The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-11
TOLEDO. COUNTY, IOWA THURSDAY APRIL il. ISIS. )
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

r INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.
The Caro- (Mich.) Advertiser say.
John Riley. of that village, who is 8
very fieshy man, has met with singular
accident. While STOPPING over, the
calf OF his leg burst, and the wound il
more painful and serious than broken
leg would be.
The body of man named Joseph
X. Lacey was found the other day
standing erect and lifeless in a sink hole
in the rear of his residence at Birdsboro,
Pa He had been i'll with fever, and
while temporarily deranged jumped out
OF the window of his bed room and
thence into the hole.
John Connolly, child fourteen
months old, was playing in the house
OF his parents at No. 206 Van Buren,
street, on Sunday morning, when Mr..
Connolly, who was smoking at the
time, blew some smoke in his child 5
face. The baby was strangled, and
died before physician could be pro-
cured.-N. Y. Evening Post.
That romantic story about the fatal
mission of Congressman j. E. Leonard
to Cuba, to find his sweetheart. is de-
MED by tire washington F0st, wnlcn le-
clares that he went to Havana to break
off his engagement with girl there, SO
as to be free to press his suit with 8
Washington belle. The Post also hints
that he feared he might be poisoned by
Cuban rival
"A little girl of fConshohocken, Conn,
was playing with cat, one day recent
ly, when she was slightly scratched by
the animal. Her brother was ill with
scarlet fever, and she took the disease.
Instead of the eruption coming out
naturally, it seemed to settle in the tri-
fling wound which the cat had inflicted.
Gangrene set in, and the little one suf-
fered greatly, and was finally relieved
by death.
"A couple of constables, while serv-
ing process near the City of Belleview,
ILL.,, few days ago, were attacked by
an infuriated sow, and were compelled
to seek safety in the friendly branches
of neighboring tree. The animal
stood sentry for two hours at the foot
of the tree, when it quietly walked
away. AS soon as her sowship was out
of sight the frightened officers of the
law descended and rapidly left the
neighborhood.
There was a negro marriage in
Talladega, Ala, few days ago, and a
few minutes after the ceremony had
been performed a rejected suitor of
the bride threw his arms around her
neck and, in the presence of number
of persons, inflicted upon her eight or
nine stabs, from which she died almost
instantly. He then mounted the Court
House steps and proclaimed: 81 done
it; hang me, or kill me just as you
please, only bury me by Liza's side"
We have here in Hart County, KY,
a man by the name of William Bow
man, who was thrown away in the
Apalache Mountains, N. c., when an
infant, and was found by an old bear
and adopted as a cub. At the age of
about ten years he was captured, tied
hand and foot, and then his captors
found that he could not talk, nor could
he be persuaded to take any food but
milk, which he sucked from bottle,
showing that he had lived solely from
the nursing of the bear. Bowman is
now farmer near Omega, and anyone
doubling the truth of this statement can
have it verified by seeing him.-Hart
Co. (KY.) Three Springs.
from Syracuse, N. Y, few evenings
ago, Lora L. Edden, aged forty-six
years, murdered her mother, aged
eighty years, by stabbing her in the
back with a ajack-knife. They had lived
together for several years, but did not
agree. The daughter had beaten her
mother on several occasions, and on
the evening in question, while eating
dinner, she picked quarrel with her
mother and abused her. Finding that
she could not break the old woman s
spirit she seized a jack-knife and stab
bed her in the back under the shoulder
blade, inflicting a wound from which
she soon died. The daughter does not
show any regret at what she has done.
An extraordinary instance of true
love comes over the hill from the Poor
House at Liberty, Ind. For some time
a woman, aged seventy-eight years,
has been confined there as pauper.
Employed as farm hand, q young
man, aged about twenty-six, has peen
connected with the institution. This
Young man was in the habit of carrying
wood for the old lady's fire and paying
other attentions to her. A few days
ago the keeper was informed by the
young man that it was his intention to
marry the old lady. Notwithstanding
the keepers protestations and advice,
the affair was consummated, and the
loving couple are living together as
happy as two turtle doves in mating
season.