Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-24
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

A st. Louis man was struck by light
ming and killed while carrying borrowed
| umbrella.
An amiable young lady attacked her
step mother with hammer at Portage,
Wis, fracturing her skull.
"A Cincinnati gentleman was waiting
for a shave, and 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 Ut her
infant child.
AT Cambridge, o., the other day, a
nine-year- son of VIM Dade, colored,
accidentally shot and killed his two-year-
old brother.
George Hazenfeldt while killing fish
near Jackson, Cal, with giant powder,
had cartridge explode in his hand, blow
ing him to pieces.
Mrs Stillie, of Darlington, Wis, COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself through
the heart, few days ago. Continued Ill
health is the alleged cause.
e. Christensen committed suicide at
Virginia City, New, lately, by taking
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himself to avoid starving to death.
"A young man named Frank Dewane,
while out hunting on the river recently
of Green Bay, Wis, accidentally shot
himself in the breast, and died soon after.
Nelson Washington, 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, o
boy named Richard Slayer, aged fifteen,
accidentally shot and fatally wounded a
playmate named Richard Grimmerman,
aged eight
Frederick A Pfietzenwise, while tax
ing tea in a saloon, at Adrian, Mich,
lodged piece of beefsteak in his throat,
and died at the table of suffocation before
assistance could be rendered.
-AugustMohneke 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 teased him about it.
"A man named David B. McKinlay,
who was wounded in the head at Dubuque,
on the Fc nth of July, while firing small
cannon, has since died with the lockjaw,
after suffering excruciating agony.
AT Red Rock, Iowa, recently, some
children who had been left alone in
house attempted to fill a lighted lamp
with kerosene, and Effie Robertson, eleven
years old, was burned so badly that she
died.
AT Galesburg, 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 over the heart, killing him in
stantly.
"A young man named 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
County, Ky, dropped dead at the altar,
while in the act OF partaking Of the Com
munion.
"A little daughter of n II. Moreland,
Of Locke, Elkhart County, Ind, was
caught by the shaft Of Touring mill and
instantly killed, few days ago Her body
was whirled around the shaft several hun
dred times.
"A brakeman on the Burlington s.
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.
during recent storm near 1ndianola
Iowa, a man named Moody, who had his
family in wagon, drove under tree for
shelter. The wind wrenched a heavy
bOugh from the tree and it fell upon the
wagon, killing one child and injuring two
others.
At Blissfeld, Mich, recently, light
ming struck a barn belonging to Rev Mr..
Quick, pastor of the Presbyterian church
of that place, instantly killing a 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 inocculated
large number Of people with small pox
virus, ignorantly supposing that that was
the proper material with which to vac
cinate. And now thirty-fve inhabitants
of the village are in the pest-house from
the cause, and the doctor has been in
dicted for manslaughter, in causing the
death of child through malpractice
"A young man named John Frazier
some time since eloped with Kate Faul-
stitch, a girl of seventeen, from Wheeling,
w, Va, where both resided They went
to Pittsburgh, and thence to Harmony,
Pa, where they stopped at a hotel. While
Miss f. was lying on the bed, Frazier shot
her in the head with a revolver, and then
shot himself. He lived but few hours.
and it was thought the girl could not re-
cover.