The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-07-08
Numerous Accidents Resulting From
Too Strenuous Patriotism.
One Young Man Held Giant Cracker
Muah Too Long.
Resulting in Loss of One Finger and
Part of Another.
Youngsters are Burned and Scorched
About Their Bodies.
From Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Mrs. John c. Watts, wife of the rural
mail carrier, was sitting in the buggy
with her nine months old child yesterday
afternoon, in the court back of the post
office, waiting for her husband, when the
horse became frightened 1t, was startl-
ed at firecrackers that some boys were
shooting close by, and she asked them
to desist, but they paid no attention to
her request. Another rural carrier drove
up and his horse also took fright, and
this caused Mrs. Watts horse to get
more nervous and it cramped the bug
gy SO much that Mrs. Watts and her
child were thrown out upon the brick
pavement. 1t was thought that the
child was dying when picked up and it
was carried into the residence of Mr.. O.
0. Pitcher and physician summoned,
but it soon revived and was apparent
ly uninjured, more than having the air
forced from its lungs by the fall. Mrs.
oSASO
Some one should have seen that the.
seats of the trousers of the, boys who
caused the accident did not escape in
jury.
While hammering quantity of gun
powder, together with half dozen
blank percussion cartridges into small
cannon improvised by himself, near his
home on Germania street, Frank Fleisch-
man, aged twenty-one years, received the
discharge of all the contents of the can
non into his left hand. The hand was
badly mangled, and several pieces of
shelf have been extracted by the attend
ing physician. Fleischman is now receiv-
ing treatment for lockjaw, as that dis
ease might develop from the accident.
Donald Brown of Minneapolis, the ten
year old boy, who has been visiting at
the home of Ed. Weaver, picked up q
Roman candle this morning from the
street, thinking that it would not go of
at all because it would not last night.
He lighted it again, when the thine fash
ed up, putting quantity of burning
powder into his face. His hair and eye
brows were singed and the face some
what burned.
Px,E fxuo IL
just picking up giant fire cracker in
the back yard of his home near the Tour
tellotte hospital yesterday morning,
fire cracker that he had lighted and
didn't explode soon enough to suit him,
thinking that it had gone out, when the
thing went off, in his left hand, tearing
away the fore finger and badly lacerat-
ing other portions of the hand.
Albert Baumann of North Mankato
was arrested last Saturday by Constable
Nixon on the charge of wife beating and
brought to the city station and locked
up. Later the matter was adjusted in
such way that Baumann was released
and not taken before the court.
Charles Anderson's little daughter was
accidentally thrown from swing at
Sibley park yesterday, and her left an
kle sprained.
A toy cannon exploding at an u#exrsct-
ed moment emptied quantity of burn
ing powder into the face of. William
Mayer.
Clara Ray, aged twenty two, was in
jured in the hand by the premature dis
charge of a fire cracker, yesterday.
An exploding cracker severely bruised
the eyes of the four year old son of
Henry Hupttl