From the August 22, 1895 New York Times:

“Camden, N.J.–Charles Atkinson, aged eight years, is in the Cooper Hospital, his eyes being nearly burned out with acid. One eye is very badly eaten. Frank Schuck, a clerk in Shuster’s grocery, is under bail, awaiting the action of the court, charged with having inflicted young Atkinson’s injuries.

Young Atkinson went into Shuster’s store to make some purchases. The boy was waited on by Schuck, and he and Atkinson started fooling. Schuck, in a joke, picked up a glass containing what he supposed to be water, and threw it into young Atkinson’s face. It turned out to be acid that was in the glass.”