The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-11
m0ID1N1s AND ACCIDENTS.


s "A young lady In Hartford broke
her arm killing mosquito.
"A boy IL years old died in Charles
town. Mass, recently, Of hemorrhage
resulting from tbs extraction Of q tooth
six DAYS before, and tho Boston Post
saws that nine Of his relatives g died
from similar causes. =
Two young men Of Knoxville, Ca,
in Crawford County, attempted to
commit suicide the other day by hang
ing themselves to bell-ropes. The at
tempt, however, proved failure.
They beloved for help with more
righteousness than country calves.
About the middle of August two
young men, named Poppell and Cert
man, left Beeville, Tex, for the pur,
pose of purchasing sheep. The last
seen Of them alive was in the neighbor-
hood of San Diego ten days afterward.
where they bought and paid for $50
head. Three or four days afterward
their bodies, horribly mangled, were
found in the brush, about fifteen miles
south of San Diego
At the laying of cornerstone Of
a church in Western New York, last
week, collection was taken up. just
at that time a farmer, who was driving
along with a lead of cabbages, stopped
to see what was going on. The clergy
man who was in charge of the exer-
cises at once asked him for donation.
He said he had no cash, but would give
the cabbages if they could be sold by
auction on the spot. So the parson
turned auctioneer, and the cabbages
were soon converted into cash. The
profit to the church on this transaction
was nearly twenty dollars. These peo-
pie will, probably, pray for more men
to come along with cabbages.-Ch Chicago
Tribune.
"A lady guest at the Bath Hotel, in
West Twenty sixth street. gavein charge
of the clerk of Tuesday last her pocket
book wrapped up in paper and contain
ing 800. She wrote on the outside Of
the package the addressed her husband
in Vermont, and asked the clerk to
place it in the hotel safe. The clerk,
who was busy, not understanding the
lady, and being under the impression
that it was city letter she wanted
posted, hastily affixed two-cent stamp
to it, and dropped it into street letter
box, from which it was taken out by
the letter-carrier, and the postage be-
ing insufficient, it was held and sent to
the Postoffice. The clerk discovered
his mistake when the lady asked for the
return of the pocket-book, and he
hurried to the nearest Postoffice Sta
ton, leaving her nearly breathless with
surprise. On finding that the 'sletter'
had been forwarded to the Postoflice,
he lost no time in interviewing y
Postmaster James, and yesterday had
the satisfaction of returning the pack
age to its owner-N. y World.
"A distressing case of drowning thai
occurred in the Lower Harbor yester.
day was peculiar in that the victim had
a premonition, apparently, of his fate
and three minutes before, when on the
point of stepping into the boat, he
handed his name, written on tag, tc
bystander, remarking, "That's my
address, if should be drowned" The
boat pushed off from the wharf anG
presently capsized, and the man went
under and was seen no more alive
The card was then examined, and the
drowned man was ascertained to be
Jacob Wildeburg, a porter in the en-
ploy of L. w. Smith, of No. 46 South
Broadway, with whom he lived. Wilde
burg had been sent with a barrel o.
meat to be delivered on board vessel
anchored in the stream. Having OBJ
tanned a boat, he got into it and ther
handed the card to Mr.. Roll, who was
standing by, with the remark giver
above. The boat then showed off, anG
had got not more than a dozen lengths
away when it was seen to turn about
and to fall into the trough of the sea
which was running pretty high, and
then turn over. Wildeburg sank al
once. Efforts to secure HIS body by
graphing were successful two Or three
hours later. The Coroner declined tt
hold an inquest, the drowning being
evidently the result of an accident.
Baltimore american.