Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-03-02
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

Edward Nevins, of Fletcher, Vt, cut
his throat the other day, and crawled un-
der his barn floor to die, but may get well
after all 1t is thought the fear that he
hadn't enough fodder to winter his stock
led him to the act.
Antoine Brown, a lad sixteen years of
age, living in the Little Notch" Bristol,
n. H., recently received fatal wound
from splinter Of wood entering his nose
while chopping and passing up SO near the
brain that inflammation set in and he died
in four days.
Two young ladies named Brady, who
board at the residence of III. j. Aiming
ton, in Bakersfield, Vt, went to bed the
other night, leaving kerosene lamp dim
ly burning. In the morning they were
found unconscious from the effects of the
gas which had generated from the lamp,
and were restored with difficulty.
The other day the clothing of Mrs.
Samantha Browning, of Luzerne County,
Pa, took fire while she was sitting in front
of a range cutting carpet-rags. In trying
to extinguish the flames she set tie house
on fire. BY the application Of bucket
of water she saved the building, but she
fell to the floor and died.
--' This loaded cigar business" says
the Sacramento Rec0rd- Union, " is being
carried too far, and, as a practical joke, IS
becoming too serious to be amusing.
Yesterday afternoon citizen had his
left check burst open by the explosion OF
one Of them, and will, in addition to the
pain and discomfort, have bad scar to
show as a result of some friends fun -
"A intoxicated map-peddler created
considerable excitement in Petrolia, Pa,
few days ago, by threatening to make
everybody take one of his panoramic
views Of the world, or step out and settle
the dispute according to the London p. X.
The police force being detailed 10 get him
out of town, succeeded in raising the siege
after several hours arduous argument on
the case. ~ Ha
In Wheelock, Vt, a man recently put
the barrel of gun loaded with powder in
the fire as the easiest way OF unloading 1t.
Thinking the powder must be burned up
fas he said } he placed the muzzle OF the
gun TO his mouth to blow the smoke out,
when the contents discharged and blew
out several of his teeth, burning his
mouth and throat terribly. Fortunately
the shot had been removed, otherwise the
result must have proved fatal. 7a
When the recent panic broke out in
the Cincinnati Opera House, and the
crush began, young lady sprang from a
window and safely alighted upon terra
trina. No sooner, however, tsays the
Cincinnati Gazette) did she feel that her
personal safety was secured than she
recollected that her muif and opera glass
had been lost in the surging multitudes.
After saving her life by a peril so ex'
IRENE, she risked it anew, pushed her way
again into the opera house, and recovered
her missing treasures. r
The wife Of negro confined in the
Jail at Pittsburgh, Pa, sent to her hus-
band mince pie lately. -Four other
prisoners besides the one to whom the pie
was sent ate of il, and all were soon after
taken very sick, and their lives were
saved only with the greatest difficulty.
An ANALYSIS of the pie shows that arsenic
was present in such abundance that ii
failed to do its work The woman sent
tile bic 20 her husband with a message
that he need not come out OF Jail, and her
intention was that he should not.
BENJAMIN Jennings, of Wilsonville,
Conn, hung himself In ms barn a nc"
DAYS ago. lie arranged scaffold on the
barn noOT, resting oilS Sha uPon. PADPi
and after adjusting the rope, which was
tied TO the arm overhead, Knocked the
prop away He was discovered by ms
wife short time afterwarG, and she cut
him down; but in her excitement ami
fright she ran for the neighbors before
stacking the moose, and before assistance
arrived life was extinct lie was about
sixty years old, and leaves a wife ana one
son, A few years ago he became q
Millerile and went crazy.