Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — Odd Accidents. [ARTICLE]

Odd Accidents.

An ingenious boy of Hannibal, Mo., has succeeded in shooting a playmate with a gun which had no trigger. Andrew Coleman, of Athens, Ga., had his eye put out, and later died, from the effects of a pin shot from a child’s toy gun. J. M. Pike, the “ Orchard King of Kennebec,” was loading a cart in his barn cellar when he saw the cart tipping up. He sprang upon the pole too late to keep it down, and the end of the pole pinned him to the ceiling by the head. He couldn’t shout, but made some noise which attracted attention to him, and he was released. Sewickley, Penn., has its council chamber over the lockup. When the latter was cleared out recently so many bedbugs climbed upstairs that they broke up the next council meeting.