Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-16
.ueRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

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.:oa OF Colonel Wiles, United States
n n.renue Assessor, was SO burned at
IhS.d;anapolis, a few days ago, that she
Ia VA in = few hours. Her clothes caught
20 from cooking stove. = :
The simple expedient of drixing
,a,,, AZ iron pipe saved the life Of Levi
1nlg},"nchard. who was recently buried in a
p, AZ Melrosc, Mass. 1t was three
t Sv before he was rescued, but the pipe
Ave 1--we him air to breathe, and he recoy-
cred.
A fearful accident occurred at Bara-
hoo Wis. the other day, occasioned by
no premature explosion of blast in the
Stone Cut near that place. Seven men
s,g injured, two of them, John Cassidy
and John Allen, probably fatally. Nine
Zen other men standing near by escaped
unlnlrt.
The town Of Ashfield, Mass, was re-
eently obliged to pay $40, 1881 to lady
who was injured by falling through de-
fsctiye bridge. Before the commence
ment of the suit the lady offered to settle
FIR 81 900; but the Selectmen of the town
we're obstinate and preferred the suit.
AT Clayton, Ind, few days ago,
Two Young men named Eemuel Baugh-
man and Columbus Cornett anrreled
aver game of crOquet, and the former
struck the latter on the head with a NAL
le inficting "a blow which will probably
nr6ye Tatal Baughman ffUt-
The Iowa City Republican tells of
moor man in the city who gave every cent
he had-twenty-five cents-in aid of the
Chicago sufferers The Republican opines
that. like the widows mite, this gift was
more generous than even the greater dona-
ions of richer givers.
"A California boot-black stands fair
chance of going into history beside the
widow with the mite Advertising that
he should give the proceeds of a days
work to the Chicago sufferers, the young
ramin did not lay down his brush from
7lnrise to sunset, and forwarded twenty
i've dollars the next day to the relief fund.
Two dwelling houses were recently
urned at Macon City, Iowa. A girl,
ged nine years, daughter of J. c. Plourd,
,as burned in one Of the houses, together
18th $1,000 in greenbacks, and all the
ousehold goods. Eleven persons had to
ump from two-story windows, and in
Ding so lady broke her arm, and a
hid her leg.
The number of persons who persisted
n the Wisconsin pineries during the late
ire, at Peshtigo and vicinity, is now be-
ieved to exceed thousand, and the gen
raj restitution and suffering in that re-
ion and across the lake in Michigan, in
of the fire, is very great.
thousands are homeless and penniless.
"A well-known citizen of Lafayette,
nd, was recently presented with a small
lass of metal, supposed to be "a part of
he clock in the Court House stceple at
'licagO, as n relic of the great fire.
ubseQuent investigation proves it to be
ure gold. How it came where found
ill, of course, never be known.
About three miles south of Fort
Wayne, Ind, while three boys were re-
entity hunting squirrels, one of their
lumber, named Philip Vaschan, aged
fteen years, was shot and killed by the
occidental discharge of a shotgun in the
ands Of Benjamin f. Walkup, who
tipped his foot and fell. the gun being
thereby. The contents lodged
4 the brain of the deceased.
=" Weighed in the philosophers
Gales" says the Springfield Republican,
the largest sum contributed to the
hicago relief fund in this city is from
little Irish boy. He possessed no
loncy, but he had toy whip, the pride
f his heart, dear as the apple Of his
We, and this he sold for ten cents, and
asst his mite into the treasury Of char
ty"
The other afternoon three armed
len called at the house of William Van
ant, two miles north of Centreville,
owa, representing to him that they were
by the Government ito in
pect money. They presented paper
fhich they said was a commission Tor
he purpose. He had on hand about
i 200 in paper and $50 in specie, all OF
Which was brought out and handed TO
hem. OF course they lost no time III
laking tracks, leaving their victim not
0 rich but little wiser.
"A well was recently being dug on
he farm of William Dcimer, near Co
umbus, Ohio. While the workmen
Tere at dinner, a son, fourteen years Old,
f Deimer, was, at his earnest request,
Dwered into the well by two OF his
rothers. Before reaching the bottom
e was insensible from foul air, and fell.
Inc of the well-diggers, named Katz-
lsyer,. grasping a rope, descended into
he well, seized young Deimer, and was
eing pulled out, when he, too, was over
ONE by the gases, and fell back. Both
Vere dead when they were gotten out.
Thomas Duncan, a colored servant OF
'homas F. Goode, of Virginia, laboring
nder an attack of mania a potu, was
emit, a few days ago, to the Pennsylvania
hospital for treatment, in charge OF Detec-
i've Russell. The patient proceeded TO
he hospital very quietly, but on reaching
he lodge he Duncan) said: nave
rought you gentleman who is insane.
ie imagines, among other things, that ne
detective officer, and his friends Wish
i'm left here for while" Despite the
of the officer, he was locked
p as insane for several hours. Duncan
as since been captured and lodged IN the
ospital.
"A singular case Of honesty in thief
Vas recently shown at the Putnam C0uh
On. " Circuit Court. 1t appeared
hat person, late one night, entered a
ountry store through door which had
'een inadvertently left open, ana pro