Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-24
Incidents and Accidents.

Two sons 81 LOUIS Blake, OF Green
vile, Wis, took shelter under tree dur.
ing recent storm, and both were killed
by lightning.
Bishop Foster asserts that in no Amer.
rican city have the interests of Method.
ism been so wisely administered as in
Chicago.
Mrs. La Grange, of Troy Center, Wis.
was enabled to drown herself in two and
half feet of water, by tying her hands to.
gether and jumping into cistern.
John Carr, of Seymour, Wis, was
helping to load cannon in the celebra.
ton of the Fourth, when it went off, blow.
! ing off one arm and severely injuring him
internally.
| Amos Westcott, Syracuse On. "
dentist, committed suicide the other day
bv shooting himself He had been Tor
two or three years suffering from hvpo-
chondria.
Samuel Oliver, of Amo, Ind. at
tempted to kiss Mrs. Hampton against her
will, and succeeded in planting a smack
on the back of her neck. He was fined
Sal 20 and got head put on him besides.
Two Tennessee lads, on Independence
Day, purchased a Derringer pistol, and
while on their way home one Of them,
named Michael Shilburn, was accidentally
shot through the heart, killing him in.
stantly.
AT Jerseyville, Ill, on the Fourth, by
The premature discharge OF cannon, Ben
Allen had one arm blown off and the
other terribly mangled, and two other
men were badly burned.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day,
| drayman named David Philbaun was rid.
| ing in a freight Car, with his head out of
| the door, when he struck the corner of the
| freight house, dashing out his brains and
killing him instantly.
Miss Lou Wessner, of Terre Haute,
| Ind, had the measles some time ago so
severely that she was rendered voiceless.
On the Fourth, at apic-nic, she was swing
ing so high that she screamed with fright,
and since then has been able to talk as
well as ever.
AT Columbus Bridge, Allamakee
County, Iowa, the other night, Mrs.
Hort, while cleaning dress with alco-
hol near hot stove, was burned to death
by accidentally spilling some of the fluid
on the stove, which Immediately envel-
oped her in flames.
| AT Greensburgh, Ind, the other day,
William A. Oderholder shot his brother
in-law, George Leisure, while hunting to-
gether. The murder was the result of
family feud of many years standing.
! William Dodds, Canadian, who had
been to a logging bee with his brothcr-in-
law, Richard Forbes, murdered him while
they were returning home. The cause is
not given, but may, in all probability,
have grown out Of liquor.
| Mr.. Henry Leonard, of La Sale,
Mich, died recently from the effects of
| poisoning by potato-bugs. He had been
in the habit of killing them in the field
with his bare feet. A few days ago he
was doing so, when one of his feet, having
been cut or bruised, commenced swelling
rapidly, and produced death as above
stated.
At Kansas City, the other day,
young man named Jacob Roberts, while
| carelessly handling Derringer pistol in
| his room at the State Line House, dis
charged it, the ball taking effect on the
person of Della Shammer, chambermaid,
| who was in the room attending to her
duties. The wound was thought to be
| fatal. Roberts gave himself up to the au-
thorities.
"A Mr.. Kennedy, a prominent citizen
| of Beaver County, Pa, having fortified
of which $4,000 was in the Travellers,
| and $1,000 each in the Phoenix Mutual,
and Continental, of Hartford, Conn.-blew
his brains out on the day we celebrate,
| and now his heirs will have nice time
feeling lawyers.
George Sands, a Mate of the United
States Navy, on duty on board the United
States receiving-ship New Hampshire, at
| Norfolk, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with a navy re-
volver. The suicide is believed to have
been caused by disappointment in love.
The deceased was a son of Joshua X.
Sands, Rear Admiral q. S. N.
"A young man named William Rob
ertson, of Fort Wayne, Ind, went out
hunting on the Fourth, and nothing was
heard of him until two days afterward,
when his body was found about two miles
from town, lying about fifteen feet from
large tree which had been struck by
lightning His head was severed from bis
body. and the two were lying some dis
lance apart.
| Married ladies should be cautious
about disciplining their husbands, when
the latter come home tipsey, by sticking
their heads into bucket of water. At
1
the reception of water Mrs. Junk, OF
Marietta, Ohio, was in the habit of so dis
ciplining her husband, but she knows bet.
ter now Last week she tried it, and held
his head in the pail till he was subjugated.
Now she is lone widow.
| I'm Jacksonville, Ind. James Murphy,
eighteen years OLD, quarreled with his
father, cooper, about where he should
work, his father wanting the son with him,
and the son determined to work in another
shop. James, booming exasperated, drew
a revolver and fired twice at his father, one
ball passing through the coat and vest, be-
tween the left side and arm, and the other
whistling close by his ear, when bystand-
ers interfered and disarmed the lad.
jacob Youngblood, of Chicago, the
other day attempted to sever his jugular
vein with razor, and not succeeding, he
was taken to the station-house and locked
up for safety. He proved equal to the
emergency, however, for, taking off his
shirt, he made rope Of it, and tying one
| end tn fhn ha 20 Of tho nal1-dOnr ho uooSPi