The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-10-01
Incidents and Accidents.

"A Montpelier man has lately found a
1920.
"A 81. Cloud, Mimi, mar recently
found a mouse's nest made OF greenbscks
to the amount of fifty dollars.
MIR. Kelley, of Harrison, Hudson
County, N. j., has become crazy in con-
sequence of an attack of fever and ague.
"A farmer in Pinewood, Hickman
county, Tenn, has been made a raving
maniac by the bite of a rattlesnake.
"A Troy IN. W merchant, Edward A.
Ives, was stricken blind three years ago,
and the atlliction has driven him insane.
The other evening, at a hotel in
Omaha, a stranger choked 10 death while
eating at the table. He was intoxicated.
The boiler of Laird, Norton & Co.'S
steall saw mill at Winona, Mimi, ex-
ploded recently, killing the fireman, Mi.
chael Burns. Three others were serious
ly wounded.
"A man named Converse, of Davis
county, Iowa, had his son of 10 years of
age arrested and incarcersted in the coun-
ty jail on acharge of stealing grapes The
boys theft consisted in his picking a few
lunches of his fathers grapes, and eating
them
During q recent thunder storm at
independence, Ky, lightning struck a
threshing machine at which eight men
were working, stunning the whole num-
Der, and on recovering consciousness,
three of them found the front part of
their tongues blistered, as if they had
been touched with red.hot iron.
Mrs, Emily Ross, a young married
woman, Of Indianapolis, recently met
with an accidental death, from poison.
She had been laboring under a severe
indisposition for several days, and took
a large dose of strychnine, under the
impression that 1t was magnesia. The
fatal error was discovered too late.
"A young man named Crowder, in
Daviess county, Missouri, was killed the
other day, by a gun he had fixed in his
stable for horse thieves. Forgetting that
it would discharge on the opening Of the
door, he went to his stable early in the
morning, and opening the door was shot
in the side, He lived thirty.six hours.
"A few days since the attorney for the
Miners Union brought thirty.six suits
against the Delaware, Lsckawanna &
Western Railroad Company, in the Luz
zerne County (Pa,) courts, for the Avon.
dale widows, the object being to recover
damages for the loss Of their husbands in
the accident of the Avondale mine. He
would in a short time bring as many more
additional suits.
"A singular phenomenon occurred in
q email section of country around Birch
Creek, Pittsylvania county, Va, the other
day. From a small cloud, which hung
like q dark spot in the clear sky, the rain
descended for hours in q perfect sluice
The creek in a little while became a vasl
raging river. The torrent penetrated the
iron foundry of Mr.. J. d. Hsskins and
swept away everything before 1t.
An insane husband at Troy, havinc
conceived the idea that his house wa!
about TO be attacked by the Prussians, col
leoted his family upon the roof of tn,
house and stacked his furniture dowr
stairs, in order TO be prepared for tn,
enemy, A police officer hearing tn,
means of the wife from the roof, entered
the house, but II was only after the OK
penditure of a good deal Of time that h,
succeeded in drawing out the husband
from a barricade Of chairs, tables ant
erockery. 1t subsequently appeared tina
} the insanity had resulted from numerouI
rotations al a ~neighDoring wine-shop.
, The Machias (Me) Uaion shows hov
, destructive fires originate. A man il
! cooper put fire in SOME heaps. The fir,
I spread, and has destroyed more timbe,
growth in No IA, Charlotte and Dennys
ville than any previous fire. A million
Oh dollars, 1t says, would not repay tn,
3 iosS A man in Wesley cutting hay
pun a fire 70 cook his dinner, Will,
I eating his dinner some cattle came On I,