Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-08
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

A boiler in the Independent Coal
Mine, at Contra Costa, Cal, recently ex-
ploded and killed the engineer and fire.
man.
Mrs. Amanda Talcott of Round Lake,
Iowa, recently went into the garnet and
hung herself to one of the rafters because
her 'emptins'' had soured.
"A few nights ago, Joseph Corrigan fell
from the top of one Of the lofty bluffs
which disfigure St. Paul, Mimi, distance
OF ninety feet, and was instantly killed.
"A girl named Emma LeClair, few
days ago, in Detroit, placed two chairs
near the stove and laid down upon them
for rest. Her clothes took fire, and she
was actually roasted to death.
Mi. Henry Baggs, of Concord, Iowa,
while recently engaged in digging a well,
was fatally injured by the box used for
elevating the dirt breaking from the rope
and falling upon his head-a distance of
about eighteen feet.
"A boy in Marshall, Mich, bruised
his finger, recently, and wrapped it in a
cloth saturated with camphor. Coming
too near the gaslight the cloth caught fire,
and before it could be removed, the boy
was seriously burned.
Mr.. F. WEIGH and J. II. Haverly had
little unpleaSantness at L0ganspOrt,
Ind the other day. and the latter gentle
man felt compelled to take a slice out Of
the others right cheek with his little
Ratchet That Ratchet ought to be
buried.
Recently at Dayton, Ohio, Thomas
Fisher and George w. Davidson engaged
in a wrestling match just west Of the city,
in which Fisher was thrown down and
his neck broken He died almost in
stantly. The cOroner's jury returned a
verdict of accidental death.
A workman in a sawmill at Shiocton,
(Wis) was engaged in rolling log on to
the carriage, when he slipped and the log
rolled upon him, crushing the bones of
one leg to atoms and breaking the bones
of the other. He refused to have them
amputated and would doubtless die.
"A terrible accident happened at Stock
holm, Denmark, not long ago. A fire
broke out in the third story of house
occupied by the ballet corps of the Royal
Theater. Sixteen unfortunate girls were
burned alive, three were killed by jump
ing from windows, and five dangerously
hurt
One day recently a Racine man beat
his thirteen-year-oldd daughter in the most
inhuman manner. He compelled her TO
disrobe and then beat her with broom
stick, varying the punishment by kicking
her. The next day-in company with an
other girl who had been similarly trea ted
by her mother-she ran away to Chicago.
"A case of death from starvation oc-
Cured recently in the city of Davenport.
A man named Tyler, having alarge family
to support out of his earnings, became
sick, and having nothing to eat, died from
probable starvation. The neighbOrs, hear
ing of his death, went to the house and
found his wife and children starving, and
no food in the house. Unconquerable
pride had kept them from asking for any
| assistance.
The Columbus (Wis) Democrat reports
that Mrs. Davidson, in the absence OF
her husband, attempting to return flock
of unruly sheep, which had broken from
the pen, was attacked by the patriarch OF
the flock, who knocked her down and kept
her On the ground until favorite horse
came to the rescue, and relieved her. Her
wrist was slightly fractured, and it may
naturally be supposed that she was some
what frightened.