The Grit-advocate., 1900-06-01
HAPPENINGS WHICH SHOW
LIFE'6 UNCERTAINTIES.
Instant Death from Needle Prick
Wept and Lost Her sight-Chsmpion
Cigarstte Smokers End-FaIss Teeth
Caused Death.


the present month and they will 60
to show that tales Of fiction are not
nearly SO strange as happenings In
real life. Among the curious happen
ings are the following: While Madi-
son Burke. a prominent farmer living
his children, he threw his head back
and two false teeth slipped down his
throat. They we're removed in Pitts
burg hospital, where he was taken, but
an abscess was created, and he died.
In Philadelphia, the point of needle
was accidentally thrust into the third
finger of the left hand of Mrs. Annie
NJ. Smith. With scream she fell back
dead. 1t is believed that the nerve con-
nected the finger and the heart. She
had been suffering from heart disease,
and the prick Is supposed to have,
through the communicating nerve.
caused shock that stopped the heart
action. At Geneva, N. Y, Mrs Edward
Pendal died from the puncture Of a
needle in the back of her hand. Mrs.
Matilda Quitman, of Manhattan, lit
orally cried her eyes out through
mourning the death Of her husband
and daughter. Her constant weeping Is
believed to have caused an irritation
which stopped blood vessel, thus pro-
ducing sudden blindness. In Marietta,
O., Frederick Kestermeir cried for
three days over his aged father and
soleremaining relative, who was IA
tally Ill. Ten minutes after the old
man died the son threw himself on
the bed and was dead in few min
utes. Physicians say his heart was
broken. Tilly Mahon, aged II, Of Man
haitian, and Freda Poingnee, of Belle
vile, ILL.,, died from the effects Of ex-
cessive rope-skipping. The fatal ex-
ploit Of the latter was 230 skips with
out a rest. In Bridgeport, Conn, .
factory girl waltzed to excess and be-
came insane. At Scranton, Pa. man
became crazy because of failure to win
over II other members of jury he was
sitting on to his view Of liquor viola
tion case. In Manhattan, William At
kins, aged %, offered to help a lady
clean house. She had nothing for him
to do except to see that a fire In the
yard did not catch to any fences. At
the same time, observing that he had
on new suit of clothes. she laugh
ingly told him t. put on one Of her
dress skirts. Atkins took her at her
word. and in this incongruous rig as
sumed his duties. Soon after his dress
caught fire and he was fatally burned.
w. H. Bean. Of Chicago, licked 300
newspaper wrappers and became vio-
lently i'll. A doctor diagnosed the case
as ptomaine poisoning, caused by the
mucilage. At Browning, Ind, w. A.
Ellis was about to be operated on for
appendicitis, when the family physi-
clan concluded to try a stomach pump.
A large amount OF sand and gravel was
taken from him and he recovered. At
St. Louis, Bud Ferguson, negro, bet
that the home ball club would beat
Pittsburg. He won considerable money
and while on his way home in a street
car he laughed so immoderately when
telling a friend of his luck that a
hemorrhage followed and he dropped
dead. In Philadelphia, Mrs. Caroline
NJ. Ran heard that her father had died
in another part of the city. On the way
to his house she was taken violently i'll
and soon after died. The report Of her
fathers death was false. 1t was the
boast Of John Dorsey, aged 27, at Hag-
rstown. that he could smoke more Gig
arettes than any other man In that
section Of the state. While smoking