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Show I'sj ! ' Children Bine j-; on Carpet Tacks Ii! j, l Two Tots, Aged Two and Four Years, j ' Die in Terrible , j; j 'r ' Agony. J ' pIPTON, Ind., June 6. Bessie and , ' . ' I John Thompson, aged 2 and -j, 1 Jf respectively, children of Albert J 1 j' Thompson, a well-known resident i i Of Tipton, played "house." They found i . lot of shingles, nails and carpet tacks. 1 i imd after the fashion of lathers whom Li : t they had watched at work, they put j ' ( 1 'j some of the tacko In their mouths while Li i j, ihey drove others Into the pine wood. ' 1. 1' f The boy swallowed a mouthful of the l f tacks and then dared his slater to do 'j, likewise. She swallowed a mouthful, j ' f . too, and in ten minutes she was dead. Il 1 1 J, Some of the tacks lodged In her wind" .', ' pipe, and she suffocated. The boy ,, ,.') lingered several hours. Both died ln r'v u ' ,'iif terrible agony. |