Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-27
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A female beast-tamer was recently
nearly killed by tiger in & circus at
Selma, Ala.
Mrs. Davidson. of Green Bay, Wis,
ia under arrest for making her boy John
repeat the Lords Prayer until he fell
down in fit.
AT Normal, ILL.,, John Ryan was put
under bonds not to whip VIM. Kennedy
again. ON kape the pace, replied John,
ssbut I'll have the ould woman bate the
head off him."
When you have family spree over
the advent of a boy baby, don't get too
drunk. A family in Salisbury, VT, were
SO iubilant lately over an affair OF this
kind that the male members got hilarious
on hard cider and forgot to send for
nurse or doctor, and the infant died from
want of care.
A Western reporter died Of brain
fever the other day; he tried to take notes
of discourse that his mother in-law
was making for the benefit of the family,
and the sWiftness with which he was
Obliged to work overstrained his mental
organization.
An event full of awful warning oc-
CURED in Connecticut last week. A young
man had journeyed from Danbury to
Bridgeport to enjoy the performance OF
"Black Crook" and upon his return ac-
|'cidentally fell from the cars and was in
stantly killed.
Mr.. Philip Haeffner, wealthy
brewer of Marietta, Pa, died few days
ago literally of grief for the agitation of
the proposed temperance law, his only
utterance during his brief illness being
| the constant reiteration Of the words
''local option
"A man in Troy, N. Y, was lately in
jured severely by the falling Of an icicle
from the fourth story of building. The
icicle CHANGED to strike a slanting blow
upon the face, cutting cash through the
cheek and upper lip, and knocking out
two teeth. Had the blow fallen squarely
upon the head it would probably have
killed him.
While a wedding party was on its
was to Hamilton, O., not long since, the
straw in the bottom Of the sleigh caught
fire from hot brick, and the clothes Of
the bride prospective, Miss Mary TAFT,
aged IS, taking fire, she was fatally
burned.
"A broad sidewalk, sixty feet in
length, was lifted up by the wind in
Lawrence, Kansas, the other day, and
carried out into the street. A lacy, cross
ing at the time, was also lifted up, and
when the walk came down, she slipped
off and was buried beneath it, sustaining
very severe injuries.
On the 9th day of January, boy of
II, Michael Mourse, by name, while coast
ing the street near his home in Cleveland,
obtained permission to hitch his sled be-
hind a passing sleigh, and thus rode
away. He has never returned, and his
parents, after exhausting much Of their
limited means in search of him, have
caused to be published the circumstances
connected with this singular disappear
ance.
"A sad accident occurred at West JEFF
ferson, Ohio, a short time since. Two
small boys, sons of Frederick Grisste,
aged respectively five and twelve years,
were amusing themselves with a gun,
which was apparently without load,
when the elder, assuming the attitude of
a soldier, presented the muzzle of the gun
to his brothers breast, saying, Freddie,
| will shoot you" He pulled the trigger,
killing the little fellow instantly The
unfortunate elder boy was much dis
tressed, and made several attempts at sui
eide, but without success.