Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-10

Incidents and Accidents.
-Centerville, Idaho Territory, was to-
tally burned on the oath of October.
Patrick Stapleton, d resident Of St.
Paul, Mimi, was clicked to death the other
night by piece of tough beef
A little girl Of Columbia, Mo-, died
from the effects Of sticking a dry weed
into her foot, while running around bare
foot
Three men were precipitated down the
central shaft of the HOOsac tunnel the
other day, and drowned in the water at the
bottom.
"A few days ago, boy in Freeport,
Ill, while playing bali, was struck on the
end Of the little finger by the ball, which
tore the finger from his hand.
An insane man jumped out Of third
story window in Racine, Wis, the other
day. When picked up his mania had left
him, and he was perfectly sane.
A fire occurred at Tunkhannock,
Wyoming county, Pa, the other morning,
which destroyed some twenty buildings.
Loss estimated at 800 600
"A &50O-horse belonging TO Milton
Thomas, of Muncie, Ind, ran nail into
his foot the other day, and died of lock
jaw. 54
Cameron, Mo, q town on the Hannibal
& st. Joe Railroad, with population of
probably 1000, was almost entirely des-
troyed by fire few nights since.
"A woman in Detroit received pan of
ashes on her head the other day. To clear
the hair Of the nuisance she used soap
suds Result: Her hair all came out, and
her scalp is as red as boiled lobster.
"A little boy was recently fatally in
jured In Brooklyn, by jumping from the
fourth story of house to escape fright
full punishment from his mother She was
arrested.
"A locomotive on the Huntingdon 81
Broad Top fpa) Railroad exploded at
Huntingdon a few days ago. Jerry Wertz,
the engineer, was blown to pieces, and
boy named Daniel Peck MORALLY injured.
The New York Commercial Adcertiser
states that woman who sits on street
corner, begging for pennies and holding
wretched, sleeping child in her arms,
rents the child for SO much a week, and
drugs it to continued somnolence.
A little child of Mr.. Stephen Hamil-
ton, north Of Muncie, Ind, got grain of
coffee into its windpipe and thence into
the lungs, eventually producing death.
The lungs Of the child were examined
after death, and the grain of coffee found
Another case Of death through the
stupidity of drug clerk has been reported
from Providence, II. /. In this instance
corrosive sublimate was made up for Gallo
mel and dose sufficient to kill five ordi-
nary persons was taken by an old colored
woman, who died almost Immediately after
ward
"A railroad boarding house at Bismark,
on the Iron Mountain (Mo.) Railroad, was
burned few mornings ago. The keeper
of the house was burned to death, and two
other men badly injured. The house was
full of sleeping railroad laborers and me-
chanics, and their escape was effected with
much difficulty.
The other day, little child of Mr..
McAfee, living in East Knoxville, Tenn,
died from the effect Of a bite inflicted by
spider about ten days previous. 1t was
bitten on the finger, which soon swelled,
when the swelling rapidly extended
through the arm and whole body, which
assumed the appearance of having been
blistered.
"A singular suit was recently in pro-
gress at Dover, New Hampshire. A boy
named Frank CASTER represented himself
as wild animal, and 80 imposed upon
man named Waterhouse that he had shot
him and put out one of his eyes. Casters
father brought suit to recover the value of
the eve. Young Frank has retired from
the wild animal business.
The other night tool car caught fire
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