The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-05-14
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.


james Briggs, of Kansas City, Mo-,
asked his wife to put some wood in the
stove on the list of March, and she wouldn't
cold ever since.
"A San Francisco newspaper tells Of q
sailor who, on voyage across the Pacific,
fell overheard and successfully gave
battle to shark for nearly an hour, and
then was rescued by boats crew from
the ship.
-Alonzo Acker, of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
while playing with his horse recently had
his under lip bitten entirely off by the an
imal. The young man was trying to teach
his horse to kiss him after the manner of
circus performers.
"A Boston man cut an ugly cash in his
wife's forehead, the other day, because he
had wound in his heel and got notion
that his wife had bewitched it, and that it
was necessary to shed some Of her blood
in order to have it heal. He was put in
the insane asylum at Taunton.
David Reynolds, of Roanoke, ILL.,, was
driving posts few days ago with his
hired man. He Inadvertently put his hand
on the top of post just as the maui was
coming down, and had it so badly smashed
that amputation became necessary. Gan.
creme set in, and at last accounts he was
in danger of losing his life.
"A fre-damp explosion occurred the
other day at Iron Station, Pa, which
caused the death Of the only two work.
men in the mine. The accident was
caused by the doors of the air-passapes
being left open, causing the gas to center
in the shaft, which, as soon as it came in
contact with light, exploded.
Thomas Rice, aged twelve years, son
of a we!l-known farmer, was instantly
killed recently near Arcanum. Ohio. by
the wagon in which he was riding over.
turning and falling on him, crushing him
into shapeless mass. The horses at.
tached to the wagon became scared at q
passing locomotive and started to run
away, when the accident occurred.
An unfortunate family of Germans
live near Rutland, III. About q
month ago child died. Two weeks later
another child accidentally swallowed a
quantity of liquid potash, from which it
had barely recovered when another child
was burned to death from its clothes
taking fire while in the field with her
father burning stubble. The mother was
also burned in her efforts to save the child
from its terrible fate.
1t was the old story of the careless
use of coal oil. Mrs. Frank Jonas. OF
Cincinnati, few days ago, discovered
that the fire in the CRATE was going out
procured the oil can and began pouring
oil on the fire. The can burst, saturated
her clothing, and enveloped her body
and the room in flames. The fire alarm
was sounded, and the firemen called out
The neighbors rushed to the rescue, no
in time, however, to extinguish the flame.
about Mrs. Jonas before her clothing wa.
almost entirely burned off and her bod,
terribly crisped and blistered.
| Murder is rampant in San Francisco
The Alta California opens its account O
the latest assassination thus: "The weel
dawns upon the city as did the last past
bathed in blood drawn from murdered
man; another human sacrifice inundated
on the altar of Moloch; another unanneale,
soul sent into eternity by the cold blad
Of fellow.being. A week ago two humal
beings walked across the threshold O
death, the murderer and suicide hand il
hand with his victim; and since then
without exception, not day in our city
history has been permitted to be write,
without being sealed in blood, so that thi
particular chapter becomes, perhaps, tn
darkest Of all its years."