The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-03
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

the other day.
"A boiler in a saw-mill at Waverly,
Ill, exploded a few days ago, injuring
three men very badly.
"A German IN Brazil, covetous of an
original death, attempted to commit sui
eide by driving nail into his head.
"A little girl in Washington, D. c., is
dead from the poison of a nickel cent
which she swallowed three months ago.
"A boiler exploded in the Otis Rolling
Mill, Cleveland, Ohio, recently, killing
one man and injuring another slightly.
Michael Cas- elo, of Delmor, was
killed on the 10th by the breaking of the
handle of handcar on which he was
riding.
"A steam threshing machine went up
at Erin, Wis, few days ago, and two
men with it. The machine can be mend
ed. but the men can't.
Three persons died in Crockett
County, Tenn, recently, after drinking
coffee from a pot into which box OF
matches had fallen
johnny Hamilton, aged IS, of Bre
men County, Iowa, died recently OF
a wound inflicted by the tine of a pitch
fork which ran through his foot.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, recently, boy
cider mill in attempting to pull straw
from the cOgwheel.
The gaslights in st. Adams, Yer
mont, were suddenly extinguished the
other evening by freshet which overflow
ed the gasworks.
--AdOlph Betz, lad OF fourteen, was
drawn into grain tube in his fathers ell
evator in Watertown, Wis, recently, and
was dead when recovered
"A saw-mill at Clarksburg, Mass, was
stopped the other day, by large eel get
ting lodged in one of the buckets of the
water wheel. The eel weighed five
pounds.
AT Indianapolis, Ind, the other night,
lady. in getting upon the Peru train,
slipped and fell upon little child with
such force as to Kill it instantly.
"A child Of William Simms, of WAY
erly, ILL.,, fell into kettle of boiling wa
ter and was scalded SO badly that it died
in few minutes.
"A lad was run over and killed at
Springfield, H., the other day, while at
tempting to pass in front of a moving
train.
Rev. Mr.. Landrum, Baptist Minis
ter, fell dead in the pulpit of his Church
at Rover, Tenn, few days ago. He is
pulpit within two years.
"A man in Greenup County, KY, find.
ing a neighbor pinned to the ground by
a tree that had fallen on his leg, lifted it OFF,
After the excitement was over he and
two others tried to lift the tree again, but
could not bulge it.
Some time ago Carl Winch, of Grand
Chute, Wis, fell and broke his back He
lived eight weeks with the lower part of
his body dead.
At Bear Greek, ILL.,, few days ago,
a child seventeen months old drank few
sups of a solution of concentrated I've,
and died in less than half an hour after
ward.
IN New York City, few nights ago
an athlete named Jose Villanova, while
performing one of his most difficult feats,
was suddenly seized with spasm, and
dropped dead on the stage.
Cornelius Foreman, of Pages foun-
dry, Albany, N. Y, accidently spilled a
dipper of molten iron on one of his legs.
When they pulled off his boot, the flesh
came with it.
Revenue Collector Densman, of
Green Bay, Wis, after chasing estray
pigs from his garden with great deal
of exertion, few days ago, went into the
house and Immediately expired.
Charles Martin, of Lafayette, Ind,
recently loaded his gun for pigeons. A
careless coat sleeve caught the hammer
and death entered at the young man S
mouth.
An Erie Railroad emigrant train
plOwed its way through drove of cattle
the other day, and killed twenty-six of
the poor beasts before it was stopped.
Pollard Bates, of Chester, Vermont,
struck his horse a sharp blsw with his
whip, and was in CONSCIENCE jerked out
OF lis wagon, breaking his back in the
fall. He died the next day.
+ "A workman on the Red Lake River
CIinn.) bridge was fatally injured the
other day by sharp pointed steel bolt
falling upon him from the upper chord of
penetrating to the hip.
"A 12-year old daughter of Horatio
Wort, living near Lainesburg. Mich,
while attempting to crawl through win
dow into a school house the other day,
was caught by the falling window and
hung, where she was found dead several
hours after.
An Indianapolis, Ind, mother missed
her little twoyear-old boy the other day.
Having notified the police of his disap-
pearance, she returned home and found
a little corpse standing on its head in the
slop barrel.
Near Crisfeld, Maryland, last week,
Cordelia King, colored girl, went with
her little brother to feed pig, having
several needles and pins in her dress
front. While in the act of leaning over
the pen. she fell, and one of the needles
entering her breast, killed her instantly.
A lad at West Chester, Pa, was re-
Gently tloated through the main sewer of
the town, and landed in a pleasant
meadow some distance away, not danger
ously injured, but fearfully demoralizcd.
He thinks the green pastures are all right,
but the ''still waters" are not to his
taste.
The other day, farmer living near
Chicago, while breaking pair of colts to
a wagon, took his little son, aged nine
years, riding with him, when, portion
of the harness giving way, the animals
took fright and ran, upsetting the wagon.
The farmer was fatally injured, and the
son was killed outright.
"A few days ago laborer named Pat
rick Golden, employed in planning mill
in Chicago, was literally torn to pieces by
revolving shaft. He was in the act of
adjusting belt on pulley when his
clothing was caught. He was whirled
around several times, and before the en-
CINE could he stopped life was extinct
The horses attached to steam fire en-
CINE in Albany, N. Y, becoming fright
ened while being driven to a fire recently,
ran with the machine to the dock, and
leaped in where the water was twelve
feet deep. The driver swan ashore, but