Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-20
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

A few DAYS ago Mr.. James Mcclure,
1;v;nc near West Union, ILL.,, while load
inc saw-log on a wagon in the woods,
20 baul to the mill, was killed by the log
Yelling over him, the chain used to draw
the log being too short and allowing it to
fall back.
AT Gloucester, Mass, Miss Corless
was recently killed in very singular
manner. While passing quarry in a
carriage with friends~a large stone was
thrown into the air by blast, fell
through the top of the vehicle, and
struck her on the head, causing instant
death.
hing by a mob in Cherokee County,
Kan. about six miles from Jacksonville.
Maddox had Jumped claim belong
inc to an old settler on the Joy lands, and
the neighbors thought the quickest and
surest way to settle the difficulty was to
hang the jumpist.
California always comes in with the
best story rot long ago a break was
discovered in one of the large reservoirs
at Indian Hill, and, in the absence of any
other appliance, r. II. Bliss thrust the
900 pounds of his own flesh aud blood
into the gap and held the water until it
was drawn of at the gate.
A Miss Fay, of Albert Lea, Mimi,
disappointed in love, attempted suicide
lately. Not liking strychnine raw, she
enveloped the drug in smearkase, a pre-
caution that gave the doctor an oppor
tunity to work the festive stomach-pump,
and she now lives to suffer another disap-
pointment and consequent heart-ache.
Robert Daley, a lad ten years old,
was recently poisoned to death, at
Bradysyille, Ohio, under the following
circumstances: His father was lying at
the point of death, and some medicines
were on the table near the bedside. The
little fellow, taking up one of the bottles
which contained medicine of poisonous
nature drank some of it, and in less than
twenty minutes was corpse.
The main reservoir which supplied
the city of Trenton, n. j., with water
gave way the other day and sent 3,000,-
900 gallons of water down into the city
with a mighty rush There was little
damage done except the filling of cellars
and the carrying away of fencing. 1t was
caused by the leakage from an old pipe
which was left imbedded in the soil when
the new reservoir was built
MIR. George Jones and family and Mr.
Farrell were recently returning home
from church in a wagon. They were
driving pretty rapidly, and one of the
wheels struck grub, fitting Mrs. Jones'
chair over. She was caught while fall
ing over the side of the wagon by Far
rell, but little child two months old
which she was holding in her lap fell to
the ground, and the hind wheel passed
over its head, crushing its skull and so
badly injuring it that it died in few
minutes. The accident occurred in Mon
roe County, Mo.
"A man named Walter Greenwood re-
Gently came to his death in Manchester,
N. H., from the prick of needle He
had fastened paper front to his flannel
shirt with needle, having no pin Short
ly after going out he felt sick, and was
finally taken, in an unconscious state, to
a physicians Office, where he was exam
ined. The needle was found sticking it's
whole length in the left edge of the pit
of the stomach. 1t was extracted, but
the patient vomited and was unconscious
during the operation, and died in ten
minutes afterward The doctors were
not certain whether death was caused by
the shock to the system or by internal
hemorrhage.