Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-17
Incidents and Accidents.

Luther Eberhardt hanged himself
with halter at Colon, Mich, the other
day. ri, ..
oo to Sunday school, and, when his pa
rents insisted, he cut four OF his toes on
| with the ak.
/ Mrs. Nieman, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
/ committed suicide by hanging herselfto
plank nailed TO beam. No cause is as
| signed for the act
| "A widow lady named Elizabeth Nc
| Kinstry, living near Princeton, Ill, was
struck by lightning the ether day, and IN
stantly Killed.
| At Cedar Falls, Iowa, baker named
| William Wilson, while under the infiu-
ence OF liquor, committed suicide by pol
soning with strychnine.
This time it was youth Of Terre
Haute, named John Wesley Norton, who
held loaded pistol up to his head "Just
| for fun''-and the coroner had another
job.
"A young man named Bentley, at Par
| kersburg, Butler County, Iowa, was
| killed few days since by the accidental
discharge of gun. One-half of his head
was blown off.
| "A son of Joseph Vowclls was lately
| found drowned in Cedar River, four miles
below Nichols, Iowa He had been sick
some time, and it is supposed committed
suicide on that account.
| Mrs Adelia Bennett, Of North Lans-
! ing, Mich, put an end to her domestic
| troubles the other night by swallowing
strychnine. A bad husband is supposed
| to have been at the bottom of it..
| Miss Mary j. Davis, an accomplished
/ Young lady of Bellevue, Iowa, recently
committed suicide by shooting herself.
| She was about TO marry man she didn't
love, at the instance of her parents.
| David Blackjack and sister, who re-
sided near Baltimore, were found dead in
| the same room the other morning. The
former was poisoned, and the latter was
hanging to the bed.post Supposed sui
eide.
| Two boys played with revolver at a
day. They thought it wasn't loaded, but
shoulder and neck, producing instant
death.
| Charles Harris, while shaking a car
/ PCT DIOWH SCudi lSdpluo,
/ some way fell from a platform, into the
river, distance Of about forty feet, and
received injuries from which he died the
next morning.
BY the premature discharge of a can
non at Buda, H., on the Fourth, j. G. Rick
and Ellis Shannon were seriously, and
perhaps fatally, injured Both eyes of the
latter were blown out. Three other par.
Niles were slightly hurt.
John Scanlon, young man employed
on farm in the town of Palos, Cook
| County, ILL.,, committed suicide the other
day by taking a dose of Paris-green, which
| his employer had procured for the pur-
pose of killing pofato-bugs.
| AT Lafayette, Ind, the other night
| George A. Buskirk banker went into a
saloon kept by Aaron Rose and asked for
some liquor, which, being refused him
he drew pistol and shot Rose, infiicting
serious, if not fatal, wound.
Rodney Frisbie, who resides near ack
| son, Mich, and is Subject to mental aberra
| tions, bought dirk and attempted to cut
his throat in his bedroom the other day
A young lady who saw him draw the knife
| as he entered the room rushed forward
and prevented the suicide.
A well-to-do farmer named Samuel
Jones, bachelor about seventy years oil
| age, who lived alone on his farm at South
| Oyster Bay, Long Island, was murdered
| the other day by some persons unknown
and his body thrown into well. 1t il
supposed that robbery was the incentive
| TO the crime.
John Tromp and his wife took sail
on Black Lake, Ottawa county, Mich, the
other day. Seeing a storm approaching
| Tromp directed his wife to crawl under
the deck through small opening. She
had no sooner done so than the wind up
set the boat, and being unable to extricate
herself she was drowned.
An innocent old lady named Mrs
Coyle, who lives at Ell Paso, Mo, put hel
head out Of the window during a severe
storm, the other day, and was struck by
| lightning. She was stunned for moment
and had the top of her head singed. She
says if she "had only seen the lightning 8
minute sooner she would have lodged
but somehow she Amt SO spry as she was
sixty years ago."
| One Smith, resident Of Charlottes
vile, Hancock County, Ind, having firm
| ly resolved to shuttle off this mortal coil
recently went into an ut-house, placed 6
revolver to his forehead and fired. Owing
to the weapon being pointed in an upward
direction the bullet glanced along thu
skull, and making scalp wound along
his head, lodged on top Of his head. Aftel
recovering from the effects of the concus
sion and finding himself, much to his sur
prise, still in the land Of the living, he
blazed away second time with no other
effect than to inflict another skin wound
the bullet this time passing along toward
the ear, having glanced off the skull as
before He next placed the pistol behind
his ear and fired a third shot, which
strange as it may seem, glanced upward
from the base of the skull and lodged near
shot number one, under his scalp. About
this time Mr.. Smith became disguised
either with his own craftsmanship or the
pistol, perhaps both, and going into the
cellar of his house, he washed himself
and walked to town, where he had the
wound dressed by DR.. Bryant, to whom
he stated that he had intended to kill him
self. Smith is very wealthy farmer and
gives as the reason for his attempted sui.
eide the extravaganza Of his family, but
whether there is any ground for the com
plant is not known, as he was evidently
insane at the time