Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—A recent serenade so frightened a girl resident in Oberlin, Ohio, that she jumped out of bed and broke her leg. —Hans Hoeding, a farmer fifty-six years old, living near Omaha, recently dropped dead while dancing at a country baH. —Hillery Diubaugh, a much respected citizen of Danville, ©bio, was killed the other night by falling from a tree, a distance of fifty feet, to the ground. He was cutting oil a limb to get at a coon. —The banks of a sewer at Providence, R. 1., caved in upon a workman, the other day, and, as no one saw the accident, he would %ha£ been jkilled had not four seen the occurrence, and commenced to dig and howl for help. They were driven away, but returned, and, their persistence leading some men to dig at the spot, the man was rescued unharmed. —A Pittsburgh shopwoman has been sued by her landlord for libel,,, because when he seized her household goods for arrears of rent she hung in the window of her store the following conspicuous notice: “ Attention All—A widow woman to be sold out for the mere sum of twenty-two dollars, being one month’s rent and cost of suit. My child being sick caused me to be in arrears. I appeal to the public to help me. My ruthles* landlord, Jerry Sullivan, will sell me out and make me destitute. ‘ Vengeance is mine and I will repay/ saith the Lord.” —The mneteen-year-old son of Dr. W. H. Eldridge, of Charlestown, Mass., who bad suddenly disappeared from his home, returned recently, after an absence of about five weeks, and tells a remarkable story of his escape fr»m murder. On the night of his disappearance, when coming out of a store where he was employed, he was met by a man who informed him that there was a large fire raging in the vicinity of Chelsea Bridge. He accompanied the man, and upon their arrival at the bridge his companion seized him by the throat, choked him till he was unconscious, and threw him into the Mystic River. His sudden plunge into the water revived him, and, .being a good swimmer, he floated down stream and was fortunate enough to strike a floating spar, on which he floated out to sea. He subsequently became unconscious, and when he rallied again he was out of sight of land, still clinging to the log. After remaining in the water nineteen hours he was rescued by a brig bound for Greenland, and was afterward placed on board an English steamer and carried to Liverpool. He improved the first opportunity to return home.