Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-13

was overcome by the gas arising from the
oil. He was discovered lying in the bot
tom of the tank an hour later.
TwENTY-oNE deaths occurred in New
York, from diphtheria, within the twenty
four hours ending Jan. Z
2 WHILE sleighing at Havana, O., Mrs
| Zanistan Grace and Mrs. E. Ellis were
killed by a Baltimore and Ohio locomo.
tive.
AT Coalvile, Kan. the dress of Miss
Davis caught fire from an open crate, on
the 8th inst, and herself and her mother
were burned to death.
! MATTHEW CANNON, a foreman of a
packing house at Sabula, Iowa, got caught
on shaft on the Sth inst and was stripped
of his clothing and dropped dead to the
| floor.
Miss KATE CAMPBELL, of St. Joseph,
Mo-, and Miss Fannie Wood, OF Hamburg,
alive by their ball dresses taking fire from
stove, on the 4th inst.
FIVE members of the family of Samuel
krump, of Montclair, \. j., died of diph-
liberia in one week. 1t was found that
fetid gases permeated the sleeping apart
ments
WHILE engaged in dancing, at Addison,
Mich, a Mrs. Garfield fell to the floor, and
her hand was so lacerated by her hus-
bands bootheel that she died in twelve
| hours.
THE prairie in the region of Fort Rob
inson, Nebraska, is covered by frozen snow
to the depth of seven inches. Hundreds
of dead cattle can be seen along the banks
of the streams.
A FIRE at Lockport, n. Y, on the 7th
inst, destroyed the Hodge opera-house
and the Gargling Oil building, the loss be-
ing $150,000 In the latter structure there
were the postoffice, internal revenue and
telegraph offices.
On the 9th inst. child was almost roast
ed alive in small room in tenement
house in st. Louis, and babe of two
months was rescued from burning cradle
by the firemen. The mother states that
she had left them but a few minutes be-
fore on a visit to a pawn shop with faded
shawl.
THE newest monopoly is a match syndi-
cate, with a capital of $2,500,000, and
headquarters at New Haven, Conn. Ten
large factories have been consolidated,
with the intention of controlling the
American market. They pay the govern
ment S3, 100000 per annum for stamps
PRINCE HANNIBAL, the son of an African
king, was frozen to death in the recent
storm at Warrenton, Va. He owned slaves
before the-war, and retained them after
its close. His devotion to the south caused
his Imprisonment for some months in the
old capitol at Washington.
A BOILER in the big pudding mill of
the Allentown, Penn, rolling mill ex-
plOded on the Sth inst. damaging the mill
to the extent of $4,000, and instantly kill
ing John Shak, aged 4S. and fatally wound
ing Hugh Gallagher, aged %, Hugh Har-
rington, II, Patrick McGee, Is, James
Roarity, Is, and Charles McClosky, IS.
The following persons were bodily injur-
ed Sam1 Burges, aged 26. Jas. Harkins.
%, John Harkins, 13, VIM. Gibbons and
JAS. -, boy. The boiler, which was
forty feet long and three feet in diameter,
was rent in the middle in two pieces.
A TELEGRAM from Sioux City, Jan. 9TH,
says: A shocking accident occurred on
the line of the Sioux City and Omaha di-
vision of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Omaha railroad. by which six men
were killed outright. and the seventh lost
a leg. The men were engaged in a cut,
north of Bancroft, shoveling snow. The
working train, anticipating the coming
south bound passenger, had side-tracked,
and the men, II in all, stepped from the
track to allow the passenger to pass. Some
trouble getting through had been expert
enced the day before, and in approaching
the cut, which is a long one, and on a
curve, had put on steam and rushed in
The train consisted of "a locomotive and
tender, two box cars and one passenger car
The train, with the exception of the latter
car passed the men in safety, but the step
of the passenger car caught them and
moved them down like grass under the
wheels; only four escaped without serious
injury. The names of the killed are:
Chas. Meirs, Thos. Broughman, w. P.
Swanson, G. A. Herman, OIney Anderson,
and John Erickson, The name of the
wounded man is Jno. Adolain The men
all lived at Oakland, Neb., to which poitn
the bodies were conveyed.