The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-04
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS:

:. Tbs defendants of Rubens now
living in Belgium, Austria, Italy, France
and America are said to number 1928.
A Brussels newspaper has published
the list.
"A bolt Of lightning recently passed
through hay-mow in New Hamp-
shire barn, making . hole as large as .
mans body, the whole depth Of the
NOW, and leaving the hay perfectly
smooth, and not setting It ON fire.
"A boy named McCaherty, a pupil
1T the Sixth Ward School, In Pitts
bufgh, Pa, rather than submit to a
threshing by the Principal, jumped
from the third story Of the building to
Second aveties the other day, and was
very dangerously injured:
"A few evenings ago Henry Clark
went to small benzine tank in Titus
vile, Pa, to wash his hands. He was
seen leaning over the tank, and the
next morning he was found dead in the
same position, the inhalation of the gas
causing his death.
A negro and an Irishman met in a
store in Pttsfeld, Mass, a few months
ago, both in q dilapidated condition as
to clothes and general appearance.
They agreed together, however, 10 stop
drinking and sign the pledge. About
three months after they met again in
the same store, when both were arrayed
in brand-new suits of clothes, but each
failed to recognize the other. Becom-
ing acquainted after awhile, they con-
graduated each other on their mutual
ly-improved appearance, but the Irish
man event the negro one better" by
declaring he had prospered SO well that
he had taken to himself wife three
weeks previously. Springfield Republic
can.
A man named Hayden, who was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree at Irasburg, VT, few days ago,
made the following requests of the
Court after the verdict was rendered:
81 have several requests to make,
Your Honor. The first is that be al
lowed, in company with proper officers,
to visit the grave of my wife. The
second, that my sentence be given me
at once, and that the execution take
place at once; that it be as public as
possible, that the enemies who have
driven me to this death may have the
satisfaction which they ask for, and
which l believe, in their own Judgment,
they feel they are justified in having.n
Sentence was postponed.
We have personal friend who is
a large diamond importer in New
York. Some time since two of the
wealthiest and most reputable ladies in
the city called at his place of business
to make purchase of a gem. The i'm
porter waited upon them himself. Aft
er they had gone very valuable dia-
mond was missed. 1t could not be
found anywhere; but it would not do to
charge or even suspect the ladies of
having stolen it. After every nook
and Granny in the room and every pos
sible hiding place had been examined,
and the search given up, our friend sat
down and charged the stone over to
the account of profit and loss. Thrust
have walked off alone or resolved itself
into its original elements. Some ten
days afterward our friend, carelessly
placing his hand in the side-pocket of
his coat, found the truant safely repos-
ing in it. He must have accidentally
placed it there himself. For ten days
he had been carrying around in the
loosest possible manner a little bit of
carbon worth $500, and had neither
lost it by accident nor theft. Troy N.
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