Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Louis Barron, a machinist at Watertown, N. Y., went home from work, the other day, sick, and, falling fainting in the yara, exclaimed to his wife, “I am dying.” Mrs. Barron was so frightened that she died soon afterward. —Miss Virginia Hicks, a young lady of Wyandotte, Indian Territory, was thrown from her saddle by her horse, the other day. She struck on her head, and a high tortoise-shell comb which was in fier hair was driven into the brain, caqsing almost instant death. —Mr. Bradley, a professional baseball player, was struck in the stomach, the other day, during a match by a ball swift from the bat. He picked up the ball, threw it to tho first base, fell and fainted away. The crowd gathered around him and a physician was called. In ten minutes after remedies had been administered he opened his eyes and said. “Is he out?” —L. Longbehm, a German, living on a vegetable ranch about fiYe miles from Antioch, Contra Costa County, Cal., recently; took his little boy and girl, aged respectively six and four years, into the yard, beat them to death with a club and cut their throats. Ho then went to the house and blew his own firains out with a shot-gun. The family had always lived happily together, and the act is attributed to temporary insanity. —Richard Farren, a boy nine years old, came to his death in a singular manner in Everett, Mass., lately. He had been amusing himself by hanging between the stringers of a bridge on the Eastern Railroad, pulling himself up so that his head extended above the rails. While in this position, and watching an approaching train on the in*ward track, a train came up behind on the outward track and severed his head from his body. —A remarkable story comes from the State Prison at Thomaston, Me. Six years ago James A. Lowell, of Lewiston, was convicted for the murder of his wife, Lizzie, a skeleton, supposed to be hers, having been found in the woods. The defense claimed that Mrs Lowell had eloped with a circus man; but this could pot bp broved, and her husband was sentenced to be hanged. This was afterward commuted to life imprisonment, and now David Stevens, who was committed last year for bigamy, claims to have seen Mrs. Lowell in a Western city as late as 1876. He says she was living with one Spaulding, and during a quarrel in a beergaraen the circumstances of her career were —Mr. George C. Gorham, late Seer# tary of the United States Senate, has assumed the management of San Francisco’s new daily newspaper,The Morning Herald. rnr Mr- . \ j! a gardener throws oraugeabinit on tbe side walk, can he be said to be setting out slips P .