Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

; —A young man in Marietta, Mil., was poisoned by his sweetheart, but he recovered, anq now insists that the marriage engagement shall not bo broken.

1 —Mrs. Caroline Sheehey, of Staten Island, refused to take an oath on Good Friday, through conscientious scruples, hence the woman who had stolen Mrs. Sheehey’s clothes was discharged. -—A band of roving gypsies, in September last, stole away from her home in Norwich, Conn., a sprightly young girl, named Lily Prindle. Sne remained with them until about the second week in January, when she made her escape, the gypsies then being camped near Denton, Md. She fortunately met with friends who provided her with money with which to reach her family. —Twenty-six years ago a man went from Wilbraham, Mass., to California, leaving S7OO as a loan to a farmer, in whom he put more trust than in savings banks. He wrote letters about the money from time to time, and supposed it was safely drawing interest. Recently he came across the continent to collect it, the sum of principal and interest amounting to $3,000; but - the farmer, who is wealthy, refused to pay a cent, on the ground that the note was outlawed. The man had to borrow money with which to get back to California.

—One day 7 last week, four citizens of Grand Island were playing a game of poker —five-cent “ ante”—in a wellknown saloon of that place. A dispute arose as to the game, when one of the parties made use of an expression about as follows: “I hope Christ will kill me if it isn’t so.” He had dealt the cards, and the betting on the hands was over, when he passed the pack to the next man on his left to deal. The dealer shuffled the cards and handed them back to the man to cut them, at the same time giving him a light slap to attract his attention. The man did not move. He was found to bfe stone dead. —Omaha Bee. —The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says: Mr. John Pore, who lives in the lower part of Lumpkin County, had two little children, aged respectively five and six. They were engaged in their customary play a few days ago, while the mother was at the well. The oldest child, for what reason it will never be known, picked up a sharp hatchet and struck the baby in the side, leaving the ax sticking in the wound.

The child seeing what he had done ran and told his mother, who was drawing up a bucket of water at the time. This so frightened her that she let go the windlass, and the revolving crank struck the bov on the head and literally knocked his brains out, killing him instantly. When the horror-stricken mother got to her baby it was also dead. —A frightful accident, by which a' man named Moritz Koch lost his life, occurred feceptly near Collinsville, 111. Koch was engaged in sinking an airshaft for the mines, and, having nearly reached the coal “entry,” about 163 feet l below the surface, he put in an unusually heavy blast of powder, thinking to complete the connection with the entry. Having set the fuse, he was hauled to the top, and soon after the powder exploded. Against the protest of his friends he immediately had himself lowered, but before reaching the bottom gave the signal for the top man to hoist him up. This was done instantly, but on nearing the surface he was seen to let go all hold, and fall to the bottom, a distance of 150 Jeet, and, of course, was crushed almost to a