Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-29
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A girl of fifteen was boiling soap at
Madison, Ind, when her dress took fire
and she burned to death.
"A little hoy living in New Brunswick,
N. j., was frightened to death by fire
the other day.
IS. F. Watkins, Of Round Prairie,
Iowa, was the last man kicked to death
by mule.
While making soap at Lisbon, Iowa,
Mrs McCammant's clothes caught fire,
and she was fatally burned.
Mrs. Craig, of West Liberty, Iowa,
lighted her fire with kerosene, and leaves
widower and small family.
A little girl in Pittstown, Pa, pulled
part of her tongue off the other day with
button hook.
"A daughter of a Georgia juryman
died during the progress of a trial. and
the father was not allowed to leave the
box
AT Newcastle, Ind, the last boy to
swallow a bean held it in his winJpipe
for four days, when the pipe was cut open
and the bean taken out.
MIR. Metzel, of Baltimore, poured coal
oil over sour krout, mistaking it for vine
gar. Then he put it on the stove to warm;
then it exploded, and piece OF the dish
knocked Mr.. Metzel's eye out.
A little daughter of W. W. Ravens, at
Greenfield, ILL.,, while playing about the
yard, accidentally fell into barrel OF
rainwater, and was drowned before dis
covered by her parents.
"A little son of Rev. Thomas Gallaher,
residing near Jacksonville, Ill, was bit
ten by rattlesnake few days ago. The
child was dosed with whisky to his full
capacity, but at last accounts it was
thought that death would be the ultimate
result
The clothes of Miss Mary Hopper, re-
siding near Jacksonville, ILL.,, caught fire
from a cooking stove, and before the
flames could be subdued, her body was
burned to a crisp from head to foot.
While Texas man was trying to an
Choir his mule to a stake recently, the ami
NAL managed to get the rope around the
mans neck, and then ran away at the top
Of his speed. The widow wants to sell
the mule.
The suicide of Captain NJ A. Knight,
Of Bonham, Tex, is accounted for in the
language made use of to his wife when he
fired the fatal shot: kate, you shall no
longer live the wife of a drunkard."
"A Baltimore lightning-rod man fell
from the roof of tive-story building in
that city last week, and struck on top OF
an old gentleman Both were rendered
inscn.ible, and before the old man had re-
covered his feet, the agent had taken his
order for a rod
"A colored murderer, who was recently
hanged in Georgia, undertook to antici-
pate the sheriff by walking to the edge Of
the scatlold and jumping off while prayer
was being offered, after the moose had
been fixed. He was pulled back again by
the rope and hanged in the orthodox
fashion.
Jacob Schaefer, little boy of Prairie
de Long, st. Clair County, Mo, while feed
ing a straw-cutter, a few days ago, had his
hand drawn in between the cylinders, and
it was so terribly mangled that he will
probably loose all of his fingers.
A San Bernardino (Cal) Assessor
asked woman how many chickens she
had, and, doubling her word, proceeded
to count them. She took him to the bee
hive, kicked it over, and invited him to
count the bees. Another man is finishing
his work.
Miss Sarah Bowling, of Union HILL
n j., died under suspicious circumstances
few days ago, and a post-mortem eX-
animation by a physician discovered that
death had been caused by a peanut which
lodged in the intestines and produced in
tlammatiOn of the bowels.
William Mcdonald, young man,
while walking through the marine rail
way, in Cincinnati, the other evening,
missed his footing and fell across a 24-inch
circular saw operating at full speed. The
saw took off his left arm and sawed into
his body, cutting his heart half in two.
No hell was near, but the man extricated
himself, ran fifty yards, and fell dead,
"A seven-year- old negro boy in Virginia
recently killed a girl playmate aged four,
by beating her with stick. The boy
confessed the crime, saying that he killed
her in order to get white marble which
she possessed and which she would not
give him. The jury found a verdict in
accordance with these facts, but in CON
sideration of the boys extreme youth, and
also of his imbecility he was discharged
from arrest.