Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-29
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SECRETARY STICKNEY, of the Ute COM
mission, has died at Los PinOs, of typhoid
fever.
CLAY SEXTON, chief of the ST. Louis fire
department. has been severely injured by
falling wall.
Mrs. NEsMITH, wife of lieutenant in
the navy and two children were drowned,
ut Atlantic City. on the Dist inst
GEORGE REYNOLDS of Vernon, Ohio, 10
years of age, was disembowled by a horse
rake, the horse running away. His iniur-
ies are fatal.
T. B. HAMMOND, of Meadville, Penn,
was instantly killed bv falling limb
while chopping timber, in Wayne town
ship.
THE business portion of Gibsonville,
Sierra county, California, on the oath
inst, was burned The loss is over $50
600
At state creek, Washington territory. a
tree fell on the cabin Of Andrew Erckin,
when a crosscut saw on hanging..a beam, fell,
cutting Erckin in two.
At Topsfeld, Mass, Lewis, aged 10, the
son of Albert Simonds, while bathing got
befond his depth, and his father going to
his rescue, both were drowned.
Times, was fatally injured by a fall from a
wagon on the 24th inst
A YOUNG man named Harry Hunter fell
from car of the Detroit and Bay City
train on which he was stealing ride, near
the junction. and died during the night of
his injuries.
FILLMORE, Patterson, & Hutton's large
store house, ut Denver Colo, with two
1 nd haln Of ha,- IL
freight cars was burned on the DIST inst
Loss, $1,000 to $4,000. An incendiarv set
the fame.
Press saws while Constable Powers was
crossing Red river with Mike Carroll, an
escaped prisoner, Carroll upset the boat
and both were drowned.
..TIIE residence of Cravton Kimbler, near
Shannondale Indiana, on the 27th inst >,
was totally destroyed by fire. 1t was the
work of incendiaries, as the family were
all away from the house; no insurance.
CHARLES CALKER, aged 20, attempted to
climb on a freight train at the crossing of
the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis and
Chicago and the Belt railroads. He fell
under wheel, which severed both arms
near the elbow.
JOSEPH WADDELToN an employe of the
Northwestern Railroad Company, lost his
footing while stepping from freight train
IN motion at Sterling, Ill. The left foot
was crushed by the car-wheels, ard the
llmb amputated above the ankle joint.
MoRRIsoN's saw-mill at Motley, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire on the 2lst inst
George johnson, head sawyer, was asleep
in the mill when it took fire, and was
burned to death. The loss on mill machin-
cry, and lumber amounts to $4,000. on
which there is no insurance.
WAI. KINGS, boy II years old, was al
most instantly killed at Michigan CITY.
Indiana, by being iammed between the
wheels of buggy and a railroad fence
near the car yards at that place The
team was frightened by a passing locomo-
tive. A little sister of the boy was serious
ly injured at the same time.
MARY ISABELLA, % years of age, daugh-
ter of Samuel McQuaid, residing atCold-
enham New York, attempted to light a
fire with kerosene, when the can OF oil ex-
ploded, and she was fatally burned, Her
father, a sister and a hired man also re-
ceived burns in their efforts to save her.
While enveloped in flames she ran wildly
about the house, which took fire in several
places.
SEVENTEEN lives were lost on the Detroit
RIVER, on the 26th inst, by collision be-
tween the propeller Garland and the steam
yacht Mamie. The former had an excur-
sion party from Detroit on board. and on