Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-16
HAPS AND MISHAPS:

"A. ..
Patty House, Fond du Lac, died from al
overdose of chloroform.
Minnie Hoyt, of Bear Grove, Iowa,
was fond of firearms, and killed herself
accidentally.
in the woods near SuamicO, Wis, and
was frozen to death.
John Sharlock, of Steubenville, Ohio,
swallowed his teeth while asleep, and died
after eight months of suffering.
john Murphy, of Thompsonville,
Conn, recently lost a five year old son
from lock jaw, induced by stepping on
needle.
An escape of coal gas at Salem,
Mass, the other night, caused by de-
fective chimney, killed Patrick and seri-
ously Frustrated Peter Arnold.
Samuel Hostetter was found frozen
to death by the roadside, near Detroit,
Mich. He had been drinking freely for
several days.
"A woman was frozen to death in Mil
waukee the other night. IntoXication
was supposed to have been the prime
cause.
james Kuran, of Indianapolis, was
treating his revolver to change of peck
change of worlds.
BY railroad accident near Irmaha,
Mimi, a few days ago, one man was
killed and four were injured, though not
seriously.
"A railroad accident at Henryville,
Ind, few days ago. resulted in the death
of three men-the engineer, fireman, and
one of the brakemen.
Nine human beings drank them
selves to death from sundry casks of liq-
uor washed ashore near Portland, Eng,
from the wreck of the Royal Adelaide.
horrible casualty. While Mrs. Williams
was gone to the spring, fire popped"
from the fireplace into the cradle and
burned her little girl to death.
Henry Williams, employed at the
ice, slipped and fell 600 feet, down a
slope, and was instantly killed. His body
was terribly mangled.
"A workman threw an old bombshell
into the cupola of a foundry at Me
dina, N. Y, the other day, and about
half of the foundry was speedily removed
to the next county.
Miss Potter, an aged maiden lady
who resided alone in Z eOkuk, was burned
so badly the other night that she died
next morning. Her clothes caught fire
from a CRATE.
in Brooklyn, n. Y, pair of horses
attached to a carriage ran away and
jumped into East River, drowning Mrs.
G.. I. Adams, the occupant of the car
rage, and themselves.
John Krieger, a laborer at Evans
rolling mill, Cincinnati, was killed by the
fall of the roof Of shed attached to the
mill. A runaway mule team knocked
down timber supporting the roof.
Disasters on the lakes and the St
Lawrence caused a loss last year ef
nearly So, $50, 600, one-third of which,
81 ,O35, 600, occurred in the month of No
vember The number Of vessels destroy
ed is 100.
A son of Mrs. Judge Peck, of Grand
Rapids, Mich ten years of age, in at
tempting to slide down the banisters of
the new ward school-house, slipped his
hold and fell some fifty feet to the floor
below, landing on a wood-box. He was
picked up insensible.
Stephen Pierce, of Kiddville, Mo,
was out hunting turkeys, and when with
in about seventy yards Of an object which
he observed in tree top, supposing it to
De Il turkey, HC IdlSCu his gun anu llItti,
but instead of shooting a turkey, he shot
and killed little boy, by the name of
Wise, who was out hunting also, and had
climbed tree for the purpose of shaking
a squirrel therefrOm.
A young man recently died in Ches-
ter County, Pa, who had been suffering
from enlargement of the spleen and liver,
followed by abdominal dropsy. A post
norton examination disclosed the fact
that the liver, spleen, kidneys, stomach
and bowels were completely absorbed,
without leaving any portion of them re-
Misunderstanding being found in the alb
domen but portion Of the omentum and
the Serious fluid.
Seth Alexander, aged 80 years, met
his death in a singular manner. He was
employed in the Boston Iron works, at
Pittsburgh, Pa, and with another man
had shouldered set of drilling jars,
weighing over 300 pounds. Having got
the burden on their shoulders they started,
but had proceeded but few steps when
Alexander slipped on the ice and fell face
downward. The heavy jars fell upon
him, striking him on the back Of the neck,
breaking it, and also bursting a blood
vessel, causing death in about five min
utes.