Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-29

found . mouse's nest made OF greenbacks
TO the amount Of ffty dollars.
! Mr.. Kelley, Of Harrison, Hudson
County, N. j., has become crazy in con-
sequence of IN attack of fever and egue.
| "A farmer in Pinewood, Hickman
county, Tenn, has been made raving
maniac By thebite Of rsttlesnske.
"A Troy IN. r. merchant, Edward A.
Ives, was stricken blind three years ago,
and the affection has driven him insane.
The other evening, at hotel In
Omaha, stranger choked to death while
eating at the table. He was intoxicated.
/ The boiler Of Laird, Norton & Co.'S
steam saw mill at Winopa, Mimi, ex-
ploded recently. killing the fireman, Hi.
chAei 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 incarcerated in the coun.
| ty Jail on charge of stealing grapes The
boys theft consisted in his picking few
punches Of his fathers grapes, and eating
them!
During q recent thunder storm at
Independence, KY, lightning struck .
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, young married
woman, of indianapolis, recently met
with an accidental death, from poison.
She had been laboring under severe
indisposition for several days, and took
large dose of strychnine, under the
impression that 1t was mAgnesia. The
fatal error was discovered too late.
"A young man named Crowder, in
I Daviess county, Missouri, was killed the
other day, by 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 Lu.
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 short time bring as many more
additional suits.
"A singular phenomenon occurred in
small section Of country around Birch
Greek, Pittsylvania county, Va, the other
day. From small cloud, which hung
like dark spot in the clear sky, the rain
descended for hours in a perfect sluice.
The creek in little while became vast
raging river. The torrent penetrated the
iron foundry of Mr.. j. D. Haskins and
swept away everything before 1t.
An insane husband at Troy, having
conceived the idea that his house was
about to be attacked by the Prussians, col
lected his family upon the roof OF the
house and stacked his furniture down
stairs, in order to be prepared for the
enemy A police officer hearing tic
means of the wife from the roof, entered
the house, but it was only after the ex-
penditure Of good deal of time that he
succeeded in drawing out the husband
from barricade Of chairs, tables and
crockery. 1t subsequently appeared that
the insanity had resulted from numerous
potations at a neighboring wine.shop
The Machias (Me) Union shows how
destructive fires originate. a man in
Cooper put fire in some heaps. The fire
spread, and has destroyed more timber
growth in No. ID, Charlotte and Dennys
vile than any previous fre. A million
of dollars, it Gays, would not repay the
loss A man in Wesley cutting hay,
built q fire to cook his dinner. While
eating his dinner some cattle came on to
the meadow. He started to drive off the
cattle. When he returned he found the
FIRE beyond control. II burnt all his hay
and burnt timber lands and wood growth
lnIi ut
least
The Darlington, Wis, Republican
states that about six years ago MIR. James
Anderson, d farmer residing in the town of
Benton, suspecting that his dog had been
bitten by mad dog, tied him up, and in
doing so, was slightly bitten, but not
enough to draw blood. A few weeks ago,
he woke his wife up in the night and told
her to take the children, leave the room,
and lock him in; that he believed he was
going mad. She obeyed him, and in a
short time he was in ali the horrors of
hydrophobia, Of which he subsequently
died.
The Saginaw, Mich, Eaterprsse says
that while little girl was playing around
q fire out of doors, few days ago, it's
clothes caught fire, and in q moment she
was enveloped in flames. The parents,
hearing her cries, rushed to the spot.
The father tried to put the fire out with
his hands, but not succeeding, the mother,
who was nearly distracted, caught the lit
tie girl in her arms and plunged into
cistern Of water. The fire was extin-
guished, and SO was the life of the little
one.
"A case of death from the use of .
jute "switch" by young lady is re-
ported from Wsterville, New York. She
had been for some time complaining Of
illness and pains in her head. At last
she was confined to her room, and the
physician having examined her head,
found 1t alive with vermin from this
doubly false hair. No remedy was Of
any avail. and the girl died. A
post naortem examination showed that the
insects had perforated the skull, and lad
been feeding on the brain.
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