Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1878 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A singular individual in Boone County, Ky., becomes deathly sick upon seeing a fat hog. —Another lunatic has been boiled alive, this "time at Toronto. The attendant left him in a bath-tub for a few minutes, and he naturally turned on the hot water. —A little girl at Heeley Falls, Ont., while straying around her father’s faro, came across a young bear, and, mistaking it for a dog, tied a string around its neck and lugged it home. —ln a gambling room in Nevada the janitor, pn opening the place in the morning, found a man sitting dead at a table, with cards still in his hands. He had been shot at poker by his adversary, who had fled. —Mrs. Jamas Snavely, at Mount Ajry, Va.. was recently shot and ’instantly killed by her Son-in-law, Col. Ballard Lambert, because she opposed the return of his wife who had left her husband because of his ill-treatment. —A man was crushed by a heavy wagon in Aurora, Nev., ana left writhing in agony. His companion, reasoning that he could not recover and that it would be merciful to end his suffering, deliberately shot him through the heart.

—A few nights ago, Harry, a son of Col. Younger, of San Jose, Cal., aged fifteen years, was shot by Elton Moody, about tfie same age, and died next evening. The trouble arose from Younger ordering Moody off his father’s premises, where Moody was hunting. —For stealing a penny apple a little boy, of Coleford, Eng., has been sent to jail for fourteen days, with an additional term of two years in a reformatory. Mr. Cross, the Home Secretary, inquired into the matter, and an answer was returned that the boy was an incorrigible little rascal. —A fellow walked into a house at Eureka, Nev., and calling for the lady of the mansion unbottled a centipede and a tarantula, remarking that he would make them fight for the pleasure of the family. It is unnecessary to say that the woman retired quickly, and when the room was looked into again the man and his menagerie were gone, as was also the jewelry of the household. —Frank Lane, who ended » quarrel with his sweetheart on a recent Sunday night, at Bridgeport Conn., by kneeling at her feet and shooting himself through the head, died a few nights after. He neVer rallied from the utrconscious condition which immediately followed the infliction of the wound. Miss Martin, the maiden to whom he was engaged, was constantly at his bedside. . —A poor Irishman at Rochester owed a rich man some money and was unable to pay, The rich man obtained a judgment and an execution, but there was nothing on which the Sheriff could levy. The Irishman had two large pigs, but the law allows a man two, and the Sheriff cquM not take them. Thorich man then bought two little pigA had them presented to the Irishman, and thereupon took his two large Qneß.-<sN. Y. Post.