The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-12-18
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

OOSAAsS eeAAU ACCAUCuUa
"A Wisconsin lady not long since fired
a gun.load of salt at man who was plun.
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 ali the
railroad operatives at Des Moines could
do, and was crushed to death against a
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 mn
for lost. A day or two since it 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 Koecheine 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 grand son, 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 bv 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.
Austin Harity attempted to board a
locomotive at Chicago, recently. In
making the leap to reach the cab his foot
caught in the frog of switch, and losing
his balance, he fell with his head in front
OF the wheel. He must have been render.
ed insensible by the fall, and unable to
recover himself in time to avoid the acct
dent. The car passed over his head.
crushing it to atoms.
"A boy named Henry Dean was verv
seriously injured in Bengal, Mich. a few
days since by rough handling which he
received from some of his piaymates. A
number of them jumped upon the how.
and bent and twisted him, and would not
desist, Notwithstanding the bows remon-
strances and cries of pain, until it was
seen he was badly hurt. Young Dean
was dangerously ruptured, and q physi
clan 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 mart Of
the depot to fall in on two express cars and
baggage car, breaking them up badly.
Inc passenger cars, in which there were a
NUMBER OF passengers, barely escaped. A
neWsboy, named Lingenfelter, was killed.
anu several passengers slightly injured.
The "heroic treatment" of SUSPECTED
nc n0rse-thleyes still prevails in Nebraska:
Inc Sheriff and several officers of Hitch
COCK county, while out hunting horse
thleves recently, arrested two men and a
ooy' on a charge of stealing span of
mu!es 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
oilcers then took charge Of the mules and
wagon, and told the men and bow to !" Get
out of the Wilderness" or they would
hang the while party.
John Connors, of Chicago, met with
a sin gular 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
VIDE 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 a com
pound dislocation of the knee, and his
ankle was frightfully fractured.
The most inherently improbable story
related for a long time is that about the
recovery of a boy.inmate of the South
Boston Institute for idiots. He used to
live in Canton, and was a bright bow
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.
lie has remained there, ever since, mere
wreck, but q few days ago Mrs. DR..
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 inexpresslble.
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