Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—James Thompkins, of Bandersonville, Ga., died from- eating plums a few days ago. His sickness was peculiar. He would snap and bite at and try to spit on those who were attending him. —Mrs. Joseph Ryan, of Christiana, Tenn. t while eating a green apple ad'ew days ago, placed some strychnine upon it, thinking it was salt. Her life was saved •with difficulty. Always have strychnine handy in tlie pantry. -*Miss Ellen Starr, a young lady living in Knox County, Tenn., while walking in the yard a few days ago, stooped to pick up a Bower. As she touched It a copperhead shake, which was concealed in the gfltes, bit her* On the hand. She became deliritofw and suffered excruciating pain, antfiit'fost accoUhts was thought not likely to h P i rtffQfmp) jft. Frintz, clerk in the CincLuaati was to have married a young-Jhdjr in the West End on the evening of tJue 6th- The guests assembled and th&brjde was in readiness, but Frintz did temot make his appearance. A friend callHng at his room next morning found him ■upon the bed. Without saying a word . he (Frintz) drew a revolver and shot himself through the heart. The motive of the suicide is unknown. —That was a somewhat dramatic affair in the Court-House at Providence, R. 1., when Asa Fairbanks died on the witness stafid the other day. He was a poor man, and had become estranged from his daughters because a fortune of $300,000, a large part of which would naturally have fallen to him, was left to them. Jle fell pace, before the fatal stroke came, and, as he was reviving, one of the daughters kissed him, whereupon he pushed her aside, exclaiming; “ How dare you, with four $150.000. and_l haven’t got a cent! only want what’s dtie ine.” ~ —A little girl named Lizzie Kraatz met with a singular accident in Baltimore recently. She was standing on the sidewalk watching a woman cut grass inside a yard, and had hold of a rail of the iron fencing, about four feet high from the coping, in such a manner that the fine point of the rail was partially inserted between a ring on the little finger and the flesh. Her attention was attracted from behind, and in turning around fell from the coping, stripping the flesh from the finger, with the-benej-to; the- -first joint, andpuilmg out thb tendon or cord to the elbow. The finger and tendon were left hanging by the ringto the point of the iron.— —About a year ago a young gin! residing in the town of Villewood, Out, swallowed a penny. No unpleasant results were experienced until several months

—*Tpr. " -yr**’ • ago, when she was attacked at times with violent pains in her stomach. Physicians were called, but they were unable to afford her any relief, and for some time she has been falling rapidly, and it was recently thought she could survive hut a few days longer. For three weeks or more she hsd taken no nourishment that she could retain. Her mouth, she said, -tasted just like a penny, and the saliva from the stomach wasof a greenish color, and strongly impregnated with the smell of copper. About the only thing that she relished was a lemon. --One of the most remarkable murder cases on record is that reported recently from Easton, Pa., an entire family named Lares having been poisoned by placing arsenic in their' food. The father, the mother, and a boarder in the family, are dead, and at last accounts one of the six children was not expected to live. Tim other children are recovering. An older son, being suspected of the poisoning, was arrested, and baa confessed thediorrible and unnatural crime. He says he put the poison in the coffee-pot, his object being murder and robbery, and owns to having stolen his father’s and the boarder’s money after their death. One remarkable part of the matter is that the young man, whose name is Allen C. Laron, was the teacher of a public school in an adjoining town.