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Show HUNTING CASUALTIES ARE MUCH REDUCED Botii Deaths and Serious Injuries Show Decrease of 25 Par Cent for Year. CHICAGO.' Nov. .10. Hunting fatalities for the season of liJ17 were cut down to twenty-three known cases, as compared with eighty-six in 1916 and fifty-nine in 1915. according to figures -compiled by the Chicago Tribune. There were only eieven seriously injured th's year, as compared with fortv-one in 1916 and sixty-six in 1915. Michigan was the state that suffered the most, with eisrht of the twenty-three deaths and .seven injuries. The other deaths were: Illinois, five; Indiana, two; Iowa, two: Massachusetts, one: New Jersey, Jer-sey, two; Ohio, -cne; Wisconsin, one. Four persons were killed by hunters mistaking them for deer; four were killed accidentallv by om pardons and seven were killed by discharge of their own purs. One death was caused by a fall from a log. A twig penetrated the hunter's hunt-er's back and he died within a few davs. |