Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-25
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A few nights ago the Buffalo Elevator
took fire and was speedily reduced to
mass of ruins. The loss reached $780,
600.
Richard Thompson, of Waterbury,
Conn.,, aged 10, was found frozen to death
recently at the foot of an embankment
where he had fallen during the night.
The family sportsman has brought
down his game again. This time at Pier
son, Michigan, where, while recently
loading his gun, he succeeded IN shooting
dead his own brother.
AT Montoursville, Pa, recently, a man
was standing by his horse, eating an APP
pie, when the animal opened his jaws
and seized the apple, biting the mans
thumb completely off.
The rear of train Of f1at-cars collided
with hand-car, on which were eleven OF
the employees, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska,
few days ago. Two men were killed
and several seriously injured.
Some rascal entered the stable Of f.
Shaw q Bros, in Vanceboro', Maine, one
night last week, and killed one OF their
most valuable horses by cutting cash in
its body nearly two feet long.
"A can containing three pounds Of
gun-powder was knocked off shelf in a
meat market at Pontiac, Mich, by rats,
few nights since, and falling on the stove
exploded and completely shattered the
building and set it on fire.
John Church told Kentuckian the
other day that Daniel Boone was only
''one-horse whisky distiller,' instead of a
great hunter, and the family of Mr.
Church can secure his effects by writing
to the coroner at Maysville.
In attempting to cross the Missouri
at Elk Point, Idaho, few days since, in
a high wind, the ferry boat was driven on
sandbar, and remained there until the
next morning. Among the passengers
were two ladies, and they froze to death
Jimmy Waldron, OF Bloomington,
Ill, has been in the habit of riding the
mich COW from the pasture but as the
COW took offense at being spurred, a few
days ago, and threw him, breaking his
arm in two places, he has concluded to
abandon the practice.
"A man in Vernon County, Wis, on
Coon Creek, sent his two children, few
nights ago, after the COWS They did not
return, and the next morning the father
started in search of them He found the
feet of one and the clothes of the other,
they having been devoured by two bears.
The animals were tracked to their dens
and killed.
AT Winona, Mimi, the other day.
little boy by the name of Ryan was play
ing with pistol. A little girl by the
name of O'Dea expressed desire to hear
him snap cap. The boy calamity re-
sponded to her request, and now the
little girl doesn't care to hear any more
caps snapped, and the surgeon had quite
time digging shot out of her scalp.
"A boy in Lafayette, Ind, is out Of
luck. Recently he drank pint of I've.
thinking it was cider, and as soon as he
was well, while playing skinny" had
two fingers on his right hand dislocated
by blow from club, and while on his
way home, bowling with pain, fell down
and broke his arm. This is all to date,
but he is an invaluable boy for an editor
The case of the New York physician
who caused the death Of a child by al
lowing piece of lunar caustic to slip
down It's throat is surpassed in reckless
ness by that of Dr.. J. S. Clark, of Port
land, Me-, who gave a young lady sixty
powders, composed of pure corrosive
sublimate. Any one of the powders was
enough to cause death. Fortunately after
taking the first the patient vomited freely,
and was relieved by dose of lemon and
gelatine, followed by egg-nogg. She is
not yet out of danger. What the doctor
meant to administer does not appear.
The little daughter of VIM. More, Of
Pinckney, Mich, was recently burned to
death under the following circumstances:
The mother went out after pail of water,
about twenty rods from the house, and
while gone the door was blown open, and,
1t is supposed, while the little girl was
passing the stove to shut the door her
clothing caught fire. Her mother heard
her cries and FASTENED back, but found
that the girl had locked the door on the
inside-as she had seen others do before
and before an entrance could be effect
ed and assistance rendered the child w as
so badly burned that she died.