Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-20
HAPs AND MIsHAPS.

ing to his horse, which action frightened
the animal, and it kicked, striking him
in the abdomen in vital part. He lived
but twenty -four hours.
Mrs. Fromheiser, Of Slatington, Pa,
recently met . terrible death. The lady
had been subject to epileptic fits or fall
ing sickness, and while preparing bFesk-
fast was suddenly attacked and fell upon
the stove. Before help could be obtained
she literally roasted alive.
Two boys, aged ten and fourteen
years respectively, recently went into the
loft of an elevator in Menasha, Wis, TO
catch some Of the doves that congregsted
there. While the boys we're on one OF
the bins the spout was opened to load =
team and they were drawn down into the
spout and suffoeated. The wheat in the
bin WAS about ten feet deep.
Over twenty COWS were recently
poisoned to death at Boscobel, Wis, from
eating broom-corn IL was thought Ut
first that the cows had been purposely
poisoned by the owner OF the broom
corn field, but on the day following u COW
was purchased by the authorities and
turned into the field. After eating five
hills of the corn she dropped dead.
"A sickening affair recently happened
at Battle Creek, Mich Billy Hodges,
aged six years was teasing large mas
tiff which was tied in shed in the rear
of his fathers house, when the dog, be-
coming enraged, suddenly made leap
and seized the boy by the back OF the
head and neck, which were torn and lac
Grated il the most shocking manner A
large piece Of the scalp was torn COM
pletely oil.
While some men were grinding
scythes beneath two immense chestnut
trees in Orange, Conn., during recent
thunderstorm lightning struck the trees,
shivered them into many pieces, darted
against the grindstone, which one man
was turning and upon which another
man was holding scythe, snatched the
implement from his hand and hurled it
into the air with u noise resembling that
of a buzz-saw, landing it some fifty feet
away. The men were rather startled by
the incident, but we're not hurt.
Might before last young lady resid-
ing in the city, who had been i'll for
scmemonths, died. That night her moth
er, worn out by weeks of care and watch
ing, had lain down upon the foot of the
bed, leaving two women to watch over
the sufferer, who appeared to be in
stupor. She had been asleep but few
minutes when her daughter awoke and
inquired of the nurses: Where is
mother, want to see her this minute"
The ladies explained the circumstances,
to which the girl replied: Yes, know
mother is tired out, but must see her
right now" Expostulations were USE
less; she became excited. and reaching
over to her mother endea5ored to arouse
her, bat was too weak. The ladies
finally concluded to wake the parent,
who Immediately sat up in bed and
looked at her daughter The latter
glanced full in her face for second and
fell back dead.-.Sacramento Union.
Miss Lydia Byres' father, Of Oska-
ioosa, Iowa, lately wrote letter to one
of his daughters lady friends in Bloom
ington, III, stating that Lydia was dead
She had been seized with illness soon
after returning home from the Normal
School at Bloomington, and died sud
denly, 1t made much grief among the
companions OF the young ladys Normal
School course. Several days after u let
ter came addressed to the same young
lady of Bloomington, apparently by the
hands of her dead friend. Opening the
letter she found that her supposed dead
friend had both written the letter and
signed it. The letter stated that she had
been struck down by illness, was pro-
nounced dead, put in a coffin, her grave
dug and the hour for her funeral APP
pointed but she was luckily not buried
for the very good reason that she woke
UP in time to render the last ceremony
quite unnecessary. She was very glad
of it, and was quite well again. She
supposes it was q trance that looked like |
death.
--On last Friday morning a terrible
accident occurred on the farm Of Franz
Bergman, in Jackson Township, near
Minister, Ohio. Mrs. Bergman and her
daughter, Mrs. Nandenbroek, of Ma
poleon, went to the haryest-tield, carry |
ing with them a lunch for the harvesters !
They seated themselves in front |
of the team, which was left standing di- |
rectly over a hornets nest. The horses |
becoming FESTIVE, commenced paving the |
ground, disturbing the hornets, which |
made vigorous assault upon the |
team. The horses became frantic and !
plunged forward with the mower toward |
the group. The clothing of the two la |
dies was caught In the machine, and |
they were thus dragged for considera- |
bic length of time before the horses
could possibly be checked. Finally, |
when the horses were caught, il was |
found that Mrs, Bergeman was dead, her I
body being bruised and cut in IA most |
sickenlng manner. Her body was SO /
completely entanged in the machinery |
that it required the strength of two men |
to eXtrica her The fate of her daugh- |
ter was not instant death but her inju- /
ries were such that she died on Sunday |
morning. --BslLJontatae (Otiol Enuasaer