Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-27
HAPS AND MISHAPS,

jacob White, a farmer living nea
Cleveland, Ohio, was recently killed
while hauling wood by being struck by
falling tree.
Andrew Jackson, of Columbus, Ohio
while at play the other evening fell ove1
a large stone and dislocated his neck
He was instantly killed.
A workman, while engaged in clean
ing a locomotive at Milwaukee the otbel
day, was so badly scalded by the escap
ing steam that he died in few hours.
The remains OF Robert Sanders
Clerk of Grundy County, Tenn, were
found the other day mangled to a ielly
at the foot of precipice near Beersheba
Springs
While William Doty, of Sidney. Iowa
was aiding lady to mount horse the
other day the horse kicked and Mr.. Dotv
had the whole side of his face laid open
and his jaw fractured.
Recently four colored men stole
Anna Miller, the eight-year-old daughter
of Sebastian Miller, well-to-do German
residing in Brooklyn, \. \. At last ac-
counts nothing had been heard of the
little girl OF her abductors.
According to the Chico (CaI) Enter.
prise, child died at Tehama and was
being buried lately, when the mother
uttered a cry and threw herself upon the
coffin, exclaiming that the child Lad
spoken. The coffin was opened and the
child found to be alive.
The old man caught his only
daughter by the back hair as she was
going down stairs and led her back to
her bed-chamber then, taking his trusty
rifle in hand, confronted the lover on the
front porch and gave him two minutes
to git" He got All this at Bells
Mills, Blair Co, Pa. The course of true
love never did run smooth, and many a
runaway match has been spoiled before.
"A case of equine hydrophobia re-
Gently occurred at Winfield, l.. l., a sub
urb Of Brooklyn, which exhibited all the
peculiar phases shown in human beings
when attacked with the disease. When
first taken the horse made strange noises,
kicking and trying to bite the horse
standing near him and all who APP
preached. An effort to drink water in.
variably increased the distressing symp
toms, and the animal would foam at the
mouth and utter sounds resembling the
yelp of a dog He would kick, bite
plunge and exhibit all the appearances Of
an animal in delirious frenzy of feal
or pain. In one of these mad spasms the
poor creature died.
"A Lincoln (Neb.) dispatch says that
in one Of the adjacent counties the Other
day three men were found with bullet
holes through them. They had cards
pinned upon them, stating that they haC
been executed for setting fire to the
prairie grass. The fires they set de-
stroyed about 81 800 in barns, grain anC
other property. The shooters were sup
posed to be the parties who lost property
The men were buffalo-hunters, one forty
five years old and the others young men
Warning has been given to all hunters
that the same vengeance will Overtakt
them for setting out fires.
An incident recently occurred in the
family of Squire Thurman, of Washing
ton, Mo, which is worth relating. The
Squire and his wife were temporarily
absent, having left the children to keeI
house, when by some means the youngest
child of two years, fell into a cister1
seventeen feet deep, with only foot or SC
Of water in it, and, strange to say, the
youngster was not hurt nor mucl
alarmed, for when the older ones, boy
and girl of nine and ten years, threw
down a check line with moose to it, the
little one slipped it over its head anC
under its arms and was hauled out safe
and sound.
The Waterman and Reflector, speak
ing of the loss of the First Baptis
Church in Chicago at the recent grea
fire, says: When the flames seized The
great house of worship belonging to thu
First Baptist Church, brethren who haC
laFOred hard to save it said, one to an
other, Our house must go, but let u
have one more prayer within its walls
And they bowed before God in face o
the coming flames, while one, who hat
been wont to lead in the fire and thunde
of battle, led the cry of these faithful
heroes before the mercy seat. Then
rising to their feet, they sang as the.
retreated:
From every stormy wind that blows,
From every swelling tide of woes,
There is a calm, a sure retreat
'Tfs found beneath the mercy-seat.'
"A little girl, the daughter of William
B. Graham, living in the south edge O
Mercer County, aged about ten or clever
years, had occasion to cross the corne
Of field where some thirty head of hog
were feeding. AS she ran she frightened
some of the little pigs, which enrage(
the large ones and they took after he1
Before she reached the fence they tool
her down. Her mother was in tn
house-yard and about eighty yards from
her, and saw her go down among Thu
hogs. She ran to save her, and in he
haste to rescue the child forgot to tax,
any weapon along to defend herself with
No sooner had she reached them thai
they turned on her also and took he
down. Mr.. Graham had just started TO
load of grain, and had got about eight.
rods from the house when he heard tn,
screams. He ran as fast as he could, Blu
just as he reached the fence Mrs. Graham
had succeeded in reaching it with TIT
little girl both fearfully mangled ant
torn. There are two wounds on Mrs
Graham, one on the calf of the left leg
and one on the left arm between the Ell
bow and the shoulder. The piece i
torn clean out, leaving a hOrrid cash
She was bitten and bruised in severa
places, even to pulling mouthfuls of hal
out of her head, but none so serious a
the first mentioned. -M0nnlOuth (IW.
ReUieD
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