Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Suicide was committed in an extraor-
binary way by young man at Paris,
Bear Lake Valley, Utah, lately. He de-
hberately drove nail into his head, and
died in few hours after.
Charles Himmel, st. Louis German,
recently hung himself because the Board
OF Health OF that city would not drain
OF several ponds in his lot which were
fast becoming a nuisance
john Glenn, school-teacher, living
near Cumberland, Nd, recently fell from
the high bridge near that place, distance
OF fifty feet, upon the rocks below, receiv-
ing such injuries that he died IN an hour.
A mutinous colored hand, named
Whltehurst, threw the captain OF barge
overheard, in Albemarle Sound, not long
ago, and being charged with the crime
by the murdered mans wife jumped into
the water himself, and was drowned.
Near Atlanta, Ga, the other day two
women were splitting wood, when one of
the axes flew off the handle and killed
one Of the women. There was an attempt
made to implicate the other woman but
the Coroner's jury decided that it was an
accident.
&c. J. England, of Burr Oak Grove,
Champaign County, Ill, few days since,
IN mounting a horse, fell, and, his foot
catcning IN the stirrup, was dragged by
the heightened horse until his bones were
nearl y all broken and his life extin-
guiShed.
John Sullivan was walking along a
street OF Boston with pail of mortar the
other DAY, when rough scoOped up a
handful OF it and plastered it over SuIli-
van eyes, and then robbed him of two
dollars; Sullivan will probably be per-
manently blind.
"A few days ago Mrs. .,McHale, who was
on her way to Chapmanville, Pa, with
her husband and child, in getting off the
train at Bethlehem Junction with the
child in her arms, fell, fracturing her
skull and injuring her child so that it died
IN a short time
A little child in Georgia recently
saved its foolish father from suicide. Dis
gusted with his poverty, though he seems
to have had good health, Mr.. Meredith,
OF Cusseta, loaded double barreled shot
gun and put the muzzle to his head. His
child ran up as he fired and knocked the
weapon to one side. The mans life was
saved, and he should live and work, if
only for the sake of that little child.
Peter Rathelsburger committed sui
eide by hanging himself the other day at
his home in Grant, Mimi. After his
funeral his son-in-law, John Widmer
wandered away and was no more seen un-
til his body was found in a wood not far
away, he too having committed suicide
by hanging. The two were involved in a
lawsuit on account Of trespass committed
III cutting wood on some one else's land.
and were fearful of a criminal prosecu.
ton.
A few days ago some merry school
boys in the town of Palos, Ill, created an
uprOar in the school by letting loose a
number of squirrels they had just caught
in an adjoining wood. After the noise
had subsidized, and after the creatures had
made their escape, the teacher endeavored
to discover the author of the tumult.
Mike Flanagan was his name, and the
master ordered him to prepare for a
thrashing. Mike resisted, and succeeded
in mastering and whipping the teacher
The Detroit Free Press relates a sin
gular coincidence: about a week ago
Henry Andre and John Schroeder both of
whom died on Monday, determined to
visit Rochester, n. Y, together. At part
ing they shook hands merrily and in a
jocular spirit entered into an agreement
that they would both die on the same day.
Before a week had passed Andre was
dead and Schroeder was hopelessly i'll,
both having the same disease Twelve
hours after Andres death Schroeder
screamed out that Andre was calling to
him, made an effort to rise choked, and
fell back a corpse. He did not know that
his friend had died, and the facts stated in
this paragraph are vouched for by mem
bers of his own family"