The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-11-09

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INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
A young lady while riding to Leba
non, Pa, the other day, in the stage, no
ticed a peculiar sensation at her neck, but
could not divine the cause. After arriv
ing there she complained to young lady
who made an examination, and found &
mouse had secreted itself in her dress.
"A fatal accident OF frightful char
acter occurred at quarter before five
O'Clock yesterday afternoon at the Curtis
Stove Works, on the corner of Main and
Anna streets. A few moments.before that
time Alonzo Nicely, grinder, was seen al
work in front of an emory wheel, which
was about five feet in diameter. The
workman who saw him left the room, and,
returning in a few moments, found that
the wheel had, as result of its rapid rev.
olution, burst, and instantly killed Nicely
One piece struck him in the side and tore
his body open from the armpit to the ell.
bow, breaking the ribs into fragments and
revealing all the internal organs. The
body was most horrible sight, and AL
immense pool of blood had collected
around it.-St. Louis Republican.
The Hartford (Conn.) Times relates
"a well dressed, apparently respectable
lady, on the shady side of forty, to day en-.
tered the storeiof one of our fruiterers, who
keeps well-appointed bar in rear room,
and inquired the price, per pint, of Every
nice whisky" The price was named,
when she requested some in glass fol
trial. A glass and decanter were set be.
fore her and she poured out a good nip
rather more than gentleman.tipp
would take at single dose-and, after
swallowing it with evident gusto, moved
toward the door. She was reminded that
she had not paid, and replied that she
was merely sampling the liquor. The
proprietor insisted that that sort of sam
ping always cost ten cents. The lady p
offered five, and not until the threat of
calling in policeman was made did she
produce the dime, which she took from a
pocket book evidently we'll filed"
The Scranton Pa.) Republican says
which took place in one Of the suburbs of
this city few days ago. There was a
large attendance, and the immediate rela-
tives of the deceased were so overcome
with sorrow that the burial was left to the
care of some friends who volunteered
their services in paying the last sad tribute
to the dead. Numbers gathered around
the grave to see the coffin lowered, but the
that it was clumsily done. Before the
first spadeful of earth was thrown on the
coffin one Of the party fell into the grave
PnIJ1h ynf 70 J., A
paniun, no better off than he, attempted
to rescue him, but he also fell into the
grave, and there both struggled in vain
until some of the sober attendants, who
were shocked and Justly indignant at the
occurrence, lifted the drunken pair out,
and pushing them aside, kept them away"
A shocking affair occurred the other
day at Nuelle s. Ganahl's planing-mill
corner of Emmett and Kosciusko streets,
in St. Louis. Hermann Schermann, a
dairyman about tifty-nine years of age,
called there to get some shavings, and his
attention being attracted by large plan
ing machine, where some knives revolved
over roller, he foolishly placed his fin
ger on the roller, and held it there an in
slant. 1t was carried up, and before he
realized his danger one of the knives
caught his finger and drew it forward
with resistless power. Another knife
struck the hand and continued to draw it
forward. A third struck the wrist, and so
on until his arm was drawn between the
roller and the knives as far as his elbow,
and the flesh was chopped down to the
bone at regular intervals. The operator
of the machine took in the situation, and
succeeded in stopping it just as the knives
struck the elbow, otherwise his arm would
have been torn out and cut TO pieces.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Robert Hamsley,
a wagon maker, while at work in his shop
on Pirtle street, between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth, cut off a part Of his left FORE
finger with an ak. He picked up the
piece and went with it as quick as pos
sible to physician to have it bound
again to its severed member. The doctor
told him it was useles to perform such an
operation; that the finger would never
heal. But Hamsiey insisted that it should
be done, and the physician complied with
the request, placing the dismembered
piece carefully in its proper position, and
then binding the finger firmly with a
bandage. The process Of healing at once
began, and contrary to the theory of the
doctor, the dismembered parts grew rap
idly together. But on Saturday last, a
week, the finger suddenly became very
painful, and Mr.. Hamsley was seized
with lockjaw. For nine days he has been
PROSTATE and suffering the most excru-
>ciating fortunes, relieved only by occa-
sional spasms, in which he is unconscious.
Last night he was in very critical con-
dition, and his death was expected at any
moment.-LouisuiNe Couraer-J Journal.
"A shocking tragedy is reported from
Higganum, a small village in the town of
Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn. Hiram
s. Bailey has for some time occupied a
small house about a mile from the center
of the village, where he has lived alone.
He was man of dissolute habits, and was
regarded as sort Of q hermit. On Satur-
day he visited Middletown and purchased
bottle of liquor, which he took home. 1t
is known that he invited several acquaint-
ances to carousal, but it is not known
who accepted the invitation. At about
two O'Clock on Sunday morning two men
who had been ceiling saw bright light in
the house. They approached to investi-
gate, and found the house on fire inside.
They male loud outcries to awaken its
occupant, whom they supposed to be
sleeping within. Not raising any one,
they burst open the door. On table in
the lower room were three empty glasses
and the remains of bottle of liquor, also
a revolver with one barrel empty. In the
cellar, lying under the front door, was the
charred trunk of man, too much burned
for recognition. The arms and head were
gone, and the whole presented sickenine
spectacle. The men then extinguished
the flames, and notified the proper author
ities.-7elegram Of Oct. Eth.
The Arctic Expedition.
A London dispatch of Oct. 80 gives the
following account of the voyage of the
steamers Alert and Discovery in tie Arctic
regions:
A narrative of the Arctic expedition is