Show WICKED MlCUIEF Olio nOl Ignites firecracker In An ollursftctet With Hud lUtulia A Lads lltnil Cut FiLtMOHL July 7 1897 Small boy and gunpowder are not a success here Ou the Fourth a crowd of youngsters with tin cans and powder were making things Uy on Main street when a mlallo struck Alexander Trimble 14 years old cutting his hat and making an ugly wound lu the Voja forehead knocking him out completely Mr Joseph E Hay put lour stitches In tho wouuJ and Alex now thinks the Fourth of July Is not all Jut At Kinosh nay Hlanles eight years old made his lint luvot nol In firecrackers ou Monday An older and smart 7 boy seeing the twine fuss banging out of Jvijj pants pocket tououea fire lo its aud at the crackers began banging away 10 the oblld pockotue commenced jumping and screaming to the amusement 01 tucse who saw It not knowing Ibo nature ol the caper The llltlo fellow testing Ibo burning Jumped Into the creek near by and alter be Isndeu dripping wllb water on the Bldewalk his uncle Mr Owen Crane heard three more explosions lu his clothes Mr Charles Wbitnaer lashed forward and tore oil Ibo buys clothes which still had tire lu them Tbo boy had very bad lurne on the thigh nay is a bright Intelligent boy of I quiet deposition and the burn an J terrible ihock lo his nervous Bystem has broken him up badly and made the Jubilee year an eventlul time fur him A HlBD FILLMOKE July 71897 |