Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-14

q her head and drove his spurs into her
templeA An hour afterward the child
WAS totally blind, and at last accounts she
WIS expected to die from her injuries.
One Of the officers Of . steamer at
Savannah, Ga, recently had some Difficult
~ with deck hand, and to save his own
life knocked the man overheard. The man
cyuld not swim, and was on the point Of
drowning. when the officer jumped in and
rescued him. The officers friends COM
plimented him on saving two lives that
day.
"A lady in Wheeling, w. Va, few
mornings ago, was awakened By her sick
child, for drink of water. The lamp in
the room had burned low, and she ct
tempted to refill il when burning, and the
flames Communicated with the can. An
explosion st once occurred, and the wo-
man was % badly burned that she died In
q few hours after the accident, suffering
intense agony.
"A man living in Lsphen's row, Alex
andria, Va, the other evening bid his
wife and children good-by, telling them
that he was going to kill himself He
then jumped into the we'll of an old ice
house in that locality, but crawled out
through dry drain that opened on the
side of hill near by, and watched with
delight the efforts Of . large crowd, which
soon collected, to fab him out Of the
water ut the bottom Of the well
Two little boys, sens of Samuel Cur
renee, Of Randolph county, W. Va, went
out the other day TO drive home the cows.
When but short distance from the house
they were attacked by very large pan
ho~ L.
gathered up the younger one In his arms,
seeing that he could not save his little
brother, ran to the house. The father
fastened back with him, and when he got
to the spot found his child almost entirely
deycurcd.
The jacksonville, GILL; Sentinel says:
1--WE learn that, during last week, child
Of Mr.. NJ. Abbott, aged about IS months,
was buried, having come to its death
under the following circumstances The
mother had, . short time previously, given
the child q drink of cold water ont Of the
spout Of the tea-kettle. The child subse-
quently found the kettle when it con-
tanned boiling water, and applying its
mouth to the spout, turned the kettle up
and swallowed the hot water and steam.
Death ensued in twenty -four hours.
Near Canton, ILL.,, tho other day, q
little child of Mr. Rigley, . coal miner,
carelessly placed . can OF kerosene on the
stove hearth while the mother was ct the
we'll drawing water, and when Mrs. Rig
ley came into the room she proceeded to
remove the can when an explosion took
place. The oil flew all over her, and the
poor woman was completely enveloped
in flames. Her brother fastened to her
rescue, but before the flames could be ex-
tinguished she was helpless from the
injuries received. She fingered until one
o'clock the next morning, when death
came to her relief.
"A sad and fatal accident recently hap
pened to lad of fourteen, named 6imson
Powell, at Hastings, Mich. He and IN
uncle and another man were in bathing in
the Cooley lake. The lad had hsllooed
for help, stating that he was drowning,
on several occasions during their bathing,
giving . false alarm In fun; but after
bathing long enough the three started for
shore, the lad being behind. He again
gave an alarm, which was not noticed by
the two men that were with him, till,
hearing no further noise, they missed
him, and proceeded at once to his rescue,
reaching him just in time to see him sink.
The uncle Immediately reached him, the
boy clasping his arms around his uncle's
waist, and taking them both under part of
the time A favorite dog that was along
also undertook to aid them, biting them
each in turn until the boy was drowned,
while the man himself. barely escaped
With his life.