Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-10
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

A daring and almost successful at
tempt to secure competence at short no.
tice has involved Lancaster, Pa, in wild
excitement. NJ. o. Kline, cashier of
| cotton mill, was just preparing to pay off
| the operatives, when Edward p Wilhelm,
formerly an employe, entered, attired in
female apparel, and, knocking Mr. Kline
down with billy, shot off with $4,000.
After lively chase Wilhelm was arrested
| and the money recovered.
1t comes from Vermont, and is to the
effect that gentleman of that State, hav-
ing become fatigued while rabbit hunting,
fell over and tainted. His faithful spaniel
rolled himself in the snow and then shook
it in his masters face, repeating the oper-
alton until the man had revived. There
is no doubt that had the man failed to
come to just when he did, the " faithful
spaniel" would have taken some feathers
from his pocket and burned them under
the PROSTATE mans nose.
The Arizona Citizen, of Tucson, re-
lates: Under the cottonwoods by the ace
quia, and back of Pancho Gomez resi-
dence, three boys were playing, last
Tuesday, about sundown. They had
pistol, and were shooting at mark on
one of the trees and betting cartridges Oh
ing some six feet from the tree. One of
the boys had fired the pistol, and then
ran to the tree and commenced digging
the bullet out. One of the other boys,
standing some six feet off, raised the pis-
tol, fired at the mark, and the bullet went
crashing through the BRAIN of the boy at
The tree. The wounded boy fell, but the
other two boys Thought he was only
just playing" until they saw the blood
pouring from the wound.
"A few days ago, bird hawk, in pass
ing over town, swooped down at bevy of
English sparrows that were feeding in the
street, at the corner of Main and Bridge
streets. The nimDle little birds were TOO
quick for the hawk, and scattered. One
little fellow nearest the hawk curved
around the glass corner of the Bedford
Building. The pursuing bird was not ac-
quainted in that locality, knew nothing of
the glass corner, which, to his eve, seemed
like an open space, and concluded to take
the short-cu on the little bird that was de-
scribing so nice a curve in front of his
hawkship. The hawk directed his course
straight across the corner, and encountered
the outside glass with such force that it
passed through to the inside by hole OF
its own making, only several times larger
than Its own body, and then dropped dead
to the music of quivering window and
falling glass. The boys say the sparrows
held jubilee, that day, over the death of
bloody enemy.-M!tingten (Pa.) lSentt-
mel.
A little boy, fourteen years of age,
named James McCann, came to a sudden
death last night in a peculiar manner
He was playing with a number of other
boys On East Third street. The others
were pursuing him, attempting, in the
pretense of play, to prevent him from
blowing a tin trumpet which he carried.
He ran along Third street at the top of
his speed, and, on attempting to turn into
Ellen street, tripped on the curbstone,
falling with great violence. The trumpet
which he held in his hand, struck the
pavement with the open end downward.
The boy fell in such a position that the
of his playth1ng penetrated
the neck on the right side. So great was
the force of the fall that, Notwithstanding
the button at the tip of the trumpet, the
instrument entered the neck fully fingers
length. The jugular vein was severed,
and the little fellow bled to death in less
than ten minutes. His comrades picked
him up and carried him to the home of
his parents, but had scarcely got him in
side the door before he breathed his last.
Cincinnati Gazette.