Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Six persons were poisoned in Fond du Lac, Wis., recently, from eating Sauer kraut. —A Mr. Robert, of Dougherty. Ga., lit his pipe in liis carriage, the. other day, and shortly after found the vehicle on tire. The whole concern was burned except the man, the iron and the running gear—An Ithaca (N. Y.) lady boarded a Cornell student—a Brazilian —until his board bill amounted to over S9OO, The student then left suddenly for his distant home, and the lady expected never to get the money due from him. Recently, however, she received a draft from the student’s wealthy father for the full amount. y T ~KL . Pliilaf!e.lphla,Robert McAdams, twelve years old, and Charies* Patton, of the same age, quarreled over the possession of a stick of candy. Patton threatened to shoot McAdams if he did not divide with him. As the latter still refnaed. Patton drew a pistol and shot McAdams through the head, killing him almost instantly. !!; ; —“ A Kiss in the Dark” was played recently by amateurs in Mount Sterling, Ky., up to the point where the young man kisses the pretty girl. Then it was turned into a tragedy. Tne girl’s real lover, jealous of her stage lover, and thinking that the kissing was too much relished, shot the offender on the spot. The wound was trifling, but it brought the performance to a Close. —A tramp entered Muscoda, Wis., requested the Marshal to arrest him, take him to the calaboose and give T fL q. Jhzv lltil.l oOlliulniHg m njtii wl “-htj wuura steal. The Marshal told him to steal,

then; whereupon the tramp went to a store where a rack stood at a front door, loaded with dry goods, and made off with the rack, goods and all, and got away without being arrested. —The wildest excitement prevails among some of the citizens oi Trigg County, Ky., ovor the apprehension of the immediate coming of the day of final judgment. Many of them nave abandoned all business, have turnd their stock loose to range through me woods, and cutting themselves loose from the contemplation of all earthly affairs, they go from house to house singing and praying for the eventful day. —A three-ton iron roller lay at the top of a high hill in Eureka, Cal. A bov called -his comrades’ attention to the chance for fun in seeing it go down the long and heavy grade. They started it with considerable difficulty, and at the very outset it ran over a pile of slates and school-books, crushing them to bits. Gaining speed as it whirled along, it soon overtook and flattened a dog. Next, it smashed a wagon, from which a man jumped just in time to save his life; anti then, quitting the road, it crashed through a Chinaman’s shanty, and buried itself in a ravine. 1 ~. ~ -