Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-22

Adam Kehrs was burned to death, and
several other workmen severely injured.
The other day q little boy about nve
year old SON of Richard Sinclair, nf mar
shall, Mich, fell from an apple tree, ms
head striking a glass jar underneath the
tree The lar was broken into fagmants,
cutting his head and face feaIfuily. Wnen
his mother picked him up, one OF MS eyes
dropped out into her hand. His case was
a very critical one.
AT Joliet, H., few nights ago, q nine-
year-old daughter of Robert Iamplng "as
trying to light . fire by using Kerosene
oil, when her clothes were lgnlted- an
older sister, seeing her on nre, ran an1
caught her up and plunged her IN barrsl
of water, and in so doing got her nanos
and face badly burned. The younger
lived only about seven hours after Inc
accident.
A sudden gust of wind, a few days
ago. caused flag, on q building in Alba
ny, N. Y, to become eDtangied IN some
ornamental iron work around the root, and
in tapping back again it tore away, about
TWENTY-FIVE pounds of the iron, and flung
it through window of the house opposite
with such force as to penetrate through
the Garnet and floor to the ceiling of the
room below.
A little daughter of Mr.. Devore, re-
siding near Bushnell, Ill, lost an eye not
long since in rather curious way. She
was trying TO unite her little brothers
shoe string, but finding it hard to do, she
took table fork to pick the knot with.
Unfortunately, when she had one prong OF
the fork in the knot, the fork slipped out,
and the end of it was thrown into her
eye, destroying the sight.
AT Eau Claire, Wis, few days ago,
Eugene Ketcham and George Harris, his
chum, each aged about nineteen years, be
came involved in a row with some roughs
in saloon. During the progress OF the
melee, young Ketcham was being handled
pretty roughly by his antagonist, when
Harris drew a revolver, intending to de-
fend him, and fired, as he supposed, di-
rectly at the man who was attacking
Ketcham, but missed his aim, the ball
striking Ketcham and killing him in
stantly.
The recent purchasers of an old man
sion in Stratford, Conn, while engaged in
tearing down the stone chimney, came
across large earthen pot of peculiar
shape and very ancient, containing specie.
| What amount of treasure was found the
| lucky individual is reluctant to state, but
it is noted that after his good fortune the
gentleman, who had been engaged in the
dry goods and grocery trade for number
of years, to the surprise of his many
friends, sold out his stock and fixtures,
leased his store and retired from business.
EARLY the other morning brakeman
named Jones, employed on freight train
Of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad, accidentally fell between the
cars while the train was moving between
Kingsville and Madison, Ohio. He fell
upon the tracksand the remainder of the
train ran over his legs, tearing them off
above the knee, and mangling his body.
He was not killed, however, and lay help
| less and in intense agony. While lying on
the track he heard the steamboat express
passenger coming along. Expecting that
he would not be seen, and that the cars
would surely run over him, he preferred
to end his sufferings before he should be
again run over, so he drew knife from
his pocket, opened the blade and stabbed
himself twenty-five times about the breast
and left arm. He had tried to penetrate to
his heart and produce death as soon as
possible, but was too weak to guide his
blows and consequently mangled himself
as he did. The engineer OF the train saw
him in time to stop the cars Jones was
taken to Madison, where he died. The
deceased lived in Kingsville. He was
twenty five years old and married.