Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-26
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Newport, Vt, boasts a Young married
woman who recently split cord and a
hall OF wood in one day, besides doing a
large amount of washing, ironing, etc.
"A little girl in Wallingford, Conn.
took drink from the spout of teapot
the other day, and died in few hours in
consequence of inhaling the hot steam.
"A little child of Charles Libby, of
Oxhow Plain, Mo, died recently, being
poisoned by drinking a preparation for
plating silver, sold to his father by a
travelling peddler, who stated that it was
not poisonous.
IN ormsn Henry, of Bennington, vt,
has just had cut from his leg below the
knee piece Of glass an inch and half
long and half an inch wide, which he
got INTO his hip fifteen years ago, while
craving through a broken window.
The dwelling of man named Mead,
at New Canaan, Conn, was burned a few
days ago, and heroic little girl only ten
years Old barely saved the life of her old
and bed-ridden grandfather bv pulling
him out OF bed and dragging him to the
door.
"A family in Rutland, Vt, were saved
from suffocation by coal gas by the fact
that neighbours cat had been taken
SICK, ana the neighbor went to the house
where the sutfocation was going on for
some catnip, and found the entire family
insensible.
Horace B. Raymond, while hunting
IN North Weymouth short time ago,
was SO seriously injured that both legs
had to be amputated He was sitting
down with his gun lying at right angles
to him when somebody fired a gun near
by, and Raymond's dog jumped up and
hitting the hammer Of the piece with his
foot caused it to discharge.
j Ohm Tatro, Frenchman, employed
in the West Boylston Manufacturing
Company's mill, at Oakdale, Mass, was
instantly killed recently. He was running
a picker machine and his clothes caught
in the belt, throwing him violently
against some gearing, breaking his skull
and badly mutilating one side OF his
body.
On recent evening as Mr.. Jackson
Reed, of Dresden, Me-, and his son
Willie, aged nine years, were crossing the
Kennebec River, the ice suddenly gave
way, letting the horse, sleigh and occu-
pants into the river. The father put forth
every effort to save his son, and succeeded
three times in getting the boy on the ice,
and each time it gave way, and the last
time the strong current swept the boy
under the ice before his father could
reach him. The father then, by great
efforts and with the assistance of person
on shore who heard his cries, dragged
himself out on to the ice, and on foot and
alone returned to his home. The follow
ing day the body Of the boy was found
frozen in with some drift ice, five to ten
rods below.
The giantpowder explosion at the
west shaft of the HoOsac tunnel, recently,
was one of the most singular accidents in
the history of the tunnel work. The
blasters and a man named Green, whose
duty it was to carry eXploders into the
tunnel, were preparing for blast Green
had just got into the blasters' Office, with
bunch of exploders slung around his
neck in the usual way, when one of them
went off, closely followed by others, Sc
verely burning him; as these exploders
are discharged by electric currents, the
supposition is that the wires which ex-
tend from the caps Of the eXploders
formed circuit, and became charged
from the body Of the man. From this the
powder which the blasters were using
went off; in spite of the fact that can of
giant powder was in the room, every mo
ment liable to burn, Green then succeeded
in removing about fifty pounds of nitro
glycerine, thus saving greater loss Of
life. The explosion of the giant powder
blew the back part of the Office into frag-
ments, one of which injured Patrick
Donnelly, who had been trying to extin-
guish the fire before it should reach the
powder, while Foreman James Mullaney,
Of the blacksmith shop, employed about
the works for nine years, met his death by
a f1Vinp timber