Front page of The Perth Courier, Friday, Aug. 2, 1912

An auto caused the team of horses owned by John Drummond of Toledo to run away on Monday, while he was returning from Smiths Falls with a load of grist. Mr. Drummond was thrown out and rendered unconscious for a time. The auto did not stop.

Thomas Cairns, carter, Smiths Falls, broke one of his legs on Monday. He was putting a load of freight on his wagon at the CPR shed when his horse gave a sudden start and threw him off the wagon. A bundle of lumber fell on him and when it was all over it was found that his left leg was broken at the ankle.

John Telford fell through a trap door in a hay loft and dislocated his shoulder. John Dittrick, in stepping off a street car in Montreal, was thrown to the ground and broke his shoulder bone.

Col. Balderson was acting crown attorney at an inquest in Smiths Falls this morning. The inquest was held to enquire (sic) into the cause of the death of a Hungarian who was killed in Smiths Falls on the 9^th of August of last year. The deceased man was jumping off a moving freight train when he fell under the wheels, and both legs were cut off. No inquest was held at the time and recently friends of deceased were making enquiries (sic) and sought the services of the Austrian consul at Montreal, who took the matter up with Attorney General Foy, who ordered the inquest. The body was exhumed and the jury found deceased came to his death through his own negligence.