The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-17
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

-Sylene Bouchard, a little girl at
Rockville, Conn, was fatally poisoned a
few days ago by eating other herbs for
sorrel.
"A man in Sharon, Conn, has what the
doctors call nervous hydrophobla He
barks and bites and has terrible spasms,
yet he never was exposed to regular n.y.
drophobia. The local physicians are
much puzzled at so strange case.
"A little girl playfully inserted her
fence in New Haven the other day, and
was unable to extricate herself. After
remaining there half an hour and becom-
ing greatly frightened, she was released
by policeman.
AT Campville, N. Y, lately, team
of oxen attached to stone-Eoat became
frightened, and in running away the hook
of the log chain caught the driver,
Chauncey Eldridge, in the calf of the leg,
ana he was dragged long distance and
fatally injured.
Widow Miriam S. Stewart was fined
five dollars and costs at New Vineyard,
Me-, the other day, for knocking down
and soundly pummeling Col. Columbus
Harvey, who had given poisoned dough
in coming into his garden.
The house of Francis Richardson,
Of Gardener, R. l., was visited by over
500 swallows the other afternoon. They
formed in the shape of tunnel, and the
whole flock entered his chimney, so COM
pletely filing up the 1ue that the gas
from coal stove was forced back into
one OF the rooms of the house. They
left their retreat the following morning.
"A whale put into Little Compton, r.
I lately, working his way up to the head
of one of the fishing traps, where he re-
manned for a couple of hours, spouting
and enjoying himself. The fishermen
rallied in large numbers, but had no
means of capturing the leviathan. They
tired several guns at him, whereupon he
dashed out OF the trap ana was seen no
more, but left line of blood in his wake.
John Bourcier, a Virginia City (Nev.)
miner, had wife and children in Can
ada. son who was visiting him was
to start for home early in the morning,
and Bourcler, who had to work all night
in mine, told him to be at the shaft at
a certain hour to say good by, and to re.
ceive message for the wife. At the ap-
pointed time the son was there, and a
few minutes later the body of the father,
mangled to death by an explosion, was
drawn up to the surface.
MIR. Eben Smith, of Bridgeton, Me-,
was bitten by a cat nearly six months
ago, and died recently, it is said, from its
effects. The circumstances as related by
the local paper are thus: "Mr. Smith
undertook to kill a cat for neighbor,
aud was about to swing the animal by
the hind legs, so as to bring her head
down on block, when she seized his
hand and bit it severely. He tore her
of, dispatched her and resumed his
labors. Soon, however, erysipelatous
inflammation resulted, which, despite
medical skill, extended gradually up his
arm to the shoulder, accompanied with
severe pain. This was followed by
general eruption over his body, involving
the mucus membrane of the head and
stomach; assesses formed in his leg,
which, during his sickness, discharged
some eighty gallons of purulent matter;
the bones of his hand and leg became
diseased; internal assesses formed; his
constitution broke down, and he contin.
ued to grow more and more feeble until
Thursday night, precisely twenty-five
weeks from the day he was taken down,
when his sufferings were relieved by
death. Through that long period he
never left his ROOM" 3D.