NEWBURG, N. Y., June 28.--Mary Wynkoop, colored, aged 80 years, has for some months past been confined to bed with paralysis. She was an inveterate smoker and was furnished with pipe and tobacco after meals. Last night her family looked after her as usual and left the room. When they returned they found the old woman so badly burned that she died at an early hour this morning. Sparks had fallen from her pipe and set fire to her clothing.

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Unknown, "An Old Woman Burned to Death," The New York Times, New York, Friday, 29 June 1888, p. 3.