The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
DEATH in QUEER GUISE
STRANGE WAYS IN WHICH LIFE HAS
BEEN ENDED RECENTLY.
Some Daily Dangers Of Which Few
Think-FIen Bite That Caused
Blood Poisoning-Other Cases.
Pittsburg News.

as peculiar as incomprehensible. The story
Of the man who, having Travelled the
world over, braved tropic dangers and
arctic vicissitudes, and checkmated death
in a thousand ways and under thou
sand different DISCUSSES, came home to die
by fall from his own doorstep, Is dis
counted daily in actual life.
A Chicago woman talked herself TO death
not long since. Literally and actually cut
off her life span with her tongue and her
teeth. For over ten years she had never
stopped talking. by night or day. asleep or
awake. A nervous woman and a great
talker always. she lost her mental balance
a decade since, and commenced to talk
without cessation Gradually growing
weaker, she yet talked the more unceas-
ingly. particularly rapid and voluble
flow of words left her. at last, literally
"short of BREATH She had talked herself
into eternity.
Last year another Chicago woman,
leaning over the rail of her back porch TO
look into the yard below, lost her bal
ance and fell. killing herself instantly
Another woman severed an artery in her
wrist while peeling potatoes and also
paid natures last debt. A Denver man
was not long ago strangled by the loose
rope of a clothesline tapping in a high
wind. He was adjusting the line, which
ran on pulleys set between the back
porch and the top of an adjacent build
ing, and the loose end of the rope was
blown around his throat, twisted tightly
and carried far out of his reach, the emo
becoming entangled in another part or
the line. The unfortunate man was un-
able TO loosen,its grim embrace, the high
wind being stronger than himself, and
the pressure caused by the wind slowly
strangled him. Another man swallowed
bit of the metal with which he was en-
deavoring to patch up shabby picture
molding and was cholSed TO death also.
This man had served in the civil and
Spanish-American wars, and had followed
the sea for many years. Death claimed
him, after threatening Intellectually many
times, just at the time when no danger
seemed at hand, says the Chicago Tribune.
Through two smallpox epidemics and
turn or two of yellow fever a Southern
physician rendered magnificent service,
without even the threat of illness for him
self. Mendng the broken baseball of a
boyish friend, he pricked his finger The
leather had evidently become imbued with
some poisonous substance which the needle,
In passing through ii, carried into the I'M
conscious mans finger. Blood poisoning,
severe agony, death resulted.
A little child, week or two ago, fell
into tub of scalding water and was
drowned. His mother had set tubs of
scalding water on the kitchen floor every
Washday since he had been born. Many
times they had been full. The tub which
killed the poor baby only contained a lit
tie OF the cruel fluid. But the baby swal-
lowed just enough to kill him. a st. Louis
man was drowned, little while ago, by
falling head first into the huge barrel
OF water set to catch the drippings from
the caves. The water was only about two
feet deep in the barrel, but the man, un-
able either to recover his footing or to
upset the heavy barrel, was FASTENED into
another world. Last Fourth of July a
man was suffocated by the fumes of the
fireworks he had provided for the delight
of his children. He wanted TO see how
brightly the colored flame would burn, SO
he lighted little of the powder in his
own room and lay watching it flare and
flicker until he fell asleep. The door was
closed, the window but slightly open, with
heavy screen between it and the bed.
The man was dead when found suffocated
as slowly and surely as though by the aid
or the famous charcoal burner of France.
The murderous pistol which won't go
Off is famed for its deadliness, but the
''fiashlight pistol of the amateur photog-
rapher has yet to acquire a reputation of
this order. Yet an English girl had her
life snuffed out like candle in the wind
because of one of the pistols a month or
so ago. The room which she desired to
snap was large and dark; her charge of
ffashlight powder correspondingly heavy.
The pistol seemed determined not to be-
have as IL should. After two or three in
raised the guileless-looking instrument to
her face. Bending close TO investigate the
interior, ii went off, suddenly. A musket
in the mouth could not have blown her
head off more effectually. A dear little
girl, dancing, tripped it with a little too
much abandon recently. Backward she
bent a little too far seemed on the point of
recovery, when crack went something in
the childish brain or nervous system and
the merry baby dropped dead.
"A chicago teamster few. days ago
kicked aside the impeding and seeminglX
useless wire which dangled in the way
OF his team. 1t collided with a live wire
which he had not noticed and formed a
perfect circuit, but the man was dead
before he had time to know it.
A dressmaker sticking a pin into the
front of her bodice after the time honored
fashion of dressmakers the world over in
other woman playfully sticking" a friend
with her long and sharp hatpin was hor-
rified 10 have him fall dead at her feet
The man had succumbed to heart failure
brought about by the sudden shock. At
Gettysburg a severe wound had incapaci-
tated him for life, but left him free of
deaths clutches.
man has been known to die of blood
poisoning induced in the beginning by
severe flea bite. Cases in which people
have bled to death after having a tooth
extracted have been placed on record sew
eral times. A missionary who had
suffered many things at the hands of
divers savage races without losing his life
laid it down last year at the behest of
tiny chip of iron which flew from the block
at which he was assisting a grandson to
make some boyish implement.