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Show GIANT POWDER CAP. On Sunday evening Dr. Benedict had a case from Brighton. It appears that a small boy living in that settlement with his grandmother picked up a giant powder cap, which some person, criminally careless, had dropped on the road, and thinking it would make a good head for his pencil proceeded to clean the "rough stuff" out of the inside. The consequence was the cap exploded, blowing off part of three fingers and the thumb of the left hand, and injuring the right hand. The bone in some of the fingers was broken, so that the doctor found it necessary to amputate some of them close up against the hand.-Salt Lake Herald. |