The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-12-27
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

country. Some OF them hired out to
pick cotton. One of the women left
her little child at the end of the row,
expecting to find it there when she
should return; but what must have
been the disappointment of the poor
mother when she came back and found
that her innocent title babe had been
devoured by the hogs. The Indians
were so shocked by the sad and horrible
affair that they all left the place, and
say they will never work on the farm
h;s Tnilvu ,p,s states troops with Chief Joseph,
MS DuGle uauS huOi, 49,
ing that her father was occupied with
his rifle, ran to the ponies and made an
heroic effort to herd them in. The cav
airy, however, cut her off, and, seeing
that she would be captured if she re-
mained with the animals, she took to
the hills. After the fight and the sur
render, Joseph's first question was re-
garding his child. Every effort was
made to find her, but at last reports no
trace of her had been found. Chief
Joseph believes that she is dead, and is
greatly affected by his loss.
April 10, 1876, awoman threw her
self into the Ohio River from the New
port ferryboat A lad sixteen years
old, William A. Shober, jumped into
the river and made heroic effort to
save her, but without avail, and came
near drowning himself. Kilwinning
Lodge of Masons, of Cincinnati, recog-
nizing this noble boys act of heroic
humanity, voted him gold medal. and
the other evening at the annual ban
auet the testimonial was presented to
the boy by the late Att'y-Gen. Taft, a
member of the Lodge, in an eloquent
and appropriate address. The cere-
mony was largely attended by prom
inent Masons Of Ohio and other citi-
zens.
"A revolving accident occurred re-
Gently on the Bringier Place, nearly op-
posite Donaldsonvffle. La, by which a
colored woman, Patience London, lost
her life. The woman was leaning over
the fireplace in state of intoxication,
when she lost her balance and fell for
ward into the fire. Being so stupefied
with LIQUOR as to render futile any ex-
ertion she might have made to save
herself, the miserable creature was
| literally cooked to death, her face and
breast being burned in q terrible man.
ner. The only other inmates of the
cabin were the women's two children,
both too young to comprehend the pre-
dicament of their mother or to give an
alarm.
There was an accidental shooting
case under unusual circumstances al
41S McTlvain street, Philadelphia, thu
other afternoon. Lewis Myers, bar
Der, had been paying attention tt
Pauline Streicher, living with her aun
there, but she had forbidden him thu
house because he always came with
loaded revolver. On the afternoon II
question he came again, drunk, will
Henry Russell. a glass-blower, but sh'
was out. They sent for her, and, ol
her arrival, Myers took out the revolve
again, but Russell, who was strange
at the house, seized it and took it away
He was seated at the table by the sid
of the girl, trying to remove the cart
ridges, when it went off, the ball pass
ing through the girls heart.
Miss Mary Ann Collins, abou
. twenty years old, met with horribl
death the other afternoon. She wa
employed in the scouring-room at tn
Allegheny Valley Paper Mills at Hutto
Station, few miles above Pittsburgh
Directly underneath the room is tn
vat into which the rags are throw
through trap-door to be secured. Tn
trap-door was open. but the steam com
ing up prevented the girl from seein
!. the exact location of it. She had onl
been employed few days in the room
+ and so was not familiar with the loct
ton. Another girl called her to hel
! in some work, and in crossing the roor
|, Mary Ann walked into the trap an
,, was precipitated into the vat below
which was filed with water and vitrit
heated to the boiling point. She wa
rescued in about three minutes. Whe
! taken out life was extinct, and her fles
was bleached to the whiteness OF snow
The German Government is still tr.
inc to chase the potato-bug out OF Il
, land of Bismarck with kerosene bol
4 fires; but we think that by next sprin
= we will see the Colorado beetle inful
= little more sense into the heads OF Il
: Teutonic agrioulturists than all tina
!, and teach them to accept the inevitab
without murmur. Burlington HatC
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: PHILADELPHIA wabbles along und
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