Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Stockton (Mo.) woman danced huriell tu death. lately. ' —lt is not generally known that Roscoe Conkling’s wife is Horatio Seymour's sister. —A cow woke up a sleeper in Louisville, Ky., and he saw the Roman Catholic Cathedral was on fire and put it out. —When the colt of an Albany (N. Y.) man doesn't take the premium, the man goes and poisons the colt that does. —Twenty-three persons were dangeronsly poisoned at Whitehaven, Pa., the other day, by eating lirer puddings which had been boiled in a copper kettle. —lt isn’t healthy to ride horses for your health. A young lady in Denver while attempting it got her habit entangled and was thrown under the horse’s feet and trampled to death. —One effect of the late earthquake w as to break off a lawyer’s argument at Omaha. Judge Usher had jttst taken the floor the case of the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railroads against the Union Pacitio, when suddenly the building trembled, chairs and tables rocked, the lawyer sank back into his seat and the spectators, terrified and dizzy, rushed out of the building. —The following singular occurrence is recorded by a New Orleans paper. A lady placed her baby, aged five months, in bed, and on leaving the room locked up a terrier dog in it. On returning to the room she found her child in an insensible condition and the doggnawing at the unfortunate little creature’s foot, which it had already lacerated to a horrible extent. The child’s foot was terribly mangled and amputation was thought to be necessary. —Several children were feeding a pet bear with corn at Austin, Tex. An ear was dropped out of the reach of the bear, and a little girl handed it to him. The bear sportively pulled her to him, when a house-dog, believing the child to be in danger, sprang upon the bear, llruin then carried the child to the further part of the hogshead in which he slept, and returned to fight the dog, under the impression that the dog would hurt the child. A party of negroes tried to protect the child from her other protectors, but the little one did not escape until her mother had killed both bear and dog with a musket. —ln Placerville, Cal., recently, a young German named Charley Roth committed a dreadful suicide. Procuring a giant-powder cartridge and two feet of fuse, he retired to nis sleeping apartment. In a minute or two there was a loud and sharp explosion, distinctly heard several blocks away, and when people from the street hurried into the room they' found him lying on the pallet entirely headless, an immense cavern hollowed out of the upper part of his chest, his teeth and fragments of the skull scattered in every direction, and the walls plastered with bits of flesh and brains. From the middle of the neck upward all was blown to atoms, not ayestigeof his head or face remaining. The presumption is that he lay down upon his pallet, took the end of the cartridge into his mouth, connected the fuse with.the cap, and lit it, and deliberately awaited the explosion. He had been suspected of insanity for quite awhile.