Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-12-18
Incidents and Accidents.

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A Wisconsin lady not long since fired
| gun.load Of salt at man who was plum.
dering her wood-pile at night.
Mrs. Jane Hastings, of Hartford,
Conn, fell dead at the dinner table, re-
Gently, while laughing heartily at re-
| mark made by her husband
Little Willie Cannon would ride on
the locomotive pilot in spite Of all the
railroad operatives at Des Moines could
| do. and was crushed TO death against a
coal fiat.
Mrs. Deacon Smith, of Norwich,
| Conn, is slowly starving to death from
an inflammation of the throat produced
| by fish bone which lodged there, some
| time ago, which prevents her from taking
| any nourishment
A farmer in Mecan, Wis, missed a
steer six weeks ago, and had given it up
| for lost. A day or two since 1t was found
| in the center Of large straw stack,
| hearty as buck" although it had for
| the whole time been without water.
A man named Charles Koecheing was
recently seriously hurt by the bursting Of
an emery wheel in the brass works of
Louis Woolf of Chicago Several pieces
of the stone were buried in his head, and
| his recovery was thought to be doubtful.
The kind-hearted old lady who never
wearies of telling children how tragedies
are performed still lives. At Evansville,
| Ind, lately, she took the trouble to ex-
plain to her inquisitive grandson, Jacob
Bulligle, how people are shot, and the lit
| tie fellow now knows all about it. The
bullet entered his vitals and he died in a
| few seconds
"A horrible accident recently occurred
| In Hardin County, Iowa. Two teams be-
came scared as they were passing along
| the road. One team was stopped by one
| of the horses getting killed. The other
team dragged the driver, John Courtney
about half mile, where his head struck a
post, knocking his brains out, of course
killing him instantly.
"A boy named Henry Dean was very
seriously injured in Bengal, Mich, few
| days since by rough handling which he
received from some of his playmates. A
number of them jumped upon the boy,
and bent and twisted him, and would not
desist, notwithstanding the boys remon-
strances and cries of pain, until it was
seen he was badly hurt Young Dean
| was dangerously ruptured, and physi-
elan who was summoned said that perma-
nent injury must result.
"A few days ago, as the Pacific express
train was coming into the depot at Altoona,
| Pa, the engine jumped the track and
swung around, throwing an express car
against one of the iron posts with such
force as to break it off and cause part Of
the depot to fall in on two express cars and
a baggage car, breaking them up badly.
The passenger cars, in which there were a
number Of passengers, barely escaped. A
newsboy, named Lingenfelter, was killed,
and several passengers slightly injured.
The "heroic treatment" of suspected
horse thieves still prevails in Nebraska:
The Sheriff and several officers Of Hitch
cock county, while out hunting horse
thieves recently, arrested two men and a
boy, on charge of stealing span of
mules. They took the boy and hung him
up twice until he was unconscious, and
after the second choking, he confessed
that the party had stolen the mules. The
officers then took charge of the mules and
wagon, and told the men and boy to "get
out of the Wilderness" or they would
hang the while party.
John Connors, of Chicago, met with
a singular and probably fatal accident, at
the City Elevator, recently. He was stand
| ing in one part of the building where
there were several ropes used for hosting
| purposes, when one of them parted, took
wide sweep, the end catching him in
| its coils, and winding about his head. He
| was also injured by being swung round a
| distance by the hemp, and an examina-
ton of his person revealed the fact that
| beside wounds of the head, he had com
pound dislocation of the knee, and his
| ankle was frightfully fractured.
The most inherently improbable story
related for long time is that about the
recovery Of boy-inmate of the South
| Boston Institute for idiots. He used to
| live in Canton, and was bright boy
enough until about two years ago, when
his senses began to fail, and kept failing
| until they were gone, and reason speed
| lily followed, and the boy, now "drivel-
| ing idiot" was taken to the institution
He has remained there, ever since, mere
wreck, but few days ago Mrs. DIR,
Brown learned from the boys mother
that when about seven years old he got
| his ear full of gravel stones, and these had
never been removed, The lady doctor at
once commedced series Of excavations,
and at last accounts had removed twenty.
seven pebbles from the boys ear. The
lad is.now regaining his senses, and the
Joy of his parents is inexpressible.