Good Old Days: Nov. 29, 2018

8 years ago

The Commoner, Nov. 17, 1893

The threshing firm of Skeels & Wiley of Palouse city is blamed for unnatural treatment of an employee by neglecting attentions to a wounded employee, and thereby perhaps causing the loss of a life. The firm was engaged in threshing near Colton, when one of the employees, named James Mott, was accidentally struck in the abdomen by a doubletree. Internal injuries were thus produced. Little attention was paid to the unfortunate fellow by his employers, although his sufferings were intense. He was allowed to remain for several hours alone on a pile of stra...