Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 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 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 ir
shirt. lie persisted of the cold soon
after.
The wife OF DR., Bowles, Of Jake's
Prairie, Mo, attended church at some
distance from her home, few evenings
ago, and as she was returning, tree Tell
upon her, killing her and her horse al
most instantly.
The body of a beautiful girl, the
daughter of wealthy parents in Easton,
Pa, was recently found in the Delaware
river near Bordcntown, N. J. The cir
cumslances which led to her suicide have
not been devulgcd
The death by suicide Of Bennett Pie
tiers, once prominent and well known in
the business circles Of our city, Is an adj
ditional illustration Of the old saying that
whisky will beat any man" 1t beat
Peters badly, running him mentally NOR
ally financially and physically.-Chtcago
JOuradI
"A singular accident occurred near
Moosic, Luzcme County, Pa recently.
George Jackson, youth of fourteen,
drove blind horse off a bridge, and
both the boy and the horse were prccipi,
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 Frcidcrstren, aged six
years, was sitting close to stove upon
which sat boiler full of scalding water
which he, in endcayoring 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 Mcchella, 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 a little delay,
another rope was procured, and the poor
fellow was hung the second time, this
time without accident ltwas a thoroughly
revolving affair throughout.
Michael He'll and his wife Catherine
were an Industrious German couple in
Washington City. Michael was tailor
and had his shop up stairs, and Catherine
was cook, and kept a restaurant down
stairs. The five 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 mauing hor shametully 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 rullans then fed
but were afterwards arrested, one Of them
being pcppered with shot.
John Donnelly and Mary Donnelly
had Il son Patrick, and they had given
him to Aunt Rose Riley to bring up. She
brought him upo on the bottle, whisky bot
tie, until he came TO be nttcCn years old.
1t was Il whisky drinking family, and fin
ally all of them having been driven out
OF every other place, on account of their
quarrclngs and tightings, 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 Quarrclcd and fought every
day and night in their hideous den John
Douneily Shoyeicd coal FOR whisky,
young Patrick cleaned sidewalks and
crossings for whisky, and Rose RELY
Kept house ana cooked what little they
had to eat atjel The daily bottle Of whis.
Ky was purchased One night they had
more whisky than usual and got up n
terrible fight Rose Riley claimed that
the boy Patrick was her property, as she
had raised him, 50 she sat down ON him
until he was nearly smothered, and then
jumped ON his breast until all the breath
was out OF hi, body The boy was dead
drunk at The time, and NOW is dead past
drinking.