The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-06-19
Nap. and Mishaps.

Miss Mctiill. young lady OF Crock
EFT. Texas. shot and seriously wounded
Miss Mcguire. of the same place. few
days since. by careleSsly handling a pis-
toll.
"A woman IN Minneapolis named Har-
graves went of toa circus. locking her lit
tie four-ycar-old girl in the house. The
child procured some matches. set fire To
her clothes. and was so seriously burned
that she died ia two hDurs.
Mr.. Amish was married 10 an cstima-
ble lady al Iowa City the other day. Up
on returning home boy fired shot near
the team ~ way Of a charivslri The hor>-
- took fright. ran away. threw the Lady
from the carriage. and 80 injured her -pine
that up to last accounts she had remained
in par.dytic state. with slight hopes OF
recovery.
In Hartford. Conn. the other day. at
am amateur game of baseball. three play
err were injured and the game ended with
the fifth inning. One had finger hroken.
another jaw broken and six teeth knocked
out. and the third received 4 severe cut III
the head. which threatens fatal result.
MIR John Baugh. farmer living about
six miles south OF Springfield. ILL.,. was
killed by lightning few days since. while
blowing i'm the field. He was found some
distance from his team. his body blackened
and blisiered. One leg of his panialoons
was ripped. both boots also torn 10 pieces.
and the nails drawn from the heel of one
Of the boots. all the result OF the stroke
Of lightning.
"A few DAYS since Miss Atlanta Chiffon.
daughter of Rev. II. 4. Chiffon. well
known Baptist clergy man. while carrying
some knives and forks at the eating station
at Mcdora. on the Rockford. Rock Island &
1t Louis Railway. was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. Her brother Albert
was knocked insensible. but recovered
while TWO ladies who We're in the same
room escaped without injuries.
A curious triangle Of accidents left
Mrs. Bennett Kyle. 1T WAYNE county.
Tenn. a widow and robbed her Of her two
children in very few minutes. She was
doing some family washing a short distance
from the house aud took her youngest child
Ia hahy-wilh her. She lcft her other
child with htr husband. who was AT the
house mending the roof. Mrs. Kyle
looked mp from the wash-tub and saw that
a raiilcsnakclIad hohi of her child's wrist.
She killed the snake and picked mp the
child writhingswiih the poison and car
red il Ia the house. IL wa~ dead in her
cred that her other child hal fallen into a
barrel Of water and was drowned. She
shriekcd. Her husband on the roof was
startled. He missed his footing, fell To the
ground and broke his neck.
OF all places in the world 10 select a
retreat from the scorching heat of n June
day. an ice chest j. perhaps the last. and
vet George STRANDED did il. lie had been
suffering 10 some slight extent from colo.
and was also perspiring profuscly. Do
what hc would. he could not keep cool.
The more hetried TO Keep cool. the more
he pcrspircd. and at last the brilliant idea
struck him that brief retirement in the
icc-chest would set him up all right. II did
the lager good. anG why shouldn't IL do
George Strrabel good. too. 30 he got into
the ic,.-clcsf and very Socn felt cool
enough. The. perspiraiion was checked.
and when Sinanbel got out Of the i,-.-ch,st
the Precipitation didn't return. On the
contrary. he couldn't get warm. and he
continued TO get colder and colder. until
in very shorf time George Siraubcl was
not only as cold a. death. but he was dead.
lie had cooled himself of with vengeance.
poor fellow. anil all for want OF knowing
that the human system j. not watermelon
or a key of lager. a coroner's inquest was
held on the body yesterday. and verdict
returned in accordance with the facts
above detailed. and George Staubel. after
being cooled of all right in an ic,-cofiin in
the coroncr's stable. was buried Yesterday
b. the county undertaker.--St. Louis Re-
publican.
Foreign Notes.
The French Government will not
place any diiiiculties IN the way Of the