The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-11-19
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AT Pine Bluff, Ark, A.. sheriff's posse
Eur rsounoed She rosldeiite OF desperate
thief. He jumped from window and
ran for the woods. One pursuer out
stripped his fellows, and the next heetcst
mistook him for the thief and shot him.
At Rock Castle, KY, as the Rev. Mr..
Petrey entered a house, hen flew in and
perched on q 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 hi house, steamboat
ran into it and crushed him to death.
(This was during the April loods.l
At Baltimore, q man who was being
shaved heard q runaway, and, thinking
it was his team, Jumped up and had his
nose nearly cut Off
At Canton, O., James Little drank
some cold beer which paralyzed his
stomach and, forming carbonic acid gas,
in his whole system, causing nearly in
Simultaneous death.
At West Point, Lieutenant Archibald
Gibson could not, while on parade, lift
his hand to remove q spider from his ear
for y whole hour When parade was dis
missed his ear was full Of blood. The
insect was taken out two DAYS later and
Lieutenant Gibson ultimately died of in
hammation of the brain.
AT Charlestown, Mass, Alfred Ander
son crawled into a sand-house he had
built, and it fell in on him and smothered
him.
At Nanticoke, Pa, John Lafschuski
broke bottle of whisky in his pocket,
saturating his clothes; when he subse.
quontly lit match they took fire, and
he 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
drink OF water and finding the cask pump
frozen, poured hot. water into it, and
while attempting to suck drink from it
inhaled the steam and was scalded to
death.
At Pittsburg, Mike Maroney entered
core oven i'll q foundry to warm himself,
and another workman placed core on
the track, ran it IN, closed the door and
roasted him alive.
AT Rixford, Pa, Louis Garthwait
lowered q forty-quart torpedo of nitro
glycerine into well, when the well
made a 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 u stone at the ami
mails, missing them, smashed his brothers
skull.
At St. Louis, Thomas J. Wharton, ir.,
took up large oyster, said: "This is the
Kind OF oyster Walter Brooks choked to
death on!' tried to swallow it, and was
choked to death.
AT Creedmoor, a friend snapped a
cherry pit at Lieutenant w. A. Moore,
and hit him in the eye. It struck the
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 and was
fatally injured.
AT Indianapolis, the weight of cask
OF water smashed the teeth of "Man
with the Iron Jaw" and falling on his
breast it crushed him to death.
At Dovercourt, England, boy named
Boast swallowed the sting of a wasp
while eating some preserves, and died
while running to the doctors.
At Boston, Simeon Long, while play
ing win the cat In his hallway, made a
misstep and fell against the wall and
broke his neck.
AT Dublin, Ga, chimney swallow
filed the muzzle of William Supg's gun
with clay and when he discharged it The
WEAPON blew of his hand.
At Neodesha, MINI, Albert Grant was
playing with Newfoundland dog and
dragging it by the tail, when it Jumped
into the pond, pulling him in and he was
drowned.