Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-12-30
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
| "A man in Chicago who was lately ar
! raigned for having ten barrels of un-
| stamped whisky in bis possession proved
/ that pet woodchuck had scratched the
stamps off, and he was discharged. twas
very narrow escape and proves that nc
| family should, be without that useful article
the woodchuck.-St. Louis Republican,.
Capt. Samuel Stevens, of Steuben,
Me-, has cow seven years old which has
q horn on her hip six inches long. Ii
made its appearance last spring and has
grown very rapidly. When first discoy,
cred it was supposed to be a wart, but
soon proved TO be horn, perfect in every
way, and presents very strange appear
ance.
The Albany Argus says that Miss
Kate Moves, of Lansingburg, is in a
critical condition from poison, arising
from kissing her deceased niece who died
of diphtheria. The young lady had a
slight sore on her lip at the time. A
swelling commenced in her lip, which
soon extended TO the nose, and il is feared
the difficulty will reach the brain.
The ST. Johnsbury Caiedoaiaa says
that Frederick Hunt, man nearly sixty
years old, was married in Lower Water
ford, w.. on Thanksgiving Day, TO a girl
of thirteen. Hunt has been married twice
before, and has thirteen children living,
besides one of his wives from whom he
has parted. IL is said the girl procured
the marriage certificate.
Isaac Harris was not the sort of man
TO be fooled by girl. He was engaged
to be married. When he learned that
his intended had thrown him over he
waited calmly until her wedding-day,
and, when his turn came TO congratulate
her on her happiness, he put a bullet IN
her head. She was living at last ac-
counts and he was in Jail This occurred
at ST. Marys, Mo.
A fire burning alongside of the rail-
road track near Westerly, II. L., few
evenings since attracted the attention of IA
poor woman. The next morning she
visited the spot 10 satisfy her curiosity,
and found near the tire four packages OF
money, in small bills and currency chiefly,
fresh from the bank, the whole amount
ing in value TO nearly $4,000. The
woman turned over the money 10 the
Selectmen of Stonington, who deposited
IL in the Stonington bank.
A family of five persons, shaeffer by
name, were poisoned at Louisville, KY.
lately, by eating soup. An examina-
ton revealed that the soup had been made
the day previous In copper kettle, and.
that the portion not eaten then remained
in the pot till the following day, when ii
was partaken of All who ate the soup
subsequently suffered severely from the
effects OF the poison communicated TO the
soup by the copper from the kettle. Ply
sicians attending the family were of opin-
ion that the sick ones were in "A dangerous
condition
Mrs. Eliza Warby, who was sent TO
Jail the other day for stealing hens near
Fitchburg, Mass, is one of the females
we read OF. She was the ringleader OF
the gang, and she coniesses that she stole
"a horse about three years ago and drove
il to Canada She Is about fifty years old,
and Warby, who is her third husband,
was only fifteen years om when she mar
ried him five years ago. She isn'tso very
beautiful. her nose being gone, but Warby
appears TO think everything of her, and
SAYS he wishes she could be set free and
her sentence be added TO his. Boston Post,
AT Lowell, Mass, few afternoons
ago, rs James Cox, an employe OF the
Middlesex dye. house, was passing one OF
thesats, he slipped and fell backward,
pushing the cover partly of the vat and
falling partially into 1t. To save himself,
he grasped hold Of another employo
named Michael Harden, also pulling him
backward into the vat. They were res
cued Immediately, but Cox was severely
burned on one side and one arm, and
Harden's back was burned all over, the
hot dye, which was at a temperature OF
40 degrees, taking the skin from their
bodies wherever il touched them.