Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-19

were burned 70 death on recent Sunday, II
trying 10 build q IRE with oil, while neir /
parents were at church. snia alal ani i
in Columbia, 8. G., Thomas Higgins
undertook to drink all the wine his frlenq
would pay for, but the third bottle threw
him into stupor which ended IN dea1h'a
a Young man in ST. Louis went into
toy store, picked up a nitro glycerlne sor
pedo. and tried TO bite it. He succeeded,
but hole was blown through his lower
lip in the attempt. k5
J, A Psnpsylvania man IS under arrest
charged with setting nre g 4 Dec n l3 WH,Sr
with the fell design Of consuming her and
their boarding house together.
Fifteen individuals residing in Lamar,
Barton county, Mo-, were recently poison
ed bv eating buck heat cakes Investiga-
ton moved that deadly nightshade hand
been ground up with the buckwhcat II
The Lafayette (Ind, } Journal says that
Of the two car loads OF hogs shipped from
that city TO Indianapolis q few evenings
ago, only tan arrived alive, all the rest be-
ing frozen to death .sy Es4slrq
Mayor Wilson, Of Cory, Pa, went
deer hunting, and at the first shot brought
down 800 colt. He paid the owner
and owns the carass. 1t Is dear meat 10
him, but it is not venison. o4ofsaaf, ustii
AT sup Prairie, Wis, the other even
ing, Olive William, a lady 80 years Old,
was burned SO badly that she died IN
| short. time, her clothes taking IRE from .
spark from a stove, while she was alone
for few moments. =, ~ "a
ta-At Mason City, Iowa, the other day,
Thomas Dolan was coupling cars with
wet glove on his hand, which froze. TO- the
link and prevented him from taking II
quickly out of the way as he intended.
The result was q hand crushed almost to
atoms. .fapa s9as ass! nll Y
An exchange tells of a traveller who
goes prepared for escape from burning
hotels by carrying in his satchel coil Of
halfinch rope, forty or fifty feet long,
knotted every two feet, to give q better
hold. On two occasions he has found it
serviceable n@ s, e
oi--Frederick Scissor, q hOuse-painter OF
Madison, Ind. : allowed q comrade 10 snap
his (Seisser's) pistol in his face, because he
"knew 1t would not go off" Result-a
badly damaged jaw and q horribly dist ured
face, the pistol having been he.aonly some
two inches from Scissors face. I. IN
The Bangor (Me.) Wing reports that,
owing to the intense cold, the wires Of the
Western Union Telegraph line, between
that city and Lewiston. were recently
broken in nearly fifty places. The wires
were put up during the hot weather, last
summer, and, contracting with the cold,
snapped like threads. 9tps8 t5ttf lf."d
--Afrail was torn up and thrown into a
ditch on the East Tennessee & Georgia
Railroad, near Cleveland, Tenn, the other
day, and an eastern-bound passenger train,
with passengers from all parts of the
South, going at lightning speed, passed
over the break and rgained the rail with
cut the displacement of single wheel, or
damage of any kind, except the breaking
of one of the springs of the engine <oI
"A little girl aud boy recently wandered
away from the house of their father, in
Morrison county, Mimi, and subsequently
were found dead by the Indians The boy
lay on, his back, having apparently died
without. much suffering. The girl had
taken her rings from her ears, ard, wrap
ping them, with lock Of her hair, in 9
small piece of cloth, had put the little
parcel in her pocket, and then lain down
and died from cold and hunger. ,a, r.e
4 The GAINESVILLE, Wis, Recorder, of De
ceiriber 50, says: "In one of the coaches
of the Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railroad was
? sweet little prattling child In its mothers
arms To please the little one, its mother
let 1t take her portn,onnaie. After the child
, had exhausted its curiosity on the. purse, II
threw it out of the coach. The matter
, was communicated TO the conductor, and
, he backed the, train third of mile, and
the purse was found.
The ~watchman In Massachusetts
! tannery, who died recently, had been &c
customed to take with him little dog tol
+ companionship After the death OF his
master, the dog appeared sick and quitt
dull for q few days even refusing to eat
but he recovered. and Low makes his visits
. nightly To the tannery. In the evening he
starts off promptly at the usual hour, ant
is cutie as regular in his return in TIN
morning, notifying the household by 1
slight bark of his arrival home. =
: = ss1fp3s, } rs ere - Ia 1EEi1tE ~ 1
sgol Personal,and Literary. sa11h
, -There ane. a73 newspapers in Wisoon
/ sin, having a reported circulation OF 2Sl,
695. ,,,.a a0rtst4n
Mayor Selby, of San Francisco, ha
given his official income for q year TO tn
! poor of the city. r n A1r
r --fsUef LDr1iIafu, Vnc tODaccOnlSt, pal(
la $500 fine for tnon-aitendance as jurp
the othef day. I1uc l.s7latls st'] e AS
II -Wa A. Bacon, Of Detroit, boasts o
having taught the young ideas how u
shoot for 45 years 800 ,stst q
- The hproprietors OF the Philadelphi
! Star, on New YearA presented 675 news
tboys with gloves and WOODEN scarfs. ~. : i
Mrs. Clara r. Nash, of Colnmbi'
/ Falls, Me-, has been appointed Justice q
, the Peace, Mrs.. n has been studying Law
, Lord HeIbett IL Roy St, Aipslsy, ol
New York fashionable society fame, ii
earning an honest livelihood as photo
lgrapk. olorer iii New York 4
l. Wesley Smead, who founded thu
, Widows Home in Gincipnsti, selst it IS,
00D recently, on his 10th birthday, making
his total contribution t37, 600 rs Fe7sFs
The Western Social Science Associal
ton has 'deciied 70 hold its next annual
= peetiaga G Detroit, Michigan, Monday, the
4 9th day nf next Juns. !. g tiy''t Iss Z q I
IL The Augusta Journal publishes q list
| of abOtft forty veteran staGo.driverS still