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

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—Joseph,Hopp, a Peoria coal-hauler, Whs instantly killed the other day by the tonguhof a w;igun striking him in the brea»t* —A man was struck by lightning in Kansas not long ago and stripped of every particle'of clothing he had on, and yet was nut hurt. J , —George Warren, a leading citizen of Van Buren, Mich., was instantly killed' the- other day by the accidental discharge of his rifle, which he Was takingJrom a closet. —Alex. Carry, of Bucyrus, Ohio, while’ threshing a few days since was caught in the machinery and so badly injured that he died in a few minutes after he was taken out. —John Rothe, a St. Louis carpenter, recently made a misstep, lost his balance and fell from the top of a church steeple in that city, 100 feet, to the side walk. He was literally crushed and died instant —Charley Smith and a playmate were recently shooting at a cat in Lamville. 111., when the ball struck a table, glanced off and lodged in Smith’s head, inflicting a very dangerous, and probably fatal, wound. —A lad was sitting on the top of a step-ladder at Lowell, -Mass.,.the ol.hw iMiiy, when the bottom Whs struck by a, ■ velocipede. The boy was thrown to the ground and sustained injuries that shortly .proved fatal. —Rev. Henry Asbury, of Lincoln County, N. C., was recently standing be* fore a fire rubbing his body with kerosene oil when suddenly the blaze touched his person, and instantly he was clad with flame. Death resulted. —The horses attached to a stage which runs between the Astoria ferry-house and the piano manufactory at Astoria, N. Y., for the accommodation of the employes of the latter, took fright one night recently, dashed through the ferry-house gates and plunged into the East River. The stage contained four men, who, with the horses, were drowned. —John French, a car-examiner, lowered a lantern into the man hole of a huge oil tank at Syracuse, N. ¥., not long ago, with the object of ascertaining how much oil there was in it, it being supposed to be nearly or quite empty, Suddenly a tremendous explosion occurred -and French was —thrown upward and over two trains standing—on- adj aeent tracks. He was terribly injured, but may recover. It is not likely that he will ever be induced to commit such anffmprudent act again.