Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-25
HApS AND MISHAPS.

TOOK Are and was speedily reduced to
mass Of ruins. The loss reached $780,
900
Richard Thompson, of Waterbury,
Conn, aged 10, was found frozen to deajA
recently at the foot Of an embankment
where he had fallen during the night
The family sportsman has brought
down his game again. This time mt Pier
son, Michigan, where, while recently
loading his gun, he succeeded in shooting
dead his own brother
AT Montoursvile, Pa, recently, man
was standing by his horse, eating an ap-
pie, when the animal opened his jaws
and seized the apple, biting the mans
thumb completely of
The rear Of a train of Aat-cars collided
with band.car, on which were eleven OF
he employees, az PlattsmOuth, Nebraska,
"A few days ago. Two men were killed
and several seriously injured
Some rascal entered the stable of Z.
SHAW d Bros, in Eanceboro', Maine, one
night last week, and killed one Of their
most valuable horses by cutting cash in
It's body nearly two feet long
"A can containing three pounds of
gun.pOwdcr was Knocked off shelf in a
meat market at Pontiac, Mich, by rats, a
few nights since, and falling on the stove
exploded and completely shattered the
building and set it on fire.
John Church told a Kcntuckian the
other day that Daniel Boone was only IA
"one-horse whisky distiller," instead of a
great hunter and the family of Mr.,
Church can secure his effects by writing
10 the coroner ut Maysyille,
In attempting to cross the Missouri
al Elk Point, Idaho, q few days since, in
high wind, the ferry boat was driven on
sandsar, and remained there until the
next morning Among the passengers
we're two ladies, and they lrozc to death
jimmy WaIdron, Of Bloomington,
Ill, has been in the habit Of riding the
mich COW from the pasture but as the
COW took OllcaSe at being spurred a few
days ago, and threw him, breaking his
arm in two places, he has concluded to
abandon the practice.
"A man in Vernon County, Wis. on
Coon Creek, sent his two children, Il few
nights ago, alter The cows. They did not
return, ana the next morning the father
started IN search of them lie found The
icct OF one and the clothc. of the other,
they having been dcyuurcd by two bears.
The animals were tracked to their dens
and killed.
AT Wtnona, Mimi, the other day, a
iItiIe boy by the name of Ryan was play
ing with pistol. A little girl by the
name oi O'Dea expressed a desire To hear
INN snap cap The boy galanGy re.
sponded to her request, and now the
iitIle girl doesn't care to hear any more
caps snapped, and the surgeon had quite
tlhe digging shot out OF her scalp.
a boy in Lafayette, lad, is out of
tuck. Recently he drank pint of lyc
thinking II was cider, and as soon as he
was well, while playing skinny" had
Two fingers on his right hand dislocuted
by blow from club, and while on his
way home, bowling with pain, fell down
and broke his arm. This is all to date,
but he Is an invaluable boy for an editor
--rhc case of the New York physician
who caused the death of child by al
lowing u piece of lunar causlic To slip
down ITS throat is surpassed iii rcCk less
ness 10y that of DR.. j. S. Clark, of Port.
land, Me, who gave a young lady sixty
powders, composed of pure corrosive
Shbltmatc. Any one Of the powders was
vhough 20 cause death Fortunately after
taking the urst the patient vomited freely,
and was relieved by dose of lemon and
gciattnc, followed by egg-nogg. She is
not yet cut OF danger What the doctor
meant 10 administer docs not appear.
The little daughter Of VIM. More, of
Pinckucy, Mich, was recently burned to
death under the following circumstances
The mother went ont after pail OF water,
about twenty rods from the house, and