Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-01-12
Incidents and Acciden

Mary Holihan, of Des Moines, Iowa,
used kerosene to start fire. Result, fatal.
The wife Of Biship Stewart and her
four children were burned to death at
Kanab, Utah, few days since.
james Putnam, of Charleston, N. H.,
committed suicide the other day, because
lie was not allowed to 60 to Sunday School.
A hunchback named ID. K Emerson
about so years old, residing at Stoughton'
Wis, was frozen to death few nights ago.
Ada Durkee, of Galesburg, Mich, was
recently bitten by a savage dog, and in a
few days afterward died of her injuries.
Three lamp explosions at indianapolis
the other night, and nobody burned to
DEATH!
=" Fooled with Chinee," was the re-
cent verdict Of coroner's jury in San
Francisco.
A Detroit sport offered policeman a
fifteen cent scrip the other day for saving
his life.
May Bellard, of Lacrosse, Wis, took
a hot brick to bed with her to warm her
feet, and burned up $1,000 house by SO
doing. - aa ga
Mary Magoe, of Lafayette, Ind ,satss
doctor in attendance says she may possibly
recover.
Caroline Jordan was burned to death
a few nights ago, at Mount Vernon, Ohio,
while attempting to fill lighted lamp
with kerosene.
A Detroit husband mistook a wife's
shadow for negro burglar, and blazed
away at it for an hour. The wife enjoyed
the fun amazingly.
William Cox, an insane youth, wan
dered from his home near Independence,
Mo-, few days ago, and when found two
days after, his body was frozen stiff.
An Efingham, ILL.,, man got on spree
the other day the whisky he drank set him
to vomiting, and he vOmited himself to
death before relief could be given him.
"A pair of twins six weeks old, be-
longing to family named Kreager, in
Milwaukee, were frozen to death in their
bed few nights ago.
"A man in Sullivan County, Ind, wit
messed. few days since, the rare spectacle
of wild turkey being attacked in mid air
by couple of young eagles, and killed.
"A Pittsburgh lady swooned, when, at
the funeral of her husband, the bungling
assistants let the coffin tumble into the
grave, and the corpse fell into the rough
wooden box at the bottt m.
"A brave conductor on the railroad near
Wilmington, Del, recently jumped in front
of locomotive and snatched a child from
the track, at the imminent risk of losing
his own life.
"A boy, named Cooke, who had gone
into stable to rest, near Calvert, Texas,
quite recently, was mistaken for wild
beast by an affrighted brother, and had his
brains blown out with shotgun.
A courageous lady, named Tile, saved
the life and property of her husband, at
Philadelphia, a few nights since. by putting
a burglar to flight after he had made the
husband insensible with chloroform.
"A farmer named John Klaun was
frozen to death few nights ago, on the
road between Pleasant Plains, ILL.,, and the
line of the Springfield q Southeastern
Railroad.
"A boy named Lauer was seriously in
iured in Cincinnati, the other day, by the
explosion of boiler in a cooking range.
Frozen pipes are supposed to have been
the cause Of the accident.
Two boys were playing with a pistol
in Joliet, H., the other day, when it went
off, the ball striking one of them, named
Patrick Sutherland, in the eye, from the
effects of which he died soon after.
A Lafayette, Ind, man, his wife, and
babe went sleigh-riding the other night.
The child was bundled up close to keep it
warm. On returning, the babe was found
dead, having been suffocated.
"A girl of sixteen, near Montreal, re-
Gently took arsenic to whiten her COM
plexion. None could question her sue
cess as she Jay in her coffin the following
day.
---''Only pauper, whom nobody owns"
was illustrated lately in Kansas, where a
homeless pauper woman was sent back
and forth, between Lawrence and Ottawa,
each refusing her, until finally she died on