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Show Queer Ways of Decomlng Dead. A circular Issuod by tho Travellers' lnsurnnco company tells of somo queer wnyB In which Its pollc holders hnvo met death. 11. F. Elbert, of Des Moines, la. drovo n pair of horscB that took fright and plunged Into a stream. Ills wagon overturned, pinned Mr. Klhert under water and ho was drowned. John II. Messier, of Wllkesbnrro Pa., while walking over n railroad crossing Btuhbcd his too and fell, fracturing his skull. Ho dtod five minutes later. Henry S. Potter, of New York, an ofllco doorman, when cutting bread cut hU thumb. Wood poisoning dcvolopcd and ho died In 13 days. Charles A. Hedmond, of Cincinnati, O., struck his too against n bedpost, Illood poisoning followed nnd ho died In 1G days. V. H. M. Ilarncs, mnnagcr of a do-toctlvo do-toctlvo agency In Seattle, was waiting to tnko a steamer when ho fell Into tho water and wns drowned. Patrick McOnrry, proporletor of o hollor works In Chlcngo, wns held up by highwaymen, who fractured his skull. Ho died thrco days after. |