Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1889 — An Accident. [ARTICLE]

An Accident.

Mr. De Prig (of Boston In a Dakota Hold) —“Walter what caused the e* plosion just now at the other end of the dining-room? Was somebody shot 7“ Waiter —“Oh, no, sir. We don’t allow shooting in the dining-room. The cook was a little careless and let a car'tridge from his revolver fall in the soup, and the gent who was just carried out happened to crush It between hit teeth."

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