Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-03-05
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 quart
of its contents. They went to sleep and
were put to bed, both dying within few
hours.
Mrs. Turner, of Somerville, Me,
fell backward while ascending the ladder
to a scafold, few days ago, and both
tines of pitchiork 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 inn
prisoned in the county Jail From some
cause or other his trial had been continued
from time to time until "A few weeks since,
when il came off. Strange to say, when
then the jury announced their verdict
guiIty-the young man dropped dead
upon the spot.
--Ex-Judge William II Cool, promi-
nent citizen of Carbon County and a res
ident OF Beaver Meadow, Pa, while en-
gagged with his son in tearing down his old
powdermill, 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 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. 1G John w. Tafie,
OF Wyandotte, Kan, relates remarkable
instance of presentimcnt. He says: On
last Wednesday night, the 18th inst, be
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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 14th
I fr,
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 a 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 rs 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 "A tall 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 to disturb him. The
body was cut down by neighbor after
hanging three or four hours The wife
had never heard her husband threaten to
commit suicide, nor had any of his
neghbors, but it seemed that he was com
pletely discouraged at his failure to find
work, and he thought death the speediest
means of relief.