The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-06-05
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Al ferocious rooster at Oska,oosa
1oFs attacked atwo;year1Old child, and
~ IL face in aerrible madner.
-JsT. Avery of Cheafer Iowa was
KILLED q few days ago by the accidental
Mr.. Clark F. Nichols, of Allepan.
Mich, met his death by drinking corrosive
sublimate by mistake.
James Collins lapsed into a drunken
sleep on the railroad track near New Ha-
ven, Ind, one night recently, and was run
over and hiaaaodsby q passing train as,-s-'so9
-.Charles Kath, employed in q brewery
at Ripon, Wis, fell into cauldron used
for scalding malt, and was literally boiled
to death.
Lightning struck a school house filled
with children, In Laurenceville, Ca, one
day recently, killing one little girl and
badly injuring ten Others On the arm of
one of the pupils an oak leaf was pictured
with remarkable minuteness.
A St. Joseph (Mich.) woman arrayed
herself in clean linen the other night and
went to bed with dose of morphine, leav-
inc this comfort for friends: Il take this
for fear l would get the smallpox, or get
helpless IN some way. Then I will take
morphine. No one to blame but my
self"
Mrs. Allen Coy, living near Saratoga
Springs, N. Y, has carefully kept the ROBE
with which her brother hung himself in
1862. After she had got the breakfast
dishes washed and the mornings work
out of the way, the other day, she thought
she would go upstairs and hang herself
Qn6 that identical corxro1 hor
posel This is the first time Mrs. Toodles
was ever discounted.
Mrs. Kleiner, of Lawrenceburg, ILL.,,
was fatally burned few days since,
caused by the bottom melting from a
bucket containing coal tar, which was be-
ing heated upon the stove. The tar in
stantly flashed up, setting fire to her
clothing, and before assistance could
reach her she was fatally burned. Her
babe, some three or four months old,
which she had in her arms at the time of
the accident, was also painfully but not
seriously burned.
"A Mrs. Ousbourne, residing at Car
penter's Station, on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, while engaged in cleaning
house the other day, had occasion to re-
move loaded rifle from bed, and in do
ing so the trigger caught in the bed
clothes and the entire charge entered her
breast, killing her almost instantly.
"A young man named Francis A.
Makepeace, committed suicide in Chicago
recently. He had sister residing in
Boston, who had just written him that she
was sick, and being himself out of en-
ployment and in destitute circumstances,
he took this decisive method of putting
an end to his troubles in this world.
There have been many ridiculous
suicides attempted recently, but it has been
reserved for Hiram Bri ggs, of Hoosick
Falls, N. Y, to cap the climax. Hiram
was engaged to a young lady, who gave
him eight dollars wherewith to purchase
for her waterproof cloak. Instead of
purchasing the cloak, however, Hiram
went off and spent the money for some
thing else. Being unable to reimburse the
object of his affections, and the
fraud having been discovered, owing to
the wet weather, Hiram was struck to the
stomach with his own meanness, and de-
termined to die. Instead of drowning
himself or shooting himself as he should
have done after such meanness, Hiram
Briggs resorted to worm-lozenges, and ate
sufficient of them, as he supposed, to in.
sure his death. The CONNECTION, however,
made him insensible, but did not kill him
He still lives, but should not despair as
long as strychnine is left. There never
yet was man so mean strychnine couldn't