Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-04-20
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.


Incidents and Accidents.
1T cost resident of Fort Wayne, Ind,
tR.25 to call q woman sheep-thief."
"A ten cent "squawking" toy caused
ths death of q $30Ohorse in Albany, the
otter day.
"A boy of six years shot and killed
aDther aged four in Memphis, a few days
ag, in play.
"A little girl named Fannie Stein was
burned to death few days ago, at q sugar
camp in Franklin, MINI.
Miss Sallie Haas, of Tif1n, Ohio, was
severely burned, the other day, while ex-
perimenting with so-called non-explosive
carbon oil.
Walter Davis, three-year-old child,
in Mschanicsburg, Ohio, was choked to
death, the other day, by grain OF corn
lodging in his windpipe.
"A physician in Omaha has been dan
gerously poisoned by needle which pene-
trated his finger while he was making q
post mortar examination.
During terrific thunderstorm in
Bangor, Maine, the other night, the light
ming struck at eight different places inside
the city. Several houses were damaged,
but no person injured.
AT Evansville, Ind, Emma Carol, q
child eleven years old, in saving her baby
brother from coal oil fire, was recently
so badly burned that she died soon after.
"A tug, the s. v. R. Watson, was capsizcd
in the Chicago harbor few days ago, by a
schooner which she had in tow, and three
men, Captain Frank Green, L. B. John
son and John Clarity, were drowned.
John Page, of Butler County, KY, was
30 affected by the news that Congress had
granted him pension for his services in
the war Of 1912, that he died in few
hours after hearing of it.
"A New Yorker, recently, sent $110 to
Washington for the conscience fund, ex-
planning that in making his income return
he had not included his wife's, for which
he is responsible.
Emory Parker, formerly hack-driver
in Worcester, died recently at Rutland,
VT, after an illness of fifty-seven days,
during which time he tasted no food,
nothing passing his lips but little water
and cider.
"A young lady, fifteen years of age,
named Angel, was dragged in among the
wheels of grist-mill near Franklin
Court House, Va, and had both legs and
one arm broken. She died almost imme
diately.
in a recent case of SANDER in the
town of Bedford, Ind, the jury assessed
damages by each member writing sum
upon separate slips Of paper, adding the
sums together, and dividing by twelve,
thus striking an average, which proved to
be 81, 400.
MCCARTHY, minstrel at Indianapolis,
shot neighbor, John e. Waters, the
other day, in the course Of some dispute
about fence, inflicting flesh wound, not
dangerous, in the shoulder; but the event
30 effected Mrs. Waters that she died sud-
denly.
"A young lady 10 button factory at
Waterbury, Conn, while STOPPING to pick
up some buttons, the other day, had her
hair caught in the machinery, and the
scalp completely torn from her head. The
SCALP has been replaced, and, it is hoped,
may grow on the head again.
"A widow lady of Springfield, ILL.,, and
her five children were recently badly poi
soned by eating diseased meat. Their
lives were saved with difficulty. An inves-
tigation disclosed the fact that butcher
had sold the flesh of cow which had
milk sickness when it was killed.
The dwelling of L. Brockman, in
Covineton, Ky, burned early the other
morning, and Mrs. Brockman and her son,
twelve years of age, in endeavoring to es-
cape, rushed down stairs through the
flames. Both sustained serious injuries,
the latter probably fatal.
Ann Eliza Cole, girl of fifteen, a
daughter of j. w. Cole, Of Edgefeld,
Tenn, was fatally burned, few nights
ago, by the explosion of a coal oil lamp,
which she was attempting to replenish
with oil while burning. Her father was
badly burned while attempting to save his
daughter. :.
"A stranger in Albany, N. Y, offered
ten dollars to any man who would get him
a wife. The offer was Immediately taken
up, and in few minutes blooming dam
sci was produced. In less than thirty
minutes the two were coupled. The
stranger is reputed to be wealthy and &C.
centric.
The residence Of Northern Cook, of
Topeka, was burned the other morning,
aud Mr.. Cook, who was asleep with three
children when the house took fire, was
awakened by the noise, and passed two OF
his children out of the window, when he
was suffocated by smoke and tainted, and
was pulled out Of the house by the neigh
bors, leaving little girl three years cid.
who was burned to death.
AT Whitewater, Wis, the other night,
Mrs. William Foster, who had been i'll for
a long time, died. AS she breathed her
last, her husband, who was by the bedside,
drew pistol, and aiming at his own heart,
fired. The ball missed the vital organ,
but penetrated the lung, and the wounded
man fell across the body Of his dead wife.
He died soon after. He was devotedly at
tached to his wife, and his mind had been
much depressed during her illness.
Miscellaneous.
Small tanneries-primArV gchOOls