Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-08
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

a Montpelier (Vt.) cat has made great
fame for herself by rescuing her kitten
from burning stable and having her
hair all singed off in the exploit.
During lecture on chemistry at
Bates College, Maine, the other day, the
professor administered laughing gas to
student of a combative nature, who in
stantly pitched into" the professor and
drove him out of the room, and was only
secured by the united efforts OF the whole
class.
A daughter of Lewis Scott, of Cos Cob,
| Conn found a nitro glycerine cartridge
in her fathers pocket, and, supposing it to
I've discharged pistol cartridge, tried to
ff il upon the top of lead pencil, when
n exploded, tearing all the fingers off
one hand and terribly shattering the
other
A boy in New York caught hold of
hook of the self-acting holster used in I'M
loading vessels. The hook pierced the
palm of his right hand and jerked him up
to the height of forty -five-feet. The chief
engineer heard his screams and caught
the boy Just as the hook had torn through
the flesh Of the boys hand.
A Norwich Conn., man left home for
trip abroad twenty-five years ago, and
as he did not return for several years the
wife married again, living with the second
husband until few years ago, when he
died. Now she has found that her first
husband is still alive in foreign lands and
on his way home, though no reason IS
given for his prolonged absence.
A new female ciairvoyant physician
died under peculiar circumstances at
Greenfield, Mass, recently. While attend
ing a lady who was sick with diphtherla
she scratched her finger with pin in ar
ranging bandages on the neck OF her pa
tient. From this trivial accident, appa-
rentlv. she became inocuiated with the
poison of the disease Her hand, arm and
body became successfully affected, having
the appearance of being blistcred, and so
seriously as soon to end in death, although
her throat showed no symptoms OF diph-
liberia.
A farmer at Westfeld, Mass, was
sitting in his wagon, with calf tied IN
the back part, trying to negotiate sale.
While haggling as to the price, the calf,
which was standing up, quietly placed his
head under the seat upon which the
farmer sat, and, Just as the words were
spoken: % You may have it," the calf
raised his head, and seat and man flew
over the horse into the mud. The farmer
was at first thought quite seriously injured,
as he struck upon the back of his head,
but he recovered sufficiently TO be driven
home.
A rather singular story Of murder
comes from West Haven, Conn. George
Smith, a shiftless fellow, some two years
ago married a gypsy woman, who gave
birth to a child about year after her mar
riage, and her father, an old man, at once
put in an appearance, and, taking the
child, went out of the house, soon return
ing with the child dead in his arms. Re
| Gently the woman gave birth to another
child when the old man appeared again,
but was kept away from the infant and
soon left town Almost Immediately the
woman became very sick and finally died,
and the doctors say she was poisoned,
probably by something put into cup OF
tea which her father had given her
A sad love-story comes from Harmony,
| Me. A young lady, one Miss Marble,
was lately found drowned in a small mill
/ stream, and suspicious of foul play were
at first entertained only to give way to a
knowledge almost as melancholy as the
conjecture. A letter found written by
Miss Marble explained everything. She
was in love with her cousin, and it was q
hopeless case, as the young man had never,
apparently, thought of such a thing. The
letter was addressed to the cousin, and in
it she said /" that he had never told her
that he loved her, but that she loved him
with all her heart, and that she could not
live in this world without him" Previ-
Gus to Miss Marbles death she made q
two weeks visit to the mother Of the man
she loved, to live among the scenes en-
deared by association with him, and then
one Sunday evening she went out to take
a walk, she said, and drowned herself 1t
was romance with a termination tragic
enough for the most sentimental of novels.