The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-10
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

-lnere Tell on mount w aSnlngtOn, N {.
H., a few days ago, over four inches of
snow.
Five young ladies were drowned in
Lake Contrary, near st. Joseph, Mo-, a
few days ago, while gathering pond lilies.
The man who accompanied them barely
escaped with his life.
Richard James, London cont ne
gro, famous as 4 "buttist,'' accidentally
lodged a bullet in his head while fooling
with revolver, the other day, and the
surgeon found it tlattened against the
skull
The "big tree" as it was called,
which grew in Calaveras county, Cal,
contained half million feet of inch lum-
Der, and was recently felled by five men
working twenty-five and half days,
making 112115 days labor.
AT Carrollton, Mo, few days ago,
trial was made to see how quick wheat
standing in the field could be harvested,
threshed, ground, baked and eaten. Ali
these operations were completed in eleven
minutes.-Chtcago Journal.
"A very singular death has recently
occurred at Westfield, Mass About
fortnight before Mrs. Charles Noble, wife
of prominent citizen, accidentally swal-
lowed a cherry stone, and it lodged in
such manner that it was impossible to
extract it, though the best medical skill of
the region was called in. She gradually
failed in strength, and died on the 22d of
July.
The Princeton (Wis.) Republic says:
1.-THE hero and martyr of our National
a recent game hot ball, thrown by a
fielder to him, standing on second base,
slipped through his hands and struck him
in the breast. He quickly regained the
ball and threw it to the home plate, put
ting out the man and saving the game, but
dropped dead on his base before the shout
of victory
The Laramie CIV. T) Sentinel says:
"Col Donnellan yesterday met with a
rather unpleasant and risky adventure
while prospecting for soda. He was trav-
cling over one of the soda lakes, several
rods from his companions, when he
stepped upon soft place and went
through the crust of soda into the mud up
to his chin. He spread out his arms and
caught upon the crust, and thus sustained
himself till Boswell and Mr.. Sickles res
cued him from his dangerous position.
He has now found all the soda he wants. !"
Prof. McCheeney, of Missouri, who
accompanied geological party from Ken
lucky which has been in camp at Camp
Harvard, Cumberland Gap, insisted on
making excavations in the Indian mounds,
of which there are many in that neighbor-
hood. He opened one on the 18th of July,
about twenty miles from the camp, and
made some rich discoveries. While in the
excavation the people of the neighbor-
hood crowded around the edges, which
gave way, and great number were pre-
cipitated into the opening. When the ex-
cavation was cleared out, it was found that
Prof. McCheeney had been STOPPING when
the accident occurred, and that his neck
was broken. Prof. Carr, of Harvard Col
lege, had All arm badly bruised.
The famous Northampton Bank rob-
berry Of last spring is again recalled to
public attention by some fresh information
about the progress of the negotiations.
When the bank officers were in New York
recently, in an interview with the man
through whom they are negotiating for the
bonds, they expressed themselves as dis
satisfied, and wanted to know what proof
he could give that he had got the bonds,
and that he was not trying to play a,game
on them. He told them that for proof he
would mail to South Hadley man, who
owned some of them, all of his bonds that
same day, and that if the man received
them that ought to satisfy the bank folks.
He also said that the night the robbers
went up to Northampton they were intend
ing to rob another bank beside the one
they did crack, but when they got into the
room over the bank and bored hole down
they found it would take several nights,
ana they decided to take the first instead.