Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-05
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

HAPS AND MISHAPS.
"A Virginia paper tells this horrible
story: A boy of five and his sister aged
seven, children Of one Akers, of Alum
Ridge township, got hold of a jug of
brandy, and between them drank a quart
of its contents. They went to sleep and
were put to bed, both dying within few
hours.
- Mrs. Turner, of Somerville, Ne,
fell backward while ascending the ladder
to scaffold, few days ago, and both
tines of pitchfork were run quite through
her neck. She was found two hours after
completely paralyzed, with both hands
and feet frozen. She lived, however, two
or three days.
Some workmen who were recently
passing along the road in Lakeville, Ind,
were attracted by the number of hogs in
the wood tearing what upon inspection
proved to be the body of an old man so
horribly mutilated by the beasts that he
could not be identified. Near him were
found satchel and some old clothes, but
nothing that could lead to Identification.
A Coroner's jury investigated the matter,
and their verdict supposed the man was
| frozen to death.
Some four years since a young man
was arrested in Palmyra, Mo-, for delib-
erately numbering young lady to whom
he was paying suit, because she rejected
him. Bail was refused and he was i'm
prisoned in the county jail. From some
cause or other his trial had been continued
| from time to time until few weeks since,
when it came off. Strange to say, when
then the jury announced their verdict
guilty-the young man dropped dead
| upon the spot
! -Ex-Judge William III. Cool, promi-
nent citizen of Carbon County, and res
ident of Beaver Meadow, Pa, while en-
gagged with his son in tearing down his old
powder-mill, about four miles from the
latter place, few days ago, which mill
had been abandoned for some years, struck
an iron bolt with an ak, causing a spark
| to fly, which ignited some twenty-five or
thirty kegs of powder-dust lying on the
| floor. Mr.. Cool, on seeing the sparks,
started toward the door and had passed
out when he heard terrible explosion.
| He was knocked down and much burned.
Under date of Feb. Is John W. Taffe,
| of Wyandotte, Kan, relates remarkable
| instance of presentiment. He says: On
| last Wednesday night, the 18th inst, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, | was sit
| ting by the stove reading the evening
paper. [ became deaf for about TWO
minutes, and at the same time was i'm
pressed that my grandfather was dead. [
was so positive that the impression or in
! telligence was true, [ rose from my seat
and walked to the kitchen, where my
wife and hired girl were, and told them
the circumstance On Saturday, the 18th
inst, at noon, l received letter from my
father at Chesterfield, Madison county,
| Ind, stating that Grandfather DIlts died
| on the 10th inst, at ten o'clock p. M"
The Detroit Free Press relates sad
case of suicide which occurred in that
city recently The suicide was man
named Gossman, who had wife and six
children, and had been out ofwork several
months. He had tramped around the
city day after day, but always failing to
| find work, and as the family were entirely
out of provisions, and he had no immedi-
ate prospect of earning anything, he went
home on Friday afternoon and made
| deliberate preparations to take his own
! life. The rope was made fast to the roof
of the wood shed, and the man piled up
wood, stood on the pile and swung off
with the moose around his neck. There
was fall of about a foot and his neck
was broken by the shock. His wife was
away washing and his children at school.
| When the children came home they saw
! their father hanging, but thought he was
standing by the wood pile asleep, and
went out so as not 10 disturb him. The
body was cut down by a neighbor, after
! hanging three or four hours. The wife
had never heard her husband threaten to
| commit suicide, nor had any OF his
neighbors, but it seemed that he was com
pletelv discouraged at his failure to find
work, and he thought death the speedlest
means of relief.
BOILED AsPARAGUs.-To each half
! gallon of water allow one heaped table
| spoonful of salt Asparagus should be
dressed as soon as possible after 1t is cut,
! although it may be Kept for day or two
| by putting the stalks into cold water; yet
to be good, like every other vegetable, it
cannot be cooked too fresh. Scrape the
white part of the stems, beginning from
| the head, and throw them into cold water;
then tie them into bundles of about twenty
| each, keeping the heads all one way, and
cut the stalks evenly, that they may all be
| the same length: put them into boiling
water, with salt in the above proportion;
| keep them boiling quickly until tender,
with the saucepan uncovered. When the
asparagus is done, dish it upon toast,
which should be dipped in the water it
was cooked in, and leave the white ends
outward each way, with the points meet
| ing in the middle Serve with a tureen
! of melted butter.
Daniel Powers. a boy of eleven, shot
at arat in Springfield (Mass.l barn, and
hit playfellow. Scared by what he had
done, Daniel ran off while the other boys
wound was being dressed, and had not at
last accounts been found, although search