Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-07
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Little Robert Howard. Of Honz.o,
Ga, mis.ook MS brothers foo. fo-
iaoois ana snos away three OF his toes.
a friend Of Calvin Huat. of Charles
to"n, W. a., was loading e Gun whsu
/ ]. went OF. and ths ball and rgrnrod
went through Hunts body.
James Fortune, Ii Years of age. n
frairIevlile, Mo-, cnt down a boIjov
Tree wnlcn contained rabbit. The fall
oI the tree crushed his own skull.
son Of J. G. Hoffman. of BsIieyuie
Ill, ran IL front OF gun lust as An EN-.
pioyee named Matthias was abort Ia
sioot a n9ck of pigeons. He was in
SANITY killed.
Noah II. Dreunon, OF Eazleton. lad.
"hie ont hunting wi:h party of
taeiids, accidentally stepped within
range IS one o; the company fred. One
eye vas destroyed.
Stuar. Humber and Harrison Brown.
OF Lane ister, KY, Is years old. were ort
hunting. each armed with an old mus
xel. Brown accidentally shot away
Numbers ear.
john Rountree, of Perry. Ga, was
trying out III tue woods TO uncaD 2
brass shell of bEeech. loading shotgun.
when Il exploded, and his righ. hand
was iacerated.
Johu hirtman, OF Eau Claire, Wis,
went hunting on November Sth, and he
mas not since been seen. 1t Is supposed
be got lost and was frozen in the woods.
tie had wife and four children.
George Husselmaa and his brother
Thomas, of Litchiield, Ill, attempted
to crawl through hedge, one ahead of
the other. The trigger of Georges gun
caught on twig, and Thomas was
killed.
Az Mathew Nixon returned in a boat
from hunt on the Wateroe riye-. near
Eastoyer, ). c., he held his gun out bv
the m5zzle to bs drawn ashore bySohn
Middleton. Tire gun was DISCHARGED
and Nixon fell dead.
Two Hannibal, Mo-. boys saw rab-
bit III brash pile. They started him
out, and one of them fired hastily at
him. 4 part Of the shot killed the rab-
bit and the rest entered the other bows
face, disiigurins him fer life.
George Hazel, of jackson, Pa, went
turkey hunting He did not return.
the woods with bullet hole in the
heart, although his gun that stood
against tree was loaded.
Charles Wright, of Boonviile, Mo-,
hid himself under shock OF corn TO
get snot at some geese. AS he was
drawing his gun toward him by the
muzzle it was discharged. and the load
entered his neck and killed him.
As they flushed covey OF birds. John
Longs treet, of Gainesville, Ga. grabbed
George Birds gun and fired. At the
same time Bird jerked Longstreet's
gun from his shoulder. One barrel was
discharged, the contents entering Birds
right temple. He was killed instantly.
John Auxier. of Madison, Ind, who
sat with the rifle he was about to clean
resting across his knees. carelessiy
pulled the trigger. 10 his surprise
there was discharge, and the gun
wip9r that was III the barrel tore through
door and killed his grandson, years
old, who WAS playing outside.
James Roberts aud William Capps of
Chunchuia. Ala, started u deer. Capps
got the first shot and missed the mark.
The deer then ran la sight of alr. Rob
erts, and the intervening underground
hiding AIR. Capps, who was in direct
range between Roberts and the deer,
the latter fired. The deer fell. Roberts
ran up and was on his knees in the act
of cutting the deer's throat when Capps
walked up. Roberts said to him, swell.
Will, I've got him" "Yes," replied
Capps, land you've got me, too" Rob
erts then saw blood trickl.ng from
wound Just under his left eye. my
God. VIII - he cried, "have / eaot
you? Are you hit anywhere else ~
Cappa replied, Yes, here in the left
side" after this be tnrned upon his
heel and Yell head first down the hill
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