Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09

man tendencies of the paper, but was not
aware of the fact that the French part OF
the journal was Just the very reverse o.
the German, advocating the cause OF
France with intense enthusiasm. ~ zEi
Iecidoats ard AccIdeats.
-Maryland's convicts cost her twenty
eight cents each per day.
TWENTY seven persons were killed
during 1870 on the Kansas railroads.
"A young lady guest At Boston hotel
fell down IN 80 many fits from opium eat
ing that she was taken to q hospital.
"A young man named McPheters cut
his foot while chopping wood, near Rich
mond, Ind, few days since, and bled TO
death.
A funeral cortege was stopped by a
policeman in Troy, the other day, and one
Of the mourners arrested for horse steal
ing. t
Several children have died at Avon
Springs, N. Y, from being vaccinated for
small -pox with vaccine Of poisonous ma.
ture. 3 loitt
Near, Jeseyville. Ill, q few days ago,
little two year old boy was attacked and
nearly killed by vicious SOW. The inter-
vention of q dog saved the child's life.
I'm Cincinnati, q few days ago, Louis
Schuchard, . boy of ten years, was acct
dentally shot through the heart. BY .
young man who playfully snapped pistol
at him.
A brute Of teamster, in Georgetown,
d. c., by the name Of 7. Jacobson, got
angry the other day, and pulled out the
tongue of horse. The poor horse had
to be killed.
The dwelling of Henry Brodis, near
Plainville, Ohio, was burned few days
ago. A child persisted in the flames.
Nothing was to be found after the fire but
the charred remains.
"A ten.year-old boy. in Sacramento
took bottle of strychnine to school the
other day, and tried to get his mates to eat
some Of it. They promptly declined, and
informed the teacher, who had the youth
arrested. f lf., 0 H0
"A locomotive exploded its boiler near
Hinsdale, on the Boston & Albany Rail
road, few nights ago, scalding five men,
two Of whom, Engineer Mustard and Jo-
ssPu "A. AADSSSSc, "a DoSSo"s now oAAAoo
died.,
-Four years ago Mrs. Cobledick, Of
Cleveland, Ohio. kindled fire with kero-
sene, and was badly burned. She repeated
the experiment few days ago, and this
time killed herself, besides badly burning
her daughter.
Two children, at Boston, were re.
Gently poisoned by tasting the contents Of
a vial they picked up among the ruins Of a
drug store destroyed by fire. Death en-
sued in few hours.
"A man named Abe johnson, living in
Louisville, went home drunk the other
night, drew his sleeping infant from the
cradle, and dashed it on the floor. The
child died Of its injuries.
"A burning fluid peddler, while trying
to sell some fluid in Leavenworth, Kansas,
lit the lamp to prove that it was non-ex-
plosive. 1t did explode, however, and the
peddler had To borrow money to purchase
early the other morning, three men,
evidently laborers, were found frozen to
death on Hampstead Plain, Long Island
They had been together on spree, and
were Overtaken by o snow-stOrm.
"A blacksmith at Pascoag, r. L, while
shoeing horse recently, received a scratch
on his leg from an unclinched nail which
he had just driven, which led to his death
shortly aiterwad. .y4 te s.
In Chicago, few mornings ago, lit
tie girl, aged 8 years, named margaret
Donovan, while taking kettle from the
stove was severely burned in the face and
body by her clothes taking fire. A faint
hope of her recovery was entertained
"A will, bearing date Of 1855, has been
proved fraudulent in Providence by the
fact that the paper on which it was writ
ten contains the water-mark "A. p. Co.,
when no paper thus marked
was sold before the year 1860. si8s.5
"A Respondent young man in Boston,
who was hungry, penniless and without
employment. broke few panes of glass in
a merchants counting room in order to be
arrested. He was sent for five years to the
scholarship.
Brooklyn had 2S5 fires, costing $685..
47O, in 1870, against 311, costing 81 1885,
132 in 1869. The steam heating apparatus
is condemned as dangerous. There were
twenty deaths from fire, and in nearly
every case each was occasioned by the ex-
plOsiOn Of kerosene Oil.
As the son of A. Borden, Esq, of
Joliet, boy Of about fourteen years of
age, was riding horse to water the other
day, the animal became FESTIVE, and threw
him, fracturing his skull behind his right
ear, inficting, it was thought, mortal In
jury.
I'm a coal mine at Sharon, Pa, the
other day, William Crawford, John Shed.
don, Frank Watkins, NJ. Mcdonald and
Moltisher were precipitated to the
bottom of a shaft, by the breaking Of Q
rope, and four OF the party were killed al.
most instantly, and the survivor, Molti-
sher, received serious injuries.
"A few nights ago the house of VIM.
Grower, at Braidwood, Ill, was destroyed
by fire, and two children and young
named William Reynolds,
persisted in the flames. Reynolds lost his
life in his efforts to rescue the children.
Ten OF the rest Of the inmates were badly
burned, and all lost their clothing and val
uables.
"A would-be murderer pat powder into
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