Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-03
Incidents and Accidents.

I2ClQe0N 10O ACCAOcBtSs
Thomas Rowley, of Des MONIES, Iowa,
died recently from the effects of drinking
too much ice water.
A little daughter of Washington Bea-
man, of Liberty, Ill, was burned to death
a few days ago. Kerosene oil did it.
Owen Inemoon, of Bronson, Ohio,
was crushed to death the other morning
by horse falling upon him.
One day recently the coroner OF st
Louis held inquests on seven persons VINO
died from the effects Of the heat.
in St. Louis, No, few lights ago, a
little boy about four years old was
smothered to death by his sister scciden-
tally lying on his face.
The sun shining through slightly
convex pane of glass ignited box OF
matches in a house in Canandaigua, q
few days ago.
"A boy at Danville, ILL.,, went to " fool.
ing" with a circus leopard, the other day,
when the beast made q grab at him, and
lacerated his arm so that 1t would proba.
bly, have to be amputated.
"A servant girl in Evansville, Ind, was
struck by lightning the other day She
was knocked down, aud in minute got
up yelling, I'm all afre." She subse-
quently went into commissions.
A colered boy in Montgomery, Ala,
found piece of poisoned .dog 's-meat"
in the street, took it home and cooked and
ate it for his supper. As may be supposed,
it killed him.
Jonathan Kilfoy, a resident of Selma,
Ohio, was roasted to death the other day.
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while he was looking through his cellar
for some garden tools.
Two little boys, sons of Farmer Bryan,
near Clarion, Iowa, were recently poisoned
to death, by picking and burning potato
bugs and inhaling the poisonous smoke
and air emanating from the insects.
"A little boy, aged eleven years, son of
J. A. Rhomberg, of Dubuque, Iowa, died
the other day, from injuries received by
his clothes taking fire while playing
around a bonfire.
"A daughter Of B. Jackson, Bltternut
Ridge, o., cleaned her teeth with arsenic
one morning, instead of tooth-powder, by
mistake, and came very near dying.
John Murwaski, a Boston cigar maker,
died few days ago, from drinking oil of
cloves, which he mistook for whisky.
Though the quantity he swallowed was
small, ne lived only one hour.
-Four boys in Middletown, New York.
are charged with pounding and choking TO
death lad, few days since, because he
wouldn't take some property they had
stolen and dispose Of it.
Professor John B. Muller, leading
teacher of music at Lancaster, Pennsylva-
MIA, fell out Of third story window, at a
Baltimore hotel, the other night, and was
instantly killed. His weight was three
hundred pounds.
AT Akron, O., the other evening,
Christian Metz, seventeen years old, was
accidentally shot dead by roommate,
named Diconbey, who was showing him
how he would act when called upon to
use revolver in self-defense.
"A Philadelphia suicide finished his
mortal career by laying his neck across q
railroad track. While waiting for the To-
connective, he wrote in the sand that his
name was James Davis; born in 1886
without friepds tired OF life."
"A child three years Of age, daughter
Of Mr.. f. NJ. Willette, of Jones County
Iowa, attempted, the other day, to clint
into a hay-rack on wagon, when hel
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head downward, she huag until she died
"A Bridgeport, Connecticut, doctor
having prescribed hot foot bath for q
child three weeks old, the ignorant parents
put the babe into water so not thatit took
the skin of the legs entirely, of, with q
part of the flesh. The child could not
live. F'If
"A hen in the vicinity of Jaffrey, N. H.,
got shut in behind some farming tools,
and staid there for twenty seven days, by
which time, says the Cheshire Republican,
:" she shrunk 90 from lack of food and
water, that she was able to come out"
A lady in Stark County, Ohio, while
| getting drink of water, fell into well
forty-three feet deep, and remained there
an hour before she was rescued, her friends
thinking her dead. When taken out she
was able to walk to the house, and was
not seriously injured.
DIR. Croker, of San Francisco, who has
charge of the horses of the Fire Depart
ment Of that city, was called to see what
hard substance was under the skin on the
shoulder of one of the horses, and on
making a slight incision in the hide, took
out a silver quarter Of dollar, dated 1858
Samuel Sands, of Richmond, Ind
dreamed that some one was trying to kill
him. He sprang out of bed, jumped
through the window to the balcony, and
then to the ground. His father, hearing
the noise, got up and woke the young man
out of his sleep. He was badly cut by
broken glass.
In Louisville, KY, a few nights ago
Isaac B. Myers, while walking in his sleep
stepped out of a third-story window OF
the Globe Hotel, and fell on cellar door
beneath, crushing his left arm into nun
Der of pieces and sustaining severe internal
injuries. He would probably die.
Two boys were shooting rats at barn
in Hannibal, Mo-, the other day. One of
the boys went behind the barn to frighten
the rodents Heput his hand out in sight,
when the other boy thinking it TO be a
rat, fired. The bullet made clean hole
through the little fellows hand.
The Davis Creek Bridge of the Chesa.
peake and Ohio railroad, FIVE miles west
of Charlestown, West Va, fell the other
day, while the workmen were putting on
permanent timbers. Thirteen Of the
workmen were precipitated below, of
whom two were killed and one wounded,
who would probably die. Six others were