The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-10-19
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

While q well.digger named WEIGH
was tamping . charge of powder iii a
we'll he was digging In Llano. County,
Texas, the other day, the blast was ex-
ploded, driving the tamping rod through
his heart.
During a shower at Hiawatha, Kan,
short time since, a bolt of lightning
struck dwelling and passed into band
box containing the "gude wife's" new
bonnet and blew it all to pieces. This is
a warning to women who are afraid of
lightning not to have new bonnets in the
house.
AT the Hot Springs, Va, recently, a
Young married couple, Mr.. Haldeman
and wife, arrived from Cincinnati, the
husband suffering from disease of the
heart. After remaining two days, the
husband died suddenly. His wife be-
came a maniac on the spot. Neither hus-
band nor wife were more than twenty-five
years of age.
This from New England. A poor
factory operative recently had his leg am
putated at the Manchester Intirmaty, and
during the operation lost so much blood
that the attending surgeon gave it his
opinion that nothing but an infusion of
blood could save him. Thereupon one of
the students volunteered to be bled, and
twenty-five ounces of blood was taken
from his veins and transfused into the
dying man, and at last accounts both were
doing we'll.
"A singular presentiment and its partial
fulfillment comes from Danbury, Conn.
A Boston tea merchant, named Dixon,
spending night with relative, said he
was unable to sleep because he repeatedly
dreamed that he had cut a mans throat
from ear to ear. He left for New York in
the morning, promising to forward a box
of tea, which, however, did not arrive.
A day or two ago, however, the Danbury
friend received letter from Dixon at
Bellevue hospital, saying that, on the
evening he reached New York, and, as he
was stepping from a friends door, a
strane er knocked him down and gave him
a cut in the throat six inches long.
"A most mysterious and shocking case
of suicide or accidental shooting occurred
at Parsonville, Me-, few days ago. John
Crennor, fifteen years old, son of Charles
Crennor, was found dead in bed, shot
through the heart. Young Crennor was
confined to his bed with the mumps, and
a neighbours boy, Charles Patch, eight
years old, son Of Dominicus Patch, was
keeping him company. They had been
alone some time, when young Patch came
down stairs and said something's the
matter with Johnny" Some one of the
family went up stairs and found the Cren-
nor boy covered up completely with bed
clothes. On turning them down, to their
horror he was found to be dead, shot
through the heart, while a revolver lay
beside him. The Patch boy strenuously
denied all knowledge of any accident.
The revolver was one belonging to Cren-
nor's brother. Two theories only seem to
fit the case. One, that Crennor was acct
dentally shot by his companion, who was
playing with the revolver, and who, when
he saw the result of the accident, placed
the revolver in the bed, covered up the
boy, and denied all knowledge of the shoot
ing. The other is that Crennor shot him
self under the bedclothes, which mutfled
the discharge of his revolver and prevented
its noise being heard.