Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-09-03
Incidents and Accidents.

Not long ago San FRANCISCO cnlroP
odist swallowed some OF the acid with
which he treated corns, and IT killed
him.
An Irish boy fifteen years old re-
Gently fell into a scalding tub at Chi
cago packing house and was literally
scalded to death.
Walter Brown, while Witnessing
practice game of base ball at Ludlow,
KY, lately, was struck in the breast by
ball hot from the bat, and instantly
killed.
AT Paterson, N. j., recently, nine
chickens were Matched out OF nest OF
eggs that happened to get covered up In
a manure heap The natural warmth OF
the manure did the business.
John Redinger, of Logansport, Ind,
while grinding apples by horse power,
recently, got caught in the tumbling-
shaft OF the machine and was so serious
ly injured that he died next day.
Charles Barnes, young resident OF
Baraboo, Wis, while stepping the other
day from behind water wagon on a
cross-walk, was run down by an APP
preaching team and fatally injured.
A little son of Thomas White, who
lives near indianapolis, the other morn
ing wrapped about his wrist the halter
of a horse which he was leading to water.
The horse took fright and dragged the
little fellow nearly mile. As they
passed through gateway the boys head
struck a post and he was instantly killed.
A few months ago a Mr.. May and
Stephen Butler were instantly killed at
North Virden, Ind, by an explosion of
powder in well which they were dig
ging. The powder had been placed in
the well and fired by slow match, but
as ii did not explode, after waiting some
time, they both descended into the exca-
walton, and had just reached the bottom
when it exploded
The dead body of Mr.. Martin, farm
erliving near Romney, Ind, was recently
found in his field with his clothes
torn off and the head and limbs badly
bruised. He had been blowing with the
lines thrown over his shoulders. 1t was
supposed the team ran away and dragged
him around the field, as they were
running loose when found.
The other day, as Joseph McKibben,
prominent grocer Of Fond du Lac,
Wis, was driving along the street in his
buggy, he was observed to reel, as if sick
or sunstruck. He next struck the horse
with whip and at the same time fell
forward against the dashboard The
horse kicked and struck Mr.. Mckibben
in the forehead, infiicting fatal injuries.
An eight year-old son of William
Vanorman, of Tekonsha Mich, was
smothered to death in one of the wheat
bins of the Michigan Central Railroad a
few days ago. He in company with
some other small boys were at play in
the bin which at the time contained 1000
bushels of grain. Not being aware of
the perilous condition of the boys the men
below commenced to draw out the wheat
preparatory to shipment. The boy was
drawn into the spout of the bin and the
wheat had to be drawn out before the
body could be recovered.
"A shocking accident occurred at
Kingsbury Music Hall, Chicago, the
other day, which resulted in the instane-
Gus killing of Robert Henderson, a car
penter employed in the work of fitting
up the hall as a theater. Henderson was
sitting in a window near the ceiling and
was making an estimate on some carpen-
ter work, when he accidentally stumbled
and fell out of the window into the alley
below, distance of some sixty feet, his
uouy ueluS pduig Siushoo anu uSaeh ic-
sulting instantly.
"A few days since John Sturgis, a
farmer living near Ullin, H., went to
BeWs store at Ullin and called for some
quinine. One of the clerks in the store
gave him what he supposed to be quinine
and Sturgis took it home and admins
tered it to a sick child. In one hour the
child was dead and upon investigation it
was ascertalned that the clerk, instead
of giving Sturgis quinine, had given him
morphine. The proprietors of the store
say they bought the stuff in the city for
quinine, and that they are not respon-
sible for the mistake.
"A man living about sixty miles from
Parsons, Kan, stole a horse. A mob
went to his house, as they supposed, at
night, and, finding that the occupant
was in bed, they told his wife that they
wanted to see him a minute. So he
came out. They hung him to a tree and
then shot twenty-five bullets into him,
and left him. The next morning they
found that they had got the wrong man
(this one being Woodworking laborer,
with three children), and that the right
man lived just next door.-Chicdgo ITib-
une