SHAMOKIN, PA., Jan. 17.—Having shopping to do in this city, Mrs. Hannah Kashner, of Coal Run, accpted Butcher Cherry’s invitation to ride over in his wagon with him. Shortly after seating herself the horse ran away, flinging her in the back of the vehicle. The sides of the wagon cover were studded with sharp meat hooks. During the mile run the woman was hurled from one row of hooks to another, and her flesh was torn off in great strips and an eye was about gouged out. She is in a critical state.
A Mill Man Is Wounded by a Rip Saw, but Is Patched Up and Seems to Be Getting Well.
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 25.—Of all the peculiar and interesting cases the saw mills of Puget Sound have sent to this city, none compete with that of Horatio Stetson, an engineer in Stetson & Post’s mill, whose head was cut in half yesterday by a rip saw. His head was cut across the tops just in front of the ears. The saw went down into the brain fully three inches, the point of exit on either side of the head being on a level with the top of the ears. Stetson crawled out from under the table and was grabbed by his brother, who clapped the two pieces of his head together. The brother says that “blood and brains were coming from his head, which looked as if it was falling apart.”
From this time on he became stronger, the power of motion of his legs and arms returned to him, and his mind was perfectly clear. He could talk, but with difficulty. His temperature was normal and his pulse remained normal all day, and up to eight o’clock at night in the condition of a perfectly well man. And there was no inflammation in the wound, and at last accounts there were no indications of fever setting in.
Many physicians do not wonder at his being alive, but they are mystified at his being possessed of all his mental faculties and retaining control of his limbs, having a good appetite and being perfectly normal in all other conditions of his body.
SYRACUSE, July 5.—Frederick T. Morgan, age thirteen, had one of his hands blown to pieces at 1 o’clock this morning while firing a small cannon in celebration of the Fourth. The hand was amputated by Dr. Loomis.
Would Have Killed the Lad But For a Speedy Rescue. Womelsdorf, Pa., March 28
A large rooster to-day attacked little Sammel Illig, and the boy was only saved by his family. He is a son of S. W. Illig, and had gone into the yard to feed the chickens. The ferocious rooster flew upon his back and began to sink his beak in the lad’s neck. The angry fowl was also using his sharp spurs, and the boy was unable to dislodge his assailant. He screamed in pain and another member of the family rushed out, and with a club beat off the savage bird.
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 22.—Two ferocious bulldogs attacked the nurse and three-year old child of John Haening, of Allentown (a city suburb), yesterday afternoon while out for an airing. The nurse was badly bruised and scratched. One of the dogs seized the baby by the foot, biting it off at the ankle. The child will probably die.
Chico Weekly Record, Chico, California – Saturday, December 11, 1897
UPHOLSTERER LEVENS HAS HALLUCINATIONS
Told Officers That Arson and Murder Was Being Committed Yesterday.
TAKEN IN FOR SAFE KEEPING.
Will be Examined on a Charge of Insanity
Jack Leven, an upholster [sic], who has been in Chico several months and has been in the employ of Jewell & Johnson at various times, has become mentally deranged and was locked up by Officers Henry and Walsh yesterday morning.
Leven had previously called upon Marshal Mansfield and told queer tales, but as he appeared harmless, he was advised to take some medicine and try and sleep off his strange delusions.
Yesterday morning about three o’clock he approached Officer Henry and gave a startling report. He said that a young woman in Yreka, named Annie Lawrence was to be murdered, and he urged the officer to save her life by telegraphing to the officials. He also said that two fires were being started in town which would destroy large business blocks. Then the officers told him to accompany them to a telegraph office, and it was only a short time until Levens was in a cell in the city prison.
The fellow was very changeable in his immaginations [sic]. He thought he had been doomed to be killed or multilated [sic], but at times he would recover his reason and talk rationally. When his reason would come to him, he would talk of his being “rattled.” He is not a drinking man. He will be held in the city prison a day or two longer, and if the physicians believe him to be insane, he will be taken to Oroville.
He formerly resided in Arbuckle, where he was well known, Claud Stanton of the hotel there being one of his friends.
Hmmmm… Don’t you wonder whether he really did have inside information regarding imminent crimes?
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—A handsome twenty-year-old Hungarian girl named Xenia Orli, well known among artists as a model, was admitted to Bellevue Hospital yesterday from the Working Girls’ Home, 140 east Fourteenth street, suffering from insanity. She had been ailing some time mentally, but only became violent Friday night, when she threatened to throw herself out of the window to escape imaginary enemies. The girl has always kept her private affairs to herself, and all that is known about her is that she came from Paris four years ago, where she had some trouble with her family and separated from them
Made Insane by Excessive Cigarette Smoking and Applied a Match to Kerosene Oil He Rubbed on His Body.
Jersey City, Jan. 18.—Florentine Patterson, twenty-one years old of 77 Giles avenue, who was made insane by excessive cigarette smoking, attempted to burn himself to death yesterday at his home. He was released recently from the lunatic asylum at Snake Hill, and it was thought he was cured. Yesterday his mother heard him screaming in his room, and found him enveloped in flames.
He had partly stripped himself, rubbed kerosene oil on his body, and touched it off with a match. His mother wrapped a blanket around him and extinguished the flames, but not before he had been severely burned. Afterward he threatened to kill his mother and stepfather, and they had him arrested. He will be returned to the asylum.
Shall the Chinese be Slaughtered in Washington Territory as in Wyoming?
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—There is a growing feeling here that a Chinese massacre of great magnitude will surely result in Washington Territory at no late day, growing out of the recent labor meetings held in Seattle and other portions of the Territory. Your correspondent called on Gen. McKeever, who is acting Adjutant General in the absence of Gen. Drum, and asked him if the government had arranged to send troops to protect the Chinese in Seattle in case of a riot. Gen. McKeever said:
“Neither the president, the secretary of war, nor the general of the army can order troops unless the Governor of Washington Territory request it.”
“Are there available troops in the vicinity of Seattle?”
“Yes, the Fourteenth Infanty; now at Vancouver Barracks, can reach that place by rail in a very few hours.”
I was curious if anything had ever become of this, and Julie was kind enough to send the following link from Harper’s Weekly: Anti-Chinese Riot At Seattle
The Chinese in California Breeding Disease and Pestilence.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 16.–The discovery yesterday afternoon of the horrible practices of the Chinese in preparing the bones of their dead fellow countrymen for shipment to China, which have been carried on under the very nose of the city authorities, has created deep and intense excitement. The knowledge that such a mass of putrification was lying exposed in the very heart of the city while at the same time the drainage and sewers of the city are known to be in a filthy condition, has created a feeling of fear for the health of the city. After all the boxes containing the remains of the dead Chinamen had been removed to the Morgue, the carman was interviewed in regard to the matter. He stated that when he arrived at the cellar in which the bodies were stored, and in which putrified remains, which had still to be boiled, were lying, he set to work to break open the boxes. There was some sixty bodies in all. Each box contained a tin case, in which carefuly wrapped in oil cloths were a number of human bones. The smaller bones and long strips of skin were wrapped up in separate parcels and placed within the larger ones. On the outside of each box was a label bearing Chinese characters, giving the name of the dead persons within so that the remains could be identified by relatives in China. After having opened several of the boxes the Coroner concluded to seize the whole lot and remove them to the Morgue. Express wagons were called for the purpose. While the cases were being placed in the wagon, some of them rolled off and fell to the pavement, breaking open and exposing the contents. The crowd which had assembled upon hearing the cause of the excitement jumped on the bones, and in their indignation trod them under foot. The police quickly interposed, and the loading continued without further interruption. The remains were removed to the morgue.
Most of the boxes containing remains were, on examination, found to have come from cities in the interior of the State. The remains were shipped from there to San Francisco in common tea boxes. Those that come from the interior are boiled and prepared before shipment, so that no odor is perceptible on the route. Only those removed from San Francisco cemeteries have flesh still on them when brought for preparation to the cellar. It was the intention to have shipped all these on the steamer City of Pekin, which sails Saturday next. It is rumored that the Chinese Six Companies will bring an action against the coroner for the removal of the boxes and remains.
