Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04
HAPS AND MiSHAPS.

HAIt AND 4h1oit %
A horse kicked and killed the little
son of Mr.. j. ]. Rasmussen, recently, at
Sheridan, La Sale County, Ill.
Owing to insufficient supports the roof
of the Chicago Malleable Iron Works re-
Gently gave way, killing two of the work
men and seriously injuring three others.
The boiler of the tug Z. l.. Anthony
recently exploded in Milwaukee, tearing
away her upperworks and fatally scalding
the engineer. The boiler gave out in the
bottom, a fissure of considerable size be
ing caused, from which steam and water
rushed with such force as to throw the
coal in the bunkers into the stern of the
boat.
One evening of last week, Mrs. Never,
wife of Herman Meyer, of Barton, Ind,
together with her Sol and daughter, went
out into a field to gather corn, and ia
turning the wagon in the field, the wagon
wheel struck against the snag Of a dead
tree, some twenty feet in height, causing
it to fall, and descending on Mrs. Meyer,
killed her instantly.
Several years ago, says the Courier,
a LockpOrt, Ill, boy ran a needle into his
hand, and was unable to get it out again.
Since that time it has been travelling all
round inside of him, and now is coming
out OF his boot heel, and pains him terri
bly,. 1t was a small needle when it dis
| appeared, but has been growing with his
strength until it is almost as large as a
darnlng-ncedle.
Nelson Thompson, a miner, was
| killed while ascending the ladder from a
mine at Dubuque, Iowa, recently. Hav-
ing failed to signal the engineer, when
starting, the latter had occasion to send
down the elevator, which occupied the
entire shaft. Thompson was unable to
descend fast enough to save himself, and
the elevator knocked him from the lad
der. He fell a distance of thirty feet, and
was almost instantly killed.
The wife Of Paul Marion, Of Joplin,
Mo, in a fit of mental arrangement, re
Gently, cut the throat Of her child and
then attempted to destroy her own life.
II would seem that the lady, who had for
| some time been in feeble health, first re-
| sorted to something internally, the exact
nature Of which substance is not yet
known, probably for relief, or through q
mistake, but which had the effect to cause
a arrangement of the mind, during which
she committed the terrible deed with the
razor.
"A few days ago as Mr.. Frank Nc
Aztec, a young man about tWenty-One years
Of age, living near Undertook, Ill, was
driving q pair Of spirited horses, they
suddenly took fright and started to run.
They had not proceeded far before they
overturned the buggy, throwing young
McAtee out, his head striking a large
stone and %fracturing his skull. The I'M
fHrtrpota n npIr lual about Al ~ lD,,r
His companion, a Young man named
Scott, was thrown some distance into a
hedge, and escaped with only a few slight
bruises.
There is a youth at Washington who
ought to be demonstrated with. AwOman
was indebted to him in the sum of twenty
cents for cutting wood, and when he de
manded payment she asked for a few
hours grace. But this hopeful child
would make no allowance for the strin-
gency OF the money market, and the re-
luctance of the Government to issue the
S44, 100000 reserve; so he enforced the
lesson of commercial promptness by
drawing a pistol and shooting his debtor
through the head, killing her instantly.
Such a proceeding for the collection of a
debt is quite outside of the bankrupt act,
e'ANt ID tbNiit 'tECH8
Times.
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
was recently the scene of a ludicrous Incl
dent. 4 mild-faced bovine of the female
| persuasion boldly entered the side door of
that hostellie, clambered up the stairway,
and put in an appearance at the landlady's
chamber. The lady failed to see the pro
priety of transforming her tidy apartment
into a common stable, and inaugurated
battle against the intruder, using the fem
mime CALCULATIONS, signs and pass words
which pertain to the sex when driving
cattle. Bossy declined to move, and it
was not until the oma had been rei1-
forced by all the males in the establish
ment, supplemented by the kitchen girls
and the boot blacks, that the COW was per
suaded to retire.
"A remarkable suicide recently oc-
| Cured in Boston. Marian Phyffer, a Girl
nineteen years old, had been a nurse in
the city hospital for several years. A
short time since she was attacked with
hysteria, and DR.. Foster, one of the
medical officers, gave her a quieting dose,
which unfortunately contained an extra
proportion of laudanum. The girl par
took OF it freely, quickly passed into a
comatose condition, and shortly after
died. DR.. Foster was shocked when her
death was reported to him, withdrew to
his own room without q word, and with
perfect calmness severed the femoral
artery as neatly and completely as the
most experienced surgeon could have
done it, and bled to death at once.
Not long ago a jury had under in,
vestigation, at Hartford, Conn, a case in
which some trif1ing sum was involved.
The vote stood II to I, the one voting
alone being Peter Cooke, an old and we'll
known citizen. Some of his fellow-iur-
ors then argued the case with him, and
earnestly, too. Mr.. Cooke was observed
to tremble, though he had been, from adj.
vanced age, tremulous for two or three
years past. He was a man not very easily
shaken IN his opinions; but, on this oc-
caSlOn, the earnestness of his fellow.
Jurors at length carried him with them,
and an agreement was reached. A few
minutes later, and while the members of
the jury were in the act of leaving the
Jury-room, Mr.. Cooke, who was STANDING
by one OF the seats conversing with an.
other juryman, suddenly fell back over
the seat dead.
WHEN l heard Mrs. Blackwell talkino
of the mothers rest being broken bv the
restless baby wriggling all night long in
his cradle, l thought that when we can
have mothers educated properly we shall
nave no more of these wriggling babies.