Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A little daughter of Fred J. Beardsley, of Stratford, Conn., five years old, died suddenly in Dr. Hubbard’s office, in Bridgeport, from the effects of injecting a small quantity of diluted persulphate of iron into a bloody tumor of the scalp. —A man working in a well in Lockland, 0., was covered by a fall of stones. Although imprisoned he was unhurt, and could talk with those who set about regcuing him. A new peril appeared, however, in the rise of the water in the well. Slowly the doomed man was submerged, and the exertions were redoubled to get him out; but tlie water reached his face and drowned him before he could be saved. His prayers and struggles to escape were piti—A youth named John Clay, near Elberton, Ga., w r as sitting on the edge of an old unused well, on the premises of Mr. Clark Mattox, the other morning, conversing with several others, when he arose from his seat and seemed to be in the act of stretching himself, when he was apparently seized with vertigo ‘and fell over into the well, being precipitated a distance of forty feet, falling on rocks at the bottom, and crushing his skull and causing instant death. —A tragic ghost story comes from Newmanstown, Lebanon county, Pa. Two young ladies were returning home from a fair in a phseton with a young brother of one of the ladies as driver. It wras about 11 o’clock at night and the road was danferous. While passing through a ravine nown as Ghost’s Hollow, the driver says he saw an unearthly white object, which frightened fhem all, suddenly spring on the horse’s back, driving it at a temfic pace until the phaeton was dashed to pieces against a stone bridge. One of the young ladies was instantly killed and the other is now at the point of death. Mr. Jacob Von VeHer, of New Jersey, wagered fifty dollars in a New York saloon the other night that h.e could drink thirty glasses of lager-beer without getting drunk. The bet was made with a view to deciding whether lager-beer was intoxicating. Mr. Von Veller won, pocketed his money, qnd started for his Jersey home. As he meandered along he became involved in abstruse philosophical speculations, a maze of harrowing doubts overspread his usually clear and massive intellect; he meditated upon tlie tyranny of Sunday laws and—splash! Mr. Von Veller had fallen into the river. Tw’O policemen fished him out. He was not drunk—he was only thoughtful, tt - —Mrs. Cook, the wife of Dr. C. B. Cook, of Kosciusko, Miss., wishing to heat an iron,to .press the seams of a pair of pants, a few days ago, threw’ some chips upon some coals of fire, and, being in a hurry to get the fire kindled, got the coal oil can and commenced pouring the oil upon the chips and coate of fire, when the stream from the can caught fire, which was carried to the can and caused it to explode. Mrs. Cook was knocked senseless and her clothing set on fire; she, however, recovered in a short time, and, with her screams, brought some of the negroes on the place to her assistance, who, immediately extinguished the fire and summoned medical aid; but she was so badly burned that she diefl within two hours from the time of the accident. She was burnt to a crisp from the waist up.