The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-06-06

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VIM. Barry, of this city, was t<eturn-
ing from visit from Charleston, she
met with very painful accident. i
Somewhere near the fair grounds, as
she was driving leisurely along, lthe
lines came unbuckled, and one
dropped from her hands. In reach
ing over the dashboard to recover it,
she lost her balance and fell to the
the ground, breaking one of her legs
just above the ankle.
Mrs. Malchan, of Davenport,
drowned her infant son in rain wa
ter barrel, and then put her own
head in and held it there until life
was extinct. The husband found |
them thus on his return home at
night, and so fearful was the shock |
that he went into spasms, and it is
feared he will become hopelessly in
insane. No cause but sudden insan-
ity can be imagioned, as they always |
lived in perfect happiness.
A prominent citizen of Burlington |
walking over the track of aretreating
burglar the other morning, came |
across roll containing a consider
able amount of money. 1t is conjec-
tured that the BURGERS pocket served |
him as both bank and arsenal, and |
that in pulling his pistol to shoot the
dog which frightened him away, he
pulled also, his greenbacks. The
man who found the money consider
it "fat take" and solicits additional |
calls of the same kind.
A ten year old boy in Durant,
Scott county, found he could gain |
entrance to the cellar of a store, went |
down to see what he could find that
he wanted, lighted several matches,
smoked a cigar, and let spark fall |
from one or the other among some
papers that set the store on fire. Two
men saw the flames, rushed to the
rescue, and were about to subdue it
when one saw powder-keg on fire,
told the other to run for life, and
just as they reached the door it ex-
ploded, tearing the building into
pieces and throwing one of the men
across the street, terribly burning
and bruising him.
The Register says: yesterday,
Governor Carpenter received by ex-
press from the Sheriff of Story coun-
ty, the rope which he had prepared
for the benefit of George Stanley. 1t
had been all fixed up ready for use
before the law was repealed, and
when Stanley was sent to the Peni-
Tertiary, the Sheriff sent the rope to
the Governor who signed the bill
forbidding legal murder in Iowa.
The death cord is stout half inch
rope, with slip moose of leather,
and looks as if it could shut off the
necessary amount of vitality to con-
stitute man a live animal in proper
and legal style. The Governor in
tends to send it to the State Histori.
cal Society.
The Iowa City. Press says that
child named Triebel, years old was
burned to death while playing about
the rubbish fire. Another child play
fully threw some burning rubbish at
her, setting her clothes on fire, and
fatally injured her. Michael Gan
non, while ascending from a well,
when within IA feet Of the top, was
buried by the stone wall caving in
upon him. Help came, the work
went lively, and in few minutes he
was reached, and fonnd standing
straight in the well, with his foot in
in the rope, in the same position he
was in when he started from the bot
tom. The well was forty feet in
debth, and fourteen feet of rock was
suppoated by Mike, and the rope.
He was not seriously injured.
Sunday the 10th, Mr.. PixIey, a
merchant of Vernon, Van Buren,
county, was crossing the river, when
the oar-lock broke, and being una
BILE to manage his boat was carried
over the obstruction. The back-ac-
ton of the water is so great below
the dam that it has always been con-
sidered an impossibility for a person
to escape from it. In fact, Mr.. Pix
ley is the only man ever carried over
this dam that came out alive, and
had it not been for a remarkable
presence of mind, he would undoubt-
eddy have lost his life. He managed
to dive to the bottom Of the river,
getting below the angry water, and
creeping rapidly along till the point
of danger was passed, arose to the
top, and succeeded in reaching the
shore. When he discovered his eff
forts to prev ent the boat from being
carried over the dam were fruitless,
and as certain death seemed to await
him, he cast his eyes towards his
home, and seeing his wife standing
upon the veranda, a witness to the
frigktful scene, waved his hand and
bid her goodbye. In a moment
more the struggle for life ensued, re-
sulting in Mr.. Pixley's saving him
self, as above stated.
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The New York Tribune, gathering
in the East, the Springfield Repas6-
Iscam in New England, the Cincin-
natl Commercial in the Middle
States, the Chicago Tribune in the
Northwest, the st. Louis Republican
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