The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-04
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Aceedents.

0NCIy ucSny la&ty, UIOAc U1c VI AC1 AcSOs
in y singular manner the other day She
had been suffering from pain In the limb
for some time and the bone gave way
simply fro11 the weight of her body. -
"A stray ball from some unknown per-
sons revolver was the occasion OF the
killing of Louis Armbruster at St. Louis,
Mo-, few days ago. All efforts of the
police to discover the person who made
such a careless use of fire arms have
proved unavailing.
"A child in Westfield, VT, not three
years old, has recently been freed from
remarkable number of worms. In seven
successive days there were 100 of them
from four to eight inches long, and one
fourth of the whole were elected from
the stomach by vomiting.
From Alexandria, Va, comes the
story Of a love.sick girl who, because her
father forbade q marriage, put all her
lovers letters into bushel basket, set
fire to them, and then sat down in the
flames, on suicide intent. She was badly,
but providentially not fatally, burned.
An old lady named Electa Miller,
while visiting at her sons residence in
Collins Depot, Conn.,, recently, mistook
the cellar door for door leading to an
adjoining apartment and fell headlong to
the bottom of the cellar stairs. Her
skull was fractured and she died shortly
after.
"A crazy man named Charles F. King
recently Fatally wounded Mrs. Dora
Bremen, of st. Louis, because she would
not desert her husband and marry him.
He then attempted to shoot himself,
failed, and gave himself over to the
tender mercies of the police force of the
city.
Mrs. John Wachtel, an old resident
of Lancaster, Ohio, some twelve years
ago ran needle in her breast and failed
to have it extracted, as it never caused
her either pain or Inconvenience. A few
days ago the lady felt a strange, pricking
sensation in bunnion on one of her
feet, and on examination found the point
of needle protruding. 1t was taken
out, and appears to be the same needle
she lost ia her breast twelve years be-
fore.
A fourteen-year-old boy broke his
arm at Lancaster, Pa, the other day.
He was snow balling with other boys and
expressed a determination to- throw a
SNOWFALL over the top of believer.
He made several unsuccessful attempts,
and in making final good effort" the
bone of his right arm was broken square
off between the elbow and shoulder. He
was standing in the middle of the stree,
at the time, and had no opportunity OF
striking it against any outside obstacle,
and there seems to be no doubt that the
bone was fractured by an unusual exer
ton of muscular force. The other bows
say that "his arm cracked like a pistol
Personal and Literary.
They call Sharon, of Nevada, a "sil
yer toned orator."
Stewards New York resi- lepce i:
taxed for 5000, 1000.
Labor ended: George Labor, aged
1lS years, died at Stroudsburg, Pa, the
other day.
The popular idols are all being top
pied over. Now Columbus has beer
shown up as a pirate and low fellow, who
no more discovered America tnan COW
can climb tree.
Dickens Fiat Boy" has been resur
rected in Coffee County, Ga, under tb<
name of Ricketson. He is only twelve
years old, and worries Fairbanks scale.
to the tune of $40 pounds.
Richard b. Irwin, Of Pacific Mail no
toriety, is described as aspare man will
brownish yellow hair and thin beard
little lighter, hatchetshapcd face, and tn
head Of shrewd and dogged man.
Miss Ross, a Chicago spinster, ha
recovered SIC, 600 damages for breacl
Of promise of marriage from George Ii
Fancher, q wealthy California ranchman
And yet the defendants counsel tried I,
prove that it was Miss Ross that did tn
counting and that she sat on George H.
knee until he told her that she. was to.
heavy for him..
1t was Henry Fielding who began
the practice now SO common of putin,
the marriages and dea'hs together i,
newspapers. This was in the Jacobite'
Journal, set up by Fielding in 1747, on
number of which was illustrated by
wood:cut of Hogarth's. Fielding eve
carried his liking tor classification so ia
as to have yet third list, which con
tanned the names IF people who ha,
come to life again.
i "Kslakaua is a pretty good hand =,
telling story himself: ave have il
Hawaii" said he to an admiring circle a
Washington, several excellent base-ba
clubs, and as swimmers we are proficient
l think nothing of making leap int
the wster from precipice 500 fee
high" Five hundre feetL Why
your Majesty, that heats Sam Patch.
From what height did he leap?" tn
King asked. Minister Pierce was ap
pealed to for inf formation, and, if he wa
correct, he thought it somewhere in tn,
neighborhood Of 100 feet. At this tn
King could not repress smile, and said
why, gentlemen, should think nothin,
of jumping into the water from
precipice 1000 feet above it. Even it'll
girls jump from heights three and fou
hundred feet from the water" The Kin
described the position assumed in thes
leaps, ard as no Yankee was presen
competent to beat the story the topic q
conversation was changed.
Religious and Educational.
Rev. Elk President Caswell, of tn
Baptist Church, writes a letter of war;
ing, declaring that there is danger of di
integration if there is persistence in Ell
forcing the close communion theory.
Mr.. J. B. Colgate writes to the E..
0nsisaer and Chronicle that Gin close CON
munion Baptists have logical footho!
where they can safely stand; but WHIT
they depart from this they place them
selves on an inclined plane with no foo
ing this side of Popery."
The Deputy Constable appointed t
look after the children employed in til
factories in Massachusetts has presente
his report to the Governor. He declare
that in the State there are $1,000 childre
growing up in ignorance, in consequence
Of their employment at too early an ag
and too exclusively in factories.
The annual report of the Superb
tendent Of the Public Schools Of Pitt
burgh places the value of the schot
property at nearly $4,000, 600. There