Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-17
Incidents and Accidents.

w. w. brown, OF Medina, MICH was
badly burned the other night by the burst
ing of coal oil lamp.
Nicholas MAR and Thomas River
harvesters, died of sunstroke, near Hast
ings, MINI, a few days ago.
Mrs. Mohmer, of Benault, H., filed a
lighted lamp with oil the other evening
she lived but ten hours thereafter.
Miss Bliss, of Charlotte, Mich, was
recently burned to death at Nashville
Mich, while trying to light fire with
kerosene oil poured from can.
AT Omaha, Neb, a girl named Sarah
Frink was burned to death by the explo-
sion of a can Of kerosene which she was
using to start fire in stove.
-Betsey Mccormick, a school teacher,
of Chelsea, Kansas, used kerosene Oil as a
substitute for kindling wood few days
ago. Result fatal, as usual.
While in attendance at a circus at
Davenport, Iowa, the other day, two chill
dren were SO Frustrated by the heat that
before thew could be got out of the tent
they expired.
The advantages to be gained by kind
ling fires with coal oil only came to the
knowledge OF Mrs. Valdez, of Marysville,
Kansas, few days ago, but she died at
the first trial
"A little daughter of Capt Emil Adam,
of the regular army, was fatally woundt
at Alton, III the other day, by the acct.
dental discharge ola revolver. The weap-
on dropped to the floor and struck upon
the hammer.
AT Warren, ILL.,, few evenings ago, a
young man, aged twenty, was loading a
pistol for the purpose Of shooting rats,
and while ramming the charge the pistol
exploded, and the whole charge passed
through his vitals, killing him almost in
stantly.
"A few afternoons ago, a daughter,
aged twelve, Of David Chatfield, OF Pal
myra, Wis while alone in the house, at
tempted to make fire in the stove and
by some means got her clothing on fire
and was SO terribly burned that she died
in short time.
"A countryman, with half pound Of
gunpowder, went into a Springfield, Ill
blacksmith shop. A spark from the anvil
caused an explosion. A new suit of
clothes cost the countryman $35, and he
won't go to church until his whiskers
grow out again.
DIR. George Howe and wife, Mrs
Charles T. Tilton, and Miss Walcott all of
Boston, while taking pleasure drive in
Charlcstown, n. H., a few days ago were
run into by an express train on the Yer.
mont Central Riilroad and the three first
named instantly killed. Miss Walcott
escaped with severe bruises.
"A child living in the family of @. C.
Murchinger, of Newport X. l., fell from
second story window a few nights since,
and its night dress caught upon a branch
OF tree and was torn until nothing but
the hem remained, which fortunately sus-
tanned the child until it was seen and res
cued by gentleman In the mex: house.
George Glenn, lad of sixteen year,,
killed his sister, six years old, at Saline,
Ohio, by shooting her with . gun. He
pointed the weapon at her TO frighten her
away, and pulled the trigger, but Supposed
It would not 60 of as there was no cap on
1t. He found out his mistake when the
hamm er went down.
The following Is the plan adopted oy
farmer IN Eden, Wis, TO cure oalky
horse He hitched pair Of cattle 70 log
chain around the horses neck, ana pre-.
vailed on EN- TO lean few tons, weight
on the yoke. The horse didn't start but
his head came out by the roots. Inc hide,