Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A case which should prove a warning I to mothers empfbyihg ’suspicious girls to take care of tlieir children has recently occurred in New York. A girl named Augusta Kasson, aged nineteen, having taken poison and believing herself to be dyings confessed to having poisoned with oxalic acid a little child of Mr. and Mrs. Heyne, of 39 Third ; avenue. The child had died apparently from natural causes and been buried. The motive was simply revenge for a threatened discharge from eiiiployment.

—Thos. Carrigan, one of the contractors on the Baltimore city water supply, met with a horrible death lately. He stepped in a bucket to descend a shaft in company with a workman.’ After being lowered a short distance the strands of the rope began untwisting, and the man began to haul him up. Just as he reached the surface the rope parted, and both men were hurled to the bottom of the shaft, 100 feet. Carrigan was instantly killed, and his companion seriously injured. —ln Springfield, Mass., a gloom hrs been cast over the entire community. A valuable and sagacious Newfoundland dog planted himself on the railroad to bark at the locomotive. His innocent vociferousness attracted tlie attention of a priceless white dog of the taurine variety, Who immediately bounced down upon the track for the purpose of frightening off the noble brute of Newfoundland. Just then the locomotive came along. Suffice it to say that two Springfield families w ere instantly desolated. There isn’t so much danger of hydrophobia as there was; but what are a few deaths in the domestic circle to the cruel fate of two such pleasant and useful beasts—indispensable guards; invaluable as a vent for human affection. —Louisville Courier Journal.

—A thrilling and fatal accident occurred on the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, at Sulphur Spring station, a few miles from Baltimore, a few days ago Two children, George Stansbury and Albert Shencks, aged respectively eleven and' five yeays, the former a son of Mr. G. W.' Stansbury’, residing about twenty-five yards from the place where the accident occurred, had been playing on the track, and, after amusing themselves for some tinie, became tired, and, laying themselves down on the track between the sleepers, fellasleep. A short time after the children had fallen asleep, the express train was due at the station, and in a few minutes the thunder of its approach was heard. The children were quietly sleeping in each other’s ai ms, and their position was such that they were almost entirely, hidden from the engineer’s sight, and even if they had been in full view, it is doubtful if the train could have been stopped; in time to have saved them. In a few seconds after the rumble of the train was heard the locomotive was upon them, and they .were.hurled from the track by the pilot. The train was stopped, and the unfortunate children picked up, when it was found that the skull of young Stansbmy had been crushed, killing him almost instantly, wdilleTiis companion, beyond being stunned, was but slightly bruised, having miraculously escaped with hislife.