Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-23

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
4 Incidents and Accidents.
"A boy in Kansas City had one of hi
eyes put out, the other day, while playing
baseball '' ~
"A Brooklyn wife committed suicide
leaving note saying that she was tired O
washing dishes. i e,-,., .aasif
! Thomas Payne, of Metamora, Ind.
was bitten by rat about four months ago
: and died recently from the effects Of the
bite. .-a,fgt aE n
! w. A. Black, of Detroit, who killed a
burglar twenty four years ago, recently be-
came insane, It Is supposed, in consequence
Of that act. q 65E ElH FifE
"A letter was received at the Milwaukee
Post Office the other day, directed: To
the Meanest Life Insurance Agent in Mil
waukee." No claimant up to the latest
dates. aaH uaE
Royal Briggs, who committed suicide
at Sherman, Conn, the other day, was the
last Of six brothers who have made way
with themselves. k tt a
Josephine Hughes, of Columbus
Ohio, was recently severely, If not fatally,
burned by the explosion Of an oil lamp
which she was cleaning. tot
"A California jury in a murder trial,
the other day, determined the verdict by
lot, and brought in the accused man guilty.
He was granted new trial.
"A little boy named Henry Bates fell
into kettle Of boiling soap at Hopedale,
ILL.,, few days ago, and was scalded so
seriously that he died. t'.'
| William Osborn's family, of Buchan-
an, Mich, was poisoned the other day, by
eating cakes in which tartar emetic had
been used in place of cream Of tartar.
Two little boys were recently arrested
in Quincy, ILL.,, for trying to set fire to ST.
johns Church. They wanted to burn the
church to avoid going to Sunday School
The Davenport Uowa) Gazette says ::
Mr.. j. Ballard, near Cascade, stood over
half-pound of powder, to watch the eff
| feet live coal would have on it. Mr.. B.
| is not handsome man now"
There were 11S serious steam boiler
explosions in the United States during the
year 1870, which resulted in the death of
1926 persons, and the wounding Of 227
others. 8t
In Venango, Pa, the other day, Miss
Eva Clark was having some teeth extracted,
and the last one had been taken out, when
she was taken with syncope, and never
brcathed again. |st
The family of Mr.. Emmanuel Harter,
Of Brush Valley, Center County, Pa, We're
recently poisoned, and made very i'll, by
eating meat in the curing Of which sugar
Of lead had been used. f3 IllE.
! in town in Massachusetts, the other
day, a young woman dashed out Of her
house and stopped runaway stage team
by hanging to the horses heads. She
probably saved the lives or limbs of the
several passengers
"A son of DR.. Tapleff, thirteen years
old, residing in Pike County, ILL.,, was in
stantly killed, a few days ago, by pistol
shot from pistol in the hands of play
mate who was carelessly handling it at
the time.
John Bogardus, of Munc:e, Ind, was
told that Kerosene was good for the itch.
He applied it. A few moments afterward
he struck a match to light his pipe, and
now wears big gloves, and don't shake
hands as much as formerly.
"A woman not more than twenty years
old recently starved to death in Rochester,
N. Y. She had striven silently to support
herself after being deserted by q worth
less husband, and was too proud to let her
poverty be known.
| "A highly respectable Philadelphia
merchant was arrested in Charleston, s.
c., q few days ago, by policeman, be-
cause he thought he looked like somebody
else, whose portrait is in the rogues' gal
lery. ...4..s. n,
Henry Gunther cut his throat the
other day, at Byron, New York, in state
of high excitement over the report that
the relations of his wife were about to ex-
hume her remains and submit them to
chemical analysis, with the expectation
that she was poisoned. 3o'E}H rsi,
-Abraham Kahon, of Philadelphia, un-
| dertook to smother his sister Margaret, by
burying her face in pillows as she slept
The reason of the proceeding was that
she was Jewess and about to marry q
| Christian. The mother of the girl assist
ed in the undertaking, which proved un.
successful. foss t#H sfE3 ~
I'm New York city, the other day, q
| boy but four years old, gave his brother,
aged two, a dose of creosote, which killed
him. Their mother had placed box of
walls containing medicines on the table,
and, while her back was turned, the boy
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swallow from it.. .,.fa viE
&C. G. King, who nearly two years ago
swindled the Second National Bank at
Boston out of $1,000 or more on forged
check, was recently arrested at Albany,
after being hunted for all this time and
tracked through all the principle cities in
the Middle States. - VI y 5{l5t3a
--Fancis Greeley, aged eighty, often
said he would be willing to die when he
had seen his youngest grand daughter
married. He attended her wedding the
other evening, near St. Louis, and, taking
part in the dance, fell dead, without q
groan, at her feet. .g
A paper in Harrisburg, Penn, tells a
story Of o man there who, in answer to
some charges by his wife, protested his
innocence, calling upon God to paraiyze
him If he were guilty, and within half an
hour he was deprived of the faculty of
speech, and has not since been able to ar
ticulate word.
i MIR. Levi Irish, Of Appleton, Me-, had
a cow and horse occupying adjoining
places in the barn. The cow reached out