The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
WINTER SPORTS.

NEAR Newton, Kan, a boy named
Einbeck, while hunting, shot and killed
his BROTHER.
DANIEL COLE, of Forest, Mich, car
ries the ball from his rifle in his left
shoulder.
LITTLE Tan Beers, years of age, of
Noble county, Ind, has both arms in
splints. He fell of his sled.
WHILE sliding down hill, with other
girls, Grace Hodgkins, aged IL, fell and
broke her leg below the knee.
CHARLES LYoAN, aged IA, of Green
vile, ILL.,, while hunting, lost his life by
the accidental discharge of his gun.
CARELESS handling of jeff. Alleys
gun cost Coleman Wood his life. He
was 10, and belonged in Macon, Ga.
NOBODY knows how Joseph Smith
shot and killed James Lindsey, of New
Straitsville, Ohio. They were hunting.
A sCHooLBoY named Harry Reese, of
Allegheny county, Pa, while hunting,
had an arm shattered, and bled to
death.
WHILE sitting on a fence, George
Jackson, of Jefferson township, Ind,
let his gun fall, and he is now busy
picking the shot from his arm.
WHILE skating, the only son of Levi
w. Smith, of Vinalhaven, Me-, aged IL
years, fell upon the ice, injuring his
spine SO severely that he died.
B. F. TALMAGE, of Leslie, Mich, not
returning from the hunt at nightfall,
search revealed his dead body lying
across log, and a ruined gun.
WHILE hunting, Walter Shaw, aged
Is, of Paris, KY, fell on a stubble,
which passed through his groin into the
bowels. His injuries are serious.
The breech. pin of young Wiley's
gun, of Nashville, Ind, went entirely
through his head and took his life. In
his anxiety to kill he had overloaded.
GEORGE KING, of ST. John, Mich,
went hunting, Sunday, and was shot
and killed by 12-year- old boy who
claims he mistook him for a turkey.
WILLIAM DoHLER, of Philadelphia,
in taking his gun from the wagon, left
all the muscles and flesh of his right
cheek scattered over the wagon-body.
THE doctors are still picking out the
shot from Willie Wadden's back, where
they were sent by his father while hunt
ing. This was at Waterford, NJ.
LEWIS BARR, of Pleasant Grove, Pa,
is not yet p, but carries twenty-one
wounds from shot poured into his body
that his parent intended for pheasant.
The whole charge of young Smiths
gun, of gainesville, Ohio, entered his
head, directly under the lower jaw, and
passed through the mouth into the
brain.
WHILE climbing over a fence, with
gun in hand, Thomas Green, farmer,
of Huron county, Mich, shot himself in
the breast, and died almost instantly.
ALTHOUGH Charles E. Tours, of Siam
ford, Ct, did not intend to snake
game" of his friend, N. d. Jones, who
went with him on hunt, he did make
him quail" by filling his face and neck
with shot by the accidental discharge of
his gun.
JUST as Orange Noble, of WATERFOWL,
n. T., was aiming at a fox he slipped
over a log, and he now carries the shot
in his head, neck, and hands intended
for Reynard.
ROBERT WINToN, of Sac Greek, Mo-,
went turkey hunting on horseback. His
animal lunged while going through the
brush, he dropped his gun, and as it fell
it struck stump, and Winton lost his
life.
WHEN Benz. Shelter, Jr., of York
county, Pa, attempted to shoot the
coon he had loaded his gun so heavily
that the barrel left the stock, and one
of Shelters eyes is of no further use to
| him.
ENocH JOINS, of Dent county, Mo-,
became so excited while watching at
deer crossing that he blazed away at
Shuts dog and broke both bones in
Shuts ankle, who was following close
behind.
AS LEE Houston, of Calhoun, KY,
was watching game of baseball on
returning from hunt, he was "put out"
on foul. The ball struck the hammer
of his gun, and his friends buried him
few days afterward.
w. II. HoGLE, of Malone, N. Y, while
hunting took chill, hastily started a
fire and thought to add little powder.
As he poured the powder from the flask
it burst in his hands, and Malone resi-
dents can hardly recognize him.
IT was hardly sunrise, and John Jess
had only shot one muskrat on Salem
creek, n. j., when in drawing the gun
toward him it was discharged prema-
turely, and he was terribly mutilated.
Before 10 o'clock his wife was widow
and the children fatherless.
N. b. BLoN, Jr., of Paris, KY, put
thirty nine loaded cartridges in belt
about his waist. He fell overheard
from his canoe, and the weight of the
cartridge belt held him, head foremost,
down, while his boots stuck above the
surface, the water icing five feet deep.
The appearance of the boots attracted
parties in the vicinity, who hurried to
the rescue.
Nor particle Of the face above the
mouth of Ernest Cheron remains. He
was cunning for ducks in the Great
South bay. After firing at flock OF
ducks he attempted to reload with the