Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-10-31
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

William Fisher, Of Morgan Illinois,
ell into creek while drunk, and was
drowned.
John Ayers, a young man, accidentally
shot himself at Jacksonville, ILL.,. the other
day. His wound was mortal.
Richard Ash, a five-year,old, and the
only son Of widow in indianapolis, was
run over by a wagon the other day and
instantly killed.
Miss Swartz, of Marshall County,
Kan, fell into a sorghum evaporation, and
WAS fatally boiled,
A boy named Wallace Seltz was
smothered in an elevator at Poplar Grove,
H., few days agD.
A Louisiana woman lately committed
suicide by saturatlng her clothing with oil
and then setting it on fire.
A Missouri mother lately found her
infant sleeping on the floor with a snake
coiled up on its breast.
A woman recently died in England
from inflammation produced by small
piece ofnutshell flying into her eye.
"A son Of Mr.. Kemnitz, of Fort How
ard Wis, was terribly bitten in the face
/ by horse, the other day.
A four-yea r,old daughter of Mr. Som
merfeldt was burned to death in the town
Of St Marie, Wis, the other day.
--Sten Oleson was fearfully manged,
/ the other day, by the premature eXplo-
/ sion of blast, near La Crosse, Wis.
A woman died in San Francisco, the
I other DAY, from strangulation, caused by
piece Of beet lodging in the windpipe.
| AT Charles City, Iowa, a threshng
machine tore off Thomas Taylors right
hand, and stripped off the flesh as far as
/ the elbow.
"A little girl was bitten by a massa
sauga serpent, while picking cranberries
near Carlton, Mich. The doctor saved
/ her life.
Edward Giles, while coupling cars at
the Union Depot, in Milwaukee, Wis, the
other day, was run over and instantly
killed,
AT Waterford, \. Y, n few days ago,
about sixty persons were poisoned by eat
ing head cheese, Some five or six Of them
died.
Louis Finkbinner had his left breast
laid open and his Collar.bone fractured by
the premature explosion of a cannon at
Terre Haute, Ind.
William Wilson, contractor of the
Coal-shaft being sunk at Du Quoin, Ill.,,
fell down the shaft, 115 feet, and was in
stantly killed
Hon. Amos A. Lawrence was dan
gerously injured at Newtonville, Mass, by
his horse falling on him. 1t is feared his
injuries will prove fatal.
A man named J. !, Hanks, under in
fluence of liquor, was run over and killed
by train on the Nashville Railroad, near
Bowling Green, Ky.
--Friedrila Gilman, q girl fourteen
years old, went out to hunt the cows, the
other evening, near Eagle Lake, Wiscon-
SIN, and was devoured by wolves.
A man in Charleston, s. c., has been
/ relieved Of Guinea worm which ad
taken Judgment in his leg. These mon
sters will grow all through man.
Mr. Mat Pfeifer, of St Paul, care
I lcssly handling his gun while duck hunt
/ inr the other day, shot himself in the
abdomen and died in few hours.
/ Instead of whisky and peppermint, a
/ man at St Paul took dose of strychnine
! by mistake, ana the stomach pump had
/ hard work to save his life.
( "A Mr. Anderson, of Delano, Mimi,
/ pulled his gun through a fence, mu2zle
] toward him, and the thing went of, dis
charging its contents into his body.
Oliver Z. Dalton, of Evansville, Ind,
died OF too much beetsteak while eating
supper the other night. The coroner
pulled "A piece three inches square out of
his throat where it had got wedged.
John Ingram, brakeman on the
Lafayette, Bloomington and Mississippi
Railroad was seriously, If not fatally, in
igred while coupling cars at Bosworth
Station, Ill.
"A Young farmer boy in Marion Coun-
ty, Iowa, in jumping into grain bin,
ahghted on a sCythe, cutting one foot
completely of, and fearfully gashing the
other
An eightyear-old daughter of Mrs.
Stanley, of Mattoon, H., was fatally
burned by her clothes taking fire from the
stove, during the temporary absence of
her mother, the other day,
James Hooker, employed in Elallack' 8
planning mill, Denver, Colorado, accident
ally had one arm torn off by being caught
in the machinery, and died the following
day,
A girl fen from second,story win,
dow in 81. Paul, the other day and alight'
ed safely in the arms of man who, per
cciving her hasty descent, had the nerve
20 catch her.
A man named A. Robinson was in.
stanly killed at Marmette, Wis, the other
day, by taking twenty grains Of morphine,
which careless drug clerk had COM
pounded with his prescription.
C. G. Haines was crossing the rail
road track in wagon at Julian Station,
Iowa the other day, when train ran
into the wagon, fatally injuring Mr. IT,
and killing his horses.
Charles Foster, of Lincoln, Neh., was
boiling Oil over his kitchen stove, when
the oil exploded, scalding himself, wife
and child, Of whom the two latter died in
a few hours in intense agony
Marvin Church, brakeman on the