Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-13
Incidents and Accidents.

"A short time ago Gov. IayiOr, OF
Wisconsin, pardoned James b. Carter,
who had been sentenced to the States
Prison for life for murder, it having been
shown that he was innocent of the crime
for which he was imprisoned.
The First National Bank of Batavia,
n. Y, was recently robbed under the
following circumstances: One man en-
gagged the attention of the cashier while
the other seized and ran away with box
containing money and bonds worth
$4,000.
The head switchman of the ST. Louis
e. Terre Haute Railroad at Terre Haute,
Ind, was recently killed by freight
train He was switching train at the
time it occurred, and, STOPPING down to
pick up board to put under the car
wheels, tripped and fell directly under the
wheels.
"A few Sundays since young farmer
living near St. Louis went down an
abandoned well to recover his sweet
hearts bonnet, which had accidentally
blown in. He was taken out dead with
the thing of frills and flowers clasped
tightly to his face. The well was filled
with carbonic acid gas.
"A fatal occurrence recently hap
pened near Yankton, ID. T., by the burn
ing of the farmhouse of Mr. Schoflhousen,
whereby he lost his wife and three chill
dren. He was absent from home and his
wife was not aware of the fire until the
roof of the house fell in, when she
dragged herself and infant out and
walked a mile and half. Both died
within ten hours. The other two chill
dren were burned in the ruins
Two little boys were recently burned
to a crisp at Monee, Ill., under the fol-
lowing singular circumstances: The
boys were playing in corn-crib while
their father and sisters were gathering
flax thirty rods away. Seeing the corn
crib on fire the latter went to extinguish
the flames and found the lads on the
inside trying to climb out. The smoke
soon overpowered them and they fell
backward into the flames. The boys
were playing with matches.
There seems to be no end to varie-
ties of explosion in this most explosive
world, but that anything connected with
ice-cream should blow up in these canic-
ular days may fill US with apprehension.
At an ice-cream mandatory in Reading,
Pa, not long ago the large copper boiler
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frozen burst and the contents went up
and came down again, covering the roofs
ofthe neighboring buildings with snowy
coat. To complete the practical antith-
esis, two workmen were badly scalded.
"A curious result of stroke by light
ming has been observed at Portsmouth,
N. I'll. During recent thunderstorm
the powder-house at the coal mines, con-
tanning about half a ton of powder, was
struck by lightning and the top part of
the roof taken off as If cut off by some
sharp instrument. From the roof the
bolt seems to have left the building and
to have struck outside of it in the ground.
The building was of stone with wooden
roof and stood at quite distance from
any other building
THAT floating baby is sure to turn up
in flood. 1t is too good thing to miss.
| If it does not actually occur, it is invent
ed; for to lose that incident in an ac-
count of flood would be to show an in
capacity for journalism too monstrous to
be tolerated. In the first recorded in
stance it sprang full-dressed crib and
all, from the brain of Charles Reade,
whose unfortunate success with it in
"Put Yourself in His Place" has made it
permanent institution. True to its his
tory and promptly on time, it was picked
up on the Ohio River after Pittsburgh.
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