The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-11
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,
IncidsKfa aad Accidents.

The ptrrevalleeacss 81 Tie mataps saa
ing Of cns IF tSS paS rs oo Z Tsun
ton, Mass.
"A brave st. Louis boy recently saved
the life of a comrade who had broken
through the ice by catching him by the
hair Of the head and holding him SO
that his mutth was out of water until
help arrived:
An Albany County girl disobeyed
her fathet In the choice Of lover and he
whipped her with doswood stick, &C.
eotdihg to q NsT York Sun correspond
ent.., The wood wal toisdhotis, and the
stern parents hands die swollen like
boxing gloves-all of which reads like
triumph for Cupid.
George E. Lee, of Brimfeld, Mass,
recently visited Biddeford, Me-, to get
married, and while in fit of temporary
sent for and the wound was sewed up,
but as spon as the physicians back was
tt1fhed Lee TOTE open the Cit With his
fingers, declaring II will do IT." and
died soon after.
ride the other night that he will not be
likely to forget in hurry. He was slid
ing down hill on o sled, lying fiat on his
stomach, with one leg thrown out on the
side for rudder. A runaway team came
along, catching his foot in the shaft, and
he and the sled were dragged more than
half mile. Finally the team struck q
post, breaking the boys leg and setting
him free.
The wife of John P. Emerson, Of
Haverhill, N. H., was brutally murdered
the other day by shooting, the whole of
the head above the upper jaw being shot
away: One Moses B. Sawyer has been
arrested charged with committing the
deed. He confessed that the woman
was killed by him, but says his gun acct
dentally exploded as he was repairing it
on the lounge near which Mrs. Emerson
was sitting.
When a Wayland (Mass.) man was
stopped by highwayman the other day
he knocked the toot.pad down, took an
honorable position on his stomach and
began to feed him fists in the face, when
he discovered that he was pounding to
pieces the countenance of younger
brother who had run away from home
years ago. When he found out who he
was he greeted him kindly, took him
home, and is undertaking to make de-
cent man of him.
Charles Ketch, Of Lancaster, Pa,
was recently killed under the following
horrible circumstances: 1t seems he went
to saw.mill to get a bag of sawdust,
tripped on chain connected with the
machinery, and fell against fifty-twO
inch circular saw, making 600 Ievolu-
tions a minute. He was cut literally in
two, from one end of the body to the
other. His head was not injured at all,
but his heart and entrails were exposed
to view, the right arm was severed at the
shoulder, and two toes were cut from the
left foot. The body was hurled about
six feet from the saw.
-Apropos of the general interest in
spiritual" phenomena, the Hartford
Courant tells of young man who came
to that city from the country some years
ago, who was surprised to see q table
which was fastened to q wall, and upon
which he leaned his head, break away
from its fastenings and dance about, and
to see box of files, so heavy that two
men could not lift it, float in the air at
his touch. He himself could not explain
the cause of the phenomenon, which was
accompanied with twitchings and con
vulsions of his body, and, one morning
after having exhibited his powers the
night before, he was found dead in his
bed, his limbs drawn up and his counte
nance distorted, as they appeared when
exercising his power to amuse his friends