Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-09
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
Two boys in Terre Haute had quar-
- !. few DAYS ago in regard to sling,
IA one of them kicked the other in the
a.nnach. which caused his death.
"A sail-boat containing man named
Iusk. his wife and daughter, was re-
Gently capsized on the St Clair River by
4 strong gust of wind. Both ladies were
drowned.
simon Lawrence, of Richmond, n H.,
a;ad in a fit, while feeding his swine, and
hen the body was discovered one ear and
,ortions of his scalp had been eaten away
by the hogs.
A few mornings ago John Kerr, a
oornenter on the Bee Line Road, while
hand switching cars at the track leading
- the repair shops, in Indianapolis, was
csnght in the groin between the bumpers
of two cars and killed.
An infant child living at Colfax,
Mich. few days ago fell from its high
chair on the stove, and was so badly in
iured that it died. It's mother, in trying
10 nut out the fire, was so badly burned
nat her decease was momentarily ex-
pected
John Breen, employed at the new
State House building at Springfield, Ill.
fell from ladder recently, to the ground
distance of thirty five feet, and was al,
most instantly killed He was thirty five
years old, a native of Ireland, and had a
wife and four children in Chicago.
Foster Ames, of Orland, Me-, was
found dead in the woods at Bucksport re-
Gently. He was out cunning and acct
dentally shot himself, the shot taking
effect in his head behind the ear, and
probably killing him instantly. His
clothing caught fire from the gun and
was all burned off the body above the
waist.
A few mornings ago Mr.. Francis G
Houghtaling, of New York, who was
stopping at the Clifton House, Chicago,
started from the billiard room to the ele-
yator to 90 up to his room. The elevator
was in the upper story at the time, and
Mr.. Houghtaling, not noticing that fact,
stepped off the landing and fell to the
basement He was injured internally,
and shortly after expired.
A mans leg which had been neatly am
putated by locomotive at Newark, n
J., few days ago, was carried by the en-
CINE to Bristol, Pa (about 100 miles, and
when the engineer discovered the limb on
the cowcatcher he kindly inquired by
telegraph all along the line whether any
body had missed a leg Newark an
swered "yes," and the leg was promptly
returned. 1t was too late, however, to be
of any service, for the former owner was
dead
A short time since an accident oc-
CURED at Harvard Station, ILL.,, which
caused the death Of L. nj. Baker, con-
ductor on the Wisconsin Division of the
Northwestern Railway. Baker was run
ming an extra freight train, bound south,
and, while crossing his train, in attempt
ing to step from the forward car to the
engine slipped and fell. The train was
almost instantly stopped, but five or six
cars had passed over him. When he was
found his left leg was nearly severed and
his body considerably bruised.
AT Winona, Iowa, recently, IN the
planing-mill of Conrad Bohn, Z, t. Grant
had his clothes caught by revolving
shaft, and almost completely stripped
from his body. He was pulled up against
the building, and the clothes wound SO
tightly upon the shaft as to effectually
stop the machinery. a mali entered the
small Of his back, head first, to the depth
of nearly two inches, and then broke of,
but it was subsequently removed, and 1t
is thought that nothing serious will re-
sui. from it, aside from some temporary
lameness.
MIR. Mullen, Jr., who lives in Fulton
County, Ohio, had been in the habit of
going in the evening for his mail, and
had, on more than one occasion, been an
noyed by certain dog bowling near his
house, and on leaving his residence not
many nights ago he made the remark, in
the presence of young man by the name
of Bird r. Flemming, who was living
there, that he was going to the store, and
If tibet dog made that noise again he was
going to shoot him. This young man got
in advance of Mullen some way, and for
the purpose Of soaring him initiated a
dog, when Mullen drew his revolver and
fired, killing the boy almost instantly.
There was a marriage in the Ninth
Ward yesterday, the groom being hard
working mechanic and the bride the
daughter Of respectable parents. The
father Of the girl was opposed to the
match and was determined that it should
not come of, but the mother was convinced
that it was all right. When the clergy
man and the guests began to arrive the
father began to get angry, and he would
have overturned all the plans but for the
pluck of the opposing parties, who sent
for policemen, doubled up their fists
and ordered the preacher to go ahead.
The father undertook to seize the bride,
but some of the crowd ran him out doors,
and he went across the street and sat down
on the curbstone and cried while the
twain were being made one.-Detroit Free
Press.