Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

*—A Boston operator telegraphed to Springffeld for acoommodations for twenty persons, but the dispatch was delivered reading twenty ‘‘prisoners,” and ih dpnsequenbe a dramatic company was met on arrival by a squad of Dejrntv Sheriffs prepared to “take them fn.” ' , —A London policeman lately saw a lad of ten lying, as he. thought, in a fit against the railings of a house. lie proved to be dead. He had complained of being unwella few. days beforehand had not been sent to school. He and other boys had been “playing at PS&ee” for several days, ana had tried to imitate hanging, etc. Unfortunately for , the • boy, his play turned jtato and he successfully'';accomplished what he commenced in fun. This is-the fourth case of boys strangling themselves in England since Peace was hanged, in endeavoring to imitate his hanging.

—Some thieves who manifested remarkable ihgenuity have lately been bUughtin the Crimea. ’ They operated thus:' A thief was locked in an empty trunk by his mates; the trunk was sent to. the jsUlrood depot as the baggage of a passenger and put in the baggagecar; one of bis mates, who claimed the bhggage, took passage in jb&e same train, to the next station; as soon as everything was quiet in the baggagecar the thief in the trunk opened it and crawled outt.he ransacked the rest of the baggage fend put' in Ms own trtink such valuable articles as were available; then he crawled back to the trunk and locked himself in and on reaching the next statipn, his mate took* off' the trunk as his baggage, and they proceeded to secure their plunder. The gang of Russian thieves who .concocted this scheme managed to it-on successfully for some time; nut at last, on the occasion of one adventure, the thief in the trunk tqokin with him such an amount of stolen goods that the trunk burst open at an unfortunate moment. The method of operatipn was discovered and the thieves were brought to the bar. —A horrible wife-murder occurred near Pattonsville, Soott County, Va., the other day. About three weeks before Thomas Bishop married a young girl about 18 years of age. They had lived happily during the brief honeymoon, ana settled down in a snug litHe home prepared by the young husband near Pattonsvjjle. Bishop left home on the morning of the day in question, to go to the village. Not returning at hood, the wife became somwhat uneasy, jjgf tugjjlinner prepared, sat down., at awaited the coming- tA*** At 3 o’clock Bishop came ir w . ltn _ ax on his shoulder. He walked upJo his wife, and without w«ri, struck her over the head with j* 6 weapon, splitting her head m twam, the wound was several tachea extending through tke entire skull I to the shoulder. Bishop was arrested* and. has been adjudged insane by a commishis duty in killing Bis-wife, and.lfjnof, had it, to db over again he would-chot shrink from doing the same thing.