Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06
HIPS AND MISHAPS.

HIPS AND MISHAPS.
At Pleasant Valley, Ohio, a few days
since, boy named Bunk was instantly |
killed by being kicked by horse.
A large portion of the Enterprise |
colliery, near Wilkesbarre. caved in !
few DAYS since The miners had warn
ing and escaped.
Because her stepmother beat hers |
Cornelia Bingham, ten-year-0ld glrl OF |
West Bergen. n. J., tried to commit sui
eide recently by taking poison.
The last surviving sister of the late
Edgar Allen Poe, the poet, died recently
at the Epiphany Church Home in Wash
ington City, aged siXty-eight years.
John Hargraves, aged ten years,
was gathering shavings in q Saw-mill at
Nashua, n H, lately, when he was
struck by the machinery and killed.
A widow named Harold, living at
Bridreton, \. J., got out of bed the other
nirhf and drowned herself in Cohansey
Greek. She was about sixty years OF
age
A house was struck by lightning the
other dav at Trumbull Conn, and the
proprietor wishes to discover the address
of the agent who pat those two lightning
rods on it.
A woman named Shank, living near
Columbia City, Ind, was bitten by rat
tlesnake while at work in the garden.
She died in few hours. Her suteripgs
were intense.
Charles Hanlon fell from trapeze,
upon which he was performing, at the
Arcade Theater, New York, the other
night, and striking his side on the corner
of table was fatally injured.
Prank Carlisle, q young man aged
twenty-five, was hanged the other after
noon at Marshall, Saline Co, Mo, for the
murder of Geo. Mecker two years ago.
Carlisle was very reckless and desper-
ate man, and is said to have murdered
three other men besides Nlecker.
Charles Cook, merchant of Bull
| CITY, Osborn Co, Mo, who has been de
ranged for some time past, thrust a knife
| blade through the brain of his infant
child, last Friday, and then beat his own
head with a hatcheU, breaking the skull
! and inficting a mortal injury. Pecuniary
| trouble is said to have been the cause of
his insanity.
Charles p Warner, proprietor of the
| Southern Hotel, St Louis, a passenger
| for New York, with several friends, had
his arm resting in the sill of a window of
| the Pullman palace car just as the car
was entering the Delaware bridge at
Trenton. The car gave a sudden lurch,
threw his elbow out of the window, and
it came in contact with the side Of the
bridge, crushing his left arm so badly
that amputation was necessary.
A little two-year-old daughter Of a
| poor widow was playing on the track Of
the Missouri & Pacific Railroad the other
day near Webster, Mo, just as the five
! o'clock train was passing the curve. The
engineer was unable to see It until the
train was nearly upon it, and he whstled
| down brakes, and every effort was made
to avert the impending destruction Of the
child, but without effect. The cow-catch-
er struck the little one and hurled it on
! the bank, dead.
A boy some twelve or fourteen years
of age, named VIM. Simmons, now living
with Dr.. Wellington, in Swansea Village,
and whose parents reside in Warren, r.
| l., while asleep the other night about
| eleven o'clock, Ieaped from third-story
window, about twenty-five feet from the
! ground, and, what is remarkable, alighted
without injury. He has been hOmesick
and was heard to call "MOther" in a
/
a scratch could be found on him, and
ten minutes after he was in sound
sleep again.
Jas. Bassford, fireman on the West
Wisconsin Railroad, when about fifty
miles out from St Paul, the other day,
saw little three-year-old child standing
on the track about three rods ahead of
! the engine. Brakes were whistled down
and the engine reversed, but the distance
was short. AS the engine approached
! the child and its destruction seemed Ger
tain, Bashford ran hastily forward to the
pilot and when within three feet Of it
gave a jump, endeavoring to catch the
child in his arms and clear the track.
He succeeded but missed his hold, and
the child fell between the ties and Bass
ford was knocked into the gutter When
the train finally stopped the child was
| picked up under the tender all safe.