Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—A sledge-hammer fell from a scaffold in Rockland, Ma, a few days ago, and struck Simon Litchfield on the head. He died. s —A two-year-old daughter of Frank Callahan, of Bethlehem, Pa., ate the phosphorus off forty-five matches, the other day, and died. —Cordelia Lessiur, employed in one of the Lowell (Mass.) cotton mills, became entangled in some belting, the other day, and her arm was torn from her body. She subsequently died’. —At Central Village, Conn., a few days ago, a boy twelve years old shot Iris brother, aged two years, dead on the spot and fatally wounded his little sister. An old gun had been left in the bedroom, and he didn’t think it was loaded. —Mrs. Laura Williams, of Holyoke, Mass., while temporarily insane the other day, committed suicide by leaping frtjra the fourth story of the Samosett House, a distance of fifty feet, to the ground. Of course she was instantly killed. —A gentleman was standing in a provision store in Portland, Me., a few mornibgs ago, complacently smoking a cigar, when suddenly his cigar was knocked out of his mouth by a bullet which entered the wall behind him. It was a close call. —A valuable cow belonging to Win. Morris, of Springwells, Mich, died recently, and a veterinary physician, who had "been trying to save her, made a post mortem examination, and found a sufficient cause for death in a piece of wire Which had penetrated four or five inches into her heart. —A deadly disease has prevailed for some time past in the family of Tumey Buckley, of South Norwalk, Conn., from the effects of which Mr. and Mrs. Buckley and one of the boarders had died, while a daughter and eight of the boarders ane sick. It has been recently discovered that it was caused by the contents of the cess-pool overflowing into the well.