The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

A chap was arrested in Philadelphia
the other day for stealing a clock. The
Judge told him that as he had taken an
other mans time to begin with, he could
now take his own time to reflect upon it,
and sent him up for three months.
From information received from Mrs.
Galpin, the squaw trader at Standing
Rock, the stories of Sitting Bulls superior
education are all bosh. He is simply a
savage, and the extent of his intercourse
with the whites has been limited to few
traders. He has peculiar marks for an
Indian, having light hair and gray eyes.
He is a native of the country in which he
is fighting.
MIR. David S. Thomas, an aeronaut OF
daring and resources, who learned the
ropes with Donaldson, had very narrow
escape with his life and those of three
passengers over the New Haven Conn.,
Green few days ago. The balloon
collapsed against an insurance building,
and the car hung suspended by slender
spikes sixty feet above the sidewalk. BY
the GOODNESS of Thomas all were saved.
There comes time for every acronaut to
be destroyed, but this was not the one set
for Mr. Thomas.-ChScago Journal.
In San Francisco, lately, a terrible
tragedy occurred which resulted in the
death of husband and wife. Their name
was Brcndt. He was a German and she a
Swede. The two had been to a ball. On
the return home the husband asked his
wife why she had danced with another
man. She told him she had done so be-
cause he was better dancer. The hus-
band disputed this, and the wife called
him liar. He asked her to take back
that word, and on her refusal to Go so, he
shot her twice, killing her instantly. Then
he shot himself, inflicting wound which
resulted in death nine hours later. Their
ages were thirty-two and twenty one
years respectively.
"A singular story comes from Wise
County, Texas. One forenoon the wife of
a farmer lay down on the back porch,
went to sleep, and dreamed. In her dream
she saw a newly dug grave in the yard :;
near the grave was woman laid out IN
burial apparel; the woman she recognized
as herself. When her husband came to
dinner she related her singular dream, and
gave minute description of everything
that she had seen, locating her grave in the
back yard, and the manner in which she
was dressed: Her husband thought it
singular, but paid no further attention to
it, During the afternoon a woods-rat ran
into the house. The farmer snatched UP
an old pistol, and snapped it at the escap-
ing rat. While examining the treacher-
GUS fire-arm it was accidentally dis
charged. The ball lodged in the wife's
brain. She fell and expired in a few
moments.
-Myriads of crickets have been depre-
dating in Nevada. The Elko Independent
says of their ravages; "Some weeks
since rancher in the valley, who has a
water ditch around his place, harvested a
crop of $50 bushels of crickets by driving
them into the water and scooping them
into sack. We considered that rather a
solid cricket story, but from Bull Run
Basin we learn that it is a common thing
for them to eat up all the wooden clothes
they can get hold of, and artistically pile
the buttons in one place, arranging them
in rows according to size. On one occa-
sion a resident of the latter place got
"full" and lay down on the side of the
mountain to sun. In about an hour his
friends instituted search for him, and
found him bleaching in the sun with
nothing but paper collar to protect him
from the heat. The crickets had eaten off
all his clothes, even to his boots"