Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17
SOME ODD ACCIDENTS.
How Certain silly or tniucHy Fer-
sons Have Recently Been injured
or Killed.

or killed.
At Louisville, an old man aimed a
kick at his wife lost his balance, fell,
and was fatally injured.
AT Carlestown, Mass, Alfred Ander-
son crawled into a sand-house he had
built and it fell in on him and smct'.-
cred him.
At Boston, Simeon Long, while play
inc with the cat in the hallway, made a
misstep, fell against the wall, and broke
his neck.
At Baltimore, a man who WAS being
shaved heard runaway, and thinking
it vas his team jumped up and had his
nose nearly cut off.
At Dublin, Ga, a chimney swallow
filed the muMle Of William Sagg's gun
with clay, and wren he discharged it the
weapon blew off his hand
At indianapolis, the weight OF cask
of water smashed the teeth OF n " Man
with the Iron Jaw" and falling on his
breast crushed him to death.
At Dovercourt. England, a boy named
Boast swallowed the sting of a wasp
while eating some preserves, ana died
while running to the doctors.
AT Kansas City, as Il man was sit
ting on the balcony Of his house, a
steamboat ran into il and crushed him
to death This was during the April
hoods.)
At Neodesha, Mimi, Albert Grant
was playing with Newfoundland dog
and dragging by the tail, when it jumped
into the pond, pulling him in, and he
was drowned.
At Green Ridge, Pa. John Thompson
and his brother tried to stop dog fight,
and the latter threw stone at the ami
mails and missing them, smashed his
brothers. skull.
At Nanticoke, Pa, John Lafschuski
broke bottle OF whisky in his pocket,
saturating his clothes; when he subse-
quently lit a match they took fire, and
he was fatally burned.
At Pittsburg Mike Maroney entered
a core oven in a foundry to warm him
self, and another workman placed
core on the truck, ran it in, closed the
door and roasted him.
At Rixford, Pa, Louis Gathwait low
cred n forty quart torpedo of nitro-gly
cerine into a well, when the well made
sudden flow. struck the torpedo and
blew him to pieces.
At Rock Castle, KY, rs the Rev. Mr..
Petrey entered house, hen flew il
and perched on hanging rifle, it
fell and falling on the lock was dis
charged and killed the minister
At Canton, o., James Little drank
some cold beer which paralyzed his
stomach AMI, forming carbonic acid
gas, permeated his whole system, caus-
ing nearly instantaneous death.
At st. Louis, Thomas J. Wharton, IT,,
took UP large oyster, said, "This is
the kind of an oyster Walter Brooks
was choked to death on" tried to swal-
low it, and was choked to death
AT Eastport, Me, sailor, wanting u
drink of water, and finding the cask
pump frozen, poured hot water into it,
and while attempting to suck drink
from it inhaled the hot steam and was
scaided to death.
At Creedmore, friend snapped
cherry pit MT Lieut.. w. A. Moore, and
hit him in the eye. 1t struck the optic
nerve, causing paralysis and conges-
ton Of the BRAIN, and he had a narrow
escape from death.
In Adair county Mo-, two young
men agreed to be photographed with
pistols drawn on each other. The artist
while arranging their.position, discharg-
ed one of the pistols, shooting the oppo-
site sitter through the lungs.
AT Pine Bluff, Ark, a sheriff's possee
surrounded the residence of a desper-
ate thief He jumped from window
and ran for the woods One pursuer
outstripped his fellows, and the next
flaetest mistOok him for the thief and
shot him.
At West Point Lieut. Archibald
Gibson could not, while on parade, lift
his hand to remove spider from his
ear for II whole hour. When parade
was dismissed his ear was full of blood.
The insect was taken out two days
later and Lieut., Gibson ultimately died
of inflammation of the brain.
One lively fly can scratch up and
scatter more seeds of religion than the
most eloquent divine can SOW in u whole
forenoon.
That we arc silver producing Ma
ton is a fact that strikes one with great
force, when reading the Census Bulle-
tin on Mining. In 2S55 the product
was $4,000 in 1860 it was $4,000 !;
in 1855 it was 81 900 COG; in 1870 it
was Sl6,0OO00O in 1878 the amount
jumped to So, 100000, and in 1880 to
100000.
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