Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-03-03
Incidents and Accidents,

Three men at Middleburg, Ohio, were
badly poisoned by eating peaches from a
tin can.
Two dwellings in Philadelphia were
shattered by lightning few days ago, and
three inmates injured.
An old citizen of Atchison, Kansas,
while in tit the other day, fell headfore-
most into an open stove and was burned
to death.
The Baptist church at Three Rivers,
Mich, was totally destroyed by fire few
nights ago. Loss about $1,000; insured
for $4,000.
AT Ida, Monroe county, Mich, the
other day, a runaway team was stopped
by Newfoundland dog that ran and
caught them by the bits
"A woman died in a physicians Office
in Great Darlington, Mass, the other day,
from the effects of chloroform, after hay
ing had twelve teeth extracted.
"A servant girl in Troy, in the habit
of pilfering her employers liquor, drank
bug poison by mistake the other day, and
ashamed to confess her mistake, died.
"A Lynn, Mass, woman blew her stove
in pieces, smashed her windows, half
burned up her kitchen furniture, and in
turned little boy, the other day, by thaw
ing out tightly corked jug of frozen
water in the stove oven.
The New Orleans Times is response
BILE for the statement that, after partridge
had been killed and laid on table in a
kitchen in that city, its mate fluttered in,
and after many hopping maneuvres, took
place beside its dead companion.
"A large Newfoundland dog nearly tore
to pieces young lady at Saco, Me-, the
other day, and but for the timely interfcr-
ence of parties who witnessed the attack,
would have killed the girl The dog was
killed, and his victim was in a very pre-
carious condition.
"A hunter in Summerhill, Crawford
county, Pa, freed wild cat, and then ran
away and left his dog to watch it, The
dog stad there until the wildcat got hun
CRY, when she came down and ate him up.
The hunter now congratulates himself
more than ever on his wise course.
A little four-year.old girl in Chicago,
a few days ago, accidentally swallowed a
small screw, which lodged in her throat
in such manner as to defy any immediate
efforts to dislodge it, and before surgical
aid could be called, the child choked to
DEATH having suffered great agony.
"A colored man few days siuce at
tempted to steal ride on train on the
railroad between Washington and Balti-
more, by lying on the truck, face down
ward, with his feet resting against the
brake of the car. He had dead headed"
it in this perilous position for nearly
eighteen miles before being discovered.
"A servant girl got up in her sleep in
Concord, N. H., the other night, and her
movements awakening her mistress, the
latter thought burglars were around, and
vigorously blew tin horn to attract the
attention of the police. The girl was
awakened by the sound, and imagining it
to be Gabriel's last trump, very promptly
tainted away.
The meanest Tease of swindling we
have read of lately, says the Cincinnati
Times, occurred in Columbus, the other
day, when man borrowed $40 to pay ex-
press charges on the corpse Of his brother,
and left the box for security Both the
borrower and the brother were dead
beats" and the lender was swindled out
of his money and his corpse
"A cool and daring burglary was com.
mtted in Chicago few evenings ago, on
one of the busiest thoroughfares in the
city. A little after six o'clock the clerk
in j. p Perro's jewelry store on State
street locked up to go to supper, and on
his return in about half an hour he found
the door had been unlocked by thieves
and the room completely stripped Of Its
valuablessto the tune of some $1,000
worth of watches, jewelry, etc.