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Peter Klasser, of Waukesha. Wisconsin, I killed himself by drinking whisky that had stood in a copper kettle several days, at Plum i creek, last week. He died in half an hour, | and a man who drank with him died in an : hour, and his wife, who drank but little, came near dying. \