Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—A. Louisville young woman soaked her clothed with coal tar the other day, and set them on fire, with the desired result. —John Schoff, of Pittsburg, N. H., was found dead the other evening, between his house and that of a neighbor. It was thought he was poisoned by eating a poisonous root by mistake for sweet tlagroot. ’ —A few days ago a painful accident happened to' James Evens, a son of I)r. Win. Evens, of De Soto,,Mo. , As the lad was tightening the girth of a saddle on a horse the animal bit his lower lip almost •entirely off. —There is a man in East Lynne, Conn., who has kept his bed for six vears because he was once disappointed in love. He isn’t sick, but simply chronically sorry that he didn’t get that girl. His mother waits upon him constantly. The man once had a brother who lay abed for five years. —A man in Canaan, N.H., killed bis dog one day lately and buried it under three feet of soil. A neighbor, in passing the spot soon after, heard a sound, and procuring a shovel he dug down and found the dog was getting very lively for a dead one, and his owner went and finished the job for a certainty. —A shocking accident occurred a few days ago atOglesby, Hi. A miner named Peter llalloran, w hile at work caging, took an empty car oil one cage, and thoughtlessly ran a loaded one into the empty space*«n the opposite side. He followed the car from liis position at the second vein down to the third vein, a distance of 180 feet. When the corpse was found the skull was crushed, the right leg broken in two places, the left arm broken, and the body horribly mutilated. —A shocking tragedy was enacted the other-day in the southeastern part of Texas County, Mo. It seems, from the best information received, that Win, S. Martin and a man named Allison made a trade about some corn-fodder, which afterward proved unsatisfactory to one of the parties and an altercation ensued, in the midst of which Allison drew a knife and stabbed Martin repeatedly in the stomach, side and bowels, in a fearful manner, so much so that the intestines protruded from the wounds, —The other afternoon Samuel Wolf, of Toledo, in a fit of intoxication attacked his wfle with a hatchet and beat her till she was senseless. He was arrested and taken to the Central Station, but before he arrived there he became so stupid that he was put on a lumber cart. He was carried into a cell without searching. In the course of two or j three hours he had slept off a portion of the liquor, and then, in a fit of remorse at the supposed murder of his wife, cut the veins in his left arm and bled to death before bis condition was discovered. The wife’s life was saved by a heavy head of hair and a back comb, which de a dened the blow s. —ln the LadV*Washington Mine, near Virginia City, Nev., lately, a blast was arranged and the fuse lighted. Two miners got into the bucket tube hoisted 200 feet up the shaft, the fuse being long enough to give ample time under ordinary circumstances, in this instance, however, the ascent was delayed by some disarrangement of the machinery and the men were suspended in awful d&nger, with no means of averting it. They laid themselves in the bottom of the bucket and awaited in terror the explosion. “It seemed like an hour,” said one of them, but was really about five minutes. When the blast did explode the bucket was lifted several feet by the rush of air, and as it fell hack with a violent shock a show er of shattered rock rained on the cowering miners. They were hauled up at length insensible w ith cuts and bruises, but would recover.