The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-09
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

young woman hanged herself from love
of the young man whom her sister was
about to marry.
The other afternoon, while playing in
an excavation in Brooklyn, three boys
were buried alive by the sudden fall of
the earth bank. When assistance came
they were removed from beneath the mass
of earth, but life was extinct.
-Phineas Williams, book binder,
who was formerly worth some $4,000, but
squandered the whole amount in pur-
chasing lottery tickets, committed suicide
in Hartford lately by poisoning himself
with Paris green. He was seventy four
years old and unmarried.
In Chester County, Pa, few days
ago, George Ewing shot his son. The
father was about letting down the hammer
of his gun, but his hand being wet the
hammer slipped from him and caused the
gun to discharge its contents into the side
of the boy, producing dangerous injuries.
A New York State butcher, has been
arrested at Scranton, Pa, for selling dis
eased meat. He took twenty two old COWS
| to LuZerne lately, slaughtered eight and
endeavored to sell the meat at six cents a
pound. According to the Scranton Re-
publican the meat was simply carrion.
The butcher was held for court.
A West Brattleboro (Vt.) boy met
with queer accident the other day that
narrowly escaped killing him. Some
COWS were in the yard and one Of them in
| trying to hook another missed her object,
and one of her horns struck the boy in
the mouth, fracturing his jaw and badly
| injuring the roof of his mouth.
The town of Pleasanton, Kan, is
greatly excited over what appears to be
a case Of murder and suicide. James
Brooks, an old resident, was found dead
on the bank of the river, three miles from
Pleasanton, with bullet-hole in his head
His wife was afterward found dead in the
river. 1t is supposed that Brooks killed
his wife and then committed suicide.
-Wendoline Gaeger, brewer by occu-
patton, fell from the new Greenlawn
bridge at Columbus, Ohio, the other day,
and was instantly killed. Gaeger, while
! out walking, came to this bridge, in course
of construction across the Scioto River.
Thinking to save time he attempted to
cross the river by wire on the bridge,
200 feet long and fifty feet above the
water. He had gone about twenty five
feet, hand over hand, when the wire COM
menced cutting his hands. Hethen sough,
to return to the point from which he
started, but was unable to cling to the
wire, and soon fell upon the rocks below
and was dashed to pieces.
I'm one fthe cars was beautiful young
lady dressed in. deep mourning, who was
taking home the dead body of her mother
which was forward in the baggage-car
Suddenly the girl sprang up in her sea
and began shouting Murder! murder =
Several of the passengers at once rushed
to her, but found that her reason had lef
her and she was ravirg lunatic, doubt
less caused by excess of sorrow. She wa
borne from the crowded car, struggling
/ violently, and it required the united exer
lions Of several men to restrain her from
! doing violence either to herself or to 9th
ers till the train arrived at place wher
she could be safely confined.-Portlan'
(Me.) Argus.
Over ten years ago negro callet
, upon claim-agent at Detroit, and filed /;
claim against the Government for bount,
: and back pay for services in the nav,
during the rebellion. The papers in th
case were duly made out and sent +
Washington, and 8 favorable answer wa
: received, but the man vanished myste
riously, and was not again heard of till
: few days ago, when he walked into tn
l Office of the claim-agent and surprise
e him by Inquiring:"t Is you got dat none
i yet?" He explained matters by stain
I, that shortly after leaving Detroit, ten year
d ago, he was arrested in Toronto for high
), way robbery, and had been confined |
e Kingston Penitentiary ever since.
= John Latham, catcher at the finish
!. ing rolls in the spike mill OF the Aller
! town (Pa) Rollingmill Company, til
q other evening, met with an accident mo-
= painful in its consequences. He WI
= tending at the rolls, when, by an acciden
. a piece of spike iron, in leaving the roll!
q ran between his legs, and, bending, woun
. around his body. The iron was red no
: and the young man was completely fas
! ened in its embrace. His agony was e,
: cruciating, and he was compelled to e.
). dure it until his fellow workmen coul
cut the iron off with hammers and unwin
;, parts of it. His abdomen, back and 9th,
- portions of his body. were SO fearful
. burned that he lay all night and next ds
- in the greatest pain. He was removed
= the hospital, where his suferings coul
!; only be alleviated for some. little time,
: he could not recover from his dreadful il
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