The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-22
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
incidents and Acct ents,

Gently fell in love with a-yOung ma 4t
Santa Rosa, CxI~~Afew days ago, nd
| ing that she could not marry hims The
took bed-bug poison and died.
Mrs. A. Stroh, of Mauch Chunk, Pa,
while drawing water the other day was
twice bitten on the hand by rattlesnake
coiled near the we'll. The doctor kept
her under the influence of whisky for
fifteen hours and she recovered.
"A few mornings ago the boiler in the
manufactory of -the-1Dub1que Cabinet
Makers Association exploded, sending
smoke, steam, bricks aud lumber into
the air, and Charles B. Freeman, the en-
gineer, and Mic Theis, the fireman, into
eternity. :
While hydraulic press was being
tested in Morgan & Co.'s printing estab-
4 lishment at Cincinnati, the other day, the
machinery gave way and the top of the
press was thrown upon Samuel Van
Eamon, fracturing his skull and breaking
both legs.
r "A cruel young Newark IN. J.) vaga-
Send tortured dog q few days ago by
dipping him in and out of q pail of scald-
/ ing water In his indignation passer-
Iby seized the pail and threw its contents
over the boy. He was severely scalded
ABOUT MS 1eet ana legs.
T. John Woods was running along the
platform and talking with the engineer
I Of moving train at Crestline, Ohio, the
either day, when he hit his foot against
some obstruction, and tumbled and rolled
off directly under the wheels of the train.
He was almost instantly killed:
/ 1.-Two jackson (NIich) boys, named
Dennis Fallon and Matthew O'Hearn,
about twelve years old, got into quar-
rel at school the other day, and Fallon
struck O'Hearn in the face. O'Hearn
took = goodsized stone and threw it at
Eallon, striking him on the right temple.
He walked nearly half a mile, then fell
to the ground, was taken home and died.
Mr.. Jacob Peach and wife, Philander
| Webster, wife and child, were returning
rhome from Garden Prairie Church, in
Clinton County, Mo-, the other even
ing in a spring wagon. While near
! ing the Wheeler bridge, and going at a
fast rate, the wagon struck root with
such force as to throw all the occu-
pants out, severely injuring them. Mr..
Peach and Mr.. Webster were taken to
house near by in an insensible condition.
Mr.. Webster's daughter had an arm bro
ken and was otherwise badly bruised.
! --William Howard, a boy thirteen
years old, living in South Climax, Mich,
Leroy township, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of his gun recently.
lie had been out hunting squirrels, and
on his return home stopped at the school
house to talk with the scholars, who
were out for noon recess. While leaning
on his gun, in conversation with them, it
Twas in some manner accidentally dis
| charged. The whole of his right fore
head was torn away, and one shot en-
tered the eyc-socket and penetrated the
brain. He expired in short time.
| "A singular case of somnambulism
recently occurred in the vicinity of Re-
form, Mo. A beautiful and accomplished
young lady arose one night while asleep
and proceeded to dress as if for ball,
and, as she remarked afterward, dreamed
that her escort was waiting for her COM
pany, and that she was in a very great
hurry. Instead of trimming her head as
she usually did, she procured pair of
scissors and proceeded to cut her hair
off, which occupation she was found en-
gagged in by her sister, who had rushed
| to her room to ascertain the cause of the
noise.
"A queer killing is reported at Max
vile. Ky. George Mitchell was shot
| and mortally wounded by Ephraim Gun
ningham. The two seemed to have had
some previous difficulty, as Mitchell, on
meeting Cunningham, remarked, If you
| want to shO OF me, now Is as good time
as any" Cunningham started to walk
off when Mitchell repeated his remark,
and added, There is no better time to
kill hog than when the water is hot"
At this Cunningham turned, drew a re-
volver, and shot him, the ball entering
three inches below the heart and lodging
just under the skin at the backbone.
Industrial. -
The experiment of planting trees
along the line of the St. Paul & Pacific
Railroad has been successful. All the
varieties have thriven excellently.
A Bridgeport Comm firm is making
monuments and gravestones of zinc,
which look like granite, and are much
cheaper than either marble or granite.
Lac, the basis of commercial shellac,
has been discovered in San Diego Coun-
ty, Cal, in such quantities that there is
likely to be no lack of it for years to
come.
The amount of grain shipped to
Liverpool from Philadelphia by the
steamships of the American Line during
August reached in the neighborhood Of
$50. 900 bushels.
Irish immigration has fallen almost
to zero on account of the steadily.increas-
ing prosperity of the former country
and the present equilibrium there be-
tween labor and employment.
The Nashua city farm has field of
nf rxyI,S
more than ten feet in height. That is
good for New Hampshire, but how a
Western farmer would laugh at it.
OF all solid substances found upon
the earth carbon is both the hardest and
the softest. In the form of diamond it
is the hardest. In the form of graphite
it is the softest. Both diamond and
graphite are the same in chemical CON-
position.
"A mandatory at Ansonia, Conn,
has produced specimen of fine German
silver wire that is gagged at two and one
half thousandths of an inch in diameter,
and runs about seven miles to the pound
1t is nearly as fine US the average human
hair. Probably there is nothing finer
than this drawn in the country.
"A large meeting of manufacturers
was 1CSeAGly Aclu d. TFOVlucnCe, II. l.,
for the purpose of conference upon the
subject of the depressed state of the
market for cotton and wooden goods, and
resolution was unanimously adopted
that an immediate curtailment of the
production of the cotton and wooden
mills is absolutely necessary for the con-
servation of the interests of the State and
community.
During the harvest season much
complaint was made of the scarcity of
farm laborers in every section of Califor-
mia. In some instances farmers offered
exorbitant wages, and were still unable
to secure sufficient help to harvest their
crops. Many farmers for lack of help
were compelled after heading their grain
to stack it without threshing, until help
becomes more plentiful. The crop is so
large that, Notwithstanding the railroad
and StoamhOaf facilities for Sc tror,rr,