The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-14
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.


While . fouryear-old son of J. L.
Fisher, Of st. Adams, VT, was playing
with q pair OF wheels which had become
ruseed to the axle, the other day, the rope
ny which ne was drawing it became
wound around the child's neck, breaking
it and causing instant death.
While the family of Dr. H. c. Cham
plain, of Otis, Mass, were at tea the other
evening, hawk broke through a pane of
window glass in door in pursuit of
chicken. Mrs. Champlain secured him
after fight in which she got few scratch
of his wings.
John. Thompson, OF Pennington,
Conn, who lost pair of spectacles while
digging potatoes four years ago, and had
plowed and narrowed the field three times
SINCE found them the other day imbedded
IN an Early Rose" potato, which had SO
grown around them as to hold them in
the position in which spectacles are
worn.
An old woman in the suburbs of
Providence, r. l., nearly eighty wears old
and suffering from malady which the
physicians declared would prove fatal in a
few days, incidentally learned the other
day that some of her friends were prepar-
ing to make her farewell visit, where
upon with wonderful determination she
got into wagon and was driven into the
city, where she made liberal purchases of
groceries, ETC., to give her relatives gen.
erous reception when they came to bid her
good-by forever.
The neighborhood of Reading, Pa,
was recently greatly mystified by the mid
night wailings of an infant in a tree-top.
Witnesses were Mortified to see the little
| thing suddenly drop and disappear, and
then as suddenly reappear in its old posi-
ton in the top OF the tree, waiting az be-
fore. Many Investigations of the nocturnal
phenomena failed to solve the mystery,
until it transpired that the baby was made
of rags and worked by wires on the silva
| while mischievous young lady, who ia
good deal of ventriloquist, did the cry
ing.
-Kite-hying has been quite an ep&
demic of late at Southbridge, Mass. Not
long since the boys in the "spec- shop
raised a monster fourteen feet long, which
required several men to manage. A man
Of large proportions and heavy weight
offered to bet "that he could hold him"
The bet was quickly taken, and the too
confident individual tied the cord around
his waist and grasped it with his hands;
but no sooner had he said "Let go" than
he went over walls and gardens, and was
glad enough, after yelling like mad, to be
rescued from his perilous position.
The Laramie (Wyoming) Sw, of re-
cent date says: about ten days since
the engineer of a freight train near Bryan
heard terrible cracking noise and
thought something must be wrong with
his engine. The train was stopped, when
it was discovered that something was
leaking from car near the engine, and
that the loud reports were caused by the
wheels passing over drops of the fluid
which had fallen upon the track. The
car was opened, and a number of large
tanks found upon the inside, labeled,
'Glycerine.' The horrible truth them
burst upon the train men that they were
hauling whole carload of that terri bic.
explosive compound, nitro glycerine. The
car was side-tracked and left at Granger,
where spur-track was built and the car
run out upon it away from the main track.
1t still remains there, and the citizens and
railroad officials are alike at loss to
know what to do with it. The Car is con-
signed to some firm in San Francisco, but
the shippers cannot be found, although
the company have made most stringent
Efforts to discover them. The owners are
Respectfully required to come forward,
! prove property and take it away"