Monday morning as Mr. Charles M. GRIFFITH was coming to town, his attention was arrested by a woman screaming at the top of her voice. He stopped to see what was the matter, and learned that Mrs. Branson YOUNTS had found her little boy in a large box of burning broom straw and had succeeded in rescuing him in a badly burned condition. The boy, who was about six years old, got some matches and after climbing into the box, set the broom straw on fire. Mr. GRIFFITH did not learn whether the injuries were fatal or not.

Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 19 February 1890.  Paper available at Google News Archive.