Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-16
ODD accidents.

A passenger on a railway train in Geor-
gia thus relates what happened: 1--WE
stopped suddenly when two trains met on
the track just this side of Rome yesterday.
For my part I went feet foremost under
the seat that was just in front of where I
was sitting. The most singular thing that
1 witnessed was done just across the aisle
from me. There were two men, sitting
n directly bshind the other, and in front
! of them was an unoccupied seat. When
the engines struck, the man in front turned
a complete somersault and lit in the vacant
seat just exactly as he sat in the other seat.
The other man performed exactly the
same feat, and lit in the seat lately occu-
pied by his ~neighbor."
As the 7:3O train on the Shore line was
speeding toward New Haven, Conn, the
other evening, just east of Guilford, the
engineer and fireman we're startled at a
| jar the locomotive received. Thinking
that they had run over a man, the train was
backed, and upon arriving at the place
| where the shock occurred, were surprised
to see a huge crane lying upon the ground.
| The crane had evidently been attracted
| by the headlight of the locomotive, and in
its flight broke the top Of the sandbox on
the engine and slightly injured the whistle.
The engineer says he was positive he had
killed a man, seeing the blood which
colored the engine. The crane measured
| ten feet from tip to tip.
Two young men of Westfell, Mass, had
a marrow escape from 4 horrible de nth one
day last week. They had been rabbit
hunting by moonlight near the deep cut
on the Canal railroad, and i'll returning
over what was formerly known as 1.-The tin
bridge were overtaken by the midnight
freight tram from New Haven. So sud
denly did the train appear that they had
no time for escape, so they threw them
selves upon the sleepers projecting a little
beyond the rails and chung there VIII le the
train Numbered by, nearly shaking them
off into the rocky river bed some eighty
feet below. The two dogs were overtaken
and killed.
Frank S. Naples, of Wawecus Hill,
Conn, had the poor luck while out hunt
ing the other day to drive a gray squirrel
into a hole in . tree thirty feet from the
| ground. Mr.. Naples scaled the tree,
pulled thss squirrel out by the tail, and
beat its head against a limb. In doing so
he furnished his arm so vigorously that he
threw his shoulder put of joint. He was
then in a p~erilous plight, disabled, thirty
feet from the ground, and a mile from
help. He managed to get down from the
tree, and while On his way home started
another gray squirrel, which he shot, fir
ing from the left shoulder, which was
sound.
A singular accident occurred in Colfax.
La, recently, resulting in the death of a
negro boy about sixteen years of age. In
company with three or four white boys, he
was walking along the street peeling sugar
cane with the big blade of a very sharp
| knife, when a smaller negro boy ran up
from behind and playfully jumped on his
back. The jostle caused the knife blade
| to enter his breast about two inches, and
| either penetrated his heart or cut an artery
| close to it. He sank to his knees with an
exclamation of pain, and in a few minutes
was dead.
Mrs. Kettle, a prominent singer of Ham
ilton, Ont, was awakened the other night
by the crying of her child. She quoted
it, and both were soon asleep; but she was
| again awakened, this time by a sharp pain
in the ear, when she screamed, and by the
low burning light say a rat run away. 1t
had bitten Mrs. Kettles ear so as to make
it bleed. Examining her babe, she found
upon its ear the prints of the rats teeth.
man at Clarkville, Ark, was struck by
lightning, which ran up his arm and down
his body, splitting his boots open. He was
not seriously injured.
At Luling, Tex, the dress of Mrs. E. B.
Stell caught fire from a lighted cigar
stump and the lady was fatally burned.
At Little River, CAL, recently, a steam
| boat hand had his leg broken by the coil
of a rope.
A Perit0Ms Journey.
Capt. Paul Boyntou is about to start
upon another venturesome voyage. He
| proposes to float in his rubber suit from
the headwaters of the Grand river, in the
Elk mountains of Colorado, down through
the Rio Colorado to its MOUTH course
all but as long as the Missouri, and one
that passes through Colorado, Utah, Neva-
da, Arizona and California. This enter
prise is a most dangerous one Nearly
three months will be consumed in the
journey. Mile after mile will be traversed
in the depths of the wilderness, with no
human being and no human hab-
itation within reach. The river
runs through canons,t the PERCEPTIONS sides
of which tower up a thousand feet, some
times for an unbroken distance of twenty
miles and more. There are known to be
most dangerous rapids at a number OF
points along the course, and concealed
sharp rocks, worn by the action of the wa
ters to the sharpness of a knife's point, are
among them. A large portion of the route
has never been fully explored. Capt. Boyn-
ton, now in Baltimore, goes to Denver,
| thence to Leadville and over the noun
tains to the uppermost point-just where
| the water will float him. He will make
constant notes of the character of the seen
cry and of the general appearance of the
| country, and thinks he can establish the
faZt that the Tagus and the Rio Colorado
are greatly similar.
An Anecdote Of L~abOuchere.
Henry L~aborchere, editor of the London
| Truth, expects to revisit this country soon.
| Once he found himself in New York with
out a cent. Half starved, he went to q
dining saloon, and ordering a square meal
fell to %devouring it, hoping that before he
| had finished Providence would afford him
some means of paying his bill. The pro-
| priokor mistOOk him for an irish pafriof