Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-03-23
STIRRING ADVENTURES.
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Up-and- Downs or Lire

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Up-and- Downs or Lire
Near Alice Falls, Canada, in house
upon hill, dwels one of the prettiest
girls to be found north of St. Law
renee. Peter Gumblaw went counting
thereabout few days ago, but as what
follows will show he had most dis.
tressing lime. The beauty of the
Ausable gave Peter the mitten. He
left the house in such a rage that it
seemed good thing to him to 60
straigh,way and leap into Ausable
chasm. Unfortunately, the precipice
was on his path homeward and 80 near
the dwelling of his cruel lady-love that
his anger had no time to cool. AS he
ran toward the dangerous rocks Gum
blaw met & boy, to whom he hastily
handed his watch, money and keep
sakes. Then, rs the boy says, the
lover gave wild leap from the brink.
The lad was frantic with the sight, but
his legs took him, like the velve gloves
of a rabbit, swiftly to the nearest man.
When the latter reached tie rocks by
the river he caught sight of Gumblaw
in the torrent far beneath, but still
above the falls. 1t was apparent
that from the intense purpose of
self-destruction the young man
now had changed to a keen desire to
save himself. He was grasping at the
straw. Eddies whirled
around, white spray frothed at his
throat and the rapids roared at his ear,
but he chung to a letting rock with des-
perate energy. Ladders and ropes we're
procured, and he let go his
hold to grasp the end of line just as
the eccentric current whirled his body
downward over the falls. When picked
up below Gumblaw was unconscious.
His left thigh, threee ribs and an arm
were broken, but at last accounts the
pretty girl of the house on the hill was
successfully nursing him back to life.
Men are now grading the track of the
Northern Pacific railroad at point in
He'll Gate canon, nine miles west from
New Chicago. One day crevice blast
was set in rocky bluff twenty feet
above the river. The main blast con-
sisted of seven kegs of black powder,
which was placed at depth of fifteen
feet. Two auxilieyy blasts, with short
fuse to each, were arranged SO they
would open the crevice. The fuses
were fired, the men sought shelter, and
two explosions followed, one sharply
upon the heels of the other. Nelson
Bennett, contractor, said to f. II.
Robert Dunn, Michael Nc
Carly and Charles Reichenb 3rg; "The
shots have all gone off; let's go down."
Anderson demured, saying the big
blast was still below, but the FIVE men
walked to the crevice, nevertheless,
and began to examine the rocks.
While they were thus standing direct
ly above the immense charge, tthe sew
en- Kegs exploded. Three hundred Gu
bic yards of rock were lifted into the
air as lightly as a man lifts his hat to u
feminine friend. The five men went
up with the earth's crust like sky balls
shot from q school-boy's board. Eel
low workmen who witnessed The
terrific explosion affirm that the
five were hurled at least one hundred
and twenty feet upward. They came
down in the river, some unconscious,
but none seriously hurt, and every one
was able to eat his supper that night
and draw his wages next day.
Doctor Torrington, who is seventy
years old and by no means athletic,
was hurriedly summoned to the house
of neighbor, Mrs. S. Hadlock, of Peaks
Island, Maine. When he reached Mrs.
Hadlock's he found that he was expect
ed to kill with gun instead of his med
icine chest An eagle of sweeping
wing and fierce scream was circliug
about the Haulock poultry-J ard, and
the good woman was protecting her
turkeys by means of brickbats hurled
with Amazonian courage. The doctor
was amazed and amused, for he never
before had heard of such boldness On
the part of the bald-headed things,
however big their beaks. He was about
to take aim when the bird swooped
down at him. At that moment six
child, a grandson of Mrs.
Hadlock, toddled out of the honse, and
the eagle bounced upon the little fell
low. Mrs. Hadlock struck frantica!ly
at the eagle with a large roller towel,
and, releasing the boy, it flew t. 4. neigh
boring oak. Doctor Torrington put a
double charge in the Hadlock shotgun
and fired. The eagle flew upward and
away over the sea, and its flight showed
that it was wounded. Doctor Torring-
tons shoulder was discolated by the
recoil of MS gun. Before night some
fishermen found the eagles body half
mile off shore.
How Lewis Schafer escaped death by
the breadth of Il hair, afterward climb
ing hundred feet perpendicularly with
one hand, is told by the Leadville pa
ners. Schafer worked in mine on
Little Gulch creek. The shaft is lis
feet deep. The hero of the episode,
German of the build and Drawn OF Her
cules, was hammering his drill at the
bottom of the shaft, when he heard
strange noise above. Instantly glanc-
ing upward he saw heavy beam fall
ling with frightful velocity down the
shaft. He acted by instinct, and
pressed to the wall of the narrow hole.
The beam struck one shoulder and
knocked his head forward against the
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