Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-21
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

A man at Manchester, England, fell
over bootjack and broke his neck.
"A cask of st. Louis beer burst and
killed a man in that city the other day.
"A blast at Marblehead, Mass, threw
100 pounds Of rock half a mile. and It
struck and killed a COW.
Leopold Wirth fell into a vat of hot
whisky IN Milwaukee, and was scalded so
that the flesh dropped from his bones.
,-ASboy, to conceal it from his mother,
placed lighted cigar hurriedly into his
pocket, where he had lot of gunpoWder.
His pocket Won't hold marbles
=. II. Armstrong, of Keokuk County,
Iowa, lived nearly three hours after care
lessly handling a rifle. That is longer
than they usually live. The young lady
he was engaged to be married to has now
lost three atianced lovers by fatal acct
dents
"A beautiful young girl was married
IN San Francisco, recently, and at the con-
cIusIon OF the marriage ceremony she
turned to her husband and said, George,
kiss me- | am dying" The husband com
Piled with the request, and at that mo-
ment the young bride fell dead to the
floor
Mrs. w. D. Yertise, of WestBend,
Wis, bought several calico dress atterns,
and on showing them around to her
friends learned that she could have got
the same style of goods at another store
much cheaper. This made her feel so bad
that she went off and hanged herself
At Acton, Mass, citizen thought
he heard thieves in his barn the other
night, and went out to see. His wife
missed him from the house, and followed
nm to the Darn. In the darkness ne mis-
TOOK her for a burglar and shot her, in
ficting fatal Injuries -
Samuel Cram, of Windham, Me-.
recently committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor, placing himself be-
lore mirror so that he might see where
10 cut so that it would edo the most good. y
He was sixty years old, unmarried, and
three of his brothers had previously com
mitted suicide
The MusQuakie Indians in Jasper
County, Iowa, recently punished a muir
derer Of their tribe He had killed a.
sQUaw, and was tried by the tribe and SEN
fenced to death. They tied him to a log.
face up, and left him to starve, which he
did IN eight days, Indians guarding him
all the time
Texas paragraph: "Murdered-By the
KlckapOO Indians from Mexico, at the
rancho Of Mr.. Martin, in Webb County,
thirty miles north of Laredo, on the even
ing OF the 18th inst, Guadalupe Elisardo
ana Carlos Cara; also, on the morning of
The 9Th inst, by the same parties, Felipe
Gonzales, at the rancho of Capt. Callaghan,
in this county.
"A little girl in Norwich, Conn, was
poisoned recently by drinking the milk in
which a. green milk ticket had soaked
a VI, r
neglected to take it from the can, and the
colOring matter dissolved and mixed with
the milk. Violent vomiting ensued, by
which the poison was elected, thus saving
the little ones life
"A young married man in Arkansas
was displeased at something his wife did
recently, and struck her He then went
to his mother and told her that if his wife
did not do better in the future he would
blow his brains out, as he did not intend
to slap her Or complain of her again. A
few days after, thinking that she did not
come at his request with the alacrity she
ought, he drew his pistol and shot himself
dead
"A robin red breast sat upon pole in
Detroit one day last week, and a bow named
Clayhammer brought out his fathers re-
volver, leveledit at the bird and pulled
the trigger. The bali missed the robin bv
about ten feet, went through the window
OF house, and brought up in pile of
.crockery. Some excitement was oc-
casioned, and the boy was taken home
and maderto chase the bootjack around
his mother. H@ }E# $50
A Wanderer about the streets of Aek
ley, Iowa. was at ten O'Clock at night
found asleep in the Revere House parior,
and by her side note saying, II have no
place to go tonight, and know not what
to do but to take morphine and sleep nv
self to death. There is no other way so
goodbye home and friends The note
was signed Lizzie Williams, Marble
Rock, Iowa" A physician was sum-
moned and antidotes administered, and
the poor girls life saved.
The Rev. Mr. Frazell, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Elmwood,
Ill, was publicly whipped by Mrs Leslie
widow OF the late J. P. Leslie, for remarks
made by him at temperance meeting
held IN the Congregational Church on
recent Sunday evening, to the effect that
the expensive coffin used to inclose the re-
mains OF the late Mr.. Leslie was purchased
with the tears and groans of the drunk
ards families. Mrs. Leslie met the Rev
Fr2Zeu ID the store of DR. p V r. Defoe.
and proceeded to whip him, when he es-
capped after few blows by running down
the nearest alley. =
A Cincinnati sewing agent
called upon Mrs. Haffron to collect a
monthly payment, the other day. 1t was
election day, and the festive Haffron had
just returned from the polls with an I'M
healthy assortment of liquid lightning,
fusil oil, cut nails, sure death, etc, in his
hold. At sight of the agent, Haffron was
seized with desire to "scollup' his coun
tenance, and he did. He first spread him
out on table, and then crowned him with
a looking glass, set him down on red-hot
cooking stove, poured boiling water from
the tea-kettle in his pockets, and pune
tured him in various parts of his person
with pair of shears. Then after getting
his coat-tail full of boots, he thrust him
through the front window with perfect
disregard ofexpense. The agent has writ
ten Mrs. H. a note, saying that he shall
not sail IN person for future payments
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