The Newtown bee., 1880-01-07
PeriIs OF Winter Sports.

Daniel Cole. Of Forest, Mich, carries
the ball from his rifle in his left shout
der.
Near Newton, Kansas, a boy named
Einbeck, while hunting, shot and
killed his brother.
Little Tan Beers, six years of age, of
Noble county, Ind, has both arms in
splints. He fell off his sled.
Careless handling of JEFF. Alleys gun
cost Coleman Wood his life. He was
fifteen and belonged in Macon, Ga.
Nobody knows how Joseph Smith
shot and killed James Lindsey, of New
Straitsville, Ohio. They were hunting
Charles Lyman, aged fourteen, of
Greenville, H., while hunting, lost his
lite by the accidental discl arge of his
gun.
A schoolboy named Harry Reese, of
Allegheny county, Pa, while hunting,
bad an arm shattered, and bled to
death.
While sitting on fence, George Jack
son, of Jefferson Township, Ind, let his
gun fall. and he is now busy picking
the shot from his arm.
George King, of st. John, Mich,
went hunting and was shot and killed
by a twelve-year-old boy, who claims
he mistook him for 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.
B. F. Talmage, of Leslie, Mich, not
returning from the hunt at nightfall, a
search revealed his dead body lying
across log, and a ruined gun.
The breech-pin OF young Wiley's gun,
of Rushville, Ind, went entirely through
his head and took his life. In his anx-
iety to kill he had overloaded.
While hunting, Walter Shaw, aged
fifteen, of Paris, KY, fell on a stubble,
which passed through his groin into the
bowels. His injuries are serious.
The whole charge of young Smith s
gun, of gainesville, Ohio, entered his
head directly under his lower jaw and
passed through the mouth into the
brain.
While climbing over fence with gun
in hand, Thomas Green, q farmer OF
Lake Huron county, Mich, shot him.
self in the breast and died almost in
stantly.
just as Orange Noble, of Watertow n,
n. Y, was aiming at a fox, he slipped
over a log, and he now carries the shot
in his head, neck and hands intend ed
for Reynard.
Lewis Barr, of Pleasant Grove, Pa
is not yet twenty-one, but carries
twenty-one wounds from shot poured
into his body that his parent intended
for pheasant.
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 Benjamin Shelter, of York
county, Pa, attempted to shoot the
coon, he had loaded his gun SO heavily
that the barrel lett the stock, and one OF
Shelters eyes is of no further use to
him.
Enoch Johns, of Dent county, Mo-,
became so excited while watching at a
deer crossing that he blazed away at
Shults's dog and broke both bones in
Shults's ANGLE, who was following close
behind.
AS Lee Houston, of Calhoun, KY, was
watching a game of baseball on return
ing from hunt, he was put OUT on a
toul. The ball struck the hammer oil
his gun, and his friends buried him a
few days after.
1t 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 prem
aturely, and he was terribly mutilated.
Before ten O'Clock his wife was widow
and the child fatherless.
N. B. Blon, Jr., of Paris, KY, put
thirty nine loaded cartridges in 81 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 being five feet deep.
The appearance of the boots attracted
parties in the vicinity, who hurried tc
the rescue.