The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-22
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents,

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents, a.
A child was so severely punished bv
female school.teacher in Racine, Wis
lately as to vomit a teacup full of blood
John Haak, of Berks County. Pa.
was killed few days ago while workin,
in a quarry, three tons Of stone falling OF
him.
"A little son of Jesse Kirkhaven. O
Minnesota, fell into q grain elevator tn,
other day, and was drawn into the spout
where he was suffocated.
Arthur Chaplin, of Butler County. Pa.
was thrown distance of eighty.five fee
into a creek, q few days ago, by q tank ex
plosion. He was dead when taken out O
the water.
The daughter Of William Richter. q
few days ago, by the accidental dis
charge Of pistol in the hands of her lit
tie brother.
"A man named Musgrove was thrown
from his wagon few miles south of Sar
anac, Michigan, one day recently, and
fatally injured. The man who sold him
the liquor fears heavy bill of damages.
In California obituary it is stated
that "the deceased was a person of TO
mantle nature. He placed the breech OF
his gun in the fire, and, looking down the
muzzle, departed hence instantaneouslv. u
Louis st. Clair, of Chicago, while as.
s'sting recently to remove an old boiler
from a basement in that city, was instantly
killed by the sudden parting of the chain.
which caused the boiler to fall upon him
He was frightfully mangled.
The Richmond (Mo) Conserrator saws
that Willie Stockard, aged fifteen, while
out hunting fired at a rabbit, cooking at
the time both barlels Of his gun, and in
loading the discharged barrel, the loaded
one went of, killing him instantly.
"A four-year.old daughter of Cornelius
A. Berg, who resides at the foot of Lake
Whipple, Mimi, caught her clothes on
IRE few days ago, and her right arm
was burned to crisp. She will survive.
but the injured limb has been amputated.
"A man sat down Oh a buzz saw in
Cory, Pa, recently. He won't sit down
on anything again soon. The doctors
said the wound in the tn .gh was foot in
length, and the wife said she couldn't
patch his pantaloons and make them
look decent no how.
The Rev. J. NJ. Drake and wife. of
Lima, Ohio, have just died from poison.
ing. They were preparing to paper a
room in their house, and in tearing down
the old paper. which was of deep green
color, dust was created which was in
hailed by them, and they were poisoned
by it. They died within a short time of
each other, and were buried on the same
day.
The Altoona (Pa) Tribune saws: "a
few days ago, IS Mrs. John Baker. who
lives near Bells Mills, was passing
through her husbands barn, q horse
reached across the manger and caught
her by the nose, and forgot to let 90 till
he had chawed off the principal part O:
that useful member. The severed portion
was picked up. and, by the aid Of court.
plaster, reunited to the place where it
originally belonged, and at last accounts
the two parts were growing together
nicely"
"A countryman recently bought bag
of nails in Terre Haute, slung them on
his horses back and mounted, using the
bag for a saddle. He started for his
home. Afer riding a mile or so the
nails worked lroug to the animals
hide He grew nettlesome and finally
started off on a run, in the course of
which he leaped several fences, and the
nails began to work through the top of
the riders seat. After running a couple
of miles the rider and nails were landed
in a mud-hole.
"A little more than six months ago
Mr.: James RAYMOND, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
while playiully stroking the back of his
cat, was severely bit in the hand by the
treacherous creature. The wound was
dressed, quickly healed, and Mr.. r. felt
no inconvenience from it until last Christ.
mas day: On that day, symptoms of by.
drophobia began to manifest themselves,
and after an illness of a week. during
which he continually suffered the horrid
died.
Another empty and perfectly harm.
less pistol has gone off and made corpse.
1t was in the hands of a deaf.mute of De.
troit. and he took it to saloon to sell or
pawn for whisky. The landlord looked
at it and declined to invest. He exam.
ined it sufficiently, however to see that it
was unloaded, and innocent, and all that
sort Of thing. When, therefore, the al
ready half-drunk young man snapped it
at half dozen customers half a dozen
times nobody was frightened at it. They
let him snap. and didn't care a snap. The
deaf:mute finding he could not scare or
brighten anybody, turned the pistol on
himself and then it went off, sending a
ball through his body. He fell and died
in short time.
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