Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-01-14
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Incidents and Accidents.
An explosion In a coal mine near
| Evanston, Wyoming, recently caused the
death Of eight persons.
"A Maine lady prefering instant
death applied her freckle-lotion inwardly.
| Her preference was gratified.
"A large kettle of boiling water was
| lately turned over upon little daughter
of Jacob Kyser, of Bucyrus, Ohio, fatal
ly scalding her.
story of a man sick of fever Matching q
brood of nine chickens from thirteen
eggs. placed in his bed.
Ella Fem, of South Charleston, Ohio,
recently fell into the fire during the tenn
porary absence of her mother from the
room, and was SO badly burned that she
died shortly afterward.
An East Boston woman awoke from
a doze, recently, and. mistakiEg a set of
| jewelry which she held in her hand for
apple parings, threw it into the stove,
where it was ruined.
--Myron Fuller, an old man about
seventy years of age, came into his house
at Windsorville, Conn, the other morn
ing, and after remarking that he thought
he would not work any longer fell dead
upon the floor.
Widow Phila Lambert, of West
Georgia, VT, fifty-six years old, has
for fifteen years supported eight chill
dren by laying stone wall, harvesting and
other farm work, and has not only made
herself owner of house and few acres
of land, but has given her children q
good education.
"A Greenfield Mass woman was rath-
er surprised the other day to see strange
man walk coolly down her front stairs
| and out into The street, and going up
stairs she was still more astonished to
find that a tramp had slept in her best
bed" the night before. Moral: Keep
your doors locked.
"A little fellow broke out crying in a
Boston school the other day from sheer
hunger, and it was found that the family
to which he belonged had lived for sew
eral days on oatmeal mixed with little
water, while, the night before, they had
made their supper from the contents of
neighbours swill-barrel
An East Lynne Comm minister
about to marry q couple the other night
found that the license was made out for
tuc tcWh VI w otCiloIu,
alone the wedding would be legal.
There being no conveyance the party
walked a mile, until they had passed the
town limits, when the ceremony was per
formed by moonlight in the open air.
Horace F. Andrews, young man
well known in Cleveland, Ohio, commit
ted suicide the other morning by shoot
ing himself while the family were en-
gagged in prayer in an adjoining room.
The act was premeditated, as was evil
denced from the fact that he spent the
evening before his death in the family
parlor writing the letters to his parents
and sisters which were found on his ia
BILE after his death.
The Sherman (Tex) Register tells
of a singular accident that occurred there
not long ago. A little colored boy and
his sister were playing with gentle old
horse that was stakede out a short dis
lance from his mothers cabin. The boy
tied the horses tail around his neck in a
hard knot and began to whip him. The
horse became frightened and started of,
dragging the boy along the ground. A
negro coming up thought the boy was
tangled in the rope and cut the horse
loose. The boy regained his footing and
ran until they came to the railroad,
where he stumbled and fell, his skull be-
ing crushed. The horse ran on to the
cabin dragging the lifeless body of the
boy after him.