CURIOUS CASUALTIES.
Strange mischances with fatal resulta are daily happening here and there. A Boston butcher ran against a knife that lay on a block, savered an artery and bled to death. A Denver woman caught her foot in a railway frog, and conld not get loose befor _ a train r_n over her. A Vermont farmer sneezed with a straw in his mouth, drew it into his lungs and died choking. A horse kicked a Michigan boy into a deep well where he was drowned. The shoe flew off the foot of a kicking mule, in Nashville, and fractured the skull of a baby. An Oregon girl swallowed her engagement ring, and lived only a week afterward. While standing on his head on the top of a high fence post, an lowa boy lost hia balauce, fell into a tub cf hot water, and was fatally scalded. A stoae thrown by a playfellow broke a glass from which a St Louis boy was drinking, drivio* some of the pieces down his throat, and he died a few days afterwards in great agony. Looking up to watch the flight of an arrow, a Nashville woman did not see it descending directly over her head, and the sharp metal penetrated her brain through one of her eyes killing her instantly.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 204, 27 August 1879, Page 6
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