The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-06-09

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A locomotive whistle frightened
two horses attached TO pillow In field
AT Palantine, y. j., and the animals
running away, knocked down George
Carton, farm employee, dragging the
pillow across him and Killing him almost
instantly.
Mrs. schultz, Of CorcOran Town
ship, near Minneapolis, Mimi, was adj
vised 10 eat rhubarb leaves for her
health. Some were prepared as greens,
OF which the whole family partook,
shortly after which they were all taken
violently sick and one Of them died
Ii was thought the rest Of them would
recover.
James johnson, Mayor Of Middle
town, Ohio, while riding home on "A
train on the Hamilton and DAYTON Rail-
road fell asleep and was carried beyond
the station. Upon awakening and dis
covering the fact, he jumped from the
train and was drawn under ear and
instantly killed
A little daughter Of Louis Bonan
was struck by locomotive at Paterson,
y. j., and instantly killed The en-
gineer being unable TO stop the train in
time ran out upon the cowcatcher and
made an effort 10 save the child. He
succeeded in catching her in his arms,
but not until she had received the
stroke.
A G-year-old daughter Of George
\ ChristiansOn. Of Milwaukee. was killed
I by lightning while standing under a
i poplar tree. Her clothes We're stripped
\ from her person and her shoes torn 10
shreds. \ lady who saw the stroke from
a window says the little one rebOunded
I five feet under the force Of the blow and
fell on her face.
A farmer living near Corning, y.
T., plowed up a can Of phosphorus in
Z his field, and, not knowing what it was,
V took it 10 a drugstore for examination.
\ While opening the can il burst into
flames, and was hastily pitched into the
street, where it struck a passer-by
named Chase, burning him fatally
Another man who went 10 his aid was
also badly burned.
The suicidal mania: In Iowa,
Jonathan Sage, wealthy farmer OF
Pella, hung himself with log-chain
Elson A. Ford, Of Linn County. an.
other well-tO-do farmer, killed himself
with strychnine; Nettie Swafford. an
intelligent young lady Of Cas- County
shot herself on account of being accused
Of stealing Julius Rail. young Ger.
man If Clinton, shot himself; Frank
+. Chamberlain, prominent lawyer
of Storm Lake, shot himself; VIM
Bingham, Of Sioux City, cut his jugu-
lar, while frenzied wih whisky In
Michigan, Isabella levitt, aged
I Il, of Ferton, took a
fatal dose OF strychnine, having been
betrayed under promise Of marriage
and Benz. BeZner, an old citizen Of las
Saginaw, took rat poison. In Indiana,
Capt. Frank Daily. = saloon-keeper,
shot himself through the heart while
under arrest for passing counterfeit
money; and Charles Hanley, a hard
drinker of Lafayette, also shot himself
At Birmingham, Ohio, David Olds,
aged ~, rich and respected, cut hi.
throat on account IF ill-health Al
Louisville, Ky. j. X. b. Glascock, an
old resident of Madison, shot himself
on the steamer Belle and his body fell
into the river. AT New Orleans Fred
erick Bauer, aged =, and Lucien Au
gustin, aged 50, both ended their lives
with the bullet AT Chattanooga, Tenn.
Robert Burrows, aged 81. molder
blew out his brains while suffering from
mania-a-potu.