Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-10
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Charles Dederlv, five years old, was
killed by the kick Of a colt on his lore
head at Sterling, H., the other day.
"A three-year old child crept upon the
railway track near Webster City, Iowa,
and \ train cut off both its arms.
Ella White, aged fifteen, poured some
kerosene oil on a newly-kindled fire, at
Owatonna, MINI. She may recover.
John Morton, Terre Haute Qnd)
youth of about thirteen years, shot himself
through the head while footing with a
pistol,
Robert Wilson, proprietor OF saw
mill near Terre Haute, Ind, was recently
killed instantly by the explosion OF boiler
in the mill.
"A little daughter of German named
Bishop. fell into privy-vault at Madison,
Wis., and before assistance could reach
her, was sufocatcd or drowned,
A daughter of Mrs. Whom, residing
near White Hall, Ill, was bitten by a rat
tlesnake recently, and at last accounts II
was thought impossible for her to recover.
j. NJ. Carr, farmer Of Clay County,
Iowa, was killed by lightning while ont
in his wheat field When discovered he
was entirely dead, his boots torn from his
feet and his clothes rent in fragments.
"A Peoria servant girl, named Maggie
Conley, the course of whose true love
wouldn't run smooth, took dose Of cold
poison the other day. Her recovery was
considered doubtful.
The slight mistake of using strych-
nine instead Of saleratus in the cake, came
very near to extinguishing the family of
Barney May, at Dubuque the other day
Fortunately the dose was SO large that it
nauseated them.
Thomas Walker, after two weeks
debauch at ChenOa, H., went to Weston,
when feeling i'll he entered a drug store,
the proprietor of which was absent, and
helped himself to something out of one
of the jars. He was Immediately taken
with violent pains and died in an hour.
The soda-water season of Pittsburgh
was duly opened by shooting off a soda
fountain into good many pieces, break
ing a mans arm. No Pittsburgh engi-
neers can now be found to run the infer
nal machine.
Mrs. John Galley, of Ingraham, Ill,
attempted to kindle the fire with kerosene.
Her little boy was standing near, and his
clothing also caught fire. The mother
saved her boy by extinguishing the flames
upon him while she herself was being
roasted alive.
"A little girl six years old, living with
a Mr.. Johnson, at Mclean, H. was acct
dentally killed the other Sunday, by the
discharge of gun, nearly the whole
charge entering her mouth and passing
upward. A young son of Mr.. Johnson
and the little girl were alone in the house,
the rest of the family being at church
The boy went upstairs for a few moments
and on returning found the girl a corpse
Two boys, by the names of Windsor
and Smith, drove into the Illinois River,
near Naples, one day recently, for the
purpose Of Tightening the tires on their
wagon wheels. The horses, getting be
yond their depth, began to swim, when
the boys, becoming frightened, jumped
into the water and were drowned The
horses returned safely to the shore with
the vehicle.
"A twelve-year-old son of Mr.. Law
renee, at Forestdale, Vt, was severely
burned recently, under very singular Cir
cumstances. In crossing a brook he dis
covered something which he took to be a
roll of candy, and on examination placed
it in his pants pocket. His clothes were
soon on fire, and he rushed into the water
"icl IL tttStu 10 buIu only Wnllp ullueG
the water. The roll proved to be phos
phorus. The boy was in a critical condi-
ton at last accounts.
Henry F. Walker, fourteen-year-old
boy of Worcester, Mass, had a misunder
standing with his grandfather about water
ing some plants, and the latter ordered
the young man to go into the barn and
stay there. Some little time after, the
grandfather, going to the barn, found the
boy on his knees, with his neck in a
moose, strangled. The old man being
feeble, found some difficulty in releasing
the boy, who gasped once or twice and
then died. The boy had his hands under
the rope as if he had tried to release him
self, but had not the strength. He had a
high temper, but it is not believed he
meant to do more than brighten the
family
This is one Of the humors of Du-
buque One Sunday morning recently,
James McDonough and Jonas Sackett
were in Herbst's butcher shop, and being
pot-valiant from the effect of many pota-
tons, each challenged the other to lay his
head on the chopping- block and be decap-
itated. Finally McDonough, evidently
the Drawer of the two, laid his head On the
block, and Sackett, grasping the butchers
cleaver, with uncertain stroke let it fall,
the blow missing its intent only so far as
to shave off one of McDonough's ears, at
the same time badly fracturing his skull.
Some bystandcrs here interfered and put
an end to the fun.