The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-12-05

"A Muskegon man, while out hunting.
got on the track Of a bear. He came IN
! sight Of him. fired and wounded the ami
NAL, while 1t was lying by the side OF a log.
The hunter, supposing lac had killed him,
approached too near the brute. when IL
caught and killed him. Appearances indi-
Gated that there must have been a terrible
struggle.
While nurse in the City Hospital at
Boston, was suffering from poison, taken
with a view OF ending her life. Arthur
Foster. young physician. WAS called 10
attend her. He prescribed for hystcra.
and learning afterwards the woman had
taken poison and died from its effects, he
became so chagrined he killed himself.
Davenport. Iowa, a girl named Mary
Powers. seven years old. was shOckingly
burned by having her clothing catch fire
from "a lot of burning stnbblc. All her
garments were burned away. and from
head 10 foot She was one mass of burned
and bloody flesh. After untold agony, the
little sufferer died the next morning.
Recently a two-year-old child Of John
Brinkham. residing i'm Pleasant Grove.
Iowa, went 10 it, mother. who was i'm the
room, and raised up its head and motoned
that something was the matter with its
dead An inch screw was found i'm its
throat, which the child picked mp of the
iioor, placed in its mouth, partially swal-
lowed, choking il TO death.
Two young men. named Durrow and
Hutchinson, from Williamsburg, Clermont
county. o.. went Ia Cincinnati to buy
clothing. and on their way home. several
miles from the city. took from barn bot |
I Ia. taf mi IV HOY NIL
and drank il. Both grew sick. and i'm an
hour or two both died. II is supposed the
bottle contained horse medicine.
AT Joplin. Mo-. recently. the wife of
Paul Marion. while in a state of temporary
arrangement arising from long-continucd
illness. cut her throat and that of her in |
FAINT child with razor The child died be-
fore the f'rightful tragedy was discovered. |
but the physicians had some hopes of the
mothers recovery.
AT JOumont. Clark county. No.. dur !
Ing the progress of n church trial, Archie
Cravings. being charged by member OF
his denomination with being on too init |
mate terms with some of The sisters. took |
exceptions 10 some ofthc statements of the
principal witness. when both left the |
church. and each produced siN-shooter. |
Cravings. being an adept, mortally wound |
ed hi- antagonist and left for parts un-
known.
belinda Lawry. a young girl en-
ployed "a servant in a family at Johns |
town. Pa. was scrubbing the stairs one |
morning recently, when Daniel Ferguson,
a lad twelve years Of age. came in with "A
revolver. of which two barrels were load |
ed. The girl accused him of ''smouching"
a pie, which the young man yehemcntly |
denied. al the same time cooking the wea-
pom. and saying. "l'll shoot YOU The |
girl said ~ on wouldn't surely when he |
drew bead and fired. The bullet entered |
the girls check passed through her palate
and into the stomach inllicting a danger |
Gus. if not fatal wound.
A singular and sad accident occurred |
to Mr. Andrew Lockett. of Spencer coun- |
ty. KY, few days ago. lie and col |
orcd man in his employ were engaged in
filling Ion with hay, when Mr.. Lockett |
set a hay fork. prongs up. beside wagon |
and climbed into the Ion to scatter the hay. |
AMER he had accomplished this lac climbed |
out on top of the wagon and then sal |
down to slide off on the ground. In his |
descent ne struck the fork. a prong of |
which entered his body. piercing the heart
and killing him instantly. He had insur
ancc ON his life, il is stated, To the amount
Of $4,000.