Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-01

to cross the river on the ice at Ns.n
ford, Mass, and four of them n
drowned "eaI
A few nights ago a man and
near Sioux City, Iowa, hearing the ~, w.
GUS alarm of a rattlesnake near J. ll
got up aud found it coiled up in ,be;, I Ea9
George Bechtel living eicbt ~
north OF Bourbon, Ind, was ins,aass
killed the other day, his head ha;a
crushed between two saw logs he
helping to load on wagon. ~
The death of Mrs. Updyke n, r.
dilla, n. Y, few DAYS ago orI.
couple of days after her wedding
caused by tight lacing. She ran m W., va
rapidly and compressed blood va. p
broke. She fell dead on the last ster 'Se
Mr.. Engleman, of Milwaukee
route from Kansas City to Denver. 10 raj
the bedside of dying brother. chartsss
special train, which made the tr;s !.
eighteen hours and five minutes rn1;!
time.
A bright little Jersey lad rece,,-
broke through the ice at Lake View viii
skating. As he went down, he burr;ods
shouted the street and number of his =!
dence-information which proved y
value ON his rescue. u
A Des Monies 0owa) girl, eDioviD,
buggy ride with her lover, had Eerebir5as
removed by horse which was driven m
behind. Just as the thing was done fly
driver of the horse whipped up and nassI
the lovers and whirled away, the cbignOa
dangling from the horses mouth.
Mrs. Cornelia Burke, of Hartfo,,
Conn.,, was burned to death at her bos,S
ing house the other morning. She WA
alone in the room, and in some way nd
known her clothing caught fire and sfs
ran down stairs in blaze and fell dead,
the kitchen.
The boiler of steam mill at Bowie,
Station, Mo, exploded a few nights a,o
and Thos Tabor, johnson Summers Jno
Buster, Jas. Williams, John Shoemakpr
and Paul Vader were killed, and Ella,
Nichols, Lyman Vader, Mr.. Lyle, and the
engineer wounded.
A mother, wife, and two daughters Of
DIR. n. ID. Lamb, living in the suburbs Of
Louisville, KY, were recently poisoned Al
supper by eating fruit put up in an
They lay at the point of death for some
hours. Prompt and energetic efforts Of
physicians finally reused the victims from
their stupor, and there were some hopes Of
their recovery.
"A Frankfort, Ky, dispatch says that
a short time since a party of disguisedmen
visited the house of citizen in that
county, whites wedding was in progress,
took possession of the premises, fired Of |
pistols and danced over the floor Th
fright occasioned to the daughter of tli
citizen caused her to go into spasms, SUI
ceeded by insanity.
The boiler of locomotive explods
the other morning, near Middletown O.
on the Columbia branch of the PennsTl
vania Central Railroad, with terrifcfGH
Chalkley Dowdall, the engineer, wash
ed, and James Wilson, fireman, andJNTl
Lewis, conductor, who was on theege,
were very seriously injured. The locomp
tive was attached to heavy freight
train.
The following document has benN
ceived by the Mayor of Chicago: "M
Francisco, December 81, lSll-M
Medill 1t was me that set Mrs. Learyi
barn on fire and my old man gave me so
for doing it l set the Hay on fire and then
Run. As I Run out l met man
thought he had seen me if he had it would
have been the last of him. / tell yOu
this to clear Mrs. Leary of the charge d
carelessness in setting her barn on fire
with lamp, and am sorry that 50 much
harm was done but don't care | like
make big noise Bye and bye | will gH
you some of the particulars but now
have no time. Yours &c