Sharp County record., 1878-05-17
Haps and Mishaps.

Al L ullduGl pLld, Llll0 DaOooUl"'
aged 21, was fatally burned by her
clothes taking fire by treading on match.
Hattie Green, aged 26, attempted to
rescue Miss Dacostra, and was also
burned to death.
james Wheeler, who lives near
Belyidere, Boone County, ILL.,, spread
some strychnine on some bread, intend
inc to take it to the barn and poison
mice with it, but placed it on a shelf in
the sitting-room and forgot it when he
went out. Soon after, his wife came in
the room, having in her arms little A.
year-old niece, and the little girl, spy
inc the bread and butter, asked for it to
eat. Her aunt gave her some, and soon
she went into spasms and was dead in
about half an hour.
jeff Harvey, son of Mr.. T. G. Har-
vey, living near Water Valley, in Hick-
man County, Ky, went into the barn
with his half-brother, Willie, to kill
some rats. They had run several rats
between two sills in the house and had
their pocket-knives killing them. In
the excitement Willie slipped, and in
falling threw up his hand in which he
held his knife and stabbed Harvey it the
left breast, inficting wound from
which he died in about 10 minutes.
Shooting casualties: Frank Max
well of Steubenville, Ohio, went out
duck-shooting, and while dragging his
gun carelesSly out of the boat, both bar
rels were discharged, the contents pass
ing through his body, causing instant
death.-Thomas George, aged 30, of
Frazersburg, o., went hunting and the
next day his lifeless body was discover
ed in the woods near his home with q
bullet hole in his head and his empty
gun lying near him.-Upton Longshore,
aged II, whose parents live near Larue,
o., was playing with loaded gun in
company with little girl. The latter
pointed the gun at the boy and pulled the
trigger, the charge passing through his
cheek. k.-At Airline junction, near Tole-
do, o., Paul Rudolph, ,aged 8, shot and in
stantly killed his playmate, Otto Benning,
aged 13, with pistol. There are con-
tlicting reports as to whether the shoot
ing was intentional or accidental. At
Mooresville, Ind, a child of Geo. STEMS,
about 9 months old, was accidentally
shot through the head by its sister, s
years old, while playing with a loaded
pistol which her father had carelessly
left lying on the table.-At Plymouth,
Ind, Edward Schatfer was instantly
killed by the discharge of his gun while
hunting Frank M. Beatty, of Fort
Peck, a scout, was accidentally shot
through the heart by James Leeds. Both
are well-known frontiersmen.
Some recent suicides: Mollie
Carnes, an orphan girl of McConnells-
vile, o., was betrayed and deserted by
her lover and killed herself with strych-
Hassler, aged 60, well
known resident of Summit County, O.,
hanged himself on account of financial
embarraSsments.-Wm. H. Dana,
young physician, committed suicide at
Marion, o., by taking four grains Of
morphine. He was disappointed in
loTe.-Augustus Aull, a travelling sales
man, Frank Straub, shOemak-
er, and Horatio Burgoyne, aged
50, are among recent suicides
ill Cincinnati,-J. M. Brown, aged %,
d drummer for an Eastern boot and
shoe house, got on spree in Chicago
and wound up by taking q dose of chic
raj from which he died in a short time.
A young man named Flick fell in love
with the daughter of his employer, farm
er near Appleton, Wis, and because
the girls parents objected to her re-
ceiving his addresses, he killed himself.
Henry Groemer, who resided near
Parker City, Pa, went to the
woods, and stripping the bark
off a sappling which hung over
ravine, twisted it into rope without
detaching it from the tree, tied the end