Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30
HAPS AND MTSHAPS.

The arrival Of the circus season was
lately signalized, in Pittsburgh, by a
lloness Selling the arm of James FOalds
and so badly decorating it that it Lad to
be amputated.
"A little girl in Troy, N. Y, recently
broke an arm from a china doll and
pushed it as far as she could into her ear,
filling the Crifice so tightly that surgeons
are unable to pull it out.
"A man in South Windsor, Conn, who
was thrown out of his wagon by a loco
motive, struck the top of telegraph pole
in descending, and Z" it is thought he is
seriously injured"
Henry Horning was scalped by a
Honess belonging to a circus exhibiting
at Baltimore, Md, the other morning, and
so badly injured that his recovery was
thought impossible.
By the upsetting of fiat-boat while
crossing Grand River near Fort Gibson,
recently, ten soldiers, two citizens and
six mule teams were thrown into the wa
ter, and six soldiers and one citizen were
drowned.
Thomas Sherrin, a laborer at Rock
ford Station, Canada Southern Railroad,
while attempting to board gravel train,
recently, fell upon the track in front of
the car. Both legs were taken off above
the knees He lived twenty minutes.
Two daughters of Mrs Christopher
DoOlan, of Birmingham. Conn, four and
six years old, were left locked up in a
chamber of their house during Mrs. Doc
lan's absence, recently, and the building
taking fire they were smothered to death.
"A Waterbury, Conn., boy, twelve years
old, got violently angry the other day at
being punished, and swallowed a solution
containing four grains of morphine, and
his parents barely saved his life by giving
him emetics and obliging him to take a
long walk.
While Ted. Linnel was digging a
cellar under dwelling house at Barra-
boo, Wis, the other day, the embankment
gave way, and he was buried under q
huge mass Of stones and earth His body
and bones were bruised and broken in a
horrible manner.
-Sairey Camp has appeared in Hart
ford, Conn. She was nursing a rich
invalid; she put some chloroform on a
towel and held the towel to her patients
nose; then she loaded herself down with
! rich things and greenbacks and departed
for other fields OF usefulness.
Charles Baclzus, an employe at the
Central Vermont car shops at Rutland,
while undressing one night lately, fell
backward into chair in which was set,
bottom side up, common tumbler of
small size. Mr.. Backus' weight was
about 240 pounds, and in his fall he struck
the glass squarely within his lower bowel
and with such force as to drive the tum-
! bier so far as TO prevent its being dislodged
from its very singular and painful posi-
ton until the next day. The wound was
so severe, however, that Inflammation set
in and he died.
"A little colored girl died near Auburn,
Ala, recently, under the following cir
cumstances: The girl went to some sills
that had been used for the purpose of
cutting up meat, and on which there was
large number of red ants. While
asleep the ants by the hundreds made an
attack on the child, and when she awoke
she was literally covered with them, and
all busy biting and singing. They were
so ferocious that woman on the place
had to sweep them off with brush
broom. The biting and singing were so
serious that fever ensued, which, coupled
with the poison of the bites, produced
death two davs afteTWard.