Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1879 — INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS. [ARTICLE]

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A funeral procession at Westfield, Mass., recently stopped in front of a photograph gallery and waited while the bearers carried the corpse up stairs to have its picture taken. The funeral then proceeded. - —A Vermont paper says that a few Sundays ago, while Mrs. Mary Fulford,* of Peacham, was playing the organ in church, she was taken With a partial paralytic shock, and was unable to take her hands from the key-board, keeping one chord going until the choir was compelled to stop. In an hour after the service she seemed to be as well as ever. —A Farmington (Me.) man caught a young woodchuck last summer, and kept it until it was as tame as a dog. Last winter it took to the ground and spent the winter like others of its kind. During the time the family moved to anot her part of the town, but on going back to the old place, the other day, the woodchuckwas out, and seemed delighted to see his old friends. —The other afternoon a lady called at a jewelry store in Portland, Me., and before entering she left her baby in its carriage at the door. Having finished her purchases she went home. The jeweler finally was attracted by the child’s crying and took it into the store and amused it with some trinkets until its mother missed tho baby and returned. . —Joseph Casey, a boy eleven years old, who was employed in filling and lighting'street lamps in Bellevue, a suburb of Scranton, Pa., the other night, while on the ladder, upset the oil can and spilled the oil over his clothes, when, as it is alleged, another boy applied a match to him, enveloping him in (lames from head to foot. He rushed for the river, a quarter of a mile away, and had nearly reached it before lie was overtaken by citizens, who threw parts of their clothing over him; extinguishing the flames, but not until he had received fatal injury. —Tho other day a four-year-old child in Cincinnati fell from a balcony fifty feet above a brick pavement, and went whirling toward the ground. On the porch of the story below stood a little girl ten years old, who saw the child fall and put out her arms in an attempt to save him. She did catch him, at the risk of being dragged over also, and though she was not strong enough to hold such a weight, she was able to turn the course of the boy’s fall, and he landed at her feet on the floor of the porch. His head was somewhat cut, but his life was saved, and the little girl’s arm was lamed, but not broken. —A singular and serious accident happened to John Hoffman, an employe in the Capital City flouring-mills, in this city. _ Hoffman was engaged in sacking flour, having the strings used tied around his body, while at his work. He felt the strings tightening around his body, but supposed it was one of the men, and paid no attention to it for a moment, but the strings steadily tightening around him he looked around to find that the cords had been caught by the shaft. In answer to his cries one of the men started to stop the machinery,Hinit another, more thoughtful, proceeded to cut him down, which he succeeded in doing in a very short time, but not before Hoffman had become unconscious from his injuries. He still lies unconscious, and it is feared ho has suffered serious, if not fatal, injuries.—St. Paul (Minn.) Telegram.