Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—An attempt was made a few nights ago to assassinate Mr. David S. Gray, an oil-operaior of Titusville, Pa. He was walking along Church Run with alighted lantern, when some unknown person fired 'a pistol at him, the ball striking him in the breast and inflicting a painful and dangerous wound. , —Deacon William I. Edwards, of Westhampton, Mass., was quite badly hurt recently by the breaking of a cant-hook, with which he was roiling logs. The handle of the hook broke and the iron flew back, striking him directly across the nose, breaking it off and laying it sideways across his face. S —Mrs. Theodore D. Read, of New Haven, Conn., while starting out for a drive a few afternoons ago, in company with a maid and. an infant, was so terribly frightened by a jar caused by the striking of the wheels against the horsd-car tracks that she fainted, and on being taken home died a few hours after. —The other morning a little daughter of Frank Ethridge, of Mendon, Mich., was burned to death. She had been having ague, and laid down beside the stove and went to sleep. Her little sister, younger, was playing around tlie stove, and pulled some fire out, which-fell on the little sick girl, burning her nearly to death before assistance could be procured, her mother having, a few"inmates previously, left the house. The child died a few hours after.. —One of tlie most pathetic reminders of the recent Fall River disaster is the habit of a woman whose three daughters ware killed, but who still Insanely believes that they arc alive. Every day, when the factory bells are ringing for dinner, the woman, who saw her three daughters borne away to be buried, that Sunday, takes a tin pail as she used to do, and starts for Granite mill, No. 1. Sometimes her neighbors divert her attention by telling her that it isn’t bell time, but, other days, she walks to the place where the mill once stood, sees nothing that she can recognize, turns -back in a dazedavayoind.. goes to. her.deserted home again, ' ■

—A strange occurrence took place a few mornings since in the family of Mr, Silas Doloway,* engineer in Babcock, Fuller A Co.’s new liat factory, who occupies'J. W. Canfield’s house on Mulberry street, in this village. Mrs. Doloway is accustomed to leave her babe, a little girl four months old, up-stairs while slie does her morning’s work in ths basement, from where she could easily hear the least noise. On the morning in question she heard the little one crowing as usual, .but, finally noticed that the noise ceased, and shortly after heard a strange, gurgling noise. Supposing that the child had got its head under the bed-clothes and was suffocating, she ran up-stairs to see about it and found the house-cat with its nose in the child’s mouth. The child was strangled black and was fighting feebly with its hands. She. caught the child and shook it several times, when it caught its breath and caine out all right. In a few minutes more it would probably have been strangled to death. Mrs. Doloway had to pull the cat off tlie child, eager wak it- to remain: It had a paw on either-side of the child’s head and had its nose pressed'deeply into the child’s Tirouth. -TTre cat was mstantly killed.— Middletown (N. Y.) Mercury.