Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—Mrs. Mary Harrihell, an old woman living near Bloomington, 111., was recently gored to death by a cow. The old lady went to the cow-slied to care for the animal, when she was caught under the lower jaw and thrown against the roof of the shed, and died in a few minutes. —A little daughter of Job Walter, of Lucerne, Pa., was left alone the. other day while her mother attended some outdoor duty, and, to help pass away the time pleasantly and profitably, pulled down the match-box. Her clothing caught fire, and the little creature was burned to death. —While Henry Zerne was walking about Gregg’s planing mill at Mendota, 111., the other day, he missed his footing and fell into a caldron of boiling water. His body from the waist to his feet was badly scalded, the flesh dropping off from the bones in several places. He lived but a short time after the accident. —On a recent morning the boilers in the pork-house of Mitchell & Go., New Albany, Ind., exploded with terrific force, tearing the' boiler shed to atoms, and severely scalding four persons, one of whom lias since died. The boilers wrere blown into the air to the height of fifty feet, and carried 200 feet from their original position. —Dr. Henry Lieb, station agent at Neeleyville, 111., on the Toledo, Wabash A Western Railroad, met with a horrible death the other evening by being run over by a locomotive. At the time of the accident Lieb was standing on a sidetrack conversing with a brakeman, when an engine which was switching came down the track unnoticed by these men, knocking the former down, crushing both legs u»der the wheels and causing death in one liour. Deceased was thirty years of age’ and left a wife and one child. The last words of the dying man *were, “ I die happy. Kate, take good care of our darling baby.” —Recently a gentleman named King, moving with his faqiily from near Plato, Mo., to Maries County, encamped for the night on the island near Waynesville. After unhitching his team, etc., he went to the timber to procure some wood fora fire, two or three of his little children following, among them a little girl only two or three years of age. The little girl it |eems lost sight of her parent and 1 becanie separated from the rest of the children. She was soon missed by the f amily and search was mstifufed at once: The alarm was given and the citizens of Waynesville and vicinity immediately joined in the search. All night long the search was kept up but without avail At about ten o’clock the next moring the little girl was found in the cold waters of the Roubideaux, still in deaths She had, apparently, crossed over the creek and wandered up the bottom till near the Big Spring, when she attempted to recross and was drowned.

—A Highlander who sold brooms went into a barber’s shop in Glasgow to get shaved. The barber bought one of his brooms, and, after having shaved him, asked the price Of it. “Tippence,” said the Highlander. “No, no,” says the shaver, “Til give you a penny, and if that does not satisfy you, take your broom again.” The Highlander took it, and asked what he had to pay. “ A pepny,” says Strap. “ I’ll gie ye a baubee,” says Duncan, “ and if that dinha satisfy yt\ pit pn my beard aghin.” —There was a total of eighty-nine railroad accidents in September, by which twenty-sjeven persons were killed and 105 injured.- Eighteen accidents caused the death of one or more persons, seventeen others injury but not death, and the remaining 'fifty-four, or 61 per cent, of the whole, caused no serious injury to any ever, are several unusually fatal casualties. —„ ’ - *' . ■