The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-07-23
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.
Hosea Vaughan, of Woodstock. fell
down cellar recently, fracturing his
skull, and died the next day.
"A woman named Fuller was found
fatally shot at her residence in Holland.
Mich, the other morning. No clew to
the assassin.
Rev. Mr.. Harry, of Philopson, Mass.
was run over and instantly killed by a
train on the Vermont & Massachusetts
Railroad at Athol, lately.
Gen. VIM. Unckeles, of the Confed-
crate army, and residing at Rutherford
Park, N. j., for the past six years, com
mitted suicide the other day.
VIM. johnson, who was shot nv
Charles Hamilton, Marshal of Yellow
Springs, Ohio, is still alive, but the phv.
stefan reports his case hopeless.
"A colored deck-hand, name un.
known, fell off the steamer Exchange a
few evenings ago as she was opposite the
upper part of lronton, Ohio, and was
drowned.
John Barth, log-roller at the Pacific
Mill, Minneapolis, was caught the other
day in the carriage, which tore the flesh
and muscle clear from the bone from the
right knee to the ankle.
On a recent afternoon Mr.. Rockholdt,
worthy planter, residing near Mount
Zion, Tenn, while returning home with
wagon-load of provisions, was instantly
killed by tree falling upon him.
The age of Simon Sturges, of Allen.
town, Pa, was seventy nine years when he
died. He had been married four times. the
weddings having been on his fortieth, fif.
tieth, sixtieth, and seventeen birthdays.
"A man and his wife both eloped
from Kearney City, Neb., ON the same
night, short time ago, each leaving a
note for the other, saying they had gone
for good. 1.-TWO souls with but a single
thought"
j. J. Boyle, formerly of Memphis,
but recently u merchant at Beebe, White
County, Ark, while drawing water from
a public we'll at that place recently, lost
his footing and, falling into the we'll,
broke his neck.
While some colored people were
being baptized recently in the river at
Nashville one became unmanageable,
and selling the minister, who was small
man, threw him over her head, almost
drowning him.
The residence of Henry Hesse, near
Bay City, was burned a few nights since
A loaded gun in the house was dis
charged by the flames, awakening the
family, who otherwise would have been
burned to death.
The daughter of Patrick Murine,
Overseer ut the Milwaukee freight de.
partment, twelve years old, fell from a
barge at the upper levee at St. Paul, few
nights ago, and was drowned. The BODY
was not recovered.
Swan Linguist, driver for Joel B.
Bassett, of Minneapolis, was fatally in.
jured lately by the breaking down of the
forward wheels, throwing him off and
under load of lumber, his skull being
crushed from the forehead to the back of
the neck.
AT Delphos, o., recently, Sam Tay.
lor, while running a planer in mill, was
caught by a belt and wound violently
around the wheel. badly mangling one Of
his legs and hurting him otherwise. 1t
prove fatal or not.
During terrific thunderstorm that
passed over Trenton, N. j., recently, the
spire of the Third Presbyterian. Church,
$50 feet high, was struck three times sue.
cessively by lightning and fired each
time, but the flames were extinguished
before much damage had been done.
AT Nashville, recently, Henry
Miller, twenty-eight years of age, for.
merly book-keeper for B. F. Parker, of
that city, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the left breast. He attempted
to shoot himself through the heart, but
failed, and lived about three hours. No
cause was assigned for the act.
John E. Osborn was killed by nitro.
glyccrine explosion near Titusville, Pa.
He sat on $50 pounds of the stuff, when
a jolt caused conclusion sufficient to
explode it, and he was blown in all direc.
tons. A thief who helped to gather the
fragments of his body found the piece
upon which his vest still hung, and stole
two dollars from pocket.