The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-04
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.


"A lady in Rochester, N. Y, is a
monomaniac on the subject of rats. See-
ing her husband catching couple of rats
she was frightened, and continually insists
one of them got away and took refuge in
her stomach. Frequently she will grasp
her sides and call upon her friends to help
her catch the rat. Previously she had
evinced no symptoms of insanity.
"A Chinaman, who was arrested in
San Francisco on charge of BURGLARY,
made a most absurd attempt to commit
suicide. He turned on the gas in his
cell and putting his nose to the burner,
inhaled the contents. The attendants
took him out doors and asked him what
he had been trying to do. me likee die"
quoth All Quong.
Big Lake, in Irwin County, Georgia,
began to run out about three months since
at an opening in the bottom about the
size of flour barrel, and up to a short
while ago ran down from mile wide to
several long to the dimensions of a few
acres, when the whole country, far and
near, came to witness the sight and get
fish. Everybody was supplied with all
he could carry away Of the finest sizes
and qualities of the fnny tribe. The
basin now presents bluffs sixty odd feet
deep, and will probably refill in the course
of year or two.
An American lady who had been wis.,
ting friends in Canada, crossed the st.
Lawrence at Cape Vincent lately, and
courteously invited the custom officer to
examine her baggage. There is moth
ing but wearing apparel in the trunks, :"
she remarked, with pretty smile. The
officer unlocked the largest trunk, and,
pushing aside heap Of stockings and
Overturning q layer of dress materials,
bounced upon q dozen bottles of French
brandy. "Do you call this wearing ap-
parely - he asked, sternly. "Why, yes, ;"
replied the lady, they are my husbands
night caps"
The sea-serpent hasn't turned up
again, but one of his relatives has, if the
Philadelphia Press can be believed. Ac-
cOrding to the Press, a Massachusetts
fishing schooner, while lying at anchor
recently, suddenly found itself moving
through the water at the rate of fifteen
knots an hour. When the crew recovered
from their establishment, they found that
some monster of the bubbiing deep,
whose form they could dimly see out
lined beneath the waves, had twisted its
tail around the anchor cable ana had
started off in its fright with the vessel in
tow. Fortunately for the schooner and the
story teller, the cable broke, the monster
carrying about 40 fathoms with him.
The Silver City (Nev.) Times, Of re-
cent date, says: "Some person in the
mood of desperation attempted to perpe.
trate an act whose results might have
been appalling, ut shaft No. 2 of the
SutIo tunnel, last Saturday. While the
engineer in charge of the machinery al
the shaft was absent, it is supposed in the
air-cOmpressOr room, some one entered
clandestinely and proceeded deliberately
to fix things for catalogue of accidents
He unscrcwed certain bolts that made the
brake pOwerless, disconnected the pipes
that fed the boiler, aud interfered with
the operations of other portions of thu
machinery, SO that if the boiler did mo-
blow up or the cage fall down the shaft
something else of q serious nature would
happen. Fortunately, the work of thu
villain was discovered before it had time
to operate, and all parts of the machinery
were inspected. It is not known who /
was that resorted TO such means for til,
working of revenge"
"A savage Memphis Tenn.) youth
named A. N. Bond, shot and killed tn,
father of his fourteen, year.old sweetheart
eighteen miles northwest of that city.
few mornings ago. He was q wild fel
low, of unsteady habits, and the fathe
discouraged his attentions to his school
girl daughter. Going to the house O
Mr.. Hill, he fired shotgun at him, will
effect, through q window; then jumpet
in and emptied revolver into the dyinJ
mans body; then seized the girl, place.
her on horseback, mounted himself, ant
after the fashion of young Lochinvar gal
loped to q minister in the neighbUrhOod
where he demanded that the marriag,
ceremony be performed. The franti,
and horrifed girl begged to be released
; The preacher refused to act, and callet
to parties passing to seize the desperate
lover. The latter then shot and wounded
!; . young man named Coleman, took
horse that belonged to one of the posse
mounted, and turning loose Q Comanch
yell, with foul imprecation upon tn
people Of the place, fed the scene ant
escaped.