Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

Two railroad trains lately coIided in
the tunnel near New York. Result, two
demolished trains and four wounded pass
engers.
Frances Gill, beautiful young lady
at Albany, committed suicide the other
day because she didn't want to tend a
| candy store.
A "highIy respectable" Des Moines
young man was lately arrested for dis
| turbing the peace, and took poison, and
at last accounts was not expected to re-
| cover.
A man named Charles Dowd, an in
mate of the poor-hOuse at Canton, H.,
while out feeding hogs, fell in fit, face
| downward in the mud, and smothered to
death
| "A German by the name of Jacob Van.
| dermierden, sixty years old, while on his
way to attend Vine Mount Catholic
| Church in Bollinger County, Mo, recent
| ly, was thrown from his mule and instant
ly killed by the animal kicking him after
he fell.
"A man named Harry Albright, EN-.
| plOyed as foreman of the edging room in a
planning mill at Saginaw City, Mich, was
| instantly killed a few days ago, piece oil
scantling at which he was at work, flying
back from the saw, hitting him in the
throat.
"A singular accident occurred in New
York lately. John Graham, aged As years,
went into his cellar to get some coal, in
doing which his beard took fire from a
lighted candle and set fire to his clothes,
burning him so severely that he died soon
atterward
"A child three years old, daughter of
James G. HartZell Of Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently got bottle of med icine composed
OF morphine and belladOna, which had
been prescribed for her grandmother, and
drank portion Of it, causing death in a
few hours.
DIR. J. K. Reiner, of Saltwater, Mime
sofa, recently died from poison received
though a scratch in the hand when per
forming surgical operation on patients
Notifying arm. The modification was
caused by bite in the thumb received in
a fight which the patient had with fell
Northumberland.
"A farmer named Steinberg, who re.
sided in Eden, Wis, started for Fond du
Lac with load of wood. While coming
down hill his team became alarmed and
ran away. Mr.. Steinberg had the lines
over his head. Steinberg was thrown
from the load. He struck some hard sub
stance, fracturing his skull badly, and in
a short time died.
Mr.. Church, an employe at the iron
furnace at Elk Rapids, Mich, was recently
dangerously burned. He was attempting
to draw off the Stag, and drove the bar
through the opening into the stack, when
stream Of molten iron and cinders
spurted out, striking his arm and breast,
burning through his clothing, and running
down his limbs, inficting most painful
injuries.
"A coal miner named Richardson, en-
plOyed at Des Moines, had narrow escape
the other day. His cap, to which was at
tached lighted lamp, fell into a train of
powder communicating with a full key of
lively sand. AS soon as it fell Richardson
started on a run. He got about fifteen feet
away before the powder exploded, and es-
capped with the loss of his clothes and
some secure burns.
There is something deeper than mere
pathos in the death and last utterance of
the child-musician, whose young life went
out SO suddenly, in the night, a short
time ago, in Boston. His father awoke,
and heard the child say; "Merciful God,
make room for a poor little bOy;" and
when the father reached the bedside, "the
poor little boy" was struggling for room"
in the throng beyond the river.
AS Mr.. Giles and wife were coming
into a Missouri village the other day in a
wagon one of the front wheels came off,
giving the occupants sudden jar. Moth
ing was thought of the affair for some
time afterward, when Mrs. Giles discov-
cred blood oozing from her babes mouth
In few minutes the child was dead
The sudden jar caused the bursting of a
blood vessel. The child was about three
months old
An explosion occurred at the DunbaI'
furnace, near Pittsburg, Pa, few days
ago. One of the receivers had been leak
ing for some days, and ON this day a new
one was put in, but did not operate salts
factorily. When an examination was
being made, a terrific explosion took
place, killing one man. His head was
blown distance of twenty feet from the
body. The receiver was blown to pieces,
and the roof of the blasting house was
blown entirely Off Pieces of the receiver
were blown nearly quarter of a mile.
The HoDard County (Mo.) Adoert5ser
learns that a few days since little child
of family living near Myers Post-office,
fell into a well of water fifteen feet deep
No one saw the child fall, but a little
girl, aged eight or nine years, heard the
splashing of water, and looking into the
well, which was nearly full of water, saw
the little one rise to the top. With the
greatest presence of mind she at once
caught up a rope which was lying near at
hand and dropped it down into the well.
The child caught the rope and was drawn
out safe by the little girl.