Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1877 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Few people realize the danger Involved in turning over in bed. A Massachusetts man broke his leg in that way a few days ago. t —lndians don’t like the Red River country. Some of them hired out to pick cotton. One of the women left her little child at the end of the row, expecting to find it there when she should return, but what must have been the disappointment of the poor mother when she came back and found that her innocent little babe had been devoured by the hogs. The Indians were so shocked by the sad and horrible affair that they all left the place, and say they will never work on the farm again. —On the day of the last fight of the United States troops with Chief Joseph, his little daughter, ten years old, finding that her father was occupied with his rille, ran to the ponies and made an heroic effort to herd them in. The cavalry, however, cut her off, and, seeing that she would be captured if she remained with the animals, she took to the hills. After the fight and the surrender, Joseph’s first question was regarding. his cliild. Every effort was made to find her, but at hist reports no trace of her had l>een found. Chief Joseph believes that she is dead, and is greatly affected by his loss. —April 10, 1876, a woman threw herself into the Ohio River from the Newport ferryboat. A lad sixteen years old, William A. Shober, jumped into the river and made a heroic effort to save her, but without avail, and came near drowning himself. Kilwinning Lodge of Masons, of Cincinnati, recognizing this noble boy's act of heroic humanity, voted him a gold medal, and the other evening at the annual banquet the testimonial was presented to the boy by the late Att’y-Gen. Taft, a member of the Lodge, in an eloquent and appropriate address, il'ho ceremony was largely attended by prominent Masons of Ohio anti otlier citizens. —A revolting accident occurred recently on the Bringier Place, nearly opposite Donaldsonville, La., by xvhich a colored woman, Patience London, lost her life. The woman was leaningover the fireplace in a state of intoxication, when she lost her balance and fell forward into the fire. Being So stupefied with liquor as to render futile any exertion she might have made to save herself, the miserable creature was literally cooked to death, her face and breast being burned in a terrible manner. The only other inmates of the cabin xvere the women’s two children, both too young to comprehend the predicament of their mother or to give an alarm. —There was an accidental shooting case under unusual circumstances at 418 Mcllvahr street, Philadelphia, the other afternoon. Lewis Myers, a barber, had been paying attention to Pauline Streicher, living with her aunt , there, but she had forbidden him the. house because he always came with a loaded revolver. On the afternoon in question he came again, drunk, with Henry Russell, a glass-blower, but she . waa.oiii. -They sent for her, and, on her arrival, Myers took out the revolver again, but Russell, who was a stranger at the house, seized it and took it away. He was seated at the table by the side of the girl, trying to remove the cartridges,when it went off, the ball passing through the girl’s heart. —Miss Mary Ann Collins, about twenty years old, met with a horrible death the other afternoon. She was employed in the scouring-room at the Allegheny Valley Paper-Mills at Hutton Station, a few miles above Pittsburgh. Directly underneath the room is the vat anfo lvKich the rags are thrown flifOUgh a frap-dTror to be scoured; The trap-door was open, but the steam coming up prevented the girl from seeing the exact location of it. She had only been employed a few days injhe room, and so was not familiar witli the location. Another girl called her to help in some work, and in crossing the room Mary Ann walked into the trap and was precipitated into the x'at below, which was filled with water and vitriol heated to the boiling point. She was rescued in about three minutes. When taken out life was extinct; anOefUSF was bleached to the whiteness of snow.