Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-12-25
Incidents ana Accidents.

SA~ anu hCNAVNutcs
"A child Vas smothered 10 death in |
Appomatto.. county, Va, few evenings
ago, at -~edding, by guests, who threw
their o. Ater garments upon bed IN which
ne IS lying.
A runaway horse dashed into a fune-
al procession in Providence, X l., one
day last week. The hearse was capsized,
the coffin thrown out and the corpse tum-
bied into the mud of the gutter.
Frank Monroe, of Marshall, Iowa,
recently undertook to milk COW from
its left side, which was not the right SIDE
The cow resented the insult, after the
manner of bovines, and Frank is doing as
well as could be expected.
Miss Mary Harvey, of Middle Had
dam, Conn, while sitting at the table after
breakfast, recently. suddenly threw up
her hands and fell to the floor. She re-
manned in nearly insensible condition
| for q short time, when death ensued.
A dwelling house owned by Henry
Herman, of Portage, Wis. was lett in the
care of six-year-old boy and baby. In
| taking care of the cook-stove he succeed
ed in getting up confagration that
destroyed the house, but the babies were
saved.
| -E. j. Roos was accidentally shot,
few days since, while hunting in the Osh-
temo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. He
was shooting quail with companion in
thick brush, and the charge from the lat
ter's gun entered Mr.. Roos' right arm, in
ficttng a painful, but it is hoped not seri-
| Gus wound.
An insane man at Dubuque, Iowa,
attempted to stab himself with fork, and
failing, was about to chop himself with a
meat ak. His wife wrenched it from him,
but in the encounter one Of her fingers
was cut off. Some neighbors secured the
desperate fellow but it required the
strength of six men to pin him to his bed.
Mr. Redding, of Kossuth county, Min
nesota, one cold day last week, jumped
from his wagon with the intention OF
warming himself by walking; but in
jumping out his feet slipped, and he went
under the wagon, the wheel passing over
| his breast and face, infiicting injuries from
which he died in few hours. He leaves
a wife and three children.
During the absence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Anderson, of Riceland, Mimi, from their
house, the other day, an insane Irishman
entered the house, where three children
| Huu uCCh lClt hlVhNs anu tnhlhS q ShoNOi
Of Goals from the stove, turned flask of
powder upon it, burning one of the chill
dren badly about the face and hands.
At last accounts the insane man was still
at large.
| The Fond du Lac (Wis) Common
,,edlM gravely asserts that runaway team
of horses with the whiffletrees hanging at
their heels overlook and jumped over a
lumber wagon and the horses attached to
it, hitched themselves to the forward end
of the pole and ran off with the whole
concern. The driver, the Commonwealth
says, was so astonished that he immedi-
ately got out of the wagon.
"A barn belonging to John Smith of
Swanton, Mass, was lately set on fire by
the explosion of kerosene lantern, and
In trying to save his property Mr.. Smith
was burned to death Two cows. four
horses and forty sheep were destroyed
There is a moral in this incident for peo-
pie who deprive themselves and their
live stock of natural, healthful sleep in
the morning hours, and go poking around
"doing chores with a lantern.
A very sad affair occurred few days
ago, at Maple Ridge, Mich, which may
terminate fatally to the victim. A young
man in the employ of farmer at Maple
1
Ridge, having purchased q revolver, was
showing it to some members of the family
and one of the daughters, young lady
sixteen years of age, while examining it,
caused it to discharge, and the ball enter
ed the right lung of her brother, young
man of twenty.one. The ball could moi
be extracted, and he was lying in criti
cal condition.
"A marriage in st. Louis seems to be a
serious affair. A few days ago Richard
Botticher was about to marry Miss Cora
Croenbold. When the parson commenced
the marriage service, a young man named
Weber, disappointed sutton for the
hand of the young lady, varied the monot.
ony of the occasion by shooting the groom
in the leg. The ceremony was adjourned
and the wounded man cared for at the
residence of the brides mother. A day
or two afterwards went the shootist, the
brides brother and another relative, to
further demonstrate to the misguided Bot
ticher that matrimony at st. Louis was a
particularly serious matter; and thereof
the brother proceeded to convince the in.
tended groom by chasing him out of the
house and shooting three bullets into
him, one of which went through his
heart