Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-10
Incidents and Accidents,

lives IN 1Oul we'll.
"A daughter of James Reeves, of Kirk.
lin, Ind, was burned to death by coal
oil explosion few days ago.
Margaret Grief, of Evansville, Ind.
fell down the cellar stairs and died in con.
sequence.
The house Of Dan Shilling, near
Kalamazoo, Mich, was struck by light
ming recently, and four persons stunned.
Daniel Floore, of Lexington, Ind.
was kicked in the face by a mule and
probably fatally injured.
-Betsey Moore of Quebec, refused to
marry her lover until he broke his leg in
the attempt to recover her new bonnet.
Mr.. John COPYRIGHT, Of Erie, Pa,
Jumped from the house-top while tempo
rarily deranged. He lived but short
time.
Mrs. Miller, of Laconia, Ind, while
laboring under an attack of mental de-
ran cement, went into the smoke-house and
cut her throat.
A predatory rat lunched off the
hand of sleeping baby in Danielsville,
Pa, the other night, leaving only the
bones of the fingers.
A two-year-old daughter of Joseph
Walsh, of Flint, Mich, swallowed some
pills containing strychnine, and died
within half an hour.
Henry Wilkins, living near Belleville,
| ILL.,, shot and killed his step-son, Stephen
! De HAYES, a few days ago. Domestic
difficulties was the cause.
Andrew Stein was thrown from load
| of hay near Waukesha, Wis, a few days
ago, sustaining an injury to the spine Of
| which he died the next day.
Mrs. Galley, of Ingraham, ILL.,, poured
| coal oil from two-gallon can upon the
fire Explosion followed and she burned
to death before assistance came.
Not long since at Puebla, Col, Mrs.
Brundy and her two sons, late of Indian
apolis, took pills supposed to be cathartic,
but which proved to be opium. All died
on the following day.
"A little son of John G.. Schmidlap, of
Hanover, Ind, drew gun toward him by
the muzzle, and the thing went off, as it
has habit of doing under such circum-
stances, and killed the child.
"A little girl at Evansville, Ind, was
rocking baby to sleep the other day,
when companion playfully tipped her
chair back. She grasped the child so
tightly, to save it from falling, that it soon
after died.
AT Gray's Summit, on the Missouri
Pacific Road, a negro committed horri-
| bic outrage on young German girl, and
soon afterward the wretch was captured
| by the citizens and hanged to tree He
confessed the crime.
| The steeple of the German Lutheran
Church at Titusville, Pa, was struck by
| lightning the other day, demolishing the
spire. 1t then passed down into the
church, severely njuring the pastor, the
Rev. Mr.. Tennderling.
"A young man named Feast, who had
been moving in field near Evansville,
recently, was riding home on the reaper,
when by jolt he was thrown from his
seat upon the knives and horribly mangled
in his arms, legs and breast.
| AT Salem, Ind, saloon. keeper, named
Delos Heffner, deliberately shot and
killed man named John Halstead, with
whom he had had dispute the day pre-
vious about some trifling matter. Heffren
was secured and lodged in Jail.
&C. w. Cullen, proprietor of the hotel
at Steamboat Springs, Nevada, was liter
ally cooked alive by falling through a
platform which he was erecting over one
of the springs, into the boiling water,
which was hot enough to cook an egg in
| two minutes.
AT Springfield, H., the other day,
Henry De Frates made wager that he
could carry, a certain distance, piece of
iron weighing 800 pounds. He succeed
ed in carrying it, but Immediately after
sank to the ground, blood gushing from
mouth, eyes and nostrils. He had broken
a blood vessel.
| "A rich farmer named Daniel Allhand,
residing at Paxton, Ill, while walking out
in front of his dwelling the OF her day
drew razor from his pocket and in
! flicted very serious wounds on his throat,
which it was thought would prove fatal.
No cause assigned except temporary in
sanity
AT Kinmundy, H., few days ago,
&. q. Ford, a leading farmer, and w. II.
Gray, labOrer, had an alteration, during
which Ford held a large pocketknife in
his hand. Gray ordered him to put his
knife away, at the same time showing him
back, whereupon Ford stabbed him in the
left breast, inflicting fatal wound. Gray
then turned to leave, but Ford followed
him, stabbing him in the right shoulder
and beneath the right ear. Gray died
| from tie effects Of his wounds in about
thirty hours. Ford was committed to the
county Jail to await his trial for murder
The Somerville (Tenn.) Falcon relates
/ the following incident which occurred
near Belmont in that State not long since:
A farmer named Crittenden and his wife
both left home one day, and during their
absence the eldest son took down loaded
pistol from the mantel which was snatch
ed from him by his next younger brother,
who ran out the house with it in his hand.
The other children followed and halted in
the yard in single group. At this juno
ture the boy with the pistol appeared at
one corner of the house and cried, "Look
out am going to shoot" and at the same
time fired, the ball killing his Oldest
brother, slightly wounding another in the
arm, and his sister in the nose
Mrs. Sarah Jane Howe went to bed at
Pittsburgh, Pa, with lighted pipe in
her mouth. The soothing effect of the
narcotic caused her to fall asleep, and the
pipe disappeared from her lips and set
fire to the bed-clothing. The flames
awakened her, and she jumped from the