The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

AT Hackettstown, N. j., a few day,
ago, q German named Ruter deliberately
murdered his two SONS and then attempted
to commit suicide. Domestic trouble wal
the inducing cause.
"A few days after the gale which pre-
vailed along the Texan coast sea gulls
were captured at Marysville, Mo. They
were blown inland, and, becoming lost
kept flying in search of salt water until
compelled to light from exhaustion.
| DIR. B. F. Sherman and Samuel Par
ker, two well-known citizens of Macon
Mo-, went into drugstore in q neighbor.
ing town the other day to get glass OF
bitters. After leaving the store they had
not proceeded ten rods when Parker fell
on the street in commissions. In five min
utes DR.. Sherman was similarly affected
In twenty minutes both were dead. It is
supposed they were poisoned.
| "A most heart-rending accident recent.
" occurred in Dunleith, Ill. Conductor
Brandsteller, who runs freight train on
the Illinois Central, was Just about to
start out when his little son, five wears
old, ran to him from across the road. His
father took him up, kissed him, and set.
| ting him down told him to run home.
only few reds distant. The little fellow
started, but backing engine on another
track struck him, and his head was com.
pletely severed from his body. His moth
er was just running to meet him when the
accident took place. She stood for 8
moment transfxed with horror, then
picked up the head of her child, placed
it in her apron, and ran screaming
toward her home.
"A well known Judge, residing in Kan.
sas, some time ago advertised in an East
ern paper for wife. Mary Walker, who
lived somewhere in Maine, answered it.
The Judge is an old man and when in
the course of time photographs came to be
exchanged he sent the girl the shadow of
younger and better-looking man than
himself. The Judge finally wrote to the
girl that he was sick and asked her to
come to him and he would marry her,
She consented and found herself after a
long journey at Ottawa, where instead of
a young and handsome man she found
her affianced to be old and ugly. They
were finally married, and next day she ap-
pied tor divorce, which was subse-
quently obtained. She died few weeks
after.
"A civil suit which promises some
very interesting developments was begun
in New York court few days ago. s.
z. Archer sued the receiver of the Ocean
Bank to recover the value of $4,000 in
United States bonds which he had in the
bank on special deposit when it was
robbed in June, 1869. The Directors
claimed that a band of burglars had robbed
the bank of $3.50, 900 in special deposits of
United States bonds, which they refused
to make good. In this suit the attorney
for the plaintiff said he proposed to prove
that Stevenson, who was then Cashier and
subsequently President of the bank,
planned the robbery and shared in the
proceeds. The suit and the charge create
considerable excitement in New York.
"A heavily-loaded coal-wagon, drawn
BY two horses, was crossing the Iron
Mountain track at Convent street, St.
Louis, the other day, when the hind
wheels became blocked at one of tue rails.
The driver turned his horses down along
side the track to try to pull off obliquely,
and the wagon was in this position when
the Carondelet accommodation came
along northward. The driver of the
wagon had seen the train coming before
he attempted to cross, but thought he
would be able to make the passage safely
ahead OF it. The engineer of the train,
too, thought the same, and hence did not
slack up. The result was that the tender
Of the engine, which was in advance,
struck the rear end of the coal-wagon with
terrible force. A credible witness saws that
the wagon was shot northward along the
track distance of full eighty feet, when
it turned off to one side. The horses re-
NAMED exactly where they stood before
the collision, as the shock was so sudden
that the traces were snapped like threads.