Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-11
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

John Rupert shot himself at Baltimore
the other day while handling gun which
he supposed was unloaded. He died in
an hour.
Charles Farzall, seventeen years old,
while feeding sheep in Swanton, Va,
lately, was hit in the stomach by an old
ram and instantly killed.
A few days since John Brown, of
Fairfield, Me-, died from the effects of
catching cold in a wound on his hand
made by Canada thistle.
"A carriage containing five persons
was recently precipitated into the Schuyl-
kill River in consequence of the driver
becoming intoxicated. Three of the five
lost their lives.
There Is curious creature in Canaan,
Conn, apparently boy of twenty, who
troubles the farmers by sucking their cows
out at pasture. Nothing can prevent his
indulgence in this animal propensity.
Emma s. Garrish, of Boston, Mass,
was swinging upon chain connecting
two gate posts the other day when one of
them, weighing 1900 pounds, fell upon
her, crushing her so badly that she died.
"A caldron of boiling soap exploded
at Macomb, st. Lawrence County, N. Y,
the other day, the grease, I've and frag-
ments of the caldron being thrown in
every direction, while boy who was
making the soap was badly scalded.
"A lad twelve years old recently COM
mitted suicide at Middle Creek, Chase
County, Kan. He seems TO have acted
with great deliberation. 1t is now re-
membered that he had frequently expressed
| a wish to leave the world without the suf
fering of long disease, and he had also
inquired "how long 1t took for person
to die by hanging"
Charles II. MAIDEN, of New York
city, has been sent to the States Prison
for twenty years on the testimony of his
own mother. He attempted TO Kill her,
and after being turned away from his
fathers house returned and committed
burglary. The scene in court was most
| affecting, the mother giving her evidence
most reluctantly and attempting to shield
her son.
"A strange case occurred at Oberlin,
Ohio, the other day. A man named Dru-
ny Cooper got into quarrel with two
| boys, and'a few minutes afterward while
at work fell dead, il was supposed from the
effects Of the quarrel. The Coroner's in
| quest decided that death took place from
| softening of the heart and consequent
rupture Induced by violent exercise and
excitement.
An unfortunate accident that recently
occurred at Hydeville, VT, proves the
fearfully explosive qualities Of nitro
glycerine. A lad picked up an empty can
which had once contained this compound,
and which had been thrown away some
two years ago, and was attempting with
hammer and gouge to remodel it, when
the blows of the hammer caused an explo-
sion. The lads right hand was torn from
his body and the fragments scattered,
while his body was terribly mutilated.
The Paris correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Telegraph says Does anybody
remember the man with the fork, that I'M
fortunate clerk of the great store Of the
Printemps, who, pretending To swallow a
fork one day, really did swallow il for good
and all' / related his pathetic story in
my letter of that time. For about week
the poor fellow was the sensation of all
Paris. The illustrated papers gave his
portrait and picture of the fork. The
comic papers caricatured him. He was
made the subject of comic songs and COM
ic acts at the variety theaters and of end
less jokes in the daily press. Medical
science and skill were found powerless to
relieve him Of his internal piece of silver
ware and he was finally discharged from
the hospital with the fork still lodged in
his stomach. More than year has
elapsed since then, and of course he ought
to have died long ago. But he is still
alive and as well as possible under the
circumstances He reaidea Mt Diion hut
is shortly to is.urn to Paris, where he
will of course be an object of interest and
curiosity TO all the medical faculty, 10 say
nothing of the world at large. During
his stay at Dijon he has composed two
pieces of music, one of which Is a waltz
entitled The Enchanted Fork"