The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-06-12
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
Incidents and Accidents.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.
Mrs. John Russell, of Gridley, Ill, came
to her death by the use of q poisonous
hair restorative.
John Bruce, of Cooperstown, Wis,
was thrown from wagon load of shingles
and had his neck broken. .-. -.
BY the fall Of a scaffold in Detroit,
Francis Grieke fell seventy feet to the
ground and was fatally injured.
"A man named Webster was recently
sawed to pieces in saw.mill near New
burgh, in Warrick County, Ind.
Fatal swimming accidents are now in
order. Among the first of the season is
that of small boy named Stephen, at
Galens, Ill.
Harvey Abrams, porter at the Body
House, at Toledo, shot himself dead while
carelessly handling revolver belonging
to a guest.
And still another. Edwin Randall,
of Summit, Lake County, Mich, shot
himself dead while handling pistol
carelessly. Next.
Emily Twist, young lady slightly
touched with insanity, threw herself under
a passing train near Lima, Wis, and was
instantly killed.
"A man named John Stevenson. EN-.
ployed on the new Court House at Indian
apolis, was killed by falling from the Sec
ond story into the basement.
The Rev. Father Theep, Catholic priest
of Springfield, o., was killed recently by
being thrown from his buggy while his
horse was running away.
Andrew Eichbenbaum, gardener of
Detroit, was kicked to death by his own
horse. He was in the act of Harvesting
fracturiug his skull.
"A lad named George McCabe, while
attempting to jump on freight train at
| wheels, and both of his legs and one arm
were cut off. He died in four hours.
AT Dayton, Ohio, a few days since,
the infant son of James Bossler, while
playing in the street, was run over by q
dray, the wheel passing over its head,
crushing out the brains and killing it in.
stantly.
| The wife of John Miller, in Adams
County, Iowa, while pulling gun toward
her by the muzzle, to give it to her hus-
/
tire contents entering her body near the
spine, causing her death.
"A young lad, son of Selah Fairchild
while out hunting near Patoka., Ind, re-
Gently, placed his gun in the fork of tree
the gun up by the muzzle and pulled it
the hammer caught, and the heavy load
was lodged in his abdomen.
AT TOWNSVILLE, KY, recently, an elder
ly lady named Mrs. Hedden strangled her.
self by winding a clothes-line several
times around her neck. 1t is said that
the act was induced by ill-health and de
preston, caused by the death of a daugh.
ter, who left three young children depend
ent upon her.
"A young girl named Elizabeth Arnold
was strangled to death at Pekin, ILL.,, re-
Gently in a singular manner. She was
climbing out of window when the sash
fell, pinioning her by the neck and hold.
ing her so tightly that escape was i'm.
possible. Before relief arrived the poor
girl was dead.
AT Andrew, jackson County, Iowa,
while Mrs. Frank Strauch was doing her
family washing the other day, her little
three year old daughter fell into kettle OF
boiling water, and was so badly scalded
that the cooked flesh actually dropped
from the little ones bones, and death en-.
sued in short time.
Mrs. Stephen Toby, of Minneapolis
the white wife of a colored man, divorced
herself from both life and her husband by
taking an ounce each of laudanum and
chloroform. She left letter for her hus
band, assigning as a reason for her rash
act, that she loved another man better than
she did him.
| Seward Smith, a we'll known lawyer Of
| Des Moines, Iowa, was struck by light
ming one Sunday recently, while going to
church. The fluid followed his umbrella
rod to the point where it rested on his
shoulder, when 1t passed down his body
and down the left leg, leaving him at the
heel Of his boot. His injuries were Sc
rious.
A five-year-old son of Samuel Parker
who lives near Lima, Lagrange County
Ind, was riding with brother on a plas
ter sower, few days ago, when the tongue
of the machine broke and the little fellow
was thrown forward under the horses feet
One of them stepped upon his head
crushing the skull so as to cause his death
two days after.
| One day recently, stranger, stopping
at hotel in Chillicothe, Missouri, asked
the clerk for the loan of razor. Half an
hour afterwards he was found lying in his
room, with his throat cut from ear to ear
A note was found on his table stating that
his family resided in Lafayette, Ind, and
requesting the Masons to take charge OF
his books and papers.
AT Chicago, on Decoration day,
Daniel Daley and John Conway were rid
ing on gun-carriage, in the procession,
when one of the wheels of the carriage
became caught in the railroad track,
swinging the carriage suddenly around
and throwing them both off. The wheels
of the carriage passed directly over
Daley's head, killing him almost instant
", and Conway received severe injuries,
from the effects of which he afterward
died.
AT Columbus, Ohio, recently, a colored
man named Van Brown was engaged in
digging vault close by an old vault that
was filled to OVERLOOKING. About midnight
the new vault was completed, and, while
opening connection SO as to allow the
contents of the old one to empty into the
new one, suddenly the partition gave way,
precipitating the huge mass of filth upon
Brown, suftocating him almost instantly.
An assistants call for help was answered
by young white man, named Jacob Jas
per, who arose from his bed and hurried
to the place. Thinking to save Brown,
he sprang into the vault and grasped
him, but before he could be rescued he
was also suffocated.
Foreign Gossip.
The Empress of Japan has ceased to
shave her eyebrows and to black her
teeth.
There is tree still living at Gresford,
near Wrexham, North Wales, which il
said to be 1,400 years old, and measures