Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-28

we'll with a rake in search of something
that dropped into it, and by SO doing the
rake uuiled out stone near the bottom
and the well caved in on him, burying
him in about four or five feet OF water,
thirty.five feet below the surface
On recent Sunday, at Tunkhan,
mock, Pa, Sidney Major shot and Killed
in his garden hawk which had been
proving upon his chickens. Oscar Mills,
who lived next door, was walking IN ms
garden at the time, and three bucksnot
passed the hawk and struck him IN the
heart, killing him instantly. Mills was
an Assistant Engineer in the United states
Navy, and was awaiting orders at the
time of his death.
"A frightened boy named Wilkins, OF
Clemensville Corners, Wis, jumped from
fence as mower went by, striking one
leg in front of the sickle, which cut it OF
at one clip Just above the ankle. The
foot being gone, the leg dropped down
still farther, and was nearly taken oil
second time, about two inches above the
first cut, before the horses could be stop
ped AT last accounts, it was feared he
could not recover.
A man, named William Oerhel, living
in Chicago, had remarkable escape from
death recently during fit of "somnambu-
lism," disease of which he is frequent
victim. Rising from his bed, he went to
the window of a room on the third floor
of his house, and tried to climb thence to
the roof. His hold was not good, however,
and he fell distance Of nearly forty feet
to the wooden sidewalk, several planks OF
which were smashed by the collision, but,
strange to say, all the injuries he received
consisted of few bruises.
On a recent Saturday evening as the
train on the Sabula, Ackley 81 Dakota
Railroad rounded a sharp curve, just east
of Browns Station, in Clinton County,
Mo, the engineer discovered girl lying
on the track, not 200 feet distant. He i'm
mediately whistled "down brakes" but
before the train could be stopped the en-
CINE and the forward trucks of the bag
gage-car had passed over her, severing
both limbs from her body and otherwise
fearfully mangling her. The girl proved
to be the daughter of Mr.. Brown, for whom
the station had been named. She was
subject to fits, and was returning home
from the field where she had been with a
lunch for the hands employed by her
father.
The Newark On. j. Daily Of recent
date, tells the following story, which, in
tragic interest, exceeds that of the man
| who burned his barn to get rid of the rats
that infested it: 'In Monmouth County,
last week, fire was started in a field to
burn out nest of yellowjackets. It,
however, got beyond control, and ragged
with terrible fury Every one that could
was out to fight the fire. Relays of men
were needed, for the strong men wilted
down with their fearful labors. Night
and day they fought the flames which
Tapped up the green fields, and came in a
burning nearness to the dwellings. The
precious rain came to their relief, and for
the first time in five days and four nights
the people of the neighborhood felt they
were getting the foul fiend down. Proba-
bly, not less than two hundred acres of
woodland are burned down, even beneath
the very roots of the trees. Behold how
great matter little fire kindleth'--a
conflagration from the careless destruction
of q wasp's nest"