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Show KILLED BY A STEEL PEN. -- Several German papers announce the death of Herr Franz Motz, parish priest at Pa????, in Styria, from a wound caused by a steel pen. He had a careless habit of leaving his pens in the inkstand with the point sticking upwards. In replacing a book on his writing-table near the inkstand, he inadvertently struck with the palm of his hand a rusty pen thus sticking upward. The hand was slightly wounded, but it seemed so insignificant an affair that he took no heed. Next day, however, he felt seriously ill, and the doctor declared it was a case of blood poisoning. On the third day the hand and arm were terribly swollen, as high up as the shoulder, and, after suffering great pain during eight weeks, he died. |