Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-22
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.



female school-teacher in Racine, Wis
lately as to vomit teacup full of blood
- John Haak, of Berks County, Pa.
was killed a few days ago while working
in quarry, three tons of stone falling on
him.
"A little son Of Jesse Kirkhaven, OF
Minnesota, fell into grain elevator the
other day, and was drawn into the spout,
where he was suffocated.
Arthur Chaplin, Of Butler County, Pa.
was thrown a distance Of eighty five feet
into creek, a few days ago, by tank ex.
plosion. He was dead when taken out OF
the water.
The daughter of William Richter, of
Urbana, Ohio, was fatally shot in the head
a 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 a 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 person Of ro'
mantle nature. He placed the breech of
his gun in the fire, and, looking down the
muzzle, departed hence instantaneously."
Louis st. Clair, Of Chicago, while as
sisting recently to remove an old boiler
from 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) ConserDator says
that Willie St0ckard, aged fifteen, while
fin, HrnI at rnh a
the time both barrels Of his gun, and in
loading the discharged barrel, the loaded
one went off, killing him instantly.
"A four.year.old daughter of Cornelius
A. Berg, who resides AZ the foot Of Lake
Whipple, Mimi, caught her clothes on
fire few days ago, and her right arm
was burned to a crisp. She will survive,
but the injured limb has been amputated.
"A man sat down Oh buzzsaw in
Cory, Pa, recently. He won't sit down
on anything again soon. The doctors
said the wound in the tn 9Th was foot in
length, and the wife said she couldn't
patch his pantaloons and make them
look decent no how.
The Rev. J. M. 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 short time of
each other, and were buried on the same
day.
The Altoona pa Tribune says: "a
few days ago. as Mrs. John Baker, who
lives near Bells Mills, was passing
through her husbands barn, a horse
reached across the manger and caught
her by the nose, and forgot TO let go till
lie had chawed off the principal part OF
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 saddle. He started for his
home. Afer riding a mile or so the
nails worked through to the animals
hide. He grew nettlesome and finally
started off on run, in the course of
which he leaped several fences, and the
nails began 10 work through the top of
the riders seat After running 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 playlully stroking the back of his
cat, was severely bit In the hand by the
treacherous creature. The wound was
dressed, quickly healed, and Mr.. X. felt
no Inconvenience from 1t until last Christ
mas day. On that day, symptoms of n.y.
drophobia began to manifest themselves,
and after an illness OF week. during
which he continually suffered the horrid
paroxysms attendant upon the malady, he
died.
Another empty and perfectly harm
less pistol has gone off and made corpse
1t was in the hands of deafmute of De
troit, and he took it to saloon to sell or
pawn for whisky. The landlord looked
at II 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 1t
at hall dozen customers half dozen
times nobody was frightened at 1t. They
lot him snap, and didn't care snap. The
deafmute finding he could not scare or
brighten anybody, turned the pistol on
himself and then IL went off, sending a
ball through his body. He fell and died
i'm short time.
Foreign Gossip.
1t is estimated that twenty thousand
persons get drunk in London every Sat
urday night
The japan Gazette, published at Yo-
kohama, has column and half of Chi.
cago news.
London is complaining because she
has to pay seventy. five cents per thousand
cubic feet for gas.
king Lunalino of Hawaii is reported