The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-09-26
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

of a whip.
Two step-children of VIM. Bell, of
Noblesville, Ind, have died within a few
days past of poison, accidentally taken
for boneset tea.
"A lad named Stull, residing in Pack
waukee, Wis, was accidentally struck in
the neck with scythe, by his brother,
and killed.
Two families in Kentucky have been
poisoned by eating jelly made in copper
kettle.
The village of West Rochester, Vt,
was nearly swept out of existence recently
by the heavy rains.
"A little child was badly poisoned at
Nation, ILL.,, by eating of jamestown
weed, the medical extract of which is
stramonia
Mrs. Edward Grimes, of Greene
County, Iowa, was killed recently by the
house blowing down upon her.
Three men were killed and several
others injured, the other day. by the ex-
plosion of boiler at McCullogh's iron
rolling mills, at North East, Maryland.
Frank Downey, of Upton, while rid
ing on top of freight car, near Kokomo,
Ind, the other day, was struck by the
timbers of a bridge and fatally injured.
Three men were killed, the other day,
by the premature discharge of a blast.
A three-year- old son of William Es-
sex, of Zionsville, Ind, swallowed a
small pen-knife, with the blade open, the
other day. He is pretty lively, but has
the chills and fever.
George Lorring, boy nine years of
age, while stealing ride on a horse-car
at New York recently, fell off and had his
head nearly severed from his body.
AT Holy Gross, Iowa, the other day,
Mr.. McAloon was instantly killed by a
kick from vicious colt.
I'm Washington, Ind, the other night,
81. B. Poison blew out the gas, and final
ly crawled out of third-story window
He broke both arms and one leg
The last man that tried sleeping on
the railroad was at Chattanooga. He only
lost two legs and had his backbone broken
in three places.
"A ten-year-old son of VIM Kicks, of
Sedalia, Mo-, was bitten six times by a
large rattlesnake the other day, near that
town. No hope was entertained of his
recovery.
"A man named Peterson, while en-
deaYoring to remove an obstruction from
the railroad track in KeOkuk, Iowa, the
other day, caught his foot in a frog and
was run over by train and instantly
killed.
An eight-year-old son of c. Klats,
Esq, of Auburn, Ind, fell from an apple
tree in his fathers yard, with an open
knife in his hand, the knife penetrating
his breast near the right shoulder, sever
ing an artery, from which he bled to death
in ten minutes.
Two men engaged in the tunnel now
| constructing under the river to the canal
oh MOE
Frank Astenburg, were killed the other
| day by suffocation in the American
| shaft.
"A little daughter of Joseph Bray,
while riding on the cowcatcher of an en-
CINE at the Franklin Mine, Lake Superior,
Mich, the other day, was thrown upon
the track and run over, receiving terrible
and fatal injuries.
| Who shall dare say that the race Of
heroes and martyrs is extinct A man
and his four boys were lately capsized on
"a barge near Wheeling, Va, and the
father kept his four sons up until they
were rescued, and then fell back and was
| drowned
While Frank L. Esperance was ex-
| aiming defective pile-driver, building a
| cotfer-dam at Riverside, Mich, recently
the weight fell, striking him on the shout
ders and fattening him on the top of the
pile. The slug weighed 600 pounds, and
the young mans death was as instantane-
Gus as it was awful.
A ten-year- old son of Edward Ben
nett, of the village of Erie, H., was placed
on horse to ride him to water, the other
day, the halter being wound around his
body and the end tucked in, when the
horse took fright and ran away, throwing
the boy off and dragging him, or rather
carrying him, eighty rods before the hal
ter unwound and released the then lifeless
body.
In Brunswick, Maine, recently, a
child Of Mr.. Merryman, about ten years
old, was badly bitten by dog, which
jumped violently upon it, threw it to the
ground, and tore the skin from it's neck
and face. A cat that was near by jumped
upon the dogs back, and bit and scratched
it so industriously that the dog soon left
the child to attend to the cat. But for
the presence of the cat the child would
have been killed outright.
Claudio Bones, an italian sleight-o Of
hand operator in San Francisco, swallow
ed a couple of quartz boulders while under
the influence of liquor, and suffered ex-
cruciating torments from the efforts of
his faithful stomach to digest them. DR..
Rotanzi, an Italian physician, was called
in, and after a few weeks treatment, sue
ceeded in relieving him of his burden.
The largest stone was two inches long
and weighed two ounces and half.
DIR. Jewett, of North Haven, Maine,
| a literally educated but very eccentric
old man, committed suicide, in very
singular manner, recently. He went into
his office, emptied a can of kerosene about
| the room, severed the femoral artery in
both thighs, and then set fire to the place.
The neighbors seeing the flames, ran to the
scene, and found the old man, with sim
gle garment on, in the midst of the fire,
weltering in his blood. He was dragged
out, but he was past speech, and died i'm
mediately.
"A new phase in bill-posting was OBJ
served the other day by Broadway, New
York, pedestrians. a horse had sue
cumbed to the heat on the previous even
ing, and his remains had not yet been re-
moved. The day was cloudy, and the
umbrella people were out with their post
ers. One of them at once seized his OPP
portunlty, and commencing at the neck,
he plastered the unfortunate animal from
end to emf with his announcements.
With smile at his triumph over all COM
petitors, he then left for other fields Of
victory,
An engineer in Kentucky lately had
the following experience: He was trotting
back and forth with his engine on pretty
steep grade, when the cylinder head blew
out, and the iron monster, finding the
check pOne dashed down the grade round