Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-20
Haps and DIishaps.

Haps and Mishaps.
Peter +. Rush, farmer living one
mile east of Elkbart, Ind, was kicked
to death by a horse.
"A 5-vear-bld daughter of Reuben Rey-
nolds OF Stanford, Ky. fell into a kettle
of boiling water, and Was sSalded dead.
Robert Cummins died at Coskey
Station, Ky, on the day set for his
wedding, from an overdose of morphine,
mistaken for quinine.
AT Waverly, o., James Funk, a
painter, fell off a scaffolding, d distance
of 80 feet, and was killed.
AT East Davenport, Iowa, Barte-
mus Hansel was assisting in moving a
house. when the supports gave way,
dropping the sill across his breast, and
crushing him to death.
Matte Matthews, beautiful young
lady of II, committed suicide near Dem
yer, Col, by shooting herself with iiaty
pistol. She had been disgraced and ru-
ined by young man under promise of
marriage.
Mrs. DR.. Allyne, highly esteemed
lady of Cleveland, o , in freak of in
sanity, caused by fever, saturated her
clothing with kerosene, set fire to it,
and then inhaled the flames. She died
in few minutes from her internal in
juries, but she WAS not badly burned
externally.
"A young man very respectfully con-
Dected, named Robinson, residing with
Capt Jas. Morgan, in Union District,
on the Kanawha River, West Va, COM
mitted suicide by taking arsenic. Cause,
unrequited love. The young lady was
very much prostrated over the sad af-
fair, and fears were entertained for her
life.
The foreman in Delaware County
IN. " tannery had been at work in
the sweat pits, and become overheated
and was perspiring profusely, and while
in this condition he fell into one of the
watts. The poison from the liquor en-
tered his system through the pores of
the skin, resulting in death in few
days.
One of the most distressing acci-
dents of the Fourth occurred at Balti-
more, where Marcellus Keene, 10-year-
old boy, fell on powder bottle he was
carrying in his pocket, and large pieces
of the glass penetrated his right thigh,
severing the large blood vessels and
causing death in 20 minutes.
Foreign Notes.
One of the most attractive and pop
ular features of the Paris Exhibition Is
the display of the superb Pullman pal
ace and sleeping cars in the American
section.
"A jeweler in the Paris Exhibition
shows necklace which purports to be
a mixture of true pearls and false, and
challenges any body to single out the
real.
OF all the buildings in the Park OF
the Trocadero, the Algerian Palace i;
said to be the most extensive and cost
ly. The total space covered by 1t i:
about 1852 square meters.
Forty years ago it was feared that
the Queen of England might be de
throned by the Orangemen in favor OF
her cousin, the ex-King of Hanover, who
has just died.
The Emperor of Brazil hasn'
enough of travel yet. He is going tt
Paris for the Exhibition, and has en-
gagged for July the rooms in the Crane
Hotel now occupied by the Shah.
The Partisan man never gives uI
his seat in the car to a woman. A cor
respondent thought one day he discov
cred an exception, as Two men jumped W
and offered their seats to two standing
women. He was undeceived when on,
of the polite passengers remarked to the
other: Brown, do you remember tina
night at Wallack 's?" They were Amer
leans.
The cemetery in Munich is sigh
for the visitor, for in buildings erected
for the purpose may be seen dead per
sons waiting the lapse of three days re
quired by law before burial. None o
the gloom Of the grave surrounds thes'
remains, but they are attired in every
day costumes and placed in careless o
half-reclining attitudes, amid fresh flow
ers. To the hand of each is attached ;
wire leading to spring bell, so that al
alarm may be given in case of resusci
tation.