Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-21
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Henry Jewell was recently killed a
Mound Junction, ILL.,, by heavy saw loe
falling upon him.
Tom Thumbs wife fell down fiigh
of stairs, at marlborough, Mass, lately
and badly injured her spine and head.
"A Polk County (Wis.) farmer fell from
barn loft in such a manner that
sharp oak stake ran through his righ
shoulder.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Jordan
at Oshawa, Ontario, burned to the ground
lately and his two children persisted IL
the flames.
"A little girl named Reno obtained &C
cess to bottle of corrosive sublimate, a
Adrian, Mich, lately, and died from thu
effects of the poison.
"A workman stuck pitchfork through
the neck and throat of a little boy who
was sleeping on pile of hay, near Potts
vile, Iowa, not knowing that he was
there.
In Brooklyn, n Y, recently, Johr
Bowen, an old man, was carrying his 10
fant grand child down stairs, when, max
ing a mis-step, he fell, killing the chile
and fatally injuring himself.
AT Augusta, Ark, short time since
a negro woman put her two children tt
bed and went to church. When she re
turned the house was burned to the
ground. The two children persisted in the
flames.
Henry Tenderlarote committed sui
eide in Hoboken, N. j., recently, in con
sequence of dispute about a game of bill
lizards. He willed his head to the doctors
for dissection, and the remainder Of his
body to his brother-in-law
While Mr. Seed Reddish was thresh
ing wheat not long ago near Fildon, Ill.
with steam threshing machine, the straw
caught fire from the engine, and before i
was extinguished, 400 bushels of wheat
several ricks, and the engine were con
sumed, involving a loss Of nearly $4,000.
Captain Hogan, of Munson, Iowa, wal
moving one day lately, when his mower
was struck by lightning The mower was
turned over, the sickle bar unlocked, and
more than half way out, but neither man
nor horses were seriously injured.
-Emma Black, living in small town
on the Mississippi, saved mans life the
other day in curious way He was fish
ing and tumbled out of his boat, and, be
ing unable to swim, would have persisted
had not the maiden, discovering his dan,
ger, swan out to him and throwing into
his hands her back hair-four feet in
length-towed him to the land
George Inman is music teacher in
Greeley, Col. a few nights ago, as he was
riding home, his horse stumbled and he
fell, breaking mis- collar bone. 1t was
quite dark, no houses were near, and the
pain was intense, but he mounted his
horse and rode back three miles and awOke
a surgeon to set the bone. The next day
the sufferer was out as usual
"A young man who was married lately
in Cumberland, Md, first aggravated the
officiating minister by presenting him
with marriage fee Of eighty-five cents,
and then capped the climax by returning
after he had walked away few steps and
borrowing seventy-five cents of that, on
the ground that he was "a little short Just
then"-leaving the clergyman ten cents
for his fee.
The latest phenomenon in the domes-
tic assassin line is father at Whining
ton, Del, who, feeling it to be cruelty UNI
fillal on the part of one Of his boys to be
"reelfooted," attempted to correct the per,
verse youth by administering dose of ar.
senic. The boy was saved; but now, in
Jail, the father knows how sharper than a
serpent's tooth it is to have a reel-footed
child.
There is no trouble about getting mar.
ried at MaySville, Kentucky. At least
Miss Lucinda Smith, belle of that city
found that such was the fact a few days
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Charles had been paying attentions to her
but then was flirting with another Lu
cinda called minister and sighted a re-
volver at Charles, and without cards the
twain were made one flesh Then the
ball went on.
"A few weeks ago, Benz Mcclure, OF
Berea, Ohio, man Of Incorporate habits,
attempted to kill himself by cutting into
his brain with an Ratchet, but his nerve
went back on him, and he only succeeded
in lnt1icting trighttCl wound. On re.
cent Sunday after some domestic broil
his wife gave him money to get out of
town, but instead of following Rip Van
Wrinkles example when driven from his
own door and going to the Catskills for
twenty years, he lOafed about town till
night, when going to his barn stealthily
ne went to his long rest by the aid OF a
halter.
Three Oswego IN. W boys were re.
Gently playing in grove and two of them
became angry at the third and determined
to hang him. They selected a convenient
limb, and strung their unhappy victim
mercilessly in mid air, and sat down to
see him die. But the victim did not in.
tend giving up the ghost so rapidly, for
he chung to the rope tenaciously, and strug
gled violently to free himself. At length
one OF the tOrmentors became impatient
The victim did not die quick enough to
suit him; so instead of waiting the grad
ual approach of the grim monster, he de
termined to expedite matters, and started
to house near by to borrow an axe with
which to cut off the victims head. The
neighbor learning what the axe was want
ed for, alarmed the neighborhood, and
among them the victims mother, and they
all rushed to the grove and cut down the
yet struggling boy.