Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-07-02
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A labOrer named JOHNSON, onPioy'"
in a brick yard at Carver, I'LL, fell from
the bank to the bottom OF the cray PIT,
short time ago, and broke his neck
Charles McGeehan, employed upon
the schooner Contest, in the harbor or
Kcposba. Wis, got up the other night
saving he was sick and would sleep on
deck. During the night he rolled over
board in his sleep and was drowned.
S. Brown was recently killed while
at work in sash and blind factory at
Norwich, Conn. A stick struck him in
the abdomen, penetrating four inches
lie pulled it out, and, walking about ten
feet, said: 81 am dead man. and inn
mediatcly expired.
Otto Schmidt fell from a velocipedc
at East Saginaw, Mich, the other night
The lad had under his arm "A long -nccked
bottle, which, in the fall from the veloci-
pcdc, was broken the pieces OF broken
glass entering the boys stomach, cutting
"A hole from which his inteStlneS pro-
trudcd. He lived about twenty hours.
"A few days since William Tumble
son, of Bcntonyille, OHIO, started out to
hunt ground hogs, and made an appoint
mcnt with his son TO meet him at IA Ger
tain place later in the day The son
came earlier than the father expected
and lay down under a tree to await his
arrival. The father came up, mistook
him for ground hog, and discharged a
load Of shot into his head from which
the boy died in an hour
"A horrible accident occurred at
Minneapolis, MINI, the other morning
A man named Hayes crawled under a
shaft to remove loose shingles His
clothing caught in the rapidly-rcyolying
shaft, and the body of the unfortunate
man was hurled round and round and
against the floor by the shaft before the
engine could be stopped. Both his legs
and arms were broken and his skull frac-
turcd, besides being badly cut about the
head
The following accident recently oc-
CURED to Mr. Rice Saunders, Of Lakenan
Mo: He was carrying loaded gun on a
Corn-plantcr, which slipped from the
wooden brace Of the planter, and the
hammer striking a casting fired the
charge, which entered the arm and body
The arm was wounded between the wrist
and elbow, and from elbow to shoulder
was terribly manglcd, both as to flesh
and bone. A large blood-vcsscl was
severed and he died in one and half
hours after from escape of blood.
An explosion occurred a few days
ago at The Moosic Powder Works near
Wilkcsbarre, Pa, by which one man. Ed
ward Fielder, was killed The terrific
shock reused the whole neighborhood,
Ia Ia. Htrtn 40 L
smoke resting over the spot, combined
with the flight of the terrorstrickcn pco-
pie, lent fearful interest to the scene.
The mill was completely wrecked AS was
II duplicate corning mill standing about
400 feet away, which took fire. The mill
had been working admirably and the
cause of the explosion is a mystery.
Here is where chlorolorm was add
ministcrcd under entirely novel circum-
stances, A gentleman crossing the
bridge at Fultonvillc, Montgomery
County, n. T., saw II small boy strug-
glisg in the river below Down went
the phiianthropiSt to the rescue, but the
small boy struggled so that both were in
danger of IA watery death. Just then the
gentleman remembered that he had a
bottle of chlor0tom in his pocket. To
take it out and to administer the an
aesthetic TO the wrigging lad was the
work of moment and then the uncon.
scious form was towcd safely to the
shore.
-Athol, Mass, has a strange case of
depraycd youthful propensity in four
ycar-old child, who from its very cradle
has cyinCcd constant desire to bite or
gnaw his fingers and hands, until an in
diligence in the appetite seems to be al
most his only source of qualification. II
left alone he will lie on his back for an
hour at a time, chewing his fingers and
tearing out pieces of flesh and bone with
the yoracity Of a savage animal. He has
pursued this habit with such fatal per
siStcncy as to reduce all the fingers of
both hands to raw and bleeding stumps,
while of the thumb of the left hand moth
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