Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-29

| false plates slipped into her throat.
Efforts were made to dislodge the plate,
and gradually it worked downward into
her stomach. An operation was resort
ed to but The woman did not recover
from it.
AT enid, Garfield county, Oklahoma
Territory, John Ralston, u cowboy, was
sitting on a bench in front of the Glass
Mountain Rancho house, smoking m
enjoying the GOODNESS of the evening.
Suddenly a bat darted into his face,
either d~esignedly or by accident, and
both eyeballs were puuctured. Efforts
at restoring his sight failed, and he will
be totally blind for life.
\ meteoric stone as big as a mans
fist struck on the arm of the Rev. NJ. r.
Burton. of Harrison Courthouse, Va,
setting his coatsleeve on fire and seri-
ously burning his arm. 1t buried itself
deep in the earth. and when finally it
was dug up it was too hot to handle. The
escape from death was almost miracul-
Gus.
In Chicago a fireman named Larke
employed in the works of the Calumet
Electric company, lay down on a broad
belt from 4 tlywheel and Went to sleep.
The night shift came on, started the
machinery, and Larke escaped crushing
to death only by a hairs breadth.
1t is not even safe to laugh unless you
do so through your teeth. n woman
with her mouth wide open ran into the
drug store Of Or. j. $. Aiorey, R0yersford,
Pa. and made signs to have the yawn-
ing gap closed. When the hitch was
taken out. she explained tina she had
burst into a hearty laugh and dislocated
her jaw.
At NNDyyen I'll n GOV linGnI Mics
Katie Flo in the face, breaking her
lower jaw.
In Indianapolis. at the corner of Ala
hama inc Maryland streets. is a regu-
lating station of the natural gas COM
pany. 1t is below the pavement. and
is covered by a roughed iron plate. AL
bert II. Johnson, a huckster. clucked
to his horse the other morning and
started him over the spot at a jog trot.
\ steel-pointed shoe struck the iron
plate, struck a bright spark, and the
leaking gas below did the rest. The
horse was lifted off his feet and singed
to some extent. The driver suffered
from the fright only.
Barrels. even when empty of alco-
holic liquids, are by no means safe. A
coal oil barrel on the farm of r. B.
Rickabaugh was picked up by a brisk
wind. blown through the barn, and up
set the owner of the place with a good
deal of violence. About the same time
a negro named Alexander Henderson,
at Clarksville, Tex. bought an empty
whisky barrel. expecting to put sor-
ghum in it. He was told to burr the
barrel out. and to do it he dropped a
lighted match into the bunghole. There
was a little more of Alexander left han
of the barrel, but both he and his boy, s
old, are considerably patched up.
Henry Mohler. an Ephrata, Pa, boy,
went swimming in Cocalico creek a few
days ago. The next day he had earache.
night the pain was worse. and on
Friday it was SO agoniZing that a physi-
Gin was called in. An examination show
ed that two leeehes had crawled into his
ear While he was swimming, and tina
they had become SO distended with blood
as to have caused death had they not
been removed. 9+ .Fa9s
Lawrence Mendon. 2 years old, went
his mothers chicken coop at Men
don, Mieh.The collar of his dress caught
on a nail, he fell and was .strangled to
James Kenny received a sunstroke in
a swamp near Elizabeth. n. j. He fell
unconscious and when discovered twelve
liouiS iaAci ne NdS tiiittcSl lEd Die from
the sWarms of mosquitoes that were
settled CT him. He was swollen badly
and his whole system is poisoned by the
insects. He is still dangerously i'll in the
general hospital.
Mrs. Catherine Boylan of Derby, Ct,
Went to sleep the other night, and in
turning in her bed her arm was so
crossed under her as to strangle her to
death.
W. B. Reynolds, of near Montavello,
Ala, has a private water works of his
own. A wind mill raises water to q
5,000-galllon mi thirty feet in the air.
The other day one of the supports gave
way, pitching the tank on the house.
Both house and tank We're demolished,
but the occupants all escaped.
Two persons We're victims of their
fool friends. +. c. Southard, a travel
ing man, was riding on a Second avenue
car in New York the other night and
concluded to light a cigar which had
been given by a friend. After half a
dozen puffs had been taken the cigar
blew up, burning Southland severely and
setting fire to a picture hat worn by a
woman in the next seat.
Miss Arlington, daughter Of w, w,
A~ddington, of Montgomery county, Kas.,
up behind the girl, placed a knee against
her back and pulled on her shoulders.
Injury to the spine caused death.
Joseph DziefZewski of Milwaukee is
employed in the yards of the King Coal
company. A big steam bucket was lifted
the other day n caught in the mans
clothing. He was carried up fifteen feet.
when the clothing gave way, dropping
him to the ground with a broken arm.
Stephen Shipe, IL years old. was shot
and killed with a rifle discharging the
kernel of a peach seed at Santa Rosa,
Cal. The kernel was put into the muzzle
of the rifle, but S-year-old NJ. F. Lee
forgot that a bullet cartridge was be-
hind it.. When young Shipe tried to
catch the kernel in his mouth, the bullet