Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-02

Incidents and Accidents.

"A five.year old son of Mr.. Black, of
Havana, Ill, was strangled to death while
eating popcorn the other day.
-W.D. Winter, of Bayou Sara, La, in
sured his life for 100000, and then pro-
cured himself to be assassinated."
"A Virginia boy, 16 years old, died a
fov days ago. after suffering intense agony,
csused by eating painted French candy.
February Is q divorce was decreed
between quarrelsome couple In Daven-
port, Iowa. February 16 the couple were
married.
Mr.. Luce, of Lexington, ILL.,, in not
very lucid interval, attempted to NIL an oil
lamp in the evening. Mrs Luce is now
widow.
The pet goat of brewer at Muscatine,
Iowa. licked off several hundred dollars
worth of revenue stamps from lager beer
barrels.
Mrs. Burnside, of Burr Oak, Mich,
was rubbing her boys head with kerosene,
which accidentally caught fire. The boy
was burned to death.
Moses Balloon, of East Saginaw,
Mich. attempted to light a fire with kerr
osene the other day. An undertaken was
called in soon afterward
An insane man named Patrick McGin-
mis- died recently in Chicago of exhaustion
caused by his persistently refusing to par
take of food for about two weeks.
Miss Lottie Rice, of Muncie, Ind,
saved boy who was drowning, by jump
inc into the river and grasping the little
fellow, as he was sinking for the last
time.
"A Young child of Mr. Samuel Hemp
stead. of Johnston County, Iowa, fell head
foremost into tub of boiling water, few
DAVIS ago, and died in three hours there
after.
A resident of Hesperia, Mich, went
into drug store few days since to get
drink on the sly. He drank aconite. His
funeral sermon was an interesting lecture
on temperance.
Louis Brant, of Fairport, Iowa, got
up to address protracted meeting, and
said II have wife and two children in
heaven, and am going to meet them. 7"
He fell dead upon the floor.
"A runaway couple in Delaware were
about being married, when the stern
parent put in an appearance. Friends IN
terfered and argued the case with him till
the ceremony was nicely completed in an
adjoining room.
An enraged parent in Barry County,
Mich, becoming Infatuated at his little
bay, seized the urchin by the ear, and
whirled him around to such an extent that
his'head and hearing organ parted com
pany.
-" May die in prayer meeting, was
the remark recently made by the wife OF
the Rev. G. d. Taylor, of Jackson, Mich.
Her wish was fulfilled, for that very night
she fell i'll in church, and was carried
home, dead.
j. L. Forbes, foreman in a tannery at
Milwaukee, became entangled In the ma.
chinery of the tannery the other day, and
was Whirled around shaft at the rate OF
forty times per minute, causing his instan
taneous death
"A Savannah paper reports that man
who was eating oysters at a saloon in that
city contemptuously threw large pearl,
worth $100, aside, remarking that the Sa-
vannah people didn't know how to open
oysters, for they left large pieces OF shell.
A young man of good social and
financial position in Montgomery, Ala,
drove dray for cotton firm all one week
recently, having accepted banter from
friend to the amount of $500 that ne
would not have the courage and persever'
ance to do 1t.
"A jury at Terre Haute, Ind, brought
in verdict that deceased died by the
visitation of God in the usual way" The
usual way" was delicate hit at kero-
sene, as deceased had fire that wouldnt
go alone, so he poured on little OF that
fluid
A sad affair recently occurred at Os-
sian, Iowa. A man by the name OF
Snider died on the evening of the day set
for his wedding. The lady to whom he
was engaged attended the funeral in what
was to have been her wedding dress.
"A philosophical individual, who sud
denly sat down on slippery sidewalk, in
Milwaukee, disarmed the usual ridicule
incident to accidents of that character by
coolly taking cigar out Of his pocket
and lighting it before getting up.
Charles Brown attempted to steal q
ride in a box car on the Union Pacific
Railroad The car was locked, his pres
ence not being known, and he was kept
confined for five days, without food OF
drink, till the car arrived at Omaha. His
feet, and legs to the knees, were frozen
solid.
The other evening the little daughter
sof s. H. Hemstead, at Iowa City, Iowa, in
running past tub containing hot water,
tripped and fell, her face merely striking
the hot water. The child died in about
four hours, having, II is thought, swallowed
some of the heated fluid.
The oldest child of G. w. Parsons,
of Hagerstown, Ind, was burned to death
few days since. The mother left her
three small children for a few minutes, when
the father coming in found them in flames.
The two youngest children were badly
but not dangerously burned.
"A woman in Springfield, Mass, found
nice-looking towels selling for ten cents
apiece at recent auction sale, and so took
a lot at that price. When she got home
she washed them, in order to get the siz-
ing out, and succeeded admirably; but,
unfortunately, the pulp Of the paper Of
which they were made washed out too.
Frederick d. Ogden, Of New York
city, committed suicide the other day by
pressing his throat upon tho blade Of q
bread knife in the hands Of his mother.
He had first attempted to take the knife
from his mother, but she refused to give 1t
up, when he threw his neck against the
edge of the knife with such force as to cut
his head half off