Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-02
HAPS AND MfSHAPS.

"A few evenings ago Geo. LOOMS, a
wood dealer of Toledo, while intoxicated
drove his team off the river bank and
broke his neck.
Samuel Clark, of Marion, Iowa, was
instantly killed few days ago, by being
thrown from his wagon while crossing the
bridge over Cedar River.
Mrs. Billings, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
recently fell down the cellar stairs at her
residence, and striking her head against
the cellar-wall was instantly killed.
The passenger train from Jefferson to
Marshall, La, recently ran off the track
into Little Cypress Bayou. The engineer
was badly injured and the fireman was
killed.
Mrs Polly Booker, an old colored
woman, who had been missing from her
home at Columbus, Ohio, for several days,
was recently found dead in a cornfeld
near that city.
While three men were carrying part
of pTinting-press down stairway at
Clyde, Ohio, lately, the stairs gave way
and all three were precipitated into the
press and was fatally injured.
"A Mr.. Sharp, living at Middlefeld,
Iowa, hearing his dog barking furiously
a few nights ago, got up to see what was
the matter. On opening the door he was
bounced upon by large wildcat and
badly injured The animal was subse-
quentlY killed.
Mrs. Bridget Ward, aged forty-five, of
Baltimore, recently attempted to accelerate
the kitchen fire with coal oil, when the can,
containing half gallon of fluid, exploded.
She was Immediately enveloped in flames,
and so horribly burned that she died in
few hours. Her daughter was also badly
burned in her endeavor to save her
mother.
"A short time ago an engine standing
in the railroad company's shops at
Altoona, Pa, got started in some way,
without any person on it, and ran through
the round-hOuse and across an open space
into the large machine shop, passing the
entire length of the shop, over 300
feet, in which over 500 men were at work
One man, named Curfman, was killed,
and another, Bradley, had leg taken
Oft. The engine smashed everything in
its course.
Mrs. Thos. Smith quarreled with her
husband at Detroit, few days ago, and
revenged herself by swallowing fifty
grains of morphia. In the evening she
told her husband what she had done The
good man said: "That's all right" and
laid down quietly by her side to sleep.
About two o'clock next morning he was
astonished to find her trying to die-a
feat which she succeeded in accomplish
ing about an hour afterward The Cor
oner's jury did not implicate the husband,
but called it suicide.
Another fatal example of the baneful
effects of allowing children to carry fire
arms as toys was furnished in Chicago
few days ago: Two boys named E nil
and Hans Hirsch, aged respectively
twelve and nine years, were playing to-
gether, when the elder, Emil, drew load
ed pistol from his pocket and commenced
tampering with the lock, while the muz-
zle was pointed directly at his brother.
Of course the weapon went off at the
proper moment, the ball striking Hans in
the temple and entering his brain, killing
him instantly.
Mrs William Scance, wife of a we'll
TODD farmer in Scott County, KY, infict-
ed frightful wounds upon two of her chill
dren, aged nine and two years, and then
cut her own throat recently. The tragedy
occurred early in the morning. Mrs.
Scance dressed herself carefully, took one
OF her husbands razors and went into the
chlldren's room, where the tragedy was
enacted. Mrs. Scance is dead, but it is
thought the children would recover. She
was laborlng under hysteria.