Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-10
. HAPs AND MISHAPS.

An emery wheel at Howe Brothers
factory. at Winsted, Conn, recently
burst while making 200 revolutions per
minute. striking John Holland, Jr-, who
was polishing corkscrews upon IT, under
the chin, breaking his jaw in three places
and mutilatin9 his mouth in most
frightful manner.
Capt. Otis Rogers, Of Marshfield,
Mass, who supposed he had been in con-
sumption several years, recently elected
a snake about six inches long. He sup
poses he swallowed it while drinking
water in North Carolina during the war,
in which he served in the Twenty third
Regiment His health is improving
"A workman IN shop at Newport,
r. l., the other day was caught by a re-
volying shaft, which took off every biz Of
his clothes except his shirt collar, wrist
band and boots, and flung him into q
heap OF shavings ten feet off without
hurting him. The job was done In about
the four hundredth part Of minute.
The son Of o wealthy New York cit
izen died, recently, at Hartford, Conn,
in the most abject poverty, and was
buried at public expense. He was cast
off by his family because he married con
trary to their wishes. He was printer
and had walked from Boston 20 Hartford
in search Of work, and the fatigue added
To hunger caused his death. He leaves
wife and child.
About two O'Clock on a recent after
noon Mrs. Scheetz, Of Pottstown, Pa,
put her infant baby, Jennie, to bed, and
then returned down stairs to her work.
The bed on which the baby lay had "a
slat bottom. and the bedclothes were too
short To reach to the foot-cDd Between
the last slat and the foot-end there was
space of almost six inches. The baby
became restless during lis sleep and rolled
from the head Of the bed to the foot-end,
and its body fell between the slat and
the oot-board, its head not going
through The chin rested on the Stat.
II is supposed she lived after the fall
about forty-fivc minutes. From the floor
to the bottom Of the bed it was fourteen
and half inches, so that her feet rested
on the floor, which no doubt prolonged
her life and suficrings Shortly before
five o'clock Mrs Scheetz went upstairs
to bring little Jennie down, when the hor.
rible sight met her vision.
The Rutland (Vt) Herald describes
wedding which occurred in that place the
other day, az follows: Zone of our minis
tiers had gotten about half way through
eleventh and finally when he was
called out by young man in overalls
and the rest of workingman's dress,
who asked him if he was ready TO per
form marriage. Certainly he was; but
had the applicant a licensey No, he
hadn't; didn't know about it in fact.
And so the worthy parscn and the happy
groom strolled over to the Town Clerks
office and procured the needed blank,
after which the pair took up their course
to by street, the groom still in work
day overalls and with sleeves rolled up. |
Arrived at the residence Of the other
party to the bargain, the blue overalls
led the way in and summoned from the
tub woman who was washing, with
sleeves rolled up, dress pi4sed up and
hair tied up. With no delay the bride
dropped her skirts, rolled down her
sleeves, dried her hands and stepped into
the next room, where blue ovcralls
stood up with her, and the minister pro-
nounccd the words that made them man
and wife; whereupon the divine went
back TO his eleventh, the bride to her
tub and the groom to his work.