted as burn
ing -glass, concentrated the suns rays, and
set the floor on fire.
AT jewelry store, in Bloomington,
ILL.,, the other day, customer was trying
to select pin that would suit him as to
price and quality, pricing everything in
the case until he came to diamond pin,
valued at $1,000 To try the customer
the jeweler offered it at one dollar and fifty
cents. "Well," said he, that is about the
price l want to pay, bu, the pin is little
larger than | want"
"A young man living at New Haven,
instead Of going to church, spent all of a
recent sabbath in writing letters, one of
which was to a Cincinnati woman, who
was told lots Of sweet things by her lover
Charley; in another letter to New York
man, this same young man indited series
of ungentlemanly jests upon his absent
love. Judge Of his surprise, however,
when few days after, her letter was
returned him from the metropolis by his
gentleman friend, which showed that the
envelope had enclosed the wrong missive.
The young woman had not yet been heard
from.