Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-02
HAPS AND MISRAPS.

Peter Sheets, residing near Locke,
Ind, was thrown from his wagon lew
nights ago, and had his neck broken.
"A few evenings ago Geo. LOOMS, a
wood dealer OF Toledo, while intoxicated
drove bis team off the river bank and
broke his neck.
Samuel Clark, of Marion, Iowa, was
instantly killed few days ago, by being
thrown from his wagon while crossing the
bridge over Cedar River.
Mrs Billings, Of Grand Rapids, Mich,
recently fell down the cellar stairs at her
residence, and striking her head against
the cellarwall was instantly killed.
The passenger train from Jefferson to
Marshall, La, recently ran off the track
into Little Cypress Bayou. The engineer
was badly injured and the fireman was
killed
Mrs Polly Booker, an old colored
woman, who had been missing from her
home at Columbus, Ohio, for several days,
was recently found dead in a cornfield
near that city.
While three men were carrying part
of a pIinting-press down stairway at
CLYDE, Ohio, lately the stairs gave way
and all three were precipitated into the
cellar. One of them fell beneath the
press and was fatally injured.
"A FIR. Sharp, living at Middlefeld,
Iowa, hearing his dog barking tUiously
a few nights ago, got up to see what was
the matter. On opening the door he was
bounced upon by large wildcat and
badly injured. The animal was subse-
Quently killed.
Mrs Bridget Ward, aged forty five, of
Baltimore, recently attemptedto accelerate
the kitchen fire with coal oil, when the can,
containing half gallon of fluid, exploded.
She was Immediately enveloped in flames,
and so horribly burned that she died in
few hours. Her daughter was also badly
burned in her endeavor to save her
mother
"A short time ago an engine standing
in the railroad company's shops at
Altoona, Pa, got started in some way,
without any person on it, and ran through
the rOund-hOuse and across an open space
into the large machine shop, passing the
entire length Of the shop, over 300
feet in which over 500 men were at work.
One man, named Curiman, was killed,
and another, Bradley, had a leg taken
oil. The engine smashed everything in
its course.
Mrs. Thos. Smith quaueled with her
husband at Detroit, a few days ago. and
revenged herself by swallowing fifty
grains Of morphia In the evening she
told her husband what she had done. The
good man said "That's all right" and
laid down quietly by her side to sleep.
About two O'Clock next morning he was
astonisned TO find her trying to dic-a
feat which she succeeded in accomplish
ing about an hour aftcrward. The Cor
oner's jury did not implicate the husband,
but called it suicide.
Another fatal example of the baneful
effect. Of allowing children to carry fire
arms as toys was furnished in Chicago II
few days ago. Two boys named Emil
aud Hans Hirsch, aged respectively
twelve and nine years, were playing to-
gethcr, when the elder Emil, drew load
cd pistol from his pocket and commenced
tampering with the lock, while the muZ.
alc was pointed directly at his brother
OF course the weapon went off at the
proper moment, the ball striking Hans in
the temple and entering his brain, killing
him instantly.
Mrs. William Scance, wife of we'll
to.do farmer in Scott County, Ky, intict-
ed frighttul wounds upon two of her chill
drcn, aged nine and two years, and then
cut her own throat recently. The tragedy
occurred early in the morning. Mrs.
Scanco dressed herself carefully, took one
of her husbands razors and went into the
childrcn's room, where the tragedy was
enacted. Mrs. Scance is dead, but it is
thought the children would recover. She
was lahoring under hysteria