Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-07-24
Incidents and Accidents.


vile, Wis, took shelter under tree dur.
| ing recent storm, and both were killed
by lightning.
Bishop Foster asserts that in no Amer.
rican city have the interests of Method.
| ism been SO wisely administered as in
| Chicago.
Mrs La Grange, of Troy Center, Wis.
was enabled to drown herself in two and
half feet of water, by tying her hands to.
gether and jumping into cistern.
John Carr, of Seymour, Wis, was
helping to load a cannon in the celebra.
ton of the Fourth, when it went off, blow.
| ing off one arm and severely injuring him
internally.
| Amos Westcott, a Syracuse On. w
| dentist, committed suicide the other davv
by shooting himself He had been for
| two or three years suffering from hypo
| chondria.
Samuel Oliver, of Amo, Ind, at
tempted to kiss Mrs. Hampton against her
will, and succeeded in planting smack
on the back of her neck. He was fined
Sal. 20 and got head put on him besides.
Two Tennessee lads, on Independence
Day, purchased Derringer pistol, and
while on their way home one of them,
|
shot through the heart, killing him in.
stantly.
| AT Jerseyville, Ill, on the Fourth, by
The premature discharge OF cannon, Ben
| Allen had one arm blown off and the
other terribly mangled, and two other
men were badly burned.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day,
dravman named David Philbaun was rid.
| :,l,t ,.-.tl, hao %
! the door when he struck the corner of the
| freight house, dashing out his brains and
| killing him instantly.
Miss Lou Wessner, of Terre Haute,
| Ind, had the measles some time ago so
severely that she was rendered voiceless.
| On the Fourth, at a picnic, she was swing
| ing SO high that she screamed with fright,
and since then has been able to talk as
we'll as ever. .'r
AT Columbus Bridge, Allamakee
| County, Iowa, the other night, Mrs.
Hort, while cleaning dress with alco-
hol near hot stove, was burned to death
by accidentally splitting some of the fluid
| on the stove, which Immediately envel-
oped her in flames.
AT Greensburgh, Ind, the other day,
| William A. Oderholder shot his brother
w,
| gether. The murder was the result of
| family feud of many years. standing.
William Dodds, Canadian, who had
| been to a logging bee with his brotherin-
| law, Richard Forbes, murdered him while
they were returning home. The cause is
not given, but may, in all probability,
have grown out Of liquor.
Mr.. Henry Leonard, of La Sale,
cd ha off ot
poisoning by potato-bugs. He had been
in the habit of killing them in the field
with his bare feet. A few days ago he
was doing so, when one of his feet, having
| been cut or bruised, commenced swelling
| rapidly, and produced death as above
stated.
AT Kansas City, the other day. a
| young man named Jacob Roberts, while
| carelessly handling Derringer pistol in
his room at the State Line House, dis
charged it, the ball taking effect on the
person of Della Shammer, chambermaid,
who was in the room attending to her
duties. The wound was thought to be
fatal. Roberts gave himself up to the au-
thorities.
"A Mr.. Kennedy, prominent citizen
of Beaver County, Pa, having fortified
himself with life insurance of $50 O0O-
of which $4,000 was in the Travellers,
and 81, 900 each in the Phoenix, Mutual,
and Continental, of Hartford, Conn.-blew
his brains out on the day we celebrate,
and now his heirs will have nice time
fleeing lawyers. aLs
George Sands, Mate of the United
States Navy, on duty on board the United
States receiving-ship New Hampshire, at
| Norfolk committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with a navy re-
volver The suicide is believed to have
| been caused by disappointment in love.
| The deceased was son Of Joshua R.
Sands, Rear-Admiral U. s. N.
"A young man named William Rob-
ertson, of Fort Wayne, Ind, went out
hunting on the Fourth, and nothing was
heard of him until two days afterward,
when his body was found about two miles
| from town, lying about fifteen feet from
large tree which had been struck by
| lightning. His head was severed from bis
body, and the two were lying some dis
lance apart.
Married ladies should be cautious
about disciplining their husbands, when
| the latter come home tipsey, by sticking
their heads into a bucket of water At
such times the husbands are not fitted for
the reception of water. Mrs. Junk, of
Marietta, Ohio, was in the habit of so dis
ciplining her husband, but she knows bet
ter now. Last week she tried it, and held
his head in the pail till he was subjugated.
Now she is lone widow
In Jacksonville, Ind. James Murphy,
eighteen years old, quarreled with his
father, cooper, about where he should
work, his father wanting the son with him,
and the son determined to work in another
shop. James, booming exasperated, drew
a revolver and fired twice at his father, one
ball passing through the coat and vest, be-
tween the left side and arm, and the other
whistling close by his ear when bystand-
ers interfered and disarmed the lad.
jacob Youngblood, of Chicago, the
other day attempted to sever his jugular
vein with razor, and not succeeding, he
was taken to the station house and locked
up for safety. He proved equal to the
emergency, however, for, taking off his
shirt, he made a rope of it. and tying one
end To fhp hare Of tho coll -6Oor ha uoOcPd