Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-04
Incidents and Accidents.

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Incidents and Accidents.
I'm Belleville, H., few days ago, q
man, while intoxicated, deliberately took
5000 United States bond from his
pocket and tore it into pieces.
"A man in Meigs county, Tenn, re
Gently, while STOPPING to gather sheat,
was struck in the forehead By rattle
snake, and died in two hours.
On Long Island, the other day. wag
threw a handful of shot into q friends
face, lust as another man fired gun.
The struck man fell insensible, and nearly
died from fright.
"A little son of Mr.. Zetler, living in
the town OF Theresa, Wis, was burned to
death the other day. The house took fire
during the absence Of Zetler, and the
child persisted in the flames.
AT Morley. Ind. few evenings ago,
lady named Mrs. Bentley Was severely
burned by the explosion OF q patent
gasoline lamp, which she had Only day
or two previously bought of pedler.
"A girl ten years old, daughter of Mr..
D, kldrich, OF Mount Etna, Ind, was
burned to death the other day. She was
lighting fire, and using coal oil to make
it burn quicker, when the can burst, en-
veloping her in flames.
On opening box car OF train for
Boston, the other morning, at windsor.
VT, it was found that of one hundred and
twenty five lambs confined therein, and
on the way to market, only four were
alive.
"A young lady in Philadelphia re-
Gently went into the water at . bathing
school, while overheated, and was at
tackled with congestion of the brain, and
drowned. She was 10 have been married
| in few days.
| Sebastian Harter, while vanishing
furniture by lamplight at Tell City, Ind,
| the other night, set his varnish on fire. The
| flames communicated instantly in al d.
rections, setting Harter's clothing on fire
and burning him to death.
in Nashua, N. H.. short time ago,
thirteen year old girl climbed between
the wings of the new eagle on the City
Hall and sat down on its neck. The girl
sat in this elevated place, 115 feet from
the ground, for ten minutes.
"A st. Louis woman. who keeps q
! srnall store, catching tilttapper at his
tricks few days ago, collared and choked
him till he spit out the money which he
had hid in his mouth, and then marched
him to the station-house.
"A woman in Cohoes, N. Y, the other
day attempted to light FIRE by the aid OF
kerosene. The usual explosion, burning
and death ensued. The victim was to
have been married on the day following
that on which the accident occurred.
"A man at Springfield, ILL.,, bet two
ladies' new dress each that they couldn't
refrain from talking for two hours. One
cf them held out for an hour and ten
minutes, and the other won the dress.
They made it up on him when the time
had expired.
Mrs. Sarah A. Grant, residing in Ando-
yer, Mass, died suddenly the other after
noon, from the sting of bee. lmme-
diately after she was stung she lay down
on lounge, saying, Il am dead" and
going into convulsions, died in about two
hours afterward.
AT y late Indian attack on passen-
ger train on the Pacific Railroad, the saw
ages, to blockade the road, tied a lot of
extra ponies to the rails, but the eDgi-
neer put on extra steam, and dashed
through the picketed animals, killing
about fifty of them.
"A farmer in Winneshiek county,
Iowa, was cutting hay with a mower,
when he heard child shrek. He leaped
from the machine to find his little boy
awfully mutilated-both hands cut offand
one Of his feet mangled. The child was
playing in the tall grass, and the father
did not see him.
Two little girls, aged five and seven
years, daughters OF Mr.. Joseph d. VIII.
liauas, living about ten miles west Of Mus
ca,ine, Ia, were burned to death few
days ago. A corn-crib, In which they
were playing, caught fret Ia supposed
| from matches in their possession-andt the
door (the only way of escape) being en-
veloped in flames at the outset, they were
rendered helpless.
Mrs Henry Fleming, of Dubuque,
Iowa, few days ago, In order to make
the fire burn more readily, took the
kerosene can, containing nearly q gallon
of oil, and, inverting it over the stove,
poured quantity ON the flames. The
oil ignited in the can which she held in
her hands, and at once an explosion took
place, throwing the fluid all over the
pereon Of the woman, and setting her
clothes on fire from head to foot. She
was fearfully burned, and her recovery
was doubtful. She had been married
only three months.
"A few evenings ago, lady residing
along the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne q Chi
cago Railway, near Fleming Station.
while searching for her missing child,
found its mutilated body on the railroad
track, it haying evidently been struck by
passing train. The bereaved mother
was so overcome with the fearful specta-
Gle presented that she tainted away, and
was found by some reighbors lying near
the body of the child, and taken into her
house and placed on the bed In which she
had left her sleeping babe. The neigh
bors did not notice the infant, which was
covered up in the bed, and it was smoth.
cred TO death by the unconscious mother
or some of those waiting upon her.