Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-04
Incidents and Accidents.

"A little girl in Knox, Ind, used coal
oil to start fire the other morning. Result
fatal.
George Shannon, Milwaukee boy,
found and ate some wild parsnips few
days ago, and was poisoned to death.
"A young lady Of Newark, N. j., is
said to be dying of cancer, caused by a
bite on the lip, by pet dog, nearly two
years since.
"A three year old child, daughter of
Mrs. Suttle, died in Fayette County, Ind +,
few days ago, from swallowing pins and
buttons.
"A railway station at Dryden, N. Y,
was recently set on fire by lightning,
transmitted along the telegraph wires,
from distant storm.
The other day little daughter of
George Baer, living near Mansfield, Ohio,
drank cup of I've and expired almost in.
stantly.
"A child two years of age, daughter of
Henry Burnet, Of Cincinnati was burned
to death the other day by her clothes TAX
ing fire while she was playing with
matches.
"A German brewer, who committed sui
eide at Cincinnati the other day, left some
money to treat to lager all the brewers
who should attend his funeral, and his
wish was carried out.
"A little boy, named Keller, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, was recently seriously and
probably fatally injured by the accidental
explosion of a flask of powder with
which he was playing.
Nathan Laraman was shot and killed
at Spencerville, Ind, the other day, while
trying the old trick Of blowing into the
muzzle of shot gun and holding back
the hammer with his foot.
"A fellow lately got permission to leave
bag of potatoes in New York grocery
over night and, when the grocer went
home, a burglar got out of that bag and
helped himself to the pennies and scrip.
Mary Waggoner, aged nine, went into a
coal shed, near her fathers house in Louis
vile, to play. Setting fire to shavings and
child, horribly burned, was in the last
agony of death when discovered.
A Chicago druggist the other day
| filled prescription with fluid extract of
belladonna, instead Of the tincture, as
written. The patients life, a little girl,
was barely saved from the effects of the
deadly dose.
"A marvellous case of sickness has oc-
Cured in Lanark. al. A young girl of
sixteen years, suffering from an internal
cancer, lived for three months without
food. At the end Of that time she took
nourishment, and is now fully recovered.
The young lady who represented the
goddess of Germania, in the recent Ger
| man Peace Festival In New York, has
died from brain fever, caused by exposure
| to the sun. She wore nothing on her
head but wreath.
"A woman became so violently insane
| in a Boston church on recent Sunday
| that the united efforts of several strong
| men were required to remove her. The
affair, occurring during the administration
of the communion, caused sensation.
Ella Knapp, Of Clifton, near Prescott,
Wis, few days since, while passing from
one room into another, knocked down a
loaded gun, which was standing beAind
the door, and discharged the load, which
struck a young lady in the left side, and
passed directly through the heart, causing
instant death.
| A lad named John Osborne, aged six
teen, while in attendance at the public
school in Canandaigua, the other day, in
dulged with other scholars in violent exer-
else by jumping during the recess. Just
as the bell rang calling in school, he sud
denly fell and expired. Violent exercise
no doubt was the cause.
| A little lad kindled fire in chicken
coop in Franklin, o., to warm the chickens,
he said. Unfortunately, the coop was
built against livery stable, and the fire
was communicated to the stable, but by
almost superhuman exertions, the fire was
extinguished, and the stable saved. The
chickens, however, were warmed.
The daughter Of Hermann Zinkaiser,
of Milwaukee, Wis, was recently
strangled to death in attempting to
swallow piece Of orange peel She had
been afflicted with diptheria, which 20
weakened the muscles of her throat that
she was unable to swallow or eject the
peel.
"A resident Of Fremont, Wis, was out
cunning the other day, and, supposing
that he saw Q muskrat In the bushes BY
tho river bank, he blaxed away q tho