Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25

be sheep sorreL It was with difficulty
that its life was saved.
"A little girl, aged three years, the
daughter Of Mr.. Mcclure, of Loudonville,
Ohio, was fatally burned the other day by
her clothes taking fire from stove. She
lived only few hours after the accident.
"A little three-year- old child of C.. B.
Bentley, of Tama City, Iowa, died few
evenings ago by poisoning from the color
ing matter on three sticks of candy.
Mr.. George Kernodle, who lives
about two miles from Thorntown, Ind,
was seriously burned, few days ago,
while extinguishing fire which had
spread from burning pile to his house.
"A boy, twelve years Of age, son of
John Howard, living southwest of Marcel
line, Ill, was attacked by a vicious SOW the
other day, thrown to the ground, and bad
ly cut and torn by the enraged animal.
Two drunken men, named James
Dings and John Hand, persisted in the
flames of burning building in Syracuse,
N. Y, few nights ago. Other persons
escaped by jumping from windows.
"A party of Ute Indians recently found
white man on the banks of Blue River,
nearly exhausted from starvation, and, al
though they took him to their camp and
tried to revive him, he died in few hours.
He had eaten the tops of his boots.
while Thomas Kinds, with his wife
and child, was driving alsng the bank of a
email cfroovv1 ,,oor nubuCuo Iouo fou
days ago, he drove over an embankment
The bodies were recovered.
"A little daughter of Charles Petit, of
Chicago, was fatally scalded the other day
by the upsetting of kettle of boiling
water which stood on the stove. The
child was alone in the room at the time of
the accident.
While playing at bonfire in Chicago
the other evening, the clothing of little
boy, named Thomas Echa, caught fire, and
before he could receive any assistance he
was 80 injured that death ensued in few
hours.
The Galena only Gazette of recent
six year-old boy, son of John Mahony, be-
ing almost chewed to pieces by hog
The hog attacked the little fellow as he
was on his way to school.
"A boy near Brooklyn, Iowa, aged fif-
teen years, who ate quantity Of slippery
elm bark, a day or two afterwards was
taken violently i'll, and four days from the
time of eating the bark, died. On post
mortem examination his stomach was
found full of bark twisted into balls.
"A negro very foolishly threw bucket
of water on large mass of molten iron in
a rolling mill at Paducah, KY, a few days
since, when terrific explosion followed,
throwing the hot metal in large flakes in
every direction, and setting fire to the
building. Nobody was hurt. but the
negro had his clothes nearly all burned off
him.
The daughter of John Fields, of st.
Adams, VT, entered her fathers burning
barn few days ago, and, while the fiee
was dropping upon her head, burning it
to blister released several head of cattle
and three horses. She also welded an
ak with the strength of an athletic man,
demolishing hog pen, and driving the
inmates from danger.
"A man named Joseph Truck was
burned to death at Lac rosse, Wis, the
other evening. He was attempting to fill
a lamp while burning, when the fluid in
the can took fire and exploded, saturating
him with the inflammable stuff. He was in
stantlv mass of flame, and before he
could be rescued, was burned SO horribly
that he died in short time.
--Frankling Andrews, while engaged at
work in saw-mill, about three miles
south of Delta, Ohio, met with most
terrible accident. While at work in the
mill he slipped, and in falling, his neck
struck the saw, which was in motion. His
head was instantly severed from the body,
and thrown q distance of some twelve
feet.
Sarah johnson, of Williamson, Tenn,
while attempting some days ago to sepa-
rate two ROSTERS that were fighting, was
wounded in the arm by spur. Tetanus
ensued, and she died. Her husband, Clai-
borne johnson, a consumptive, was SO
sinking rapidly a1d also died, and was
buried at the same time.
Dennis Dreher, of Pennington, Wis,
went out hunting the other day, and while
crossing fence he slipped and fell. His
rifle went of, the bullet taking effect in
his mouth, tearing away his tongue, pass
ing through his nose, and escaping through
his eye, completely tearing it out of its
socket The unfortunate man was living
when found, but no hopes were enter
tanned of his recovery.
in Fond du Lac, Wis, few nights
ago, a Mrs. Alpin, who had been sick for
some weeks, arose, and in attempting to
get something from the secretary, knocked
over the lamp, spilling the oil over her
dress, and in an instant her clothes were
ablaze. Her daughter, twelve years of age,
sprang from her bed and succeeded in ex-
the flames but not until her
mothers hands and arms were badly
burned.
M. P. Carlock, who lives near Allan
ia, ILL.,, recently lost little boy under pc
culiarly sad circumstances. A barrel had
been sunk in the ground to receive the
waste water from the kitchen sink, and
here the little fellow was found, not in the
barrel, but leaning over the edge Of it,