Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-12-08


An enraged bull attacked and gore,
to death Joseph Jessup, aged As, a farm
err who lived near Lansing, Mich.
A 5-year-old boy named Phillip
was fatally burned at Cleveland, o.
from having his clothes set on fire Will
playing with matches.
A .year-old daughter of Jane
Arnold, of Midland, Mich, was fatal,
burned, her clothes having caught fir
from stove.
"A dispute arose at Monticello, Ky.
during game of croquet. when Sila!
Condiff struck John Burk with mallet
fracturing his skull.
While threshing at Farmer Bear
place, near Claypool, Ind, with steam
thresher, the boiler burst, killing ant
terribly mangling Gideon Hartung, Al
unmarried man % years of age.
Near Grand Island, Neb., the prop
erty of VIM. Parks, a farmer, was in i'm
minent danger from prairie lire. Mrs
Parks ran to the stable to let the horse
out, and was unable to get out until sc
verely burned. She died in two hours
The house was also destroyed, and on
child fatally burned.
At Bridgeport, o., an infant chile
of Edward Lenhart, while fastened in ;
child's chair, fell with its head upon tn
hot grate-bars in the fireplace. Tn
child was alone in the room ut the tim
of the accident, and before assistance
arrived was seriously, if not fatally
burned upon the back of the head ant
neck.
The fatal shotgun: DIR. Nally,
dentist of Columbus, o., was fatal,
wounded by the accidental discharge o
his gun while hunting.-Wm. Knigh
received serious wound in the hea'
from his companion, Geo. Mumford
while the two were cunning near Ur
bana, O.-Johnny Waite, aged 10, ant
Charlie Bush, aged ID, started on 4 gun
ning-expedition from Muncie, Ind
They were going along the road, Busl
leading, with his gun over his shoulder
and Waite close behind, when Bush
gun was in some way discharged, tn
load striking his companion in the fore
head, laying bare his brain. He die
in an hour.-George Foegell, of Kala
mazoo, Mich, was hunting with a com
panion. The latter pushed Foegell'
Foegell grasped by the muzzle. Il
some way the trigger caught, the piec
was discharged, and FOegell was in
stantly killed, the charge entering hi
heart.-C. +. Sayers, young man o
Neenah, Wis, was killed by the acci
dental discharge of his own gun Will
hunting near ShawanO.
Suicidal: Harry Russell, son of
well known banker of GAINESVILLE, o.
shot himself; cause not known.-Philil
Leiber, a farmer i'm good circumstan
ces residing near Afonroeville, o., sho
himself; no cause assigned. Mrs. LAT
ferty, widow, hanged herself on a tire
near her residence at Princetown, O..
her second attempt.-Michael n
Landesburg, aged SO, hanged himself il
his house about Is miles south of War
saw, Ind; partially deranged.-Samue
Jackson, Of COnnersville, Ind, AM
LevisOn Patterson, "a farmer residing nea
Jacksonville, Ind, each made an un
successful attempt to take his life-th'
former with razor and the latter by
pistol.-Mary Koch, a beautiful girl
whose parents reside at Dixon, Iowa
drowned herself in the river at Daven
port, where she had been employed
She was seduced and deserted by
scOundrel named Bartels.-Thos. Bran
non, LAWYER, of Missouri Vale
Junction, Iowa, shot himself OF
account of domestic troubles and over
indulgence in whisky.-The body of
young woman was discovered by a tram
in barrel in an unoccupied house q
Council Bluffs, Iowa, the throat Gu
from ear to ear. 1t is supposed that sh
got into the barrel and cut her oWl