Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A little boy was attacked by three water snakes in Connecticut, and when his father, who rescued him, came up, all the snakes were wound around the child’s body. —A singular and fatal accident occurred at the Manchester (N. Y.) mills, one day recently, Daniel Sullivan, an operative, aged fourteen, being the victim. He was standing near another lad, who tickled his ear, and Sullivan turning quickly, struck his temple against the machinery and was stunned thereby. He died at home before midnight. Some time since Dr. Isaac Jackson, of Whiteville, cut a ball out of a young man of Columbia County, by the name of Joshua Gore, which he had carried in his body for eleven years. It was a Minnie ball, and when taken out the doctor, noticing some particles of powder adhering to it, struck a match and applied it to the ball, when the powder flashed, the same as if it had been fresh from the cartridge. —Wilmington (N. C.) Star. —One day lately, while August Hartman, who lives 10 miles northeast of West Point, Neb., was hauling hay, in company with his son, one of the horses balketr. Mr. Hartman was on the load, and picked up a fork, with the tine in his hand, and hit the horse a couple of blows, when the animal began to kick, and striking Uie fork drove it over the head of Mr. Hartman and over the load, and coming down tine first, struck liis six-year-old son on the head, driving the tines through his skull, from the effects of which he died in a few hours. —This doubtful story comes from Alamance County, North Carolina: A Dr. Hooper, a dentist, living in the northern part of tlie county, went to the breakfast table prepared to poison his wife, for what reasons is not stated. They were seated alone at the table. After pouring out the coffee, Mrs. Hooper was dispatched out of the room on some pretext, and In her absence her husband poured into her cup a deadly mixture. She returned, ana it happened that tlie doctor himself was called from the room for a moment. In his absence a fly fell into his cup, and Mrs. Hooper, wife-like, exchanged cups. The doctor returned and drank liis coffee almost at one swallow. He at once detected the singular taste of the beverage, and asked his wife if she had exchanged caps. She replied that she had, giving the reason for it, when he exclaimed, “Then I am a dead man!” and in a few minutes was a corpse.