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Show A Child' Deadly Drink or Whiskey. PiTT8BtB3, Pa., Oot. 30. Brady Cunningham, Cun-ningham, a five-year-old child, is ly-.ing ly-.ing at the point of death at his parents' home, on Vetu street, Alio gheny. The little fellow's brain is par-alized par-alized from the effects of whiskey. Early this morning he found a bottle of whisky and proceeded to fill himself with the liquor. The mother was absent from the room at the time, and when she came down stairs she found the boy - lying" 6n the fioof fu a stupor. ' Beside him was the whisky bottles, entirely empty. Some of the liquor had spilled on the floor, and it was impossible to tell how much the child had taken.' A physician was called . in, ' ' and worked four hours wih the littlo fellow. He put a stomach pump in operation and drew from the child a pint of whiskey. - Still there was no improvement in bis condition. The doctor came to the conoluson that the brain had been paralized by the fearful fear-ful dose. A second physician was called call-ed in consultation, and coincided In the diagnosis. The child at a late hour this evening was thought to be beyond restoration. The mother is unable to account for the manner in which the little fellow got the liquor. He is supposed sup-posed to have been unconscious half an hour before found. |