The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-20
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents,
"A few days ago Mr.. James Mcclure.
living near West Union, ILL.,, while load.
ing saw-lOg on wagon in the woods.
to haul to the mill, was killed by the log
rolling over him, the chain used to draw
the log being too short and allowing it to
fall back.
AT Gloucester, Mass, Miss Corlcss
was recently killed in q very singular
manner. While passing q quarry in q
carriage with friends large stone was
thrown into the air by a blast, fell
through the top of the vehicle. and
struck her on the head, causing instant
death.
"A man named Maddox was recently
hung by mob in Cherokee County,
Kan, about six miles from Jacksonville.
Maddox had dumped" claim belong
ing 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. Not long ago break was
discovered in one of the large reservoirs
at Indian Hill, and, in the absence of any
other appliance, r. H. Bliss thrust the
22O pounds of his own flesh and blood
into the gap and held the water until it
was drawn off at the gate.
"A Miss Fay, of Albert Lea. Mimi.
disappointed in love, attempted suicide
lately. Not liking strychnine raw. she
envelOpcd the drug in smearkase. a pre-
caution that gave the doctor an opnor
tunity to work the festive stomach-numn
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
Bradysville, 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 a corpse.
The main reservoir which supplied
the city of Trenton, N. j., with water
gave way the other day and sent 5000.
OUO 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. It was
caused by the leakage from an old pipe
which was left imbedded in the soil when
the new reservoir was built.
Mr.. George Jones and family and Mr..
Farrel! were recently returning home
from church in . 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 q 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 a paper front to his flannel
shirt with needle, having no pin Short
" after going out he felt sick, and was
nnally taken, in an unconscious state, to
. physicians Office, where he was exam
ined: The needle was found sticking its
whole length in the left edge of the ri,
OF the stomach. 1t was extracted, but
the patient vomited and was unconscious
during the operation, and died in ter
minutes afterward. The doctors were
not certain whether death was caused by
the shock to the system or by internal
hemorrhage.
Foreign Gossip.
There has been a war on AWNING
posts in St. John, N. B. These posts dis.
figuring the streets, their removal was
ordered by the authorities, but the man
date was not needed. On recent night.
while the owners were sleeping, uncon-
scious of passing events, q band of CITY
scavengers laid low every offending most.
and probably much objurgation was
avoided by making the raid q midnight
one.
lin the post-m0rtem examination of a
man seventy-three years of age, Prof.
Klob, of Vienna, lately found all the
muscles of the body studded with thou.
sands of trichina, mostly calcified, but
some still alive. The man had died of
morssmus. He had not left Vienna for
ten years, but had previously spent some
time in Germany. DR.. Klob believes
that the invasion of trichine must have
occurred at least fifteen or twenty years
ago.
AS though it hadn't enough on its
hands already the German Government
mas undertaken to regulate dueling in
the army. Boards of honor are to lie
formed, and without the sanction of sucl,
board and the presence of its President
no duel is hereafter to be fought. OFF,
GERS complying with these conditions are
to he exempt from criminal prosecution
for casualties occurring on the field of
honor, except in peculiarly fragrant cases
OF unprovoked insult. The old Emperor
is quoted in the London Times as saving
will no more tolerate in the army an
officer who wantonly attacks the honor
OF comrade than an officer who does
not know how to guard his own honor. "
The French depend chiefly for their
sugar on the beet-root. In manufactur-
ing the product there has hitherto been
large residuum, in the form of molasses.
which could not be recovered, and it
was so nauseOus in consequence of its
vile smell as to be useless. M. Dubrar.
FAINT had lately discovered a process by
which this molasses may be made to
yield up all its saccharine matter. By
adding hydrate of baryta to the mo-
lasses combination is formed between
y and the sweet principle, and an insolu-
Ole substance called saccharate or sucrate
OF baryta is produced. This is cleansed
OF all extraneous matters and is left per
fectly col0rless. Upon then being treated
with carbonic acid the baryta leaves the
sugar entirely free. This is now sub.
jected to Qualification, whereby it becomes
perfectly white, extremely sweet and en-
tirely free from baryta. BY this process
there is recovery of from IS to Is per
cent: OF pure sugar from the originally
fetid m0lasses.
The velocipede which suddenly burst
out with violence all over our country q
Few years ago, and then as suddenly
totally subsidized, has been cultivated il
Paris, recently, with prospect that it
will be rendered permanently and prac-
tically useful. Messengers employed in
conveying dispatches from the Bourse to
the Central Telegraph Bureau have
mounted the bicycle and received the
sobriquet of veloce-men." Accompany
is forming to place large number Of
on the streets for the use of
travelling tn all narte ~ %ho