Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-18
Incidents and Accidents.

| A dose of morphine administered, re-
Gently, to child only two years old, at
Hnniertown, Pa, ''to keep him quiet, y
caused his death in couple of hours.
A threshing machine took II. Iche by
the foot and hauled him in. He was
taken out in shockingly mutilated con-
dition. All near Appleton, Wisconsin.
A recent ncendiary fire at Fort Riley,
Kansas, caused the destruction OF four OF
the Government buildings at that post,
and all the contents of the stable except
the horses.
Mrs. Jane Hazlett, aged forty-two,
while taking in some clothes from high
shed at Al Melrose street, Boston, lately,
made misstep and fell into the yard OF
the next house, receiving frightful in
juries.
"A car laden with cement jumped the
rack near the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works, at Pittsburgh, short time since,
and plunged through the side OF that
structure, to the CONSERVATION and serious
injury OF several of the workmen.
"A negro stole the carpet from Ten
nessee church and cut it up into horse
blankets, and the congregation all went
over Broad River to see him immersed.
From some unaccountable accident he
was held under the water just one minute
too long
A Mrs. Neal Anderson, of Charlton,
| Iowa. who tried, not long ago, to shuttle
| off this mortal coil with dose of strych-
nine, but was baffled by antidOtes and
things, made sure thing of it recently,
when she obtained her husbands gun and
! blew her brains out
One of those lively boys who imagine
| that poaching upon farmers orchards is
the chief end and aim Of juvenile exist
ence, came to grief near Troy, n. Y,
| recently. He now mourns the loss Of an
eve, the result Of wcll-directed shot
| from a musket in the hands of Farmer
| Greest.
1t is told i'm a few words. Doctor
| Gruwel, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, possessed a
| barn; also, small boy, Joshua; also, a
| box of matches lying on the table in his
| office. From the fact that Joshua took
the matches to the barn, DR.. Gruwel, of
| Oskaloosa, Iowa, has now neither barn,
| a match, nor Joshua.
The model barn of Gideon Truesdell,
| in the town of Pleasant Prairie, Wiscon-
sin, was struck by lightning, on recent
| Saturday night and with its contents,
consisting Of the hay and grain gathered
! from $50 acres of land, was entirely con-
snmed. The loss aggregates SSOO0O.
Three negro children were recently
| burned to death in cabin on the planta-
ton of Mr.. Murphy, in Fayette County,
| Tennessee. The parents had gone to
| church, leaving them alone, and did not
rptarn until the next day, when they found
| tie cabin heap of ashes and the charred
remains Of their children.
Love has again laughed at locksmths.
| Cruel parents at West Union, Iowa, locked
up their daughter, but her faithful swain
placed the midnight ladder against the
window, fleet steeds were mounted, and
Wisconsin, the happy land where mar
riages are contracted without license,
was soon reached.
Eight persons were killed in New
York recently by the falling of a house
wall, and il is ascertained that these lives
could have been saved by the expenditure
of five dollars in bracing up the struc-
ture. The Coroner's jury thought there
was culpable negligence somewhere and
so found, and grand jury have indicted
the contractor engaged in the demolition
Of the building.
One of the most atrocious instances of
Stealing the livery of Heaven to serve
the Devil in" has come to light at Green.
witch, Conn. A burglar who has been OPP
Grating pretty boldly in that village was
caught the other night, and was found to
be "Rev. DIR. John Moore" who had been
edifying the good people with lectures on
Science and the Bible" and who preach
ed on a late Sunday from the text, $50 ye
about doing good"
AT Detroit recently, man named
Flowers attempted to murder his married
daughter. He locked the door and at
tackled her with knife. She managed to
retreat in bedroom, but he kicked the
door in, when she knocked him down
with bed-slat A desperate struggle en-
sued on the floor, in which Flowers stab
bed her in the leg and wounded her cheek.
Then she escaped, and, summoning as
sistance, caught her gentle parent and tied
him to a bedstead.
"A dissipated but wealthy citizen of
Cincinnati, while too full of spirits, saw
flag hanging out of an enlistment Office,
and went in to see what day was celebrat-
ed. Seeing a number of men in uniform
sitting around he was convinced that the
liberty OF his country was in danger, and
at once enrolled his name among the re-
cruts. When he became sober he dis
covered that he could not make joke of
the affair and his father, mother and
wife, who are greatly alarmed at his pros
poets, will use every exertion to get him
discharged.
"A Keokuk Qowa) lady, while engaged
In the pursuit Of her domestic duties, en-
countered a mouse in the -four barrel.
Now, most ladies, under similar circum-
stances, would have uttered few femi.
nine shrieks and then sought safety in the
garnet. But this one possesses more than
the ordinary degree of female courage.
She summoned the hired man and told
him to get the shotgun, call the bulldog,
and station himself at convenient dis
lance. Then she climbed halfway up
stairs and commenced to punch the -four
barrel vigorously with pole. Presently
the mouse made its appearance and start
ed across the floor. The bulldog at once
went in pursuit. The m fired and the
dog dropped dead. The lady tainted and
fell down the stairs, and the hired man.
thinking that she was killed, and fearing
that he would be arrested for murder, lit
out, anG has not been seen since. The
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