The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-04-30
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidants.

John Geiser, . Cincinnati brewer. re.
Gently fell into vat of boiling beer and
was scalded to death.
"A steamboat was recent]v drawn into
crevasse below New Orleans and sunk
IN eighty feet of water. Twelve of the crew
were drowned.
Reuben Mason, of Paris. Mich. was
caught in a belt in his factory a few davs
ago and drawn over the main shaft Ho
was horribly crushed and died almost in.
simultaneously.
When the steamer Illinois left the
port of Philadelphia on her last trip she
ran into tow Of canal boats below the
city and sunk four of them. Several
women and children were drowned.
Ben E. Fish, of Montreal, threw pals
of cold water on his wife because Abe
asked him to come home early, and "a Abe
died under the treatment Canadian iurv
has just decided that Ben must hang.
John Hutchinson, of Williamsyille
ILL.,, blew in the muzzie of q double. bar.
relied shotgun the other day to see if it
was loaded. One barrel of the gun dis.
charged and blew the entire top of his
August Schroeder was taking care of
his horses the other night in his stable at
Green Bay, when one of the animals
kicked him in the face breaking the law
and infiicting such injuries that he died
next day.
-Vasquez, the notorious California
bandit, has lately entered an appearance
near Los Angeles. The latest exploit of
this chief was his taking an Italian trader
prisoner, and compelling him to- draw a
cheek for $500 before lie would release
him.
Mrs. X. Richardson, a widow lady
who lived near Monticello, Iowa, a few
days ago started to 90 down stairs with a
pair Of scissors in her hand. Making a
false step she fell to the bottom, striking
squarely upon the scissors, which pene.
trated her heart and caused almost instant
death.
"A Newfoundland dog, in Marysville,
CAL, the other day walked into a fish
market, dropped a ten-cent piece out of
his mouth and walked off with a fine
salmon. The butcher says some people
may call that dog intelligent, but he
thinks that dog that can't distinguish
between ten-cent slice and five. dollar
fish is sadly wanting in common sense.
"A few days ago little daughter of M.
E. Kennedy was burned to death near her
nome IN South Amboy, N. J. She was
playing with burning leaves when her
clothing ignited. She ran home and fell
just as she reached the threshold from
sheer exhaustion. Every vestige of cloth.
ing was consumed and her body was ter.
rlbly burned. She died in great agony in
the course of an hour.
The Troy Press chronicles a case of
cool and daring heroism and the rescue
OF a woman who was Frustrated, by fright,
across q railroad track, on seeing loco.
motive rushing toward her, in the follow.
ing words: "Keys jumped off his en-.
CINE, caught the PROSTATE woman in his
arms, and stepped back from the track in
the very second that the train whistled
by. He placed the woman in the sta.
ton and jumped aboard his own train
which had been stopped by the fireman
Tor him, and started off when all was
WE'LL"
"A marriage in low life at New Alba.
ny, Ind, recently, deserves notice. Ove1
year ago Augustus Reimy, q Young
German mechanic in the old country, fell
in love with the daughter of his emplov.
er, and asked her hand in marriage. The
father told him whenever he established
himself in some business that would
enable him to comfortably provide for the
girl he could have her. The young man
came to New Albany, and after three
years. exertion sent money to pay the
young lady's passage to that city, whence
she duly arrived by the next steamer, and
the constant pair were made one.
This illustrates how easy It might be
to convert oneself into "cold corpse in
Detroit: "A young man boarding on
Wayne street has suffered terribly from a
felon for the past month, and on Sunday
night concluded to take enough morphine
to enable him to catch a few hours sleep,
He sent boy to the drug store for tn
opiate, writing his order on a piece of
paper, and the boy brought back arsenic.
1t was returned to the store and the
clerk admitted it was arsenic, but
excused his carelessness by saying
that he had been putting up arsenic for q
man who wanted to poison dog, and
did not pay that attention to the boy
which he should"
"A brave woman of Boston, who re-
fuses to have her name made public, was
left in charge of several children, few
nights ago, and, one of them being taken
sick, she summoned q woman servant to
carry q prescription to the apothecary's
for some medicine; but the servant came,
frighteIed out of her wits, saying that
there was burglar concealed in certain
closet The woman went straight to the
door and said: eff there is anybody in
this closet, let him come OUT" where.
upon big, sinister-looking negro stepped
forth. The woman then, with the utmost
GOODNESS, handed him the prescription,
saying, "Take this to the nearest apothe-
cary's and get it filed. There is q sick
child in the house." The black burglar
left without word meanwhile the WON.
an, who began to feel a little faint,
called a neighbor. The latter was about
to 60 to the apothecary's for the medi.
cine when a clerk called with it, saving
that negro had brought the prescrip.
ton and then disappeared.
Religious and Educational.
Both the Methodist and Presbyterian
Ministers Associations of New York city
have declared for the principle of prohi-
bition in the temperance reform.
The Liberal Baptist Union OF New
York has got fairly under way; has is
sued a declaration Of principles, and the
Central Council Of fifty invite Baptists in
all parts of the country to subscribe to it.
The society is especially organized to
teach liberality in regard to the Lords
Supper.
"A writer in a Presbyterian exchange
makes the suggestion that the eleven
theological seminaries in the denomina-
ton be consolidated into four, which
would give but little over 100 students to
each These c0nld then he amnlr or,