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Hltiefield New® Iicms.Bluefleld. W. V*a.. April lti - Special.—Must Becker was the victim ofa painful but not serious accidentyesterday afternoon while at targetpractice.- He had been using a gun.and when he picked up a pistol, he in some way got hi* midale finger in front of the rauttle. When he pulled the trigger a bullet paused over the fleshy part of his finger. * making a painful wound.Mr* Margaret Hailey died at j nonceverte. aged 05. Before her marriage to Mr. Daniel I*. Bailey she wa* Mia* Margaret Nlckell, a native nf Montgomery county. Mrs. Ballev had many friend* here. iLeonard Smith fell from the train a* It was entering Devon and sustained painful injuries. ;Walter. Cooper, a colored brake* man. had hi* foot caught and badly mashed between two draw heads at Cooper*.I.aura Hallev tried to commit «u-. Iclde by drinking carbolic add. The girl had been despondent, and her mother fearing suicide, kept a clow* watch ovtyr her. Somehow, eluding her mother's vigilance, she succeeded ill drinking the poison. A physician being summoned at once, she wuu soon out of danger.Karl Riley, formerly secretary of the Good Government Club, of this city, ha* returned to hi* home in Roanoke, after a brief visit here.Miss Lizzie Burleigh Ik on a visit to friends at Lynchburg.Mr*. Thornton Cofer and sister-left vegterdaj for a visit to Raleigh.X. C. IH. M. Heffner and Mrs. .Tennle Heffner left yesterday for a visit to ,Gaffney.
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Harrisonburg Evening News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, Apr 17, 1908
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