Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-29

pared for washing purposes and left on
table. She died in few hours.
DIR. E. N. Plummer, of Havana, ILL.,,
went out to his barn to fill a bed-tick
with straw, and by some mishap slipped
and fell out of the barn-loft on to hard
floor and broke his neck.
At Newburn, n. c., during re-
vival meeting a young woman named
Alice Allison fell in an ecstatic fit, strik-
ing her head upon a pew, fracturing her
skull. She died in short time.
Miss Sallie Mittong, aged Is, who
lived near Summitsville, Ind, after
dancing all night at party lay down
in front of the fireplace to sleep. Her
clothing took fire, and she was burned
to a crisp before assistance could reach
her.
AT Mitchell, Ind, as John Baker
and family were moving a tall tree
which had been cut down and was lying
close to the roadside, branch caught
in the harness, springing back and strik-
ing the baby, which Mrs. Baker held in
her arms, instantly killing it.
Mrs. Catherine Louisa Voelker, of
Buffalo, n. Y, was cOmbing her little
daughters hair, when q lamp standing
on a bureau near by was overturned.
The mothers dress was saturated with
the burning oil and she was fatally injur-
ed before the flames could be extin-
guished.
While seven men were at work on
the new United Brethren Church At
Elkhart, Ind, the scaffolding gave WY
and precipitated them to the ground, in
turing three fatally. The names of the
injured are Loren Fredericks, John
Weir and C. Slower. The fall was forty
feet.
"A few fatal shooting accidents: At
Sterling, ILL.,, Heaton Rressler and
Charles Thompson, two young men,
were preparing to trade revolvers, when
the one in the hands of Bressler was &C.
cidentally discharged, the ball striking
Thompson in the region of the heart,
killing him almost instantly.-Evan
Jones, of Palmyra, o., shot himself
through the head while hunting coons.
William Guy, of Woodstock, o.. was
driving home, when he stopped to take
in Homer Taylor, who had been hunt
ing. In getting into the wagon Taylor's
gun was accidentally discharged, the
contents striking Guy in the forehead,
causing instant death.-John McNulty,
of Columbus, o., killed himself with his
own gun while duck hunting
James Roring, OF DennisOn, o., was ia
tally shot by a companion while hunt
ing.-At Anderson, Ind, Frank Rich
wine, son of Deputy Sheriff Richwine,
while toying with revolver in his
pocket shot himself, inflicting serious
injuries Thornberg, aged IS
years, adopted child of Thos. Thornberg,
living near the same place, was found
dead in the room of her brothers leaning
over trunk in which lay revolver with
one chamber empty. The superstition is
that the young lady shot herself acct
dentally.-At Goliad, Texas, a negro
boy, carelessly handling a six-shooter,
accidentally shot Archer TAFT, the little
son of Robert TAFT, through the
neck, severing his windpipe. The
negro had also wounded a
Mexican with the same pistol
In Wise County, Texas, a little brother
OF Miss Ellen Brewster was playing
with some old rusty pistols. One Of
them happened to be loaded, which the
boy laughingly went to snap at his sis
ter. The weapon was discharged, the
bail piercing Miss Brewster's heart, in
stantly killing her.--At Eufaula, Indian
Territory, q young man, James Crab
-a% -
sitting in drug store, when the revolv-
er fell to the floor, one barrel being &C.
cidentally discharged, the ball passing
through Crabtree's body, and MORALLY
wounding hin.
Foreign Notes.