Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-09-14

Madam, great many persons were
d sturbed ut the concert last night by the
or, ing OF your baby" Well, 1 do won.
der that such people win 60 TO concertsp
The Russian Acodemy Gazette says
that the results of the last census taken at
S.. Petersburg show that the population OF
the city is 667 026, or 376,523 males, AID
200, 500 females.
i'm San Franci SEQ the salaries of cler-
gymen Q being reduced. One Presbyte.
ran Church, which formerly gave $6,OOO
a year, now gives but half that sum; an
other, which once gave the largest salary
in the city, now gives but $4,000.
During the month Of June more than
338, coo letters, misdirected or otherwise
not deliverable, were received at the Dead
Letter Office in Washington In Jolly The
number was 337, 421, Of Which "a, 092 were
held Tor postage. These figures indicate
The carelessn, IS and negligence OF Ameri-
can letter writer's.
Incidents and Accidents.
Lightning knocked the trowel out Of
a plaste rer hand, at Nevada, Iowa, dur
ing recent storm, without injuring the
man.
AT F,eeport, Pa. the other night, the
barn of Matowell Wilson was struck by
lightning, and tsn mich cows instantly
killed.
A New Orleans man, while sitting
over = CHARCOAL fire frying some fish, was
overcome by the fumes, fell with his face
in the pan, and was dead when found.
"A four-y ear old son of Michael Eich-
niger, of Macon County, ILL.,, was scalded
to death the other day by falling into
wash boiler full of boiling water.
"A few evenings since, while the wife
of Mr.. John Wingsd, Of Arens, Wis, Was
drlnking cup of milk, hornet in the
cup stung her on the tip oftle tongue,
causing death in about an hour.
"A bell.boy in the Maxwell House,
Nashville, Tenn, ran up five flights OF
stairs with an ice-pitcher IN his hand on
one of the warm days recently, and fell
dead with ruptured heart at tie top.
In Chicago, few evenings ago, lit
tie girl Lamed Lizzie Kelly, eight years OF
age, was severely, and probably fatally,
burned by the explosion Ct kerosene
lamp which she Was lighting.
"A little son Of Mr.. Mann, of Garnet,
Kansas, aged about six years, while play
ing in corn field near the house, was Bit
ten by q rattlesnake and died in less than
an hour.
AT youngstown, Ohio, few nights
ago, a man named Owen Holmes, while
drunk, went to sleep on the railroad
track, and was run over by an engine and
instantly killed.
james Hetrick, little son of George
Hetrick, of Canton, Ill, was recently
thrown from q wagon attached to run
away horse, and died of the injuries re-
ctived
"A doctor at Royal Oaks, Mich, re
Gently took poor boys coat, vest and
panialoons in payment for medical treat
ment. The boy walked 10 Detroit in his
shirt and overalls, hatless and penniless.
Anna Sherse, aged three years, was
scalded to death in Chicago, the other
evening, by pailful Of boiling water fall
ing upon her.
John Seigler, fourteen years old, who
lives three miles wet of Clinton, Ind, died
suddenly a few days ago, in consequence
of his foot slipping from the hammer OF
his gun while he was blowing in the mouth
Of 1t.
Mrs. Mary Kinman, of Petersburg,
Ind, while recently visiting her daughter
at Oakland, was stung on the hand and
arm by wasp, and died in twenty min
utes, after suffering the most intense
agony.
"A metallic clothes line, at Akron, Ohio,
a few days SINCE acted in the capacity Of
lightning conductor, by which means a
small building to which one end of the
wire was attached got literally torn to
pieces ~
-Nea- Tabor. Iowa, few days ago,
Mrs. Lucy Austin was in the act of alignt.
ing from wagon, when the horses started
suddenly on run. The lady's hoops
caught on the spring Of the seat, and she
was dragged nearly half a mile and killed.
The wife of blacksmith in Lynn.
vile, ILL.,, was rec sntly slung by honey
bee, while pick ing apples in the orchard,
and died from the effects of it in about
Zen minutes after going to her room. The
poison took effect SO rapidly that the h. 81
was swollen 10 twice lis natural size in
less than an hour, and On the following
day the whole body presented the APP
pearapce of being in the last stase OF de-
composition.