Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-30
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
John Gc.ser, q Cincinnati brewer, re-
Gently fell into vat Of boiling beer and
was scalded TO death.
"A steamboat was recently drawn into
q 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 belt in his factory few days
ago and drawn over the main shaft. DE
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 she
asked him to come home early, and as she
died under the treatment Canadian jury
has just decided that Ben must hang.
John Hutchinson, OF Williamsville,
Ill.,, blew in the muzzle of double bar
relied shotgun the other day to see If 1t
was loaded. One barrel of the gun dis
charged and blew the entire top of his
skull off.
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 jaw
and inflicting 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
check for $500 before he would release
him
Mrs. r. Richardson, widow lady
who lived near Monticello, Iowa, q few
days ago started to 60 down stairs with q
pair of scissors In her hand. Making q
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 q ten-cent piece out Of
his mouth and walked of with 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 ive-dollar
fish is sadly WANTING in common sense.
"A few days ago little daughter of M.
E. Kennedy was burned to death near her
home in South Amboy, N. j. She was
playing with burning leaves when her
clothing ignitcd. 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
ribly burned. She died in great agony in
the course of an hour.
The Troy Press chronicles case of
cool and daring heroism and the rescue
of woman who was Frustrated, by fright,
across 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
tion and jumped aboard his own train,
which had been stopped by the fireman
for him, and started off when all was
we'll"
"A marriage In low life at New Alba
ny, Ind, recently, deserves notice. Over
q yOuA oSO augustus youhS
German mechanic in the old country, fell
in love with the daughter of his employ
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 1t 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 few hours sleep.
He sent boy to the drug store for the
opiate, writing his order on piece Of
paper, and the boy brought back arsenic.
1t was returned to 1.-The store and the
clerk admitted it was arsenic, but
excused his carelessness by saying
that he had been putting up arsenic for a
man who wanted to poison dog, and
did not pay that attention to the boy
| which he should"