Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-01-12

the upsetting of kettle of boiling
water.
Herman Kolestein, aged Is, living
near Lincoln, Neb., was fatally burned
blythe husk mattress on which he was
sleeping catching fire.
At Paschalville, Pa, Mrs. Jane
Tumbs was fatally burned by the upset
ting of a coal-on can, the contents of
which took fire.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Ridgeway was person
ating Santa Claus for the amusement Of
some children at Ripley, o., when her
clothing caught fire from a candle on a
Christmas tree and she was badly burn
ed.
Shotgun and pistol victims: VIM.
Coburn, aged 20, of Higginsport, o.,
was accidentally shot and killed by Al
bert Young while fooling with a revol-
ver-James Clark, of Darlington, O.,
was fatally wounded by the discharge of
his own gun.-A man named O'Conner
was shot and killed by a companion
named Brown, while hunting for deer
above Marietta, O.-Rolla Sterrett was
shot and killed at New Albany, Ind,
during scuffie between two colored
boys for the possession of a shotgun
A: Milwaukee, Christmas Day, Pauline
Kramer, aged Is, was shot and killed
by her cousin, John Kramer, aged IA.
The boy and girl were playing, and the
boy took from bureau drawer an old
pistol that he supposed was unloaded.
He cooked the weapon, pointed it At the
girl, pulled the trigger, and the girl fell
dead, with a bullet through her head
VIM. WOrdell was killed by
the accidental discharge of his
own gun while hunting near Grand
Ledge, Mich.-A 7-year-old son of Ben
neville Derr, of Lehigh County, Pa,
got hold of a loaded gun during the alb
sence of his parents, and shot himself
dead.-A year-old child of George w.
Thompson, Chief-of-Police of Little
Washington, Pa, got out of bed and
took his fathers revolver from his over
coat which was hanging on chair. The
pistol was in some way discharged, the
bullet passing through the child's head,
killing it almost instantly.-James Fry
was killed by his own gun while hunt
ing in Potter County, Pa.-Edward
Flandreau was killed while knocking a
frozen apple from tree with his gun
near New Milford, Pa.
Suicidal list: Frank Ferber shot
himself near Burton, H., to escape ar
rest for beating his wife.-Dan Mcguire
went into a hardware store at Gales
burg, H., and asked to be shown some
revolvers. The attention of the clerk
being directed TO another customer,
Mcguire placed the muzzle of one to his
own breast, and, discharging the weap-
on. fell to the floor fatally wounded
Willis Butan, aged %, shot himself with
a gun loaded with pebbles, near Shelby,
o. He was partially deranged.-The
wife of Jared Martin, of Jackson, O.,
cut her throat.-The wife of Samuel
Hookaway, near Mount Vernon, o.,
drowned herself in cistern while tenn
porarily insane.-Caleb Baker, aged As,
of Adrian, Mich, poor, partially
paralyzed, and deserted by his
wife, killed himself with NOR
phine--Alrs. George Happier, wife
of a brewer OF Coldwater, Mich. drown
ed herself in mill-race.-Hiram Bid
dleman, OF Sparta Center, Mich, ended
his life with st,yshnine.-A young wom-
an named Harriet Smith, who was I'M
der arrest at Detroit for theft, hanged
herself in her cell.-Florian Urban, a
night-watchman in a saw-mill at Evans
vile, Ind, hanged himself to the rafters
of the mill.-Martin 7. G. Moony, a
well known drummer, shot himself at
New Albany, Ind.-A young lady
named Klouse, residing in Shullsburg,
Wis, suffering from disgrace over her
expulsion from Sisters-of-C Charity
school, swallowed the contents of bot
tie of ink, from the effects of which she
died.-Wm. Green, who lost his prop
erty by the war, and whose financial
has been gradually growing