The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-02-24
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

has occurred, says the Albany EueninQ
Journal, this time at Granville, N. Y. A
physician prescribed Madeira wine, and
the druggist put up deodorized tincture of
opium, a teaspoonful of which was given
to child, causing its death.
"A little girl at Meriden, Conn.,, whose
father recently died, being displeased that
her mother had fallen in love with
another man, applied to the Mayor, the
| other day, to have the affair stopped by
the police, and when informed that they
couldn't do anything about it, left his
office, crying.
The young men near New Hope, KY,
have gotten up play called Peeping at
Susan" While engaged in the play few
nights since, q collision occurred between
Mr.. Ben Settles and young lady, knock
ing them both senseless. Susan's fore.
head was cut from her nose UP. Poor
Ben's nose was broken, The doctors had
their hands full patching up the wrecks:
"A couple who went from Rhode Isl.
and tbwn to New Bedford, Mass, to get
the bSdy of deceased daug hter, the other
day, became SO drunk that, on the way
back, they lost the coffin from the wagon,
and didn't notice it till they had gone five
miles. They went back and found the
body in the highway with the face down.
ward, but they had to call upon farmer
to help them replace it, they were 80
drunk.
An Indianapolis paper says that on
recent Sunday evening daughter of
MIR. William Loucks, of that city, seven
teen years old, was taken ill, and quite
early Monday morning she awoke her
father and expressed wish to be taken up
in his arms and held to his heart as he
used to hold her when little girl. The
father raised his daughter and sat down
by the stove, but hardly had he taken his
seat before her head dropped upon his
shoulder and she was dead.
Mrs. George Norton and Mrs. limo.
thy Walker, Of Island Falls, Me-, discov-
cred their house was on fire a few nights
ago, and that there was no man within
quite u long distance. There were lad
ders, but the one upon the roof was so
filled with ice as to make it impossible for
them to ascend without using both hands,
and so Mrs. Walker carried the pals of
water to the foot of the ladder, and Mrs.
Norton took them the rest of the way in
her teeth. In this WY they emptied
twenty pailfuls upon the fire ere it was en-
tirely extinguished.
"A boy named Hamill, in Baltimore,
died the other day from lockjaw, caused
by wound which he received in the
cheek three weeks previous, while playing
"catty." "Catty" seems to be favorite
game with the boys, and IL played BY
striking the end Of small pointed stick
with larger stick or club, which makes
the small stick fly up, and before it reaches
the ground 1t is again knocked in a way
similar to striking ball with bat. In
the case of Hamill the sharp point of the
smaller stick, struck by his playmate, en-
tered his cheek, inflicting slight wound,
which was not regarded 40 serious ct the
time, until symptoms of lockjaw de-
veloped.
"A farm laborer 1t Wilbraham, Mass,
crazed by religious excitement, closed a
letter to hia friends last sunday by saying
that was the last time he would ever write
to them, as his right hand and right foot
had offended and he was going to cut
them off and cast them from him as the
Scriptures direct. He then sharpened his
jack-knife, took saw, walked shout q
mile and half from the house to the top
of the mountain and commenced opera.
tons on his right leg. He cut through
the aesh just above the ankle joint, sew
ering the cord, barely missing the main
artery, and then began to ply the saw, but
desisted after getting into the bone little
way, because, a. he says, the saw was
dull. He then walked back to the house
leaving bloody trail behind him. He
told the doctor who dressed the wound
that he couldn't have been in his right
mind, and the loss Of superAuous blood
has fully restored his Tesson.--Beston
Heroh.