Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-01
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
An Oshkosh horse seized small boy
by the shoulder with his teeth the other
day. throwing him down and inflicting q
severe cut in his head, by stepping on
him.
&C. Carlsted, Of the tub and pail works
at Moline, ILL.,, was explaining how his
son lost hand in some machinery. Mr..
C's hand got caught just as his sons had
been, and was cut 70 pieces in the same
way.
A child named Elizabeth Cole, while
playing about the stove, AT the residence
Of her parents in the town Of Lake, Ill,
pulled kettle OF boiling water over her,
and was scalded to death. Verdict of the
coroner was accidental death.
During recent storm near Paris,
Tenn, negro cabin was blown down and
an infant child that was sleeping in the
cabin at the time the storm struck IL, was
carried considerable distance and safely
deposited under the trestle-work of the
railroad, where IL was found alive and
uLhurt the next morning.
Joseph Whitker and son were drowned
recently, near the Park House, Fort Mad
ison, Iowa, while attempting to get a log
out that was in the ice. They had skif
with them, but were both on one side of
ii, and when the ice gave way they both
attempted to jump into the skif, and II
capsized and turned them both under the
ice
A widow, Of Kasson, Mimi, took
unto herself new husband, merely rs
would seem, for the purpose of making
herself young widow. No sooner had
the marriage cakes grown cold than they
furnished funeral food for the husbands
mourners. She quarreled with him, and
required of her son that he shoot him. lie
did so.
"A little child of Mr.. Philip Hull, liv-
ing near Port Huron, Mich, was killed
by chewing the cork Of bottle contain
ing poison, few days ago. When it was
discovered that the child had the cork, an
attempt was at once made to ncutralize
the effects Of the poison, but 1t proved I'M
ayailing, and the victim died after two
hours Of suffering.
Mrs. Joanna Launder, of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, aged 50 years, was found in her
room few mornings ago, burned TO
death. II is supposed she got up and
while attempting to fix the fire her cloth
ing caught. Some Of the family In going
TO her room on opening the door found 1t
on fire, and Mrs. Launder dead, with her
clothes all burned from her.
In the town OF Sevastopol, Wis, late
ly, a three year-od child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Zittell was burned to death while It's
mother was at Ahnapec having an infant
christeDed. The child was left alone in
the house by its father for a few moments,
and on his return the little child was
To-, haI ;,, a.,
The injuries resulted fatally in few
hours.
The Detroit Tribune says that one A.
@. Johnson, of Muskegon, bestowed his
affections upon a young lady who did
not reciprocate, and he felt 50 bad that he
went off and hung himself In a peculiar
and horrid manner. He fastened one
end OF rope between his legs and passed
itup and around his neck, in the form of
q loop, and, tying the other end to cross
piece of timber in barn, jumped a dis
lance OF some fifteen feet, tearing his flesh
and breaking his neck in a fearful
manner.
Levi GODDARD, living two miles
west Of Richmond Mills, Iowa,
atives few days ago and babe
t11AA aAt EDVu-pyt tchiuB tHCHl iC was
tired Of living, but as is customary in
such eases, nobody paid any heed to his
talk He borrowed Spencer rifle Of his
brosher, placed the muzzlc against his
bTeast and pulled, or rather, pushed the
trigger with his thumb The bullet pass
ed entirely through his body, missing his
heart by q half inch. He bled freely but
/, Is thought he will recover.
"A queer divorce case this Is, in Fair
field, Conn. The parties had been mar.
ried twenty years, when the old lady dis
covered that she and her husband were
s'incompatible," and SO commenced pro-
ceedings for divorce. Then it was that
her distracted and desperate husband gave
her $50 not 10 GO on with the action.
What did the cruel woman do but go and
use this very money 10 go on with the ac-
tion still more vigorously, so that she OBJ.
tanned decreeY Then, with feminine in
consistency, she went back to live with
the ex-husband, though she was in doubt
whether II was right To do so. II she has
any money left, her lawyer can soon sat
isfy or dissatisiy her mind upon that deli
cate point.