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It Gets the Garden Hose in Its Mouth and the Water is Turned On.
Yesterday afternoon at Beaver Falls quite a serious accident happened to the little 3-year-old son of Theopilus Balderstone, of Ninth avenue.
The child, with a brother a few years older, was playing in the yard with the garden hose. While the water was turned off the youngest child stuck the nozzle in its mouth and part way down its dear little throat. At this juncture the older boy, unconscious of the perilous situation of his brother, turned on the water.
The full force of the stream poured down the throat of the kid with the nozzle in his mouth until he swelled up like a toad and his eyes stood away out on his cheeks. He tried to scream, but the water drowned his voice, and all the efforts to rid himself of the hose were unavailing. The pressure was fearful, and it was a question which would burst first - the darling child or the hose.
Matters were at a crisis when some men passing, seeing the child's peril, ran into the yard and turned off the water.
A doctor was called in and emptied the boy of the water that was in him, and this morning he is all right again. The doctor says he thinks the pressure on the boy was fully 150 pounds to the square inch.
Beaver Falls Visited Last Night by the Pesky Little Things in Great Numbers.
Owing to some unaccountable phenomenon Beaver Falls was paid a visit last night by myriads of biting, stinging little gnats and everybody was scratching and rubbing, owing to the strange visitation.
It began early in the evening, and the locality most infested was Seventh avenue from Fourth to Seventeenth street. In some localities along that thoroughfare the little insects seemed to be thicker than in others. The drug stores and restaurants appeared to have the greatest numbers of the visitors, although the stores and offices of all kinds had their share, also private houses, while pedestrians on the open street were greatly annoyed.
It is said that at the engine house corner the insects were so thick and so fierce in their attacks that they cleared the corner of loafers, a thing the police have even failed to do.
By 10 o'clock, however, it is said the insects had taken their departure, but for several hours previous, they were a source of great annoyance to everybody.
Considerable complaint is being made by people who have to pick up anywhere from one to a dozen bills out of their yards everyday. It is getting to be a nuisance, they say.
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There is the promise of a rich musical treat in the way of an organ recital to be given along the first of May in the First Baptist church. Mrs. Flavia D. Porter, of Franklin, will assist.
Those who took part in the cantata, "Heroes of '76," given in the interest of the Y.M.C.A. here and in Sewickley, are talking of giving the cantata in East Liverpool in the near future.
A number of our young folks expect to go to Pittsburg on the "Virginia," on Friday evening and return Saturday evening. This packet is one of the finest on the river. Fare for the round trip, $2.00.
Howard Barr, while going through some sort of gymnastic performances on top of the "Fish Market," a building near the post office, yesterday, fell from the roof, but received no further injuries than breaking a suspender.