Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Daniel Hubbard, who has run saw
mill in Guilford, Conn.,, for the last fifty
years, died recently from lock-jaw, re-
sulting from saving off two OF his fingers
few days before.
The wife of T. L. Lewis, of Walling-
ford, Conn, used arsenic for saleratus IN
preparing buckwheat cakes for brea ktast
a few days ago, and the result is that Mrs.
Lewis and her son are dead.
Miss Breach. of Hicks Valley, Mimi,
lately attempted to kill herself with
shotgun. She made q poor job OF it,
only succeeding in frightfully lacerating
herself, without reaching a vital part.
Ole Oleson allowed his team to get
the better of him at Racine, Wis, one day
recently, and he was thrown to the ground
with such violence that his skull was
fractured. He walked home and then
died.
The other day son Of Jos. 7. Amber
son, of Commerce, Mo, was riding out,
when his horse, becoming frightened, ran
away and dashed into q pIcket-fence,
throwing his rider and killing himself al
most instantly.
Susan Gray was recently tied up by the
thumbs by a Nebraska school teacher, tor
disobeying the rules, and after her brother
cot through with his shooting the school
was closed for want of a competent
teacher.
"A child in Caribou, Maine, eleven
months old, short time since swallowed
large needle, nearly two inches long,
and in less than eight days the head OF
the needle was discovered sticking
IL IL, oh on1
successfully removed by its mother. The
child is now all right.
Jacob Bruner, of Berks County, Pa,
had his fortune told by an old nag in
Reading, recently. He was informed
that his first prize would be a coffin, and
in four weeks from that time he would
die, and that meantime both he and his
| father would be robbed. He believed the
woman's story, and the man is now raw
| ing maniac.
"A few days ago, Mr.. Hall, we'll
| known farmer of La Sale County, H.,
was found dead near Ottawa. His face
was buried in the mud, which had frozen
| hard about him, and his wagon-box was
on his back. 1t is supposed that his team
ran away with and threw him in the mud
where heWas smothered.
"A fine bay horse in California was
found suspended, one morning, from a
cherry tree, by the neck, and dead. He
| had been hitched to branch of the tree,
which had grown so rapidly during the
| night that it raised him off his feet and
hung him. And they don't think Offenc-
ing in California.
"A few days age the grocery store Of
George Alderton, at Saginaw City, Mich,
was completely demolished by the ezplo-
sion of a can of powder. The building
was made a mass of ruins. A little
daughter of Mr.. Alderton, aged four
years, was instantly killed, and Mrs. Aid
| erton was badly burned. A clerk named
Williams was alss severely injured. The
accident is supposed to have been caused
by the little girl putting a lighted match
in the can, containing nearly ten pounds
of powder.
Seven miles northeast of Sedalia, at
Morton, Mo, little station on the M, K.
& L. Railroad, a few days ago, number
of .lads-nOne of them over fourteen years
of age-gOt possession of some shOtguns
and powder, and started the game of In
dians, using chewed paper wads for am
munition. One of the boys, as the game
grew exciting, approached pretty close to
his antagonist, and received a large charge
point blank. The wad inflicted quite q
wound, from the effect of which he sank
steadily, and shortly after died.
One day recently Benjamin Fraken-
field and wife, while driving in EastOn,
Pa, met with serious accident by the
swingletree breaking and the horses run
ming away. Frankenfeld was severely
injured about the body, and Mrs. F. had
her nose nearly severed, cuts about the
face and head penetrating the skull, and
had her left hip-joint badly fractured.
The horses ran into wagon occupied by
John Bower and a young brother, and
both were thrown out. John died of the
badly hurt. One horse was killed.
The Woodstock (Vt.) papers give
some facts concerning the bad treatment
of the boys in the Reform School, and
more particularly of Shrewsbury boy
named Warren Johnson, who has been in
the institution since last February, and
was recently taken TO Woodstock to be
tried for breaking and entering. The boy
was found to be shockingly filthy and
covered with lice. He testified that he
had no comb nor soap, and that none of
the boys had any, being oblished to wash
WIGuOuO JIG ldGbSl oil tlSISS hOIG oi11IG
fortnight; Healy, one of the officers,
would whip him till the blood ran down
his legs.
The Montreal Gazette of recent date
relates the following: Between two and
three o'clock yesterday morning respect
able young married female, living in the
neigh borhOod of the general hospital, ap-
peared at the door of the institution and
rang the bell for admittance. The female
nightwatch, who happened to be in at
tendance, opened the door, when, to her
surprise, lady entered, scantily clad, her
wearing apparel consisting only of a
nightdress. Her eyes were open and in
her hands she held an open Bible, which,
addressing the waiter, she requested to be
given to one of the patients in the hos
pital Thinking the woman to be insane,
| the watch called the house-surgeon, who,
perceiving what was the matter put few
questions to the former, when she awoke
with a screech, and, finding where she
was, began making the most frantic ap-
peals for help. The doctor kindly ordered
the nurse to supply her with clothes and
accompany her to her house: On arriv-
ing there they found her husband in bed
fast asleep, entirely unconscious of his
wife's adventure"