Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-02-05

John Gale, a Scotchman, recently
fell down a flight of stairs in Milwaukee
and broke his neck.
Several childrS iS Morgan County,
Ohio, recently died from eating candy
made from sorghum in brass kettle.
While some children were cracking
nuts at Epworth, Iowa, lately, one of
them broke the others leg by blow from
Ratchet
Two boys lately quarreled over a
game of marbles at Post Oaks, Texas,
when the youngest, aged ten, ran for his
fathers pistol, and shot and instantly
killed his companion, aged twelve.
"A Missouri man recently severely
stabbed himself because his wife scalded
him for buying an extra halter strap. If
all men were as tender hearted, Camp
BELLS poem of the 'Last Man" would soon
become a reality.
John Johnson, known as the great
steamboat builder of the Ohio Valley,
was killed lately in Cincinnati, by acct
dentally allowing his head to come in
contact with the passenger elevator of the
Gibson House in that city.
Three boys ran into an emigrant
train while coasting on a hand-sled at
Sing Sing, New York, lately, and the
brains Of one of them "a colored lad
named Armstrong; were dashed out. The
other two were severely injured.
Not long ago Frank Ingram, work
man at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, was
precipitated to the ground by the giving
way of some scaffolding, and was not only
instantly killed, but, striking fellow
workman in his descent, injured him so
that he died shortly afterward
Henry Slattenbery, of Davenport, Iowa,
recently got piece of gas-pipe, plugged
up one end with piece of iron, filled the
pipe with powder and touched it off. The
plug blew out and struck the boy in the
head, infiicting a frightful wound, from
the effect of which he died shortly after
wards.
Not long ago, colored man in Lee
County, Iowa, came to his death in the
following singular manner: He was
bringing from a neighbor's house
dressed hog, and while climbing fence
the hog slipped, the gambrel by which 1t
had been hung catching over the untor-
tunate mans head and breaking his neck.
Isaac Hayne and wife, of Manchester,
Illinois, while recently returning to their
home, were run away with by their team,
and thrown from the wagon. Mr. Hayne
struck his head against stump and was
instantly killed. Mrs. Hayne had one leg
broken in two places, and received other
severe injuries
An unsightly spectacle was presented
in Indianapolis the other day. AS the
funeral procession of a respectable lady
was passing through the streets On the
way to the cemetery, couple OF wagons
containing the dead animals picked up
about the town followed IN the rear until
compelled by the police to desIst.
A sad accident occurred near En-
metsburg, Md, recently. A child of
James Sweeney, two years old, wandered
up stairs, where pistol was left lying in
a box. On hearing report the mother,
too much alarmed to go herself, sent a
little daughter, who returned, carrying
the dead baby in her arms, shot through
the heart.
John McCurdy, an emploYe in cur
rying shop in China, Maine, suffering
from the depredations of thieves, rugged
a spring-gun in the stairway, and there
after slept the sleep of the satisfied. One
day recently, having forgotten the spring
arrangement, he hastily passed up the
stairway, discharged the gun, and was
instantly killed
"A Brockville (Canada) farmer recent
ly attempted to scare an old worthless
dog from his place by putting fuse near
the dogs nose and a coal OF fire near 1t.
Then, to connect the fire with the fuse, he
commenced to pour some powder out of
a flask upon the coal. An explosion fol-
lowed. The farmer didn't see any more
of the dog, but is thought that with medi-
cal aid and good care be will be able to
see him in about month.