Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-08-28
ODD ACCIDENTS
mr. Rand's Flight from Home Ints the
River and Osher HAppening~.


River and Other Happenings.
They may have been due to the eccen-
tricities Of the season or merely to the
wanton malevolence OF luck, but not o
few extraordinary accidents have oc-
Cured in Connecticut within n day or
two. Some Of the casualties were at
tended with odd circumstances.
William Rand, of Groton. got out of
bed In the NEST matter of fact way at
his home the other morning and STUN
bled into the kitchen to build the kitchen
tire as usual. He went in to touch it off
with naptha fluid, a method he had used
9 hundred times before. lie remembers
now that he had the naptha can in one
hand and was slowly tipping it to let the
tluid trickle into the stove. There may
have been a live coal in the kitchen
stove, or the naptha may have been an
unusually wicked kind of fluid; at least
the next thing he knew with any lucid
ity was that one or two of his ncighbors
were pulling him out Of the Thames
river.
As tho roof Of Mr.. Rand's dwelling
had been raised some inches at the time
of his quitting his home, so that he was
not obliged to be fired squarely through
it, aud as he found himself suddenly in
the river, distant several rods from his
house, and as he recollects nothing about
going to the river in any way except by
dlrn parabolic curve, tits reasonable to
! INFER. he thinks, that the naphtha can
exploded. He was very dangerously
hurt.
: Homer Willis, l2-year- old whitman
I tic lad, was lounsing along the road ia
a school day or two ago when he found
5 an odd looking shell by the wayside, and
. he picked 1t up. lie scrutinized it close
, ly, and his curiosity was excited. liz
= didn't know but 1t might be new kind
0 OF tropical nut. So he laid it down ON q
8 rock, and, getting stone, whacked tn,
+ shell several times with great force
! Then suddenly the air turned black, tn,
z queer nut mysteriously disappeared. an,
: a moment later, WHOM Homer had re
@ gained his right ntin. ne found himsel
J on his back in the road. He discovere,
. that couple of queer round holes ha,
. been bored through his upper lip Tn
4 surgeon who dressed the boys wound
. said he guessed the odd nu: was dyna
h mite cartridge. and that il had belonge,
= to Willimantio sewer men at work OF
4 Valley street
0 man was sauntering along Maii
' street, In Hartford. the other day carry
{ ing a long ladder on his shoulder, an,
from the rounds of the ladder dangled |
3 paint pot and several crooked stee
hooks. Right behind the painter cam,
: William Harper, who lives ON Pleasant
= street, who was walking quickly and un
' guardedly, for he was going home /,
: dinner. The rear end of the ladder wa
r not six inches from Mr. Harper's nose
. and in this queer procession the painte
o and the other man strolled on for abou
: a block at the same gait. Then sudden
+ ly the painter stopped to examine
4 bargain in wool undershirts" in an ad
/ joining shop window. that were sellini
Q for fifty ceuts less than cost" but Will
& lam Harper neglected To stop voluntarily
i Instead, lhe ladder punched him a foo
, into the air clear Of the sidewalk an,
8 flung him down on the sidewalk with
r smashed jaw and banged and bleedin,
, eye.
AHe Hldu Win ine nu1er squared
around In astonishmeni and awe anc
then helped Mr.. Harper into the drug
I store of DIR. Root. who plastered anC
. fixed up his wounds, and Harper wa,
: taken home in hack. Tie painter saw
: he fails to see how he Is responsible fol-
. the mishap Of n man who pitched into
, his ladder and was squarely knocked
, out
D John WEIGH, of Portland. met a SINH
. lar mischance, except that he was wal
4 loped by wheelbarrow instead Of a Lad
4 der, and it was his own barrow, too. III,
Q was wheeling the barrow through hi
; hardware shop when he stumbled. anc
then in a swift and unaccountable wa,
. he got mixed up with the barrow, anC
I before he could separate himself from
/ the legs and wheels and irons OF the mn
chine it had thrown him and broken hi.
arm. The fracture was very bad one,
and he will not be able to do business
; with a wheelbarrow again for several
, months. s.-Norwich Conn Letter In New
, York Sun.