Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-19
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

during recent gale, woman was
blown off the railroad bridge at Bridge
port Ohio, and drowned.
Two children of Thomas Hill, Of
Monticello, Wis, were killed by a run
away horse, recently, while they were on
their way home from school.
Henry Connors, of New York city,
lately made wager that he could drink a
pint of whisky and q gallon of beer in one
hour. He won his wager, but he died be-
fore morning.
"A young man named Ward fell from
a ScaffOld in the new church at Notre
Dame, near South Bend, Ind, few days
ago, and received injuries from which he
died within an hour
William Brady, an impecunious and
Incorporate cal driver of New Orleans,
closed his unhappy existence a few days
ago by hanging himself from a convenient
beam; sad ending to life of whoa.
Richard Notter a well-known resi-
dent of Dunleith, ILL.,, was so badly burned
few nights ago that his recovery was
thought impossible. His clothing caught
from a lamp while he was undressing for
bed
Howard Davenport and COMPANION
were recently out cunning near Monroe,
Wis, when DavenpOrt's gun was acct
dentally discharged, the ball entering his
stomach. He was taken to a house near
by, but only survived the accident half an
hour.
A boy named George Chopper was
shot through the hand the other day at
Rock Island while careIessly handling a
pistol. "The Chopper family" says the
Argus, has been peculiarly unfortunate,
one of the children having been drowned
and another burned to death within the
past few years"
The father of Miss Mowbar, of Pitts
ton, n. Y, is nice candidate for human
vengeance. Enraged at her persistent
purpose to marry a young man he did
not like, he beat her SO terribly that she
had just strength to reach her sisters,
where she met and married her lover, and
then went to has mothers house and died.
"A well-known citizen of Cahoka,
Mo-, recently took in too heavy a
load Of tanglefoot, and on his way
home laid down for a rest and fell
asleep. a buzzard, it is said, think
ing that he had given over life's
struggles, alighted upon him and began
trying to find out what stuff he was made
VI. LIZ udu SplIlb SuOuSA 1SIt, uOW0NCT,
to raise himself and put period to this
ante-mortem examination. The sleepy
man was thoroughly frightened, went
home, signed the temperance pledge, and
when the women's praying movement
reaches that village the ladies will find
no more intelligent coadjutor than the
man who was interviewed by buzzard.
The steamer Pennsylvania, from Liver
pool, reports having met violent hurri-
cane on her recent voyage to Philadelphia.
AT midnight on the stormiest day the sea
carried away the bridge on which were
Capt. Bradburn, the first and second
officers, and two sailors, who were all
washed overheard and lost. The fourth
officer had a leg broken. The ships hull
and machinery were not injured, but she
lost her boats and deck-houscs. After the
loss of the officers a consultation was
held, and it was agreed that steerage
passenger named Brady, formerly third
mate of the Inflated Atlantic, who, it will
be remembered, swan ashore and secured
line of the Atlantic, thereby being the
means of saving number OLIVES, should
take charge of the ship, and it was
through his management that the vessel
was brought to port: