The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-27
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

Two children, in Georgia, one white
and the other colored, were poisoned by
eating wild cherries. The first is rccov-
ering, the latter died.
Geo. Butcher, /, railroad route agent,
while the train was passing Brewer, Neb.,
attempted to take hold of the mail sack.
1t seems that the person holding The sack
refused to let 90, and Butcher was pulled
off the platform, striking on his head and
shoulders, int1icting severe injuries:
The Herald, of Springfield, Ky, says
Mr.. Ed. Sutton, living near Willisburg,
in this county, says that while chopping
into a tree which was hollow, he observed
on the inside piece III mineral, which,
on being taken out, proved to be soap
stone, with the name of Daniel Boone
written upon it, together with the date
1116. We understand this fact is vouched
for, and that the strange relic was shown
at the celebration on the Fourth of july
A couple living in Washington Coun-
ty, Oregon, lately discovered, while trans
acting some legal business in Portland,
that there was no record of their marriage.
The lawyer told them that their having
lived together in conjugal relation.
made them man and wife. The husband
was satisfied, but the wife would not lis
ten to having matters lie in that shape
So lately they got a license and were
married before a Justice of the Peace,
costing them altogether nine dollars.
They had been married six years and had
several children.
A Cincinnati man named Chris Snip
pering lost 81 800 roll of bills the other
day, and getting up his suspicious, ordered
the immediate arrest Of one Charles En-
gelkamp as the thief. The next day
Chris found his roll of money in dis
carded undershirt just where he had
placed it himself-all right and I'M
touched Of course, Snippering felt so
good over the recovery of his money that
he refused to prosecute Engelkamp. But
Mrs. Engelkamp wanted satisfaction for
the ruin of the family name, and not being
able to get it rapidly enough in any other
way, took it out of Snippering's hair.
Moral: Don't accuse anyone of stealing
until you are sure of your case.
VIM. Mcdonald, aged twenty-six,
book-keepcr of the Pittsburgh Dispatch
newspaper, shot his wife few nights ago,
and then pointing the pistol to his heart
fired three shots into his body, intlicting
fatal injuries. Domestic difficulties are
said to have been the cause of the rash
act. He was young man. He went
home in good spirits and met his wife at
the threshold. Soon after harsh words
passed between Mcdonald and the parents
of his wife. 1t would seem that such was
not an unusual occurrence. He determined
to rid himself forever of worldly troubles,
and, drawing revolver from his pocket
and taking deliberate aim, shot his young
wife in the region of the heart. Her
father then, in an awful rage, picked up a
chair and dealt Mcdonald blow, Telling
him to the floor. The latter arose, and,
placing the pistol to his own body, fired
three times before the weapon was wrest-
ed from his grasp. 5.'- s.
Twenty years ago Wellington Cole
man, then aged sixteen years, disappeared
from his fathers home in Westport, Pa.
His room was found in disorder and
bloody garments and dirk on the floor.
1t was supposed that the boy had been
murdered by his French tutor, who dis
appeared at the same time, and his body
hidden. Long and diligent search, how
ever. failed to reveal the boy either dead
or alive. The father left the town and
the affair was nearly forgotten, when re-
Gently stranger appeared at the village
hotel and said he was Wellington Cole.
man. He related the story of his leaving
home, from desire to go to sea, and his
subsequent wanderings and hardships. He
was drawn home by a desire to see his
father, whom he had not heard from after
going abroad. He was penniless and
broken in health and spirits. He visited
his old home, which had been for many
years deserted. Some one passing the
house soon after heard two pistol shots.
Search was made, and the stranger was
found dead in one of the rooms, with two
pistol shot wounds in his head.