Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-18
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

A Montrose Iowa girl fell head first
into a forty-toot well, and got out alive
without broken bone.
"A Charlton, Iowa, man, while recently
looking after his cattle, was hooked in
the mouth by vicious COW, the horn
penetrating through the cheek and in
flicting a CHASTITY wound.
"A party of roughs at Ashland, Wis.
in a drunken frolic, a few days ago, adj
ministered dose of croton oil to one Of
their number, who died irom/the effects,
and now four of the frolckers are in Jail
awaiting trial upon a charge of murder
William ID. Miner residing at Rice
vile, Iowa, was recently fatally injured
by having his head caught in horse
power which he was oiling. Several
pieces of the frontal bone came out while
the wound was being dressed.
"A man named Richards, of Wilton,
Iowa, was recently cutting wood. A
clothes.line, stretched near the wood pile,
caught his ak, and caused it to rebound
and strike him in the face. The frontal
bone was broken, and he was seriously
and dangerously wounded.
The precocious children who play
with guns turned up at Vicksburg, Miss,
a few days ago, and strange TO say did
not send each other to the better land;
but they managed to relieve a likely
young lady living next door Of most of
the ills that flesh is heir to-
Thomas Madden of Pcshtigo, Wis,
set couple Of spring guns to kill a bear.
Going 10 the spot next morning he found
de ad bruin, but, neglecting to invest-
IN lnr Il 10 ~
he truck the string of the other one and
rec ciyed the charge in the knee joint.
Mrs Grady, of Newport, II, l., at
tempted to correct the vitiated appetite of
her husband for tobacco, by rendering it
morally certain that he would never take
another chew. She sprinklcd his fine cut
with little strychnine, and she now airs
her widows weeds in the corridor of a
Rhode Island Jail.
A young son of Charles Hof, of Co.
lum bus, Ohio, was recently placed in
charge of a young child, and with his
little sister, four years old, sent upstairs
to play. While rompng together the
little girl ran against a shelf on which
loaded gun was standing, knocking it
down upon the floor where il was dis
oh arged, the contents lodging in the girls
head, blowing the top of the skull com
plelely of.
"A party of ladies and gentlemen left
Pic dmont Utah, recently, to attend IA
dan &C nj Fort Bridger. During the Jour
acy thithcr the road was missed, and
their team becoming exhausted, the party
was compelled to go into camp. II, NJ
Mitchell the railroad agent and telegraph
opera tor started alone to find the fort and
get aid, but was lost and frozen to death
The rest OF the party, among them the
wife of the deceased, arrived at Fort
Hii dyer the next morning in safety.
A few days ago F. NJ. Brandise and
Emma Turner, agents of sewing ma
chine company, at Columbus, Ohio, left |
with horse and wagon to deliver sewing
machines to parties near Shadesville, |
Ohio. While crossing Big Walnut Creek |
the horse got beyond his depth and was |
drowned. The man and woman clung to |
the wagon for four hours, and although |
their struggles were witnessed by several |
persons on shore, no very vigorous efforts |
were made TO save them and lust at dusk |
ahey disappeared from sight and We're |
irowaed
We seldom hear of so sad an accident |
as recently happened near Bedford, Pa. |
An old gentleman of seventy years named |
Gates, visited his son. The grandchildren |
destrod their mother to have feast of |
chickens for the occasion, &c which she |
consented if the old man would kill the |
towls, He loaded rifle and stepped back |
of the barn, the mother and small boy |
ol four years standing near the back door |
To watch the proceeding. AT the first fire |
he fatal bullet passed through the barn |
door, an inch board, and struck the child |
N the face, causing death in few min
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