Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-10-28
SOME ODD ACCIDENTS.
How Certain Silly or Unlucky
Persons Have Recently Been
Injured or Killed.

At Pine Bluff, Ark, Sheriff's posse
surrounded the residence OF desperate
thief. He jumped from window and
ran for the woods. One pursuer out
stripped his fellows, and the next fleet
est mistook him for the thief and shot
him.
At Rock Castle, Ky, as the Rev. Mr..
petrey entered a house, a hen flew IN
and perched on hanging rifle; it fell,
and falling on the lock was discharged,
and killed the minister.
At Kansas City, as man was sitting
on the balcony of his house, a steamboat
ran into it and crushed him to death.
This was during the April floods
At Baltimore, a man who was being
shaved heard runaway, and, thinking
it was his team, jumped up and had his
nose nearly cut of.
At Canton, O., James Little drank
some cold beer which paralyzad his
stomach and, forming carbonic acid gas,
his whole system, causing instantaneous
death.
At West Point, Lieutenant Archibald
Gibson could not, while on parade, lift
his hand to remove spider from his
ear for a whole hour. When parade
was dismissed his ear was full OF blood.
The insect was taken out two days later
and Lieutenant Gibson died OF intlsmma.
ton OF the brain.
At Charlestown, Mass, Alfred Ander-
son crawled into sand.ho he had
built, and it fell in on him and smother
ed him.
At Nanticoke, Pa, John Lafschuski
broke bottle OF whiskev in his pocket,
ssturat'ng his clothes; when he sub
sequently lit match they took fire, and
ne WAS fatally burned.
In Adair County, Mo-, two young men
agreed to be photographed with pistols
drawn on each other. The artist, while
arranging its position, discharged one OF
the pistols, shooting the opposite sitter
through the lungs.
At Eastport, Me-, sailor, wanting a
drink OF water and finding the cask
pump frozen, poured hot water into it,
aud while attempting to suck a drink
from it inhaled the steam and was scald-
ed to death.
At Pittsburg, Mike Maroney entered q
core oven in foundry to warm himself,
and another workman placed core on
the truck, ran it in, closed the door and
roasted him alive.
At Rixford, Pa Louis G: RIB wait low.
ered torty-Quart torpedo OF nitro.
glycerine into a we'll, when the well
made q sudden flow, struck the torpedo
and blew him to pieces.
At Green Ridge, Pa, John Thompson
and his brother tried to stop dog fight,
and the latter threw stone ct the
animals and, missing them, smashed his
brothers skull.
At st. Louis, Thomas ]. Wharton, Jr.
took up large oyster, said. This is the
kind OF oyster Walter Brooks choked tc
death on" tried to swallow it, and wal
choked to death.
At Creedmoor, q friend snapped .
cherry pit at Lieutenant W. A. Moore
and hit him in the eye. II struck thu
optic nerve. causing paralysis and con
gestion OF the brain, and he had mar
row escape from death.
At Louisville, an old man aimed ,
kick at his wife, lost his balance, fell anC
was fatally injured.
At Indiana polls, the weight OF casl
OF water mashed the teeth OF "Mal
With the Iron Jaw" and falling on hi
breast it crushed him TO death.
At Dovercourt, England, q boy name;
Boast swallowed the sting OF wasl
while eating some preserves, and die'
whil- running to the doctors.
At Boston, Simon Long, while plsyinl
with the cat In his hallway, made mis-
step and fell against the wall and brok
bis neck.
At Dublin, Ga, chimney swallow
filed the muzzel OF William Suggs' gu
with clay and when he discharged it tn
weapon blew of his hand.
AT Neodesha. Mimi, Albert Gran
was playing With a Newfoundland DO
and dragging it by the tail, when
jumped INTO the pond, pulling him il
and ne was drowned