Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11
HAPS n MISHAPS.

HApS AND
j. c. Thomas, aged fifty, recently
killed a bear in a hand to hand contest,
in Tioga County, Pa.
The boiler of the Anchor Mills, OF st.
Louis, exploded recently, and two men
were killed by the escaping steam.
Mrs. A. p. Glazier, of Haverhill,
Mass. while returning from her fathers
funeral, recently, was thrown from a car
riace and received injuries from which
she has died.
-Iames Moore. of Fremont, Ohio,
while working in his mill in that village,
a few DAYS ago, was caught in the ma
chinery and severely injured. One leg
was smashed to jelly, one arm broken
and he was also injured internally.
Not long ago while Joseph Joyce, a
farmer living near Phillipsburg, O., was
in the act of shooting a hog, the rifle was
prematurely discharged, the ball striking
and almost instantly killing his oldest
son, about fourteen years ofage.
Joseph A. Money, a clerk in a Provi-
dence grocery, went to his lodging-roO'n
one day lately, lighted the gas in a gas
stove and went to bed. The next evening
his room was broken open and Money
was found dead, supposedly from as
phyxia.
"A couple of ingenious boys at st.
Cloud, Minnesota, lately amused them
selves by filling a schoOlmate's mouth with
snow and tying a handkerchief ound his
Jaws to keep them shut, and the coroners
Jury could scarcely agree whether to call
it choking or drowning.
", $3.50 =. I1,r1 Of Tl1,N~
River, N. j., recently refused to burn III
spite of all efforts. Finally, on careful
investigation, a family of hornets were
discovered within two feet of the fire
chamber, busily engaged in plastering
the draft hole with clay.
Mr.. 0. B. Hastings met with a sud
den and awful death lately, while work
ing in a mine near Bucks, about forty-ivc
miles southwest of Lyndon, Kansas. lie
was inexperienced in the business OF dig
ging coal, and being naturally energetic
and daring, he worked under an over
hanging bank some four feet, against the
rem0nstrance of older miners, until a sud
den crash buried and crushed him in an
instant.
During Mrs. Livermore's lecture at
Springfield, Mass, the other night, she
spoke with considerable severity of tight
lacing, and when she had closed her re-
marks relating to cOrsets, according to a
local paper, "a young lady in the gallery,
with great difficulty and much persever-
ance, burst her corset strings, and, draw
ing them forth, knotted them together,
and tossing them 10 some young gentle
man near by, remarked, Here, boys, you
can have this TO play cats cradle with"
Tor+at. ranr1n in SnDoaryi1n lace
have become convinced that human de-
pravity is a bottomless abyss. To that
town there recently came a nice young
hero, fresh from deeds of valOr on MOdOc
battlefields, and as he presented giltedged
credentials from Il New York church, he
was admitted to the first circles ecclesias-
tical and social. Having delivered a lee
ture on Modoc subjects, he incurred a
considerable bill for advertising, and this
was subsequently rudely thrust under his
nose, and payment demanded. Certainly,
he hadn't the amount, but would borrow
it, and he tried, unsuCceSstully however,
for the times are hard, and that night the
warrior took his flight, and shocking to
relate, it is the current talk that, during
his brief stay, he conquered the hearts OF
two Somerville maidens, one Of them the
minister's daughter, and actually engaged
to marry them both.
Miss Jennie Warner, of Highgate, Vt,
it is said, is young lady of literary tastes
and tendencies, and has recently been en-
gagged in writing for the press with so
much assiduity that her friends have been
somewhat alarmed lest she should over
work and make herself i'll. Recently, her
aunt, Mrs. g, W. Foster, was at Miss
Wer IS, when that young lady informed
her IT, on the 9th Of November she
should go to sleep and not wake again
until the 23d of November. She charged
her aunt to see that this sleep was not
mistaken for death, that her hair was not
cut Off and she buried. Although these
singular predictions were made with
much seriousness, little heed was paid to
them at the time, but sure enough she fell
asleep on the 9th, and on the 23d awaken
ed, continuing, in the interval, to lie in a
condition scarce distinguishable from
death, save for quiet and regular breath
ing.