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Rh Niles Centre, Ill.

Moving-picture actor has fatal fall from horse. Reported. Ag 18

North Beach, L. I.

Man killed under roller coaster. Je 23

Norwalk, O.

Six inmates of Huron Co. infirmary suffocated by carbonic acid gas. Mr 23

Ogdensburg, N. Y.

Bridge collapses; 2 killed. Many escape by jumping into river. My 18

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Tinfoil thrown by grandchild strikes blind minister's eye, hot applications restore sight. Reported. D 3

Opportunity, Wash.

Baby, bathed with alcohol, burned to death when fumes catch fire from lamp. N 12

Orange, N. J.

Woman, victim of sleeping disease, falls off rock in sudden sleep. Ag 18

Oxford, N. J.

Woman breaks jaw coughing. Jl 24

Paris, Tex.

Child dies of spider bite. Je 21

Passaic, N. J.

Boy buried in 25 tons of coal; rescued. S 4

Paterson, N. J.

Small stone from blasting kills man by cutting vein. O 11

Pavo, Ga.

Evangelist dies of hugging by excited converts. O 6

Pawnee, La.

Doorsill, charged by fallen wire, kills man. D 26

Pekin, Ill.

Caisson holds man in river bed 25 hours; dies after rescue. Ag 23

Philadelphia, Pa.

Bullet drives scarf pin into man's neck; kills him. N 16

Man dies of heart attack after laughing. Jl 26

Baby falls 3 stories into man's arms. Jl 29

Kittens turn gas jet, woman dies. D 6

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Snapping turtle kills $500 cat that fishes in aquarium. N 11

Ice carries electric current, kills man. Jl 26

Water tank falls through roof; 5 girls killed, many injured. Ag 7

Woman choked by false teeth. Ag 14

Magnet picks up man carrying steel plate, then drops him; man killed. D 16

Point Breeze, N. Y.

Pier breaks with 50; 3 dead. Jl 7

Water tank falls through building; 2 dead, many hurt. Ag 1

Lineman, shocked, revived after 3-minute stop of heart. Ag 25

Port Chester, N. Y.

Man kills friend with "unloaded" revolver. Je 16

Raleigh, N. C.

Buying wife's coffin, man is killed by collapse of casket display case. N 18

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Ravenna, O.

Shaving, man cuts vein and dies. D 10

Richmond, Va.

4 killed in cave-in. S 30

Ridgewood Junction, N. J.

Derrick falls through bridge; 9 hurt. Ag 14

Rochester, N. Y.

Floor of new building collapses, 4 hurt. D 2

St. Paul, Minn.

9-yr.-old Walter McCormick shot by playmates. Je 1

9 hurt by horse at fair. S 5

Poles roll off freight car, 1 laborer killed, 1 hurt. D 16

Salt Lake City.

Man sleeps on slag dump, 10 tons of molten waste bury him. D 10

San Francisco, Cal.

Fumes in distilling tank kill 1; 2 probably dying. Ag 20

Man kills friend for burglar. N 14

Dies of broken heart. D 7

Electric bath heater charges water, kills woman. D 27

Sandusky, O.

And. Ranft, 16, shoots brother, disappears. Je 8

Seattle, Wash.

Gangplank collapses at wharf; 2 drown, 40 injured. My 19

Sharon, Mass.

T: J. Leary, tree warden, blown to pieces. Stick of dynamite in pocket thought to be cause. My 5

Somerville, N. J.

Man wounded by bullet through window of fast train, near. D 27

Spartansburg, S. C.

Boy, 3, kills sister, 8, with gun. Reported. S 19

Spokane, Wash.

Cesspool caves in, burying man; rescued alive after 7 hours. Ap 6

Stamford, Ct.

Dr. W: Talmage, jr., shoots himself. F7

Stillwater, Okla.

Baby scalded to death in boiling corn. Jl 26

Terre Haute, Ind.

Match wounds man's eye, causing meningitis. Reported. Ag 30

Toledo, O.

Family of 5 asphyxiated. N 5

Valparaiso, Ind.

Scaffold breaks; 3 fatally hurt. O 15