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Show An Einma Miner Killed, About two weeks ago a strangely acting young man named H. B. Xey-ser, Xey-ser, went from this city to Cottenwood and hired to work in tbe Emma mine. Since that timo he has been very quiet, scarcely being sociable with his fellow miners. In going in and out of the mine he usually walked walk-ed alone, and frequently ho would enter or go out through some other passage than the one generally used. By hisabsen-tmindedness he attracted the attention of the other miners, but they attributed it to homesickness, as Keyset' told them it was his first absence ab-sence from home and relatives. On going to work yesterday morning Keyser left the others and it is thought attempted lo enter by way of an old shall through which timber is taken into the mine; but whether he started down the Bhaft purposely or fell down it is not known. In a few minutes after he was last seen above ground, he was found on the fourth level of the mine, limp and dying. Ho must have fallen a distance of about 275 feet. He wosimmcdiately carried to the surface but did not sy,cak after the fall, and died in a few minutes. He was from Franklin Grove, Illinois, Illi-nois, where he stated his relatives now reside. 1 Since the above was in type, we have seen a letter from a gentleman at the mine which says that it was the engine Bhaft down which Keyser fell. He opened the door at the head of the bucket way and walked in before the men who were with him could pro-vent pro-vent tho rash act. The corpse will be brought to this city to-day, and will be buried from St. Mark's Hospital by the Emma Company. |