Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-05
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incident, and Accidents.

Incident, and Accidents.
The little New York boy who per
sisted in eating matches has gone where
matches are not made
"A child four years old was scalded to
| death in ~. Louis, a few days ago, by
falling into kettle Of boiling Catsup.
A fiery, untamed velocipede threw
its youthful rider in Jefferson County, N.
Y, the other day, breaking his arm.
"A little girl named Hattie Harper was
chOkcd to death few days ago in Lyons
n a., by bean lodging in her wind
pipe.
"A Nashville man recently shot one Of
his most intimate friends, mistaking him
for policeman who had come to arrest
him.
Two children of Cornelius Holsmer
of Lafayette, Ind, set their bed on fire
the other night, and the younger one and
its mother we're badly burned.
a a funeral of little child in Ifud
son, n. Y, the other day, the corpse was
drawn to the grave in q baby cart in
which it had ridden when alive,
A little thirteenyear-oldb boy IN Yer
sailies, KY, has had one eye entirely de-
stroyed from Il missile THROWN by u com
pgnion out Of rubbC; sling
A son of Alderman McCarty, eight
years old, fell from a barge at Hastings,
Mimi, few days ago, and his brother,
aged twelve, plunged in to rescue him.
Both were drowned.
An infant child Of Wallace Reynolds,
living near Bonneville, Ind, was bitten
by rat the other night, while in bed
with its mother, and died from the effects
the next day.
Willie Barnes, aged fourteen, office
boy Of Dr. j, + King, of Fairfield, Iowa,
took some belladonna in the absence CT
the doctor, few days ago, and died in
great agony
A young son Of Daniel II. Wells
Mayor Of Salt Lake City, while trying to
shoot some pigeons with pistol the
other d s. shot himself in the abdomen
and died the same day.
Edward Brewster and Wesley Mixter
each had an arm blown off by the prema-
ture discharge of u cannon, in Spring
field, Mass, "a few days ago, while firing
the las. gun OF salute.
a little child of Ole Nelson, Of Long
Greek, Mimi, found = revolver un-
der the pillow of a hired man. and while
playing with 1t discharged the contents
into his mouth iutliCting fatal wound
James Karnir has been arrested in
WILLIAMSBURG, n. Y. for the murder of
his wife by throwing Kerosene lamp Mt
her which exploded. cutting her fearful
w. and setting fire to her clothing.
"A vorno man amt huntipg the other
day in Waukcshma Mich, saw what he
thought was a turkey, and fired at it, and
found that he had seriously wounded the
farmer on whose ground he was hunting,
who was lying on the grass for his noon.
ing.
A little girl in Linden. N. T., while
playinr with an India rubber balloon at-
tarLcd TO il her mother, pockct.bon
containing several dollars in money. She
carelcssly let go her hold, when balloon,
pocket book and all assembled swiftly out
Of sight.
The house of Ell Springer, at Stand.
ish. Mich. was burned with all IFS CON
tents, the other night. A sister of Mrs
Springer, with her little daughter was
visiting there at the time, and the little
giIl was burned to death, and her mother
in irving TO save her was terribly. and il
was feared fatally burned