Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
HAPS AND MISHAPS.


went skyward at Swerleyville, Pa, the
other day.
"A Norwegian woman in Green Bay,
Wis, accidentally fell and struck her
neck across the edge Of an iron kettle,
breaking it and causing instant death
Near Black River Falls, Wis, two
children were burned to death, and their
parents SO badly burned that their lives
were despaired Of, by the explosion Of a
fluid lamp.
Two children in Chicago got hold of
bottle of homeopathic pills containing
belladonna and ate sufficient quantity
to have caused death, but the prompt &C
ton of physician saved their lives.
A man died at Indianapolis from the
excessive use of water. He had been told
that its free use weNld relieve him from
the desire for tobacco, and he became a
martyr to the experiment.
A delirious person named Milton
Chase, of Elko, New, recently showed his
respect for martyrdom by holding both
hands in the fire until they were con-
sumed to the wrists.
"A Duluth, Mimi, man, undertook to
redrill a hole in which the first blast of
powder hung fire. He was picked up in
an adjoining quarry, perforated by his
crowbar, ready for fine needle-work.
In Rockmart, Ca, the other day, a
little girl fell into swollen creek. Her
little brother plunged in to rescue her,
but the current was strong, and both
were swept down stream and drowned.
Silvia Hull, a young daughter of Will
liam Hull, of Rush River, Wis, was
killed, few days since, by the shivering
of a lamp chimney, one of the pieces of
glass penetrating her neck and severing
the jugular vein.
Margaret Dandney, little Chicago
girl two years of age, accidentally fell
into pail of boiling water while playin 6
about the house the other day, and was
so badly scalded that she died the next
morning.
"A young man in Wiscassett, Maine,
took up loaded gun by the muzzle with
his right hand, the other day. He may
pick up another gun with his left hand,
but surgeon has made it physical, i'm.
possibility for him to repeat the expert.
ment with his right.
There is man in this State, says the
Buffalo Express, who, during the late war;
had an arm shot off, and who has since
then had his leg broken by fall from a
horse, his remaining hand "chawed up
by threshing machine, one of his eyes
put out by running against fence rail,
and half his ribs caved in by the kick of
a mule.
William Webb, foreman of the rail.
way works at St. Anstell, England, has
broken the web Of life, martyr to chem
ical science. He undertook the delicate
experiment of drying twelve cartridges of
dynamite on the family cook stove His
wife, two children and father were with
him in the house. The fields were lit
tered with the fragments.
John Gill, young man, aged about
seventeen years, of White Mills, Pa, met
with most terrible death. With party
of other boys, he had gone on the ice in
the canal for the purpose of skating to
Hawley. Coming to the drop gate of the
lock at the lower part of the village, in
stead of getting out of the lock and walk
ing around it, he attempted to climb up
and get down on the other side. He had
scarcely taken hold of the gate to raise
himself up, when some of it's fastenings
gave way, and it came down like the lid
OF trunk. / he gate is made to fit tight
against the bottom of the canal when
down, and weighs four tons. Young Gill
was crushed between it and the canal
bed, and mangled into shapeless mass
from his waist down.
Parties from Southwestern Kansas
state that the weather has been severe
beyond endurance, and the suffering
among the hunters beggars description
A farmer who arrived at Wichita, recent
ly, reported having overtaken team
loaded with buffalo skins, and on the
wagon, stiff with cold, sat the driver, per-
hitting the team to wander at will over
the prairies, and entirely unable to help
himself. He told the farmer he was
frozen and compelled to remain in the
position he was, and at the same time
beckoned with his head to the wagon-box,
thus calling attention to the contents Of
the bed. Upon looking over the side of
the box terrible sight was before him.
There, lying side by side, were two hunt
ers frozen stiff in death, and as the wagon
jolted over the rough plain, they knocked
together like great icicles. The gentle
man who brought the news to Wichita
had his hands frozen so badly as to make
amputation necessary shortly after his
arrival. He was unable to give the names
of any of the unfortunate party.
A FARMER in Eagle County, Neb., late
ly cut a cottonwood tree, twelve foot
log from which made 1OS feet of lumber.