The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-01
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

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Incidents and Accidents.
An Oshkosh horse seized small bow
by the shoulder with his teeth the other
day, throwing him down and inflicting a
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 to pieces in the same
way.
"A child named Elizabeth Cole, while
of her parents in the town Of Lake. I'll.
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, a negro cabin was blown down and
an infant child that was sleeping in the
cabin at the time the storm struck it, was
carried a considerable distance and safely
deposited under the trestle-work of the
railroad, where it 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 skifi
with them, but were both on one side of
it, and when the ice gave way they both
attempted to jump into the skiff, and II
capsized and turned them both under the
ice
"A widow, of Kasson, Mimi. took
unto herself new husband, merely AZ
would seem, for the purpose of making
herself a young widow. No sooner had
the marriage cakes grown cold than thew
furnished funeral food for the husbands
mourners. She quarreled with I'm. add
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 a bottle contain
ing poison, few days ago. When it was
discovered that the child had the cork, an
| attempt was at once made to neutralize
the effects of the poison, but it proved un
availing, and the victim died after two
hours of suffering.
Mrs. Joanna Launder, of GAINESVILLE.
Ohio, aged 50 years, was found in hei
room few mornings ago, burned to
death. 1t is supposed she cot 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 il
ON fire, and Mrs. Launder dead. with hel
clothes all burned from her.
I'm the town of Sevastopol, Wis late
~, three.year- old child Of Mr.. and Mrs
Zittell was burned to death while Its
mother was at Ahnapee having an infant
christened. The child was left alone in
the house by its father for few moments
and on his return the little child was
found in the bed, enveloped in flames
The injuries resulted fatally in few
hours.
The Detroit Tribune says that one A
Z; johnson, of Muskegon, bestowed his
affections upon young lady who did
not reciprocate, and he felt so bad that he
went OF and hung himself in a peculiar
and horrid manner. He fastened one
end of rope between his legs and passed
it up and around his neck, in the form OF
loop, and, tying the other end to q cross
piece of timber in a barn, jumped a dis
lance of some fifteen feet, tearing his flesh
and breaking his neck in a fearful
manner.
west of Richmond Mills, Iowa
visited all his friends and rel.
atives a few days ago and bads
them all good-by, telling them he was
tired of living, but as is customary in
such cases, nobody paid any heed to his
talk: He borrowed Spencer rifle of his
brother, placed the muzzle against his
breast and pulled, Or rather, pushed the
trigger with his thumb. The bullet pass.
ed entirely through his body, missing his
heart by half inch. He bled freely but
it is thought he will recover.
"A queer divorce case this is, in Fair.
field, Conn. The parties had been mar.
rled twenty years, when the old lady dis.
covered that she and her husband we're
Incompatible" and so commenced pro.
ceedings for divorce. Then it was that
her distracted and desperate husband gave
her $50 not to go on with the action.
What did the cruel woman do but 90 and
use this very money to go on with the &C.
ton still more vigorously, so that she oh.
tanned decree? Then, with feminine in.
consistency, she went back to live with
the ex-husband, though she was in doubt
whether it was right to do so. If she has
any money left, her lawyer can soon sat.
isfy or dissatisfy her mind upon that deli.
cate point.