Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—There fell on Mount Washington, N. H„ a few days ago, over four inchos of snow. —Richard James, a London (Ont.) uegro, famous as a “outtist,” accidentally lodged a bullet in his head while fooling with a revolver, the other day, and the surgeon found it flattened against the skull. —The “bigtree,” as it was called, which grew In Calaveras county, Cal., contained half a million feet of inch lumber, and was recently felled by five men working twenly-two and a half days, making 112% days’ labor. —At Carrollton, Mo., a few days ago, a trial was made to see how quick wheat standihg In the field could be harvested, threshed, ground, baked and eaten. All these operations were completed in eleven minutes.— Chicago Journal. —Rev. John Wesley Whitfield, of Green Island, N. Y., is a ‘ faithful preacher, a skillful maker of mathematical instruments, a careful astronomer, a .studious entomologist, a powerful painter, a painstaking sculptor, and an average poet.” —A very singular death has recently occurred at Westfield, Mass. About a fortnight before Mrs. Charles Noble, wife of a prominent citizen, accidentally swallowed a cherry-stone, and it lodged in such a manner that it was impossible to extract it, though the best medical skill of the region was called in. She gradually failed in strength, and died on the 23d of July. —The Princeton (Wis.) Republic says: “The hero and martyr of our National game is a young man near Eau Claire. In a recent game a hot ball, thrown by a fielder to him, standing on second base, slipped through his hands and struck him in the breast. He quickly regained the ball and threw it to the home-plate, putting out the man and saving the game, but dropped .dead on his base before the shout of victory.”

—The Laramie (W. T.) Sentinel says: “ Col. Donnellan yesterday met with a rather unpleasant and riskv adventure while prospecting for soda. He was traveling over one of the soda lakes, several rods from his companions, when he stepped upon a soft place and went through the crust of soda into the mud up to his chin. He spread out his arms and caught upon the crust, and thus sustained himself till Boswell and Mr. Sickles rescued him from his dangerous position. He has now found all the soda he wants.” —Prof. McCheeney, of Missouri, who accompanied a geological party from Kentucky which has been in camp at Camp Harvard, Cumberland Gap, insisted on making excavatians in the Indian mounds, of which there are many in that neighborhood. He opened one on the 14th of July, about twenty miles from the camp, and made some nch discoveries. While in the excavation the people of the neighborhood crowded around the edges, which gave way, and a great number were precipitated into the opening. When the excavation was cleared out, it was found that Prof. McCheeney had been stooping when the accident occurred, and that his neck was broken. Prof. Carr, of Harvard College, had an arm badly bruised. —The famous Northampton Bank robbery of last spring is again recalled to public attention by some fresh information about the progress of the negotiations. When the bank officers were in New York recently, in an interview with the man through whom they are negotiating for the bonds, they expressed themselves as dissatisfied, and wanted to know what proof he could give that he had got the bonds, and that he was not toying to play a game on them. He told them that for proof he would mail to a South Hadley man, who owned some of them, all of his bonds that same day, and that if the man received them that ought to satisfy the bank folks. He also said that the night the robbers went up to Northampton they were intending to rob another bank beftide the one they did crack, but when they got into the room oyer the bank and bored a hole down they found it would take several nights, and they decided to take the first instead. After the bank officials returned to Northampton they made an examination and found a hole through the floor of the room above the Northampton National, as they had been told they would, and the South Hadley man also received his bonds by mail. - —— —