On Friday of last week Mr. Daniel Dunn, an old man about 75 years old, living with Garret Joyce of Washington Lake [Minnesota], went into the field to burn some brush and while so doing his clothes caught fire, and although assisted by the daughter of Mr. Joyce, before the fire could be extinguished he was so badly burned that he died in a few minutes after being helped to the house. On arriving at the house he asked for bread and coffee, but before he had tasted them death intervened.  [April, 1878]

Culled from Coffee Made Her Insane