Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Two resident* of Hillsrille, Vs., recently disputed about a young lady’s Sp— one holding that she was twenty, e other that she was eighteen—and fought about R, one being killed. —AtMurplfy, N. C., the other day, Wesley Thompson and Henry Palmer got into a dispute over a game of drawpoker. Thompson charged his antagonist with cheating. He denied it. and Thompson shot and killed him. —Charles Roble died at Franklin, N. C., a few days ago, and while his body ' lay unburied in the house, Charles Bourman, a step-son of the deceased, without the slightest provocation, shot and killed his step-brother in the adjoining room to that in which the body j of Rome was laid out.

—A oat that kills rattlesnakes is owned by Charles Baker, a Granger, who is reclaiming desert land on the Gila,' opposite Mohawk.’ The cat watches them until they uncoil and start to glide off; then jumps and catches them by the back of the neck, chewing the vertebra) till the snakes are dead, and with his claws tearing loose any coils that may be thrown around his body. He has already killed several. —Arizona Sentinel. " —A curious Connecticut accident: Mrs. Gilbert Graves, of South Killingly, fell down her cellar stairs with a kettle of hot water in her hand, a step giving way, and was badly bruised ami scalded. S. W. Franklyn, a neighbor, heard her cries, and, going to her assistance, tumbled through the break and was seriously hurt internally. Then, to cap the climax, Mrs. Graves’ son, aged eleven, came to the rcsoue, and was soon lamenting with the others on the cellar bottom. —Pat Shannon, a Pittsburgh engineer, was at work at his engine in one of the mills in that city a sow days ago. A belt in the gearing over his head was loose, and while putting ; t on a pulley he was caught by the coat-sleeve. The pulley was making 240 revolutions per minute, and in a twinkling his body was wrapped around the shaft. The heavy beam work above the shafting caught the body and mangled it frightfully. The machinery had to be reversed to get out the head and trunk. The shoes and one foot were thrown 300 feet from where the accident occurred.

—At Paterson, N. J.,the other afternoon, a man and boy attempted to drive a wagon along the Little Falls turnpike, which was submerged by the freshet. They missed the road* and drove into the channel of the river, above Passaic Falls. The wagon-body, with the man and boy, floated off. The swift current bore them toward the rapids and the plunge of seventy feet beyond. Some gentlemen who were on the bridge that spans the river just above the boiling rapids, hastily tore the reins from some horses-standing there and made lines, whieh the man and boy caught as they passed under, and were saved. The wagon-body plunged over the falls. —A few mornings ago, in Grammar School No. 10, in Now York City, containing 1,310 children; a blaze of tire shot up through the heating register in one of the rooms. The teacher, with great presence of mind, closed the register to keep out the blaze, sent hasty word to the Principal, and quieted the children by telling them a story. The bell was instantly struck which called all the pupils into line in each room. A second stroke brought the classes separately marshalled into the main room, and a third stroke started them all into the street, amazed but ignorant, and inclined to be jolly at the prospect of an unexpected holiday. The rooms were cleared without any sign of hurry or confusion within two minutes of the first alarm. The children gave three cheers as they emerged into tne area, and did not guess the cause of their sudden dismissal until, upon reaching the street, they saw the fire-engines unlimbering.