Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-01
HAPS AND MISHAPS.


Thomas Gray, a conductor on the De
troit & Milwaukee Railroad, was knocked
from his train and killed while passing
under Il bridge near Grand Rapids.
"A fourteen-year-old girl of Assyria,
Barry County, Mich, in attempting to
quiet an aching tooth with morphine, put
final quietus to all her aches and pains.
Col. L. Zeveley, editor of the Unterri-
fed Democrat, of Usage County, Mo. died
recently from an overdose of morphine,
taken to relieve the sufterings OF neuralgia.
AT Alton, Ind, William Osborn was
assisting to place ii heavy timber upon a
wagon, when it swung around and catch
ing his head between it and tree, killed
him instantly.
"A Shelbyville Und) shoemaker nam
ed Jay, drank himself drunk and sat down
on the track of railroad and waited for
car wheels to slice him up His expert
ment was Il success.
"A GAINESVILLE (Wis.) girl named Hattie
Blay, recently jumped into the river and
drowned herself. She had been suffering
from an affection of the brain, brought on
by spinal complaint.
Henry Terwilliger, an engineer in a
Schoolcraft (Mich) stove factory went up
into the air one hundred feet, as the boiler
exploded and when he came down nearly
every bone in his body was broken
A Miss Shaw, residing in Decatur
H., was seriously injured recently while
drawing bucket of water Her feet Slip
ped, causing her to fall against the side OF
the curb breaking two of her ribs, one
protruding into her lungs.
Il 20 I,a,t in,
ger, of Westville, Ind, while picking up
chips few days ago, where man was
chopping timber, by some strange chance
got his hand in the way of the descending
AK, and it was chopped off.
A German butcher at Princeton, Ind,
named Louis Gungle, committed suicide
by shooting himself with rifle. He tas-
tened the weapon to the ceiling above
him, got into bed and pulled the trigger.
The ball passed into his breast, killing him
instantly.
A tivevear-old son of Mrs. Henry
Custom, of Michigan City, Ind, kindled
a contlagration with the Kerosene can, in
his mothers absence, by which his sister
of twelve and baby brother were burned
to death The young exploiter escaped
with his life.
Ada Carpenter and Emma Ashman OF
Janesvillc, Wis, agreed that when one got
ready to die the other should die also. On
this basis they took strychnine together the
other night, and would have realized their
darling intentions but for the meddlesome
interference Of a matter-of-tact physician
One night recently, while Isaac Bark
ley, Of Barley Township, Jasper County,
Ind, was driving home from church, with
a wagon full of people, his team was killed
by lightning. Though all the occupants
of the wagon were more or less stunned by
| the shock, none were seriously injured
A couple of Atlanta (Ga) merchants
recently took convivial drink together.
Unfortunately they used aconite for a fla
vor instead Of "clixir Of orange" and the
result was that one of them died in terri
bic agony four hours afterward while the
other slowly recovered.
In Blendon Township, Ottawa Coun
ty, Mich, a few days ago the house OF
Francis Fisher was burned TO the ground
| and two sons, aged respectively ten and
seventeen years, persisted in the flames
| Two daughters barely escaped by jumping
from the window
Three Evansville (1ll) boys played al
hanging the other day. Itwas in the play
that each one was to cry out when he
wanted to be lct down, but as no WORD
! came from the one making the last at
tempt, he was held up by the neck unit
| he was in a semi -unconscious state, ano
his life was saved only by the opportunt
arrival of the boys father.
Near Corning, Nemaha County, Ne
braska, recently, two little children of ;
| Mr.. Snodgrass were burned to death in {
stable which they had set on fire while
| playing with some matches. Both their
parents were absent at the time, and when
they returned they found the two little
| charred bodies lying together in the ruins
as if they had died in each others arms