The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-17
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A boy i MARKETS., o., didn't want g.
60 to Sunday school, and, when his pa-
rents insisted, he cut four of his toes of
with the Ak.
Mrs. Nieman, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
committed suicide by hanging herselfto q
plank nailedito beam. No cause is as.
signed for the act.
a widow lady named Elizabeth Nc.
Kinstry, living near Princeton, III, was:
struck by lightning the other day, and in
stantly killed.
AT Cedar Falls, Iowa, baker named
William Wilson, while under the influ-
ence OF liquor, committed suicide by poi.
soning with strychnine. ..
This time it was a youth of Terre
Haute, named John Wesley Norton, who
held a loaded pistol up to his head "just
for fun'-and the coroner had another
job. a.r
"A young man named Bentley, at Par
kersbWg, 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 Vowells 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
stychnine. 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 a man she didn't
love, ut 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. - &c.,.
Two boys played with revolver at a
farm house near Rockford, ILL.,, the other
day. They thought it wasn't loaded, but
it was, and ball entered Frank Webster's
shoulder and neck, producing instant
death. .t" %ef
Charles Harris, while shaking a car
pet at Browns Hotel, Cedar Rapids, in
some way fell from a platform, into the
river, o distance of about FORTY feet. and
received injuries from which he died the
next morning.
By the premature discharge of can.
non at Buda, ILL.,, 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.
ties were slightly hurt. Y j. :
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 potato-bugs.
L AT Lafayette, Ind, the other night
| George A. Buskirk, banker, went into 8
saloon kept by Aaron Rose and asked 70,
some liquor, which, being refused him
he drew . pistol and shot Rose, inflictine
q serious, il not fatal, wound.
Rodney Frisbie, who resides near Jack
son, Mich, and is subject to mental aberra
lions, bought dirk and attempted to GU
his throat in his bedroom the other day
A young lady who saw him draw the knife
rs he entered the room rushed forward
and prevented the suicide. "a
| "A well-tO-do farmer named Samue
Jones, bachelor about seventy years O
age, who lived alone on his farm at Soutl
Oyster Bay, Long Island, was murdered
the other day by some persons unknown
and his body thrown into a we'll. 1t il
supposed that robbery was the incentiv,
to the crime.
| John Tromp and his wife took sal
on Black Lake, Ottawa county, Mich, tn
other day. Seeing a storm approaching
Tromp directed his wife to crawl unde
the deck through small opening. Sh
had NO sooner done than the wind up
set the boat, and being unable to extricatl
herself she was drowned.
AT Columbus, O., the other night,
party OF three men, bent on having
good time," hired hack, and procuring
a supply of fireworks, commenced firms
them off while riding along. Presently
the carriage was set on fire, the horses raj
away, and one of the party, Daniel b
Webb, was so badly burned that he dice
soon after. The other two were badly
though not seriously, burned.
| 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 b,
lightning. She was stunned for moment
and had the top of her head singed. Sh.
says if she "had only seen the lightning {
minute sooner she would have edged
but somehow she amt so spry as she wa!
sixty years ago."
AT Pennington, Mimi, recently, ar
unknown man arrived and took up hi!
quarters at boarding. house kept by on.
Schollard. At night the landlords sor
showed him to his room, and, according
to the boys statement, the stranger drew
pistol and threatened to shoot him. This
the boy told to his father, and the lattel
proceeded to the strangers room to SCI
what it meant, when the latter drew {
pistol and shot Schollard in the abdomen
wounding him MORALLY. A constable wa.
then sent for, and the stranger having like
wise drawn pistol on him, the officer sho
him dead. The stranger was not identi
fed. a.
| One Smith, resident of Charlottes
vile, Hancock County, Ind, having firm
~ resolved to shuttle off this mortal coil
recently went into an clubhouse, placed 8
revolver to his forehead and fired. Owing
to the weapon being pointed in an upward
direction the bullet glanced along the
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 a 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 third shot, which
strange a. it may seem. glanced upward
from the base of the skull and lodged neal
shot number one, under his scalp. Abou,
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 extrayagance Of his family. but