The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-05-29

colonel Lucien vi. Temple broke his
leg IN trying 10 pull on tight boot last
week in Nashville. This should be warm
ing to men with brittle bones.
In East Freetown. Mass. the other
day. four children. at play in Gideon Rev
Mods barn. set the building on fire. and
his daughter, aged four. and daughter Of
William Reynolds, aged two, were burned
TO DEATH
Two children of Michael Ford. of
Nenia. Ohio. We're poisoned by milk which
they drank one morning recently. A por-
ton of the milk was analyzed and no poison
discovered; but dead spider found in the
milk was supposed TO be the cause of the
poisoning.
A little child of Mr.. John Thompson
of West Belleville. ILL.,. aged about two
years, was terribly burned one night re-
Gently. and died the next morning. IL APP
pears that the child had been PLAYING with
a can filled with gasoline. and had rot its
clothing saturated with the fluid to such an
extent that they ignited upon the approach
of an elder sister with lighted miners
lamp with which she was going TO light
the kitchen fire.
One day recently book-keeper in the
employ of lumber firm i'm Detroit. Mich.
became suddenly i'll. and the Free Press
says the several physicians who were called
decided that one of his lungs was affected
with an abscess. caused by rubbing his side
against the edge of the table. lie was toli
that the abscess would break within two
days. and that the chances were that he
would die. He made preparations for his
decease. and his death occurred within a
few minutes after the abscess broke.
AS the Georgetown coach was on its
way down yesterday, and when opposite
Goods. about four miles ont. II was caught
in whirlwind and turned bottom side up.
with lis load of living contents. Fortu-
nately none of the passengers were seri-
ously injured. The coach was disabled
by the breaking of an axletree. and the
lead horses broke loose and ran away.
Quite number Of passengers were COM
ing down, and IL is singular how they es-
capped with so slight damage. Our noun
trim cyclones play curious freaks some
times.-Denper Ne,os, May 3.
A little child of Mr.. Il. l.. Ulen of
Mound City, Ind. Circuit Clerk, came near
being torn in pieces by a hog the other
day. The ferocious animal. doubtless inn
PEELED by hunger. seized the child by its
clothing. threw il down, and holding il
with the fore feet, was proceeding TO de-
your il. Only the timely appearance of a
neighbor. saved the child Its clothes
Were torn into shreds, and the head and
limbs considerably lacerated by the hogs
tusks. Mr.. Ulen found the hog afterward.
shot it and sent the carcass floating down
the river. The child is little boy. less
than three years old If not rescued with
in two minutes of the time it was, it prob
ably would have been killed.
Robert Clark. alias Wilson. notori-
Gus New York burglar. the other day en-
tered Mr.. Fowler's house in Brooklyn.
while the family were all at dinner in the
basement. excepting VIM. Fowler. boy
of the family. William went up stairs on
some errand. and saw a strange man "go-
ing through bureau i'm the front room.
He stepped into another room and got a
doublc-barrcl shotgun, and stationing
himself at the front room door. raised the
gun 10 his shoulder. and looking along
the barrel said If YOU move III blow
your brains out" He looked as if he