The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-09-18

"A NeWDurgh IN. } family were Sc
riously poisoned, the other day, by the
oversight of a milkman, in not taking out
a green ticket usually placed in the pail
for milk.
A boy at Rye Beach did not know il
was loaded, and the result is "A one-eyed
hotel clerk. The boys father has mag
unanimously headed a subscription list for
the one-eyed.
"A young man seventeen years old.
named Anski, at Lacon, ILL.,, hired out to
man and was sent every morning after
ice. He used to carry il home i'm coffee
sack on his back. lis effect was to par
alyze the spinal cord, making him hope
less invalid.
AT Bethany. Mo-. the other day,
Alonzo Thomas was hauling saw-logs to
the mill and had with him his little son.
about five years old. In unloading the
log. ii took a contrary course to what Mr..
Thomas expected, and threw the little boy
TO the ground. MASKING his head fiat and
scattering his brains on the ground.
Laura Berry fell tainting in the school
room al Carson. New, recently. She had
within three weeks committed TO memory
300 pages of history and 200 of natural
philosophy. The night before she and
classmate had not gone to bed at all. but
studied through the night and until nine
that morning. That was all the reason she
tainted.
Last March a man In Detroit named
Emory Prattle, machnist. in the employ
of the Michigan Car Company. made a bet
with anotherman as to which could longer
hold out the handles of an electric battery
which a travelling nuisance had on the
Campus Martius. Prattle won the bet.
but at heavy cost. His system received
such shock that up 10 this time he has
not been able to do a days work. He has
fallen away from powerful. heavy man
to skeleton almost, and his physicians
cannot say that he will ever be- restored 10
health.
A little New York boy. eleven years
of age. did q plucky thing while visiting
in the country. He was standing by
switch on the railroad track which passed
through the village, and as the tender
changed the switch to turn an incoming
train out of the way of another train going
out. the little boys hand got caughtin the
switch. Ii hurt badly. but the little fellow
would not let the switch-tender take the
risk Of trying to make the two changes
necessary 10 release him i'm the brief time
allowed, but stood bravely in torture until
the entire train had passed.
In Pottstown, Pa. one day not long
since. Mrs. George Scheetz put her eleven
months-old baby TO bed, and then return
ed downstairs to her work. The bed on
which the baby lay had a slat bottom. and
the bed-clothes were too short to reach to
the foot-end. Between the last Stat and
the ioot-cnd there was space of almost
six inches. The baby became restless du- |
ring its sleep and rolled from the head of
the bed to the foot-end, and its body fell |
between the sat and the foot board, its |
head not going through. however, and
there IL hung suspended, its feet Just
touching the floor. until life was extinct,
in which situation twas found by its hor-
rified mother some time after
"A frenchman named August Gard |
ner, from Seymour. Indiana, while walk
Ing on the track of the Jacksonville, Mad |
ison and indianapolis Railroad near Hen |
ryvillc. Indiana, one night recently. was
by three men, who took his peck |
et-book, containing s.. then tied him on |
the tracN with ropes over small culvert. |
and left him. He succeeded i'm getting |
the ropes that held his body united but |
before he got those that held his left foot
loosened, an approaching passenger train
was upon him. He In that desperate mo-
ment threw his body off the track. the
train passing over and severing his leg
from the body. He fell into the culvert,
crawled out, lay there all night. and was
picked up at an early hour the next NOR
ming by the conductor of a passing freight
train. and taken to Jacksonville, where
he revived sufficiently To make the above
statement. He died at Q o'clock, a. m.
There was no clue to the perpetrators of
the heinous crime.