The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-07-26
IselDENfs AND AcCfDEnfs.


Barry Sullivan had tfS eycbaI1 ca
open, and from itthefe was taken an eye
lash, which had been thrust in at the poin
Of the sword.
AT Newport, N. " on the occasion
Of the recent celebration of the Fourth,
large quantity OF fireworks was accident
ally exploded and Mrs. Parkhurst hal
hef face ffightfully lacerated by q fire
rocket. Her death was nnomentarily ex
| pected at last accounts:
AT Wendell; Mass; on the 1ith, IN Ell
gine and caboose, on the Fiichbufg Rail
road, ran into team crossing the tract
and killed Ira Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davi
lhis mothcr), Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs
Eugene Brown and Miss Nellie Lacey
Mrs. Brown lived half an hour. tn,
others were killed instantly and badly Gu
Up. Tile locomotive was not running q
very great speed. The party were return
ing home from befrying.
There has been another fatal case o.
hydrophobia at Hartford, and this time
| there is no disagreement among the doc
tors over its reality. Daniel. Graham.
daughter Annie. four yesrs and half old
was bitten by dog nearly six weeks ago
and last week she died, after undergoing
for three days ali the syniptUris 81 the
terrible disease: Some doctors attempted
to make post mortem examination of thu
little girls body, but when they appeared
at the door with their dissecting imple-
ments the fourteen-years. old brother OF
the child confronted them with loaded
rero1ver aid vowed lie would kill the tirst
man who touched his sisters body. The
post mortem was indefinitely postponed.
|-Hartford L onn Post.
"A Hazardville correspondent tells of
novel wager recently won in that town.
A party of men being together, one of
them proposed bet that Peter Toombs
w0iild whistle one hour, without stopping
or speaking, and without repeating any
tune. The proposal was made by an
other of the party, who reduced the time
to half an hour. Mr.. Toombs accepted
the amendment, the stakes were put up,
and Mr. Toombs began his task. Begin
ming with 81 Won't Go Home Till Morn
ing" he ran through his repertoire, end.
ing with Paddle Your Own Canoe" in
grand style. When the half hour was
ended, not being blown, the whistler kept
it Up twenty minutes longer, winning; Of
course, the stakes Hartford Times.
I "A case of some interest to farmers of
skim-milk predictions was lately tried at
Glencoe, N. Y. j. E. Campbell, Presi-
dent of the Directory of the Mayfair
Cheese Factory, laid complaint against
VIM. Cowan for watering the milk which
he supplied to the factory. On the trial it
was shown that the milk supplied by him
at several times registered from eighty
five to ninety degrees on the lactometer,
while the average should have been abotit
100 degrees. The Directors, with the con-
sent of Cowan, had Cowan's cows MIXED,
and on testing the product found it to
reg lister about 100 degrees. Mr.. Cowan
then signed document, agreeing to de-
duct ID per Gekt. from what he was to re.
ceive for his milk He attributed the ex-
cess Of water to carelessuess in milking,
by the rinsings of the milk-pails having
been put with the milk. Mr.. Cowan Yves
fined IS, and $7.50 costs.
The panville Conn Adgertiser says !:
Mr.. Smith was In town On Saturday with
his hired fi1an, and the two tell singular
story about d lighting stroke. Mr.
Smith was oh grain drill In field, and
his hired man was about twelve rods ffum
him, dragging. Suddenly Smith heard
the noise Of thunder. and became uncon-
scious. The man also heard the noise,
but neither of them saw any flash of light
ming. The man went to Smith, and in
about twenty minutes he was restored to
consciousness. Then attention was given
to the horses. Oae of their was standing
erect, with one foot lifted little way
from the earth, and the other was kneeling
with his nose In the earth, and both were
stone dead, and retained their positions
until they were pushed over. The suppo-
sition is that in this case the electricity
went from the earth to the sky.