Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-15
HAPS AND MISHAPS.


over q boot-iack and broke his neck.
"A cask of St. Louis beer burst ana
killed a man in that city the other day.
A blast at Marblehead, Mass, threw
100 pounds of rock half a mile, and IL
struck and killed COW.
-Leopold Wirth fell into a vat OF hot
whisky in Milwaukee, and was scalded so
that the flesh dropped from his bones.
-A'boy, to conceal it from his mother,
placed a lighted cigar hurriedly into his
pocket, where he had lot OF gunpo"oer'
His pocket won't hold marbles
j. II. Armstrong, of Keokuk County,
Iowa, lived nearly three hours after care
lessly handling rifle That IS longer
than they usually live The young lady
he was engaged to be married to has now
lost three affianced lovers by fatal acct
dents.
A beautiful young girl was married
in San Francisco, recently, and atthe con
clusion of the marriage ceremony she
turned to her husband and said, George,
kiss me, am dying" The husband com
piled with the request, and at that mo-
ment the young bride fell dead to the
floor.
Mrs. w. D. Vertise, of West Bend,
Wis, bought several calico dress patterns,
and on showing them around to her
friends learned that she could have got
the same style Of goods at another store
much cheaper. This made her feel so bad
that she went off and hanged herself.
AT Acton, Mass, a citizen thought
he heard thieves in his barn the other
night, and went out to see. His wife
missed him from the house, and followed
him to the barn. In the darkness he mis-
took her for a burglar and shot her, in
fiicting fatal injuries.
Samuel Cram, Of Windbam, Me,
recently committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor, placing himself be
fore mirror so that he might see where
to cut 50 that it would edo the most good. y
He was sixty years old, unmarried, and
three of his brothers had prcviousl y com
mitted suicide.
The Musquakie Indians in Jasper
County, Iowa. recently punished muir
derer of their tribe. He had killed Il
squaw, and was tried by the tribe and sen
fenced to death. They tied him to a log,
face up and left him to starvc, which he
did in eight days, Indians guarding him
all the time.
Texas paragraph: "Murdered-By the
KickapOO Indians from Mexico, at the
rancho of Mr. Martin, in Webb County,
thirty miles north of Laredo, on the even
ing of the 18th inst, Guadalupe Elisardo
and Carlos Cara; also, on the morning Of
the Sth inst, by the same parties, Felipe
Gonzales, at the rancho of Capt Callaghan,
in this county
A little girl in Norwich, Conn, was
poisoned recently by drinking the milk in
which a green milk ticket had soaked
no J. nod
neglected to take it from the can, and the
coloring matter dissolved and mixed with
the milk Violent vomiting ensued, by
which the poison was elected, thus saving
the little ones life.
A young married man in Arkansas
was displeascd at something his wife did
recently, and struck her. He then went
to his mother and told her that if his wife
did not do better in the future he would
blow his brains out, as he did not intend
to slap her or complain of her again. y
few days after, thinking that she did not
come at his request with the alacrity she
ought, he drew his pistol and shot himself
dead
A robin red-breast sat upon pole in
Detroit one day last week, and a boy named
Clayhammer brought out his fathers re
vol1er, levclcd it at the bird and pulled
the trigger. The ball missed the robin by
about ten feet went through the window
of a house, and brought up in Il pile Of
crockery. Some excitement was Oc-
casioncd, and the boy was taken home
and made to chase the boot,iack around
his mother.
A Wandcrer about the streets of Ack-
lev Iowa, was at ten o'clock at night
found asleep in the Revere House parlor,
and by her side a note saving, Il have no
place to 90 tonight, and | know not what
to do but 20 take morphine and sleep my
self to death. There is no other way, so
goodbye home and friends" The note
was signed Lizzie Williams, Marble
Rock, Iowa. A physician was sum
moned and antidotes administered, and
the poor girls life saved.
The Rev Mr. Frazell, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church Of ElmWood
Ill, was publicly whipped by Mrs Leslie,
widow of the late J. p Leslie, for remarks
made by him at a temperance meeting
held in the Congregational Church on a
recent Sunday evening, to the effect that
the expensive coffin used to inclosc the re
mains of the late Mr.. Leslie was purchased
with the tears and groans of the drunk
ards families Mrs Leslie met the Rev.
Frazell in the store of DR.. p. Y. r. Dcfoe
and proceeded to whip him, when he es-
capped after few blows by running down
the nearest alley.
A Cincinnati scwingmachne agent
called upon Mrs. Hatfron to collect a
monthly payment the other day. 1t was
election day, and the festive Hatfron had
just returned from the polls with an I'M
healthy assortment of liquid lightning,
fusil Oil, cut nails, sure death, etc, in his
hold. At sight of the agent, HatfrOn was
seized with desire to "scollup" his cOun-
tenance, and he did. He first spread him
out on a table, and Their crowned him with
a looking glass, set him down on a red
cooking stove, poured boiling water from
the teakettle in his pockets, and pune
turcd him in various parts of his person
with pair of shears. Then, after getting
his coat-tail full of boots, he thrust him
through the front window with perfect
disregard ofexpense. The agent has writ
ten Mrs. II. note, saying that he shall
not sail in person for future payments.