Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A Terre Haute man hung a horse
shoe over his door for luck. 1t fell down
recently and broke his little girls nose.
Mrs. Salvey, of Montana, recently at
tempted to fill a lighted kerosene lamp,
and two of her children died of their
burns.
%. J. Goulding, living near Fergus
Falls, Mimi, recently wandered from his
home in fit of insanity and clad only in
a shirt. He persisted of the cold soon
after.
The wife of DR.. BowIes, of Jake's
Prairie, Mo-, attended church at some
distance from her home, few evenings
ago, and as she was returning, a tree fell
upon her, killing her and her horse al
most instantly.
The body of beautiful girl, the
daughter of wealthy parents in Easton,
Pa, was recently found in the Delaware
river near Bordentown, n. J. The cir
cumstances which led to her suicide have
not been devulged.
The death by suicide of Bennett Pie
tiers, once prominent and well known in
the business circles of our city, is an ad-
ditional illustration of the old saying that
whisky will beat any man." 1t beat
Pieters badly, running him mentally, NOR
ally, financially and physically.-Cbicdgo
Journal.
"A singular accident occurred near
Moosic, Luzerne County, Pa, recently.
George Jackson, youth of fourteen,
drove blind horse off bridge, and
both the boy and the horse were precipi-
tated upon the rocks beneath. The ami
NAL was killed outright, and the boy seri-
ously injured.
At Antwerp, Ohio, few days since a
young son of John Freiderstren, aged six
years, was sitting close to a stove upon
which sat a boiler full of scalding water
which he, in endeavoring to save himself
from falling from the chair, drew over
upon himself, the boiling water complete
ly covering the body and literally par
boiling his flesh. The little sufferer lin
gered few hours in the greatest agony
and died
Jacob Mechella, the Russian seaman,
VINO, last summer, murdered Deputy
Marshal Stevenson, was recently hung in
the Hudson County, New Jersey, Jail
During the hanging the prisoner fell to
the ground in consequence of the break
ing of the rope. After little delay
another rope was procured, and the poor
fellow was hung the second time, this
time without accident. 1twas thoroughly
revolving affair throughout.
Michael He'll and his wife Catherine
were an industrious German couple in
Washington City. Michael was a tailor
and had his shop up stairs, and Catherine
was cook, and kept a restaurant down
stairs. The tive children, the Youngest
only one year old, spent most of their
time running up and down stairs from
father to mother. Three rough fellows
visited her restaurant the other night, and
commenced raising disturbance. She
finally got them out, but they returned,
kicked down the door and attacked the
woman. The three roughs were beating
and mauling her shamefully when
Michael came down stairs with his shot
gun. He pointed it at the william who
had hold of his wife, but the man saw the
danger and placed the woman between
himself and the gun. The heavy load of
shot entered GATHERINGS head, and she
died instantly. The ruffians then fed,
but were afterwards arrested, one of them
being peppered with shot.
John Donnelly and Mary Donnelly
had son Patrick, and they had given
him to Aunt Rose Riley to bring up. She
brought him up on the bottle, whisky bot
tie, until he came to be fifteen years old
1t was whisky-drinking family, and fin
ally all of them having been driven out
of every other place, on account of their
quarrelings and fightings, came together
again in deep basement in New York.
Their home was so far underground that
they could not well disturb anybody else.
They all got drunk out of the same bot
tie, but the whisky disagreed for all
that. They quarreled and fought every
day and night in their hideous den. John
Donnelly shoveled coal for whisky,
young Patrick cleaned sidewalks and
crossings for whisky, and Rose Reilly
kept house and cooked what little they
had to eat after the daily bottle of whis-
ky was purchased One night they had
more whisky than usual and got up a
terrible fight. Rose Riley claimed that
the boy Patrick was her property, as she
had raised him, so she sat down on him
until he was nearly smothered, and then
jumped on his breast until all the breath
was out Of his body. The boy was dead
drunk at the time, and now is dead past
drinking