Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—A little Charleston (S. C.). gird, killed herself the other day by falling upon a bottle and cutting her throat. —A large number of thieves were recently publicly whipped in Newcastle, Del:, the number of lashes given being from two-to thirty. —During the temporary absence of their mother, lately, two infant children of Mr. James, of Greenpoint, L. 1., fell from a cradle into an open fire and were burned to death. —Do not stretch clothes-lines across the wood-yard. From this careless habit j Mr. Frank Weis, of Adrian, Mich., is | now* laid up with a broken head caused by liis ax catching upon the line. —George Spitzenadcn.of New Orleans, was riding on Canal street the other evening when his horse took fright and threw him and a little grandson against the bridge and thence into the canal, where both were drowned. —Henry Rosendale,of Billerica, Mass., having been detected in some boyish mischief, and his father having threatened to liorse-whip him for it, was so concerned about i,t that he hung himself on one of the apple trees near his father’s house. —As James Manning, of Columbus, Ohio, was returning from a hunting expedition the other afternoon, he was accidentally shot and instantly killed. In the act of climbing a fence he fell, and the gun was discharged, the entire load lodging in his neck. —John Long, a pioneer living near Warsaw, Ohio, was recently killed under the following circumstances: While riding in a wagon he struck his horses with the lines and fell over the dashboard. The team ran away, he caught by the whiffletrees and was dragged and terribly mangled. —At Battle Creek, Mich., two little girls, one a daughter of Dr. William ltussell, of the Health Institute, the other a chi’d of Mr. Howell E. Gardner, recently attempted to drive a horse out of the garden and in doing so approached too near, when the animal wheeled and kicked with both hind feet, striking each girl in the face and bruising them in a shocking manner. That horse was a sure ( double shot with liis heels. --Mrs. W. H. Howard, Jr., of Braintree, Mass., was lately walking in the streets of that town, accompanied by her husband, when they met an intoxicated man who was more than ordinarily de z m'onstrative. Just as the Howards came abreast of the inebriate, he gave a whoop which was so sudden in its effect upon Mrs. Howard that she dropped dead at her husband’s feet. She was a robust and healthy woman, and her death was pronounced by her physician to be the consequence of fright.