The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-05-30
fNCrDENTs AND ACCIDENTS.

"A man named Henry Miller, Of
Astoria, Ore, was joking with some
friends id an tndertakefs shop, and
pointing To- coffin; said, q Il want that
one," and wrote his nafhe Upon it. A
few days later he was buried in the same
coffin.
The selection of May Queen in
Waco, Tex, was attended with consid-
cradle strife and excitement. Miss
Jones received 8,194 votes, and Miss
Pace, the next highest candidate, 4,312.
The ballots cost ten cents each, and
everybody could cast as many as de-
sired by paying proportionately. The
gain to public charity by this plan
was 81, 200. There were several in
cidental fights. growing 5tit Uf heated
advocacy of the rival aspifafits.
A convicted thief in New Mexico
aroused the inmates of the Jail by loud
cries. He was found lying on the floor
of his cell, professedly unable to move.
He said that he had fallen from the bed
and injured his spine. During the en-
suing month he pretended to be in con-
slant and terrible pain; and on his be-
ing carried to Court for sentence, the
sympathetic Judge imposed the lightest
possible penalty. Afterward it was
discovered that the thief had not been
hurt at all:
"A parrot created d sensation iii
baggage-car on the Chicago; ,Burlitig-
ton & Quincy Railroad the 0thef day.
The cage was inclosed in paper and
set on coffin and was soon forgotten.
As the conductor and other trainmen
were passing through the car they
heard sepulchral voice issuing appar-
entlv from the coffin, crying, "Lemme
outn' They were startled and flight
ened, and thought they had sure case
Of a ghost, till polly was discovered
whining for liberty.
There is now on trial in our courts
a man possessed of a good trade, and
capable of earning a decent living in
any city or town in the country. Under
the influence of liquor, a few weeks
since, he attempted to knife man to
him unknown, and he will now pay for
few glasses of vile whisky by spend
ing more or less time in the Peniten-
tiary. Thursdays evening train brought
to Denver another less fortunate VIC
tim. He, too, had been imbibing vile
whisky, and, while Under its influence,
drove the lock of gun through the
brain of an antagonist, from the effects
of which he died. Here are two men
would-be murderer and murderer
whose proper pleas in court would be
"Drunk, Your Honor. Rocky Noun
tain Ne,cs.
Bryant Foley, a young Watertown
man, who was suffering from broken
leg, in some way got the impression
that he had taken poison in the form
of carbolic acid. used as a wash for his
limb, and died of fright. He was ap-
parently well at four p. m. Sunday,
and at seven p. m. he was dead. He
ate an orange on Saturday, and thought
it tasted of the acid, which caused him
to faint. but he was quieted In little
while. The physicians say in their re-
port to the Coroner: 1--WE find, from a
thorough examination and careful in
vestigation, that his death was caused
by syncope or fainting; that we care
fully examined the stomach and found
no traces of poison of any kind; the
coats of the stomach and intestines free
from inflammation; from the appear
ance of the heart, it was evident from
the absence of blood in its walls and
their collapsed condition, that he died
of syncope or faintness; the condition
of his limb warranted the belief that
his leg would be returned to usefulness,
as all of the parts surrounding the
fracture were in healthy condition,
and reparation of the bone already
commenced and favorably prospering."
The jury reported that it could not as
certain the cause of death.-Uticd Her
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