Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-07-30
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

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step-mother with a hammer at Portage,
Wis, fracturing her skull
"A Cincinnati gentleman was waiting
for shave, and a flash of lightning just
then relieved him of his moustache and
goatee.
Ann Jones, of Providence, r L., fell
to the floor dead on seeing the underta-
ker's hearse drive up for the burial of her
infant child.
At Cambridge, o. the other day, a
nine-year old son of VIM. Dade, colored,
accidentally shot ard killed his two-year-
old brother.
George Hazenfeldt, while killing fish
near Jackson Cal, with giant powder,
had a cartridge explode in his hand, blow
irg him to pieces.a
Mrs. StfIlie, of Darlington, Wis, COM
mitted suicieeby shooting herself through
the heart, a few days ago. Continued i'll
health is the alleged cause. -
E Christianson committed suicide at
Virginia City, New, lately, by taking
arsenic. Heleft a note saying he killed
himself to avoid starving to death.
"A young man named Frank Dewane,
while out hunting on theriver recently
of Green Bay, Wis., accidentally shot
himself in the breast and died soon after
Nelson Washin gton, aged six, carry
ing bottle Of whisky to hands in har-
vest field, near Simsonia, o., Drank freely
of the liquor on the way, and died in a
few hours.
At Council Bluffs, iowa, recently, a,
boy named Richard Slayer, aged fifteen,
accidentally shot and fatally wounded a
playmate named Richard Grimmerman,
aged eight. : A&4AszA 1919 4As-'
Frederick A. Pfietzenwise, while TAX
ing tea in saloon, at Adrian, Mich,
lodged piece of beefstealo in his throat,
and died at the table of suffocation before
assistance could be rendered.
-AugustMohnekes Shot himself through
the heart, at. Bloomington, Ill, the other
day, because young woman accepted the
escort of his rival on@the Fourth, and his
companions leased him about its sqf
"A man named David B. McKinlay,
who was wounded in the head at Dubuque,
on the Fourth, of July, while firing small
cannon, has since. died with the 1ockjaw,
after suffering excruciatinggago -.
AT Red Rock, Iowa, recently, some
children who had been left alone in a
house attempted to fill lighted lamp
with kerosene, and Fife Robertson, eleven
years old, was burned 50, badly that she
died. .-.~~l-~.-ses s@
AT Ga1espdre, Mich, the other day,
Isaac Pierce, an old resident, stepped be-
hind his horse to whip him. and as he
gave the blow the horse kicked, hitting
him just overithe heart, killing him in
stantly. .aollasilqga.
"A young manynamed Gill; residing
near Middleport, Licking County, Ohio,
recently committed suicide by taking ar
senic. His wife had recently applied for
a divorce, and this no doubt was the cause
of the suicide.
On a recent Sunday, at Shiloh Church..
near Hopkinsville, Mrs. Emily Owen, wife
of a respectable citizen of Christian
County, KY, dropped dead at the altar,
while in the act of partaking of the Com
munion. a@ III 2#f ~
A little daughter of NJ. 81. Moreland,
of Locke, Elkhart County, Ind, was.
caught by the shaft of Touring mill and
instantly killed, a few days ago. Her body
was whirled around the shaft several hun
dred times.
"A brakeman on the, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad, while quietly walking
along the street in Omaha one night re-
Gently was assaulted and stabbed, it is
supposed fatally, by three-card monte
men, whom he had exposed to passengers
on the train. aafa..Esj
during a recent storm near Indianola,
Iowa, man named Moody, who had his
family in a wagon, drove under a tree for
shelter. The wind wrenched a heavy
bough from the tree and it fell upon the
wagon, killing one child ard injuring two
others.
AT Blissfeld, Mich. recently, light
ming struck barn belonging to Rev. Mr..
Quick, pastor of the Presbyterian church
of that place, instantly killing young
son Of that gentleman, who stood in the
barn door. The barn was burned to ashes.
A Doctor" Fontaine, of Spencer,
Mass, some time since inoccuIated a
large number of people with smallpox
virus, ignorantly supposing that that was
the proper material with which to vac
climate. And now thirty-ive inhabitants
of the village are in the pesthouse from
the cause, and the doctor has been in
death of a child through malpractice.
"A young man named John. Frazier
some time since eloped with Kate Faul-
stitch, girl of seventeen, from Wheeling,
w Va, where both resided. They went
TO Pittsburgh, and thence to Harmony,
Pa, where they stopped at hotel While
Miss F. was lying on the bed, Frazier shot
her in the head with revolver, and then
shot himself. He lived but few hours,
and it was thought the girl could not re-
cover. ssa4--
The Difficulty with That Horse.
WE had good deal Of trouble with our
horse last summer. He was bob-tailed
horse, and it seemed to annoy him SO
much that he couldn't reach the flies
which fattened on his ribs, that it occur
red to us to fix him up kind of an arti-
fetal tail to relieve the situation, as it
were. So we procured three feet of half
inch rope, unraveled about eighteen
inches of it, and spliced the other end to
the horses tail. This would kaye enabled
him to switch fly off his nose as soonas
he had acquired a little practice. But
our Irishman, seeing the rope, and not
understanding our motive precisely, con-,
GUIDED that we were trying experiments
with some new kind of hitching strap to
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