Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidenfs and Accidents.

was thrown from wagon-load OF shingles
and had his neck broken
--By The fall of a scaffold in Detroit,
Francis Grieke fell seventy feet 10 the
ground and Vas fsially injured.
A man named Webster was recently
sawed 10 pieces in a saw-mill near New
burgh. In warrick County, Ind.
Fatal swimming accidents are now in
order. Among the frs; Of the season Is
tina; Of small boy named stephen, al
Galena, III.
Harvey Abrams. porter at the Body
House. as Toledo, shot himself dead while
eareles+ly handling revolver belonging
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And still anosher Edwin Randall,
Of Sammis. Lake County. Mich, shot
himself dad while handling pistoi
careicssly Next
Emily Twist a young lady slightly
touched with insanity. threw herself under
q passing train near Inns, Wis, and was
instantly killed
A man named John Stevenson, en-
Moved on the new Court House al Indian
spolis. was killed by falling from the sec
ond story into the basement
The Rev. Father Tbeep, Catholic priest
OIL ~TfFsUEASIU. w. Nar hattG ANA&hh. "
being thrown from his buggy while his
horse WAS running away.
Andres EichbcDbaum. gardener OF
Detroit, was kicked 20 death by his own
horse. He was in the act Of barnessing
the animal. snd was struck on the head,
fracturing his skull.
- lad named George McCabe, while |
attempting 10 jump on freight train at
d. fis.t
wheels. and both Of his legs and one arm
were Gu, OF He died in four hours.
AT DAYTON. Ohio, few days since,
the infant son Of James Bossler while |
PLAYING in the street, was run over by a
dray, the wheel passing over its head,
crushing out the brains and killing 1t in
stanily.
The Wlfe Of John Miller, in Adams |
County, Iowa, while pulling gun toward |
her by the muzzle, to give ii To her bus |
band, accidentally discharged ii, the en-
tire contents entering her body near the |
spine causing her death.
"A young lad, son Of Selah Fairchild, |
while out hunting near Patoka., Ind, re- |
Gently, placed his gun in the fork Of a tree, |
went home for caps. and returning took |
the gun up by the muzzle and pulled it;
the Hammer caught, and the heavy load
was lodged in his abdomen.
AT Howesville, KY. recently, an elder
Iy lady named Mrs. Hcddcn sirangled her.
self by winding a clothes-line several
times around her neck. IL is said that
the act was induced by illhealth and de
preston, caused by the death Of daugh.
Ter, who left three young children depend
ent upon her.
"A young girl named Elizabeth Arnold
was strangled ~ death at Pekin, Ill, re-
Gently in singular manner She was
climbing out Of a window when the sash
fell pinioning her by the neck and hold
ing her SO tightly that escape was i'm.
possible. Before relief arrived the poor
girl was dead.
AT Andrew, Jackson County, Iowa,
while Mrs Frank Strauch was doing her
family washing the other day, her little
three ycar-old daughter fell into a kettle Of
boiling water, and was so badly scalded
that the cooked flesh actually dropped
from the little ones bones, and death en-
sued in a short time.
Mrs Stephen Toby, of Minneapolis,
the white wife Of a colorcd man, divorced
herself from both life and her husband by
taking an ounce each Of laudanum and
chloroform. She left letter for her hus-
band, assigning as IL reason for her rash
act, that she loved another man better than
she did him.
Seward Smith, well known lawyer of
Dcs Noines, Iowa, was struck by light
ming one Sunday recently, while going to
church The fund followed his umbrella
rod TO the point where 1t rested on his
shoulder, when II passed down his body
and down the left leg, leaving him at the
heel Of his boot His injuries were Sc
rious.
"A five.yearold son OF Samuel Parker,
who lives near Lima, Lagrange County,
Ind, was riding with brother on plas-
ter sower, a few days ago, when the tongue
Of the machine broke and the little fellow
was thrown for ward under the horses feet |
One Of them stepped upon his head,
crushing the skull 30 AZ 10 cause his death
two days after.
One day recently, stranger, stopping
nj a hotel in Chllicothc, Missouri, asked |
the clerk for the loan Of razor Half an
hour afterwards he was found lying in his |
room, with his throat cut from ear 10 ear.
A note was found on his table stating that |
his family resided in Lafayette, Ind, and |
requesting the Masons To take charge of
his books and papers.
AT Chicago, ON Decoration day,
Daniel Daley and John Conway were rid. |
ing on guncarriagc, in the procession,
when one Of the wheels Of the carriage |
became caught In the railroad track, |
swinging the carriage suddenly around
and throwing them both of. The wheels |
Of the carriage passed directly over
Dalcy's head, killing him almost instant.
ly, and Conway received severe injuries,
from the effects Of which he afterward
died.
AT Columbus, Ohio, recently, colored
man named Van Brown was engaged i'm
digging vault close by an old vault that
was filled TO overfowing About midnight
the new vault was completed, and, while
opening connection 80 as To allow the
contents of the old one 10 empty into the
new one, suddenly the partition gave way
precipitating the huge mass of alth upon,
Brown, suff0cating him almost instantly.
An assistants call for help was answered
by young white man, named Jacob Jas
per, who arose from his bed and hurried
to the place. Thinking to save Brown,
he sprang into the vault and grasped
him, but before he could be rescued he