Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-11
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Pa, and inflicted such injuries that the
lad died.
Hugh Cameron, Of Wells River, Vt,
aged sixty years, slipped from the step of
a carriage at Nashua, recently, and strik-
ing upon his head, broke his neck, killing
him Instantly,
On recent Sabbath, a young man
named H. n Collar, formerly OF Belolt
Wis.,, photographer at DEBORAH, Iowa,
committed suicide by swallowing cyanide
of potassium He was just recovering
from the effects of liquor.
Twenty seven years ago citizen OF
Buffalo left his house to purchase at a
neighborng grocery a BEDFORD. lie did
not return until last week, when he
walked into the kitchen with the rope
and said he guessed he'd fix up the trun-
die bed.
Miss Carrie Burbank, of Bethel, H.,
while engaged about the kitchen stove,
recently, allowed her dress 10 come in
contact with IT'S highly heated surface,
and before assistance could be rendered
her body was horribly scorched and
cooked. The in ufics she received were
fatal.
"A Clarke County IoWa) young lady's
corset was the means of saving her life
when shot recently by her beau. She
wore it in the prevailing fashion, tight as
the bark to a saplng, so tight that the
bullet failed to penetrate, but glanced off
like shot from an iron plate
A lady in Rutland, Vi, prepared
dish of fly poison, and setting it down,
stepped from the room for moment. On
returning she was horror stricken at see
ing the dish in the hands of her only
child, who had drank its contents. A
physician being summoned, administered
powerful emetc, and the Child still
lives.
"A nephew of DIR. Pratt, of Lanesboro,
Mass, about eleven years of age, died, the
other day, from the effects Of too much
amateur circus performance He spent
most of the hours of one forenoon in turn
ing somersaults, and the result was that
his bowels became so twisted and knotted
up that they never atterward performed
their regular functions, and though he
lived for ten days, death was inevitable.
The other day, in Mansfield, Ohio, a
gentleman who owned a fine COW thought
to break her of a bad habit of jumping
into his garden. He loaded up his old
shotgun with pepper and salt and pro
q
of cholera and corrective OF jumping
fences. He was somewhat surprised to
see the COW keel over, draw a few short
breaths, and depart to the happy COW land.
He had forgotten to remove the ramrod
after loading.
Recently an accident occurred at a
sand nank on the premises Of DR.. 4. J.
Da' on Penn avenue, Pittsburgh,
tJn Il
man named John Martin The work
men were engaged in digging sand, when
a large mass, weighing upwards of sew
enty five tons, came down, burying Mar
tin, two horses and wagon completely
out of sight. Martin was literally
crushed to death, and both horses were
killed. Two other men who were at
work narrowly escaped with their lives.
AT farm house in Elgin, Mimi, re-
Gently, an oX-team attached to a wagon
was left standing in the road when the
farmer and his men went in to breakfast
The oxen starting off down the road,
Thomas Richardson, a lad of thirteen
years, son Of the farmer, left his place at
the table to run after and stop them
When he had nearly caught up with the
wagon, and the oxen were going at full
speed on down grade, the wagon-tongue
fell from the yoke, catching in the ground,
and stopped the wagon suddenly. The
boy, running with all his might, ran
against the hind end of the wagon box, Il
projecting board of which struck him in
the pit OF the stomach. He was barely
able to walk back to the house, when he
commenced vomiting blood i physician
was promptly called, but the injury was
fatal beyond help, and death resulted next
day.
C. L. Sackett, book keeper with f. H.
Dent & Co, of Chicago, was walking
home with friend from the thcater re
Gently and when near the corner Of RObey
and Adams street, both were struck by
lightning, and laid on the broad OF their
backs with a rapidity that only a way
ward electric spark can produce. Both
men picked themselves up immediately
but Sackett was not able to speak for sew
cral minutes. His friend, who had not
suffered so severe a shock examined
Sackett's right arm, which he complained
was somewhat numb, and found on the
middle of the forearm a round, scalded
spot about the size of silver dollar
Strange to say, both the coat and shirt
showed no sign of the passage OF the cleo
trio fluid which had caused the burn.
Neither party has since felt any incon
venience from this sudden attack of the
most potent power in the universe.
The Opelousas Ia) J0urHdI Of Au-
gust IS is responsible for the following:
Down in the parish Of St. Martin an
old widow lady, whose children had all
married off and left her alone, had been
persuaded to sell her little place and live
with them She sold her land, buildings,
and Improvements one day for $4,000, and
received the money i'll cash on the spot.
in her own house, where the act of sale
was passed before two witnesses, the
number required by law, and who wit
messed also the paying of the money. In
a short time she was to give possession,
but she remained in the house the night
following the sale, all alone, or with no
masculine adult inmates, as was her Gus
tom. That might've negro burglars broke
into the house and demanded her money
or her life She gave it to them, but
begged them to let her have 500, as she
owed that amount, and wanted to pay
the debt when she would be satisfied.
They finally consented to let her keep the
500. They then ordered her to make
some coffee for them to drink. In doing
so she bethought herself of some strych-
nine she had in the house, and quietly
dropped it in the pot OF steamlng coffee,
and placed it on the table with cups,
spoons and sugar, for them to pour out
and sWeeten to their taste. This they did,
and drank in jolly mood, each one hav