Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-13
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


Incidents and Accidents.
Mrs Mary Jordan, of Danville, H.
was gorel to death the other day by COW
which mad been deprived of her calf.
A Valparaiso, Ind, youth took COW
to pound, and got fifteen cents for Fourth
OF July expenses The boys father paid
fifty cents TO get her out
A few days ago, Willie, aged foul
years, son of the Rev. Charles Thorp, OF
Prescott, Wis, was drowned by falling
into cistern-
A lady recently died in Attleboro
Mass, Of poison taken, il is asserted, IL
small quantities By drinking water from 8
galvanized iron pipe.
A family in Kensington, CT, were
poisoned from eating strawberries, picked
from beds contiguous TO potato patches
on which Paris green had been sown FOL
bugs.
A frantic blind horse rushed into a
millinery store at Louisville, the other
day, and scared the lady's daughter, who
kept the store, SO badly that her life Is de
SPARED Of.
Rev. Mr. Sawyer, Universalist
Lululstcl vi SIolCAoAt, ~ L., VIM AAr
wife and her father, were capsized In
ferry-boat on the Connecticut rlver, few
days ago, and all were drowned.
The other day young man, named
H. Avery, was swinging on horizontal
bar, in the gymnasium at Lyons, Iowa,
when he suddenly let 60, exclaimed, you
fellows may do the res" sank TO the floor,
and died.
A little girl named Flanagan, aged
twelve years, residing in Conneautville,
Pa, was burned TO death by the explosion
Of an oil-can, while kindlIng fire few
days ago. The house came near being de-
stroyed.
AT Waseco, Mimi, the other day, a
little child of Peter Becht was found dead
in half barrel partly filled with water,
with its head and face in the water, and
the lower extremities hanging over the
edge of the half. barrel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stark, of Cleveland,
blew down kerosene lamp chimney, the
other night, to extinguish the blaze. The
fame communicated with the gas IN the
lamp, and an explosion followed instan-
taneously. Mrs. Stark was burned TO
death.
Morris knight, a well-known real
estate and insurance broker of Cincinnati,
while bathing in the. river below that city,
the other night, undertook to swim to the
Kentucky shore, and in the effort was
drowned. He cried for help, but too late.
Rev. Mr. Pasco, for twelve years pas
tor of the church in West Bridgewater,
Conn, was found dead in his chair few
days ago. His last sermon on the Sunday
previous to his death was from the words,
II is finished"
"A correspondent of the Bangor Wing
writes that horse and cow recently had
pitched battle, in field. The cow
hooked the horse, making wound four
inches in length the horse kicked the cow
in the head, instantly killing her.
-Waxahachie, Texas, has the champion
rat. A very ugly hole in the back OF the
head Of little child of Mr. L. Il. Wat
kins, of Waxahachie, was gnawed by
large sized rat, short time since. Medi-
Cal attention was necessary TO save the
child's life.
j. s. Trowbridge, of Canaan, CT, took
a friendless dog into his family, and week
afterward, on returning from town, missed
him. The next morning he also missed
his wallet, with $3.50; and, retracing his
route of the evening before, found il in the
road, with the dog standing guard. So
says an exchange.
d E. Hawley received an injury at
Springfield, Mass, which paralyzed him.
mis- wife, at New Hartford, CT, was mott
fed of his misfortune by telegraph, and
fell dead on reading the dispatch. Mr..
Hawley reached home the next day, where,
in few hours, his only child died, and
left him in his desola,e home, alone.