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HE DRANKTHE POISONA GUST FLOOJBS THOSE WHO THY TO RESTRAIN HIM AND TIIES SWALLOWS CAH* BOLIC ACID.ALTON, 111., Feb. 1.—With a bottle of carbolic acid in one hand, Daniel Burnett, an Alton, 111., giant, battled with a crowd in a saloon Saturday night When he had vanquished all his opponents the desperate'. man stood in the midst of his prostrate foes and drank the poison. • He died three*hours later.Burnett was more than 6 feet tall and was known as the strongest, man In the city. Saturday he had some trouble at home and toward sundown, went to the saloon on Union a^eiihe conducted by -Sunderland.Brothers.. — w '.V \s
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Quincy Journal

Quincy, Illinois, US

Tue, Feb 01, 1910

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