Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-07-06

city, committed suicide the other day by
saturating her clothes with kerosene and
setting them on fire.
Jacob Kempner, a clothing dealer in
San Francisco, was accidentally shot the
other day by Mrs. Meyers, to whom he
gave revolver to examine.
"A few days ago, daughter, aged ~
years, Of Ludwig Cordiss, of KilbOurn
City. Wis, drank a teacupful Of lye, and
died the second day after taking the dose
A boy by the name of George Mitch.
ell accidentally shot himself while hunt
ing near Jeannettville, Mimi, few Gays
ago. He lived but few hours.
The Hillsboro, Mo, Democrat men
tons how hog followed a cow for some
months The intimacy excited curiosity
and the hog was discovered sucking the
COW.
The young son of Frank Whitney, o.
Oak Grove, Mimi, while playing with 6
cat several days ago, had one of his eyes
scratched out by the animal.
Mr. Parkhurst, aged seventy-five, o.
Mahaska County, Iowa, was blowing with
the lines over his shoulder, when the team
ran away and injured him SO that his life
is despaired Of
"A party of boys, while playing in 8
barn in Bluffton, Ind, found nest full OF
eggs, and conceived the brilliant idea OF
roasting the eggs in the nest. A new
barn will be built when the owner settles
up with the insurance company.
AT Sturgis, Mich, recently while 9
woman was boiling some potato bugs she
had gathered from plants, she inhaled the
steam arising from them, and IN twenty
minutes thereafter was corpse,
A young lsboring man in Pittsburgh
Penn, worked until eleven o'clock the
other night, partook of some ale, bread
and cheese before retiring, and died OF
cholera before morning.
Johnny Haywood, of Milwaukee, is
Of scientific turn Of mind. He expert
mented with burning glass on package
Of powder. Johnny is nov at home wait
ing for new skin to grow over his face and
hands.
A young countryman shopping in
Lawrence, Mass, stole ride on the sprin.
kler of the watering cart. The driver
pulled the valve-lever, and the countryman
rose about three feet in the air, coming
down wetter, but wiser.
The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal says
"A little daughter of Mr.. Bradleo, OF
Sweetland Township, was stung on the
neck by locust, few days ago; but, after
suffering from very sore throat and pain
full wound, she has nearly recovered"
In Bayonne, N. j., the other after.
noon, an oldish merchant, Thomas Grips,
stepped into a neighbours house, saying to
the inmates, II have come to die with
you" He lay down on sofa, and in a
few minutes had accomplished the object
of his visit.
A boy in Houston County, Mimi, a
few days ago, was nearly poisoned to death
by drinking liquor from keg which had
been used as receptacle of the dregs of
bottles, casks, and kegs of different spirits.
He was playing saloon" with his sister
as bar tender.
"A young man named Michael Lavelle
met an almost sudden death by falling
from wagon in Joliet, Ill, a few days ago.
He was standing up in the wagon, and the
horse starting suddenly and Unexpectedly
threw him backward, and in falling IN
jured his spine SO that he soon died.
"A boy aged about ten years, son of
Mary Norton, living near Caledonia,
Mimi, while holding grazing horse
lately, became wearied, and tied the lariat
about his body. Shortly afterward the
horse became frightened and ran away,
dragging the boy at a fearful rate, and
breaking his skull in two places.