Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1892 — A Miserable Death. [ARTICLE]

A Miserable Death.

At the felling of an ancient hollow oak in a German forest, when the tree crashed to the ground it disclosed a human skeleton in excellent preservation. From his long boots, powder flask and other articles found ne appeared to have been a hunter, and It was concluded that the unfortunate man, in climbing the tree in fiupsuit of some wounded bird or anraal, had slipped into the hollow trunk, bad been unable to extrioate himself, and so haa perished miserably Of starvation in his ready prepared oak coffin. “ *