Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-29

III wAs . iudScious woman IN Hart
| ssrs. Coan.. wko. capturing TAO boys II
/ h.sr ehsrrs tree the other day, Ia plsce O
/ f,,Iling tAeua with shingie passed then
| 40 eogsgssr ~ psil.. She enjoyed the pr
esrsedingiy, and the boys went HONS
wisa shares.
--Dgring a heavy thunderstorm 8
Hartland. Ne, enc night lately, famil,
were suddenly seized with an idea tha
sheIr house was 10 danger. vbereupos
| they lefi. They had not gone dozcr
l rods when the building was struck b,
| lightning and demolished.
Mr.. Charles 7. s,arett, Of Charlton
I Mass. ha. on bis farm ben that, DURING
a recent fhunder-shower. was brooding !
dozen chickens. The lightning struck
them, killing eight q them and stirring
10 the old hen with the remaining chicks
somewhat, otherwise doing no furthel
damage.
Philip Ziegler, lager beer dealer
| living on Pynch0n street, Boston, com
| mitied suicide On q recent sunday after
noon by shooting himself through the
head. He was sitting in his parlor chat
| ting with several friends when be sudden
| Nv exclaimed Well, COED by ALL" ano
shot himself dead.
Willie, an eightyear-old son OF Mr.. o
VI. Howard, Of South Lyme, Conn, with
The aid of ladder, climbed into tree
then piayfully called "a his little sister q
shoot him. She as playfully ran into the
house, got gun standing there, and going
| out again pointed it at HIM and fired. The
| shot severed the fcmoral artery and the
little fellow bled 10 death. a
"A Newburyport Mass man was the
victim Of singular coincidence the otfei
night. While passing along the street q
boy exploded common cracker just be.
hind film, while at the same instant a
rotten banana, thrown from neighborinp
fruIt-store, struck him on the back OF the
head. He at once screamed: Pm shot
I'm shot!' and, taking handful Of the
decayed fruit from his head, exhibited il
10 a horror.stricken bystandcr as speci.
men OF his brains. A great crowd assem-
bled and doctor was called, who soon
explained the matter to The satisfaction OF
ali.
The New York San says that Aaron
Shute OF Brooklyn, who was thought. TO
have been fatally shot by burglar nearly
month ago, II recovering. One OF the
bullets entered three inches under the left
ear, another on the right side Of the neck,
and third close 10 the lobe Of the left ear
Soon after the burglars escaped from the
house Mr.. Shutc yomited large quantities
Of blood and the physicians pronounced
his case fatal and refused to do anything,
| But through Mrs. Sbute's cntreaties one
of them gave her husband dose OF ice
water and the bleeding was stopped. The
wounds were not dressed until seven the
next evening, the physicians declining d
give useless pain 10, as they thought, a
dying man. A few days ago Mr.. shute's
| right eye was taken out. Exactly in the
center of the eye.ball was a small bullet.
| The bullet that entered under the left ear
broke of and carried before il splinter
| from the spinal column about the size OF
pea This bone was afterward found by
the side of the bed. The second bullet
that grazed the lobe of the left ear, went
obliquely under the left eye and lodged
behind the pupil OF the right eye, Since
the removal of his right eye Mr. Shute has
almost recovered his health and has been
able 10 sec much better with his left eye,
which had long been nearsighted.