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Died. Daniel H. Hickey, 56, trainer of boxers (Robert Fitzsimmons, Paul Berlenbach, Mike McTigue, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson); of septic poisoning from an infected tooth; in Jackson Heights, N. Y. Sparring on the stage with Fitzsimmons, he accepted a knockout blow in the same place twice daily until, dazed, he asked Fitzsimmons to hit him on the other side of the head. Still dazed, he left the stage, died rich from managing Berlenbach...
Died. Facundo Bacardi, 40, vice president of famed Bacardi & Co.; of an accidentally inflicted bullet wound with pneumonia and septic complications; in Santiago, Cuba. The Bacardi distillery, founded by his grandfather, produces 25,000 gal. daily, has built a $50,000,000 fortune shared by three other grandsons...
...wriggly spirillum, the other a cigar-shaped bacillus. They take hold anywhere in the throat. Commonest sites of infection are gums and tonsils. "Trench mouth" refers primarily to the gum condition. The ulcers of this disease and the membranes which cover them are deceptive. They may resemble diphtheria, septic sore throat, syphilis. Bacteriological examination quickly differentiates the four diseases...
...Boston, Traffic Police Sergeant John P. M. Wolfe, in the line of duty, had survived being bitten by a cat, a dog, an intoxicated man. He bit his tongue, died of septic poisoning...
Died. Albert Henry Washburn, 64, retiring U. S. Minister to Austria; of septic poisoning from a scratched leg; in Rudolfina Sanitarium, Vienna, Austria...