The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-03
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

"A German farm hand named Wensler,
while pitching hay on stack at Fremont,
ILL.,, the other day, broke the pitchfork
handle and fell from the stack, running a
splinter through his heart and killing him
instantly.
David Fletcher, farm laborer, near
Fonda, N. Y, was mysteriously shot a
few days ago. He was washing his hands
after coming in from the field, when a
bullet from the caboose of q passing
freight train struck him in the side, kill
ing him instantly.
Don't be too polite. A Brooklyn man
stepped from the platform of . street-car,
few days since, to permit lady to en-
ter, and the car took off four of his toes.
He has recovered 81, $50 from the car
company, however, which partly rewards
him for his gallantry.
I'm Charlestown, Mass, few days
ago, Jennie Mears, girl of sixteen, en-
ployed as domestic in Mrs. Savage's
boarding house, was shot in the lungs,
probably fatally, by Minnie, nine year
old daughter of Mrs. Savage. The
weapon used was found by Minnie in a
bureau drawer, and, doubtless, supposing
it to be the same weapon which she and
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caps with, she playfully aimed it at Miss
Mears, thinking to frighten her, and, pull
ing the trigger, the contents of one of the
barrels of the revolver was discharged
with the above result.
"A man named Lovejoy was a witness
for the defense in the prosecution, recent
ly, of Mrs. Cozzens, charged with steal
ing diamonds from boarder at the
American House, St. Paul, and through
his evidence the accused was acquitted
Lovejoy was so unfortunate as to be de-
tected in the act of pocketing barrel of
-four from freight Car at Minneapolis,
and was sent to Jail for thirty days. On
receiving his discharge he was handed
fifty dollars from Mrs. Cozzens, with an
invitation, which he accepted, to visit her
at St. Paul, and after brief interview he
took out license and was married to the
grateful widow.
One morning, recently, Mrs. Charles
Randall, of Hamlin, N. Y, informed
her husband that during the period of
years in which they had been married she
had not been to him what wife should
be, and she had made up her mind to
leave that part of the country. She had
given the matter much thought, and de-
cided it was, from all considerations, best
that she should 60 away and leave him
and her three little ones to live in peace
and happiness. This information was of
course thunderbolt to the afflicted hus-
band. The wife calmly prepared break.
fast, left the mornings work unfinished,
packed her trunk, kissed her children,
and departed nobody knows where. Mr..
Randall is young and prosperous farmer,
and is man in every way worthy of the
respect of his associates. 49,
Recently Mrs. c. L. Apologize, liv-
ing at Toms River, NJ went to the well,
and, becoming dizzy, fell in. When her
husband returned to dinner he was sur
prised to see no signs of life about the
kitchen, and searched every part of the
house for his wife. When passing the
we'll, which is thirty feet deep, he heard
his wife call: Charley, I am in the
we'll" He soon drew her up with the
windlass, and found that she had fallen
in several hours before, and had been
standing on tiptoe to keep her head out
of the water waiting for him to come.
She said she was nearly frozen, as her
whole body was in the water, and it was
only by laying her head back that she
could breathe without drawing in mouth.
full Of water. Strange to say, she was moi
hurt by the fall, although she went down
head first.