Abbreviations used
Date March 11 1867
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Morning News
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
The 'Telegraph' reports that the only child of Howard STEEVES of Hillsborough (Albert Co.) a little girl aged 2 1/2 years was so badly burned on Thursday that she died in the afternoon. Her clothes caught fire during her mother's absence from the room for a few minutes.