Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — HAPS AND MISHAPS. [ARTICLE]

HAPS AND MISHAPS.

—Sarah Jane Tisdale, of Dayton, Ohio, waa lately burned to death by her clothes catching fire at a stove grate. —A. New York railroad, conductor, dropped his ticket-punch lust out of Syracuse the other day, and had nothing' else to do but to stop his train and run back after it. After a half-hour’s search it was found in the snow. —Little 'George Householder, of Knoxville, Tenn., took a peep at a powder flask that he had buried and touched a match to it. As likely as not when he makes a tour ot the country with a handorgan he will say he lost his eyes in the war. —Mr. Skillings, of West Gorham. Me., tired into his poultry-yard the other night and brought down Messrs. Perkins and Blake, two quiet citizens who had got in among his chickens. Perkins died in a short time, and Blake carries thirty-seven wounds. —Mrs. Stephen Willard, of New Haven, Conn., while drawing water from a well, recently, was struck on the head by a pulley-pin which accidentally fell out of its place, inflicting injuries from which her mind has been nearly destroyed. —Mrs. Vetter, eighty-five years old, living in Cincinnati, met a t errible death the other afternoon. She was preparing her dinner and took from the stove a tea-kettle full of boiling water. By some means she fell and the contents of the kettle ran over her face and chest, killing her instantly. Her daughter came to visit her and found her dead on the floor, with the kettle beside her. —The other afternoon William Dun ham, an employe in a lerannu (Ohio) saw-mill, went underneath an edging saw to oil it, when his clothes were caught by the cogs in the feed-wheel, ami he was jerked backward on the saw. In a twinkling he was cut through from the left shoulder to the right hip. His backbonAaind heart were both severed, ami his bowel> s.-at let cd around. - —Two boys and a girl, children of Moses Homan, captain of a canal-boat lying at Fairpoit. N. Y„ went out to play the other afternoon, and not returning at evening their mother became alarmed at their absence. Accompanied by neighbors, and, indeed, the entire village, a search was made. The bodies of the children were found in a mill pond, upon the thin ice of which they ventured the evening before. The boys were aged respectively ten ami twelve yeara, amb the girl fourteen years. •