Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A farmer of Reno County, Kan., coming across a rattlesnake, tied his reins in a bunch and killed it therewith. Subsequently he untied the knot with his teeth, and the poison thus got into his system and drove him mad. -A family of emigrants on the way to Texas camped over night in Sedalia, Mo. In the morning the man packed all the things in the wagon to Continue the journey, except his aged mother-in-law, whom he left at the side of the road. However, a mass-meeting compelled him to take her along. —An unknown mqp applied for a piece of bread at a house in East Fiftysecond street, in New York City, the other night, and was refused. He said he was starving, and staggered away with feeble steps. He fell in front of No. 328, in the same street, and when approached he was found to be dead. —ln 1862, a young man of Bastrop, Tex., enlisted in the Union Army, leaving beTiind him his sweetheart, a beautiful girl of sixteen. No letters came from him after Chancellorsville, but two weeks ago he returned after many adventures in foreign lands, claimed the hand of the lady, who had remained faithful to his memory, and was quietly married to her. —Joseph Langendorf, of Chicago, met with a very singular accident, the other day, as he stood in the doorway of a drug store, on North Clark street. Above him, at the second story windows, was a glazier repairing a broken window. Suddenly a light of glass descended, cutting off Mr. Langendorf s nose in transit. The severed member was promptly sewed on again, and serious results were not expected to ensue. —A janitor of a New York public school went to Coney Island, and left his wife in charge of the engine and boiler, telling her that there was a patent gauge on it and the steam pressure could not tun over seven pounds. It ran over twenty-four pounds, and the wife, becoming frightened, ran to a factory where a brother engineer was employed. He found no water in the boiler,* and 1,200 children in the school overhead.

—Mike Foley was a Montana desperado, and when he said he would kill Mrs. Frederick, she believed it. One day he approached the cabin, and she sent for her husband. Frederick hurried to the house in time to prevent injury to his wife, but received a bullet in his own breast from Foley’s pistol. However, he knocked the villain down with a stick. Up to this time, Frederick had not spoken a word, but he advanced to the table and, placing both hands on it, said: “lamshot,and cannot live two minutes. Run for your life or Foley will kill you.” She refused, saying: “ 1 cannot leave you.” He again said: “It is useless, you can do nothing for me; save yourself.” Observing Foley getting up, she rushed ov.t of the front door and ran to the brush on the cregk bank for shelter, and finally escaped. Frederick died. —None of us can know how we would act in a supreme moment of revealed fate. Edgar Poe or Victor HuSo could not have imagined a form of eath more completely? calculated to test the victim’s fortitude than the terrible scene which terminated the life of one John Conlan, at Norwich, last Friday night. Conlan, who was a pis-tol-maker in that city, was walking on the railway track at Norwich Falls, at a point where there is a double switch, and accidentally had one foot caught in a “ frog,” in such a way that he was unable to extricate it. A northern-* bound train was coming at full speed, and Conlan, finding himself unable to oseape his doom, half turnedv in his •haihed position, and faced the engine (literally an engine of death) in a defiant way, and almost smiled as it struck him. His body was frightfully mangled—almost., literally torn to pieces under the remorseless wheels—and when picked up it presented a horrible sight. A part of his clothingsin which was his revolver, was torn from, him by the engine and carried to Willimantic beforelt was discovered.— Hartford Times. Da. Bull’s Cough firaup should be kept in every Iginlly. A slight cough, If unchecked, is often the forerunner of Consumption, and a timely dose of this wonderful medjQiqs has rescued many from an tarty grave,