Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-11-06
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Troy, New York, November 3-The wife
of Stephen May of Mechanicsville left her
house to-day, taking her four children with
her, and threw them into the creek, following
herself. The oldest child, aged nine years,
got ashore and raised the alarm, and the
mother and one child were rescued.
Two suicides are reported in San Francisco
Saturday. Mrs Annie Susanna Pope, by
strychnine; a German woman, who leaves
three children, cause grief at the loss of her
husband. The other, Patterson Crozier, a
plasterer, by cutting his throat. No cause.
A horrible affair at Wilton, Wis is thus re-
ported in the press dispatches: Mrs William
Van Voorhees,, woman with three young
children and about to become mother again,
had, after living unhappily with her husband
on the outskirts of the village, been deserted
and left desolate and Respondent She fire.
quently spoke of suicide to the neighbers, who
prevented her from purchasing poison. On
Thursday night, about clock, her dwelling
was discovered to be in flames, and when her
neighbors reached the house and burst in the
doors they proceeded to the bed room, where
a sickening spectacle met their eyes, The
mother, nearly naked, lay fiat down in the
bed, with the two youngest children at her
side. The hair, scalp and portion of the
arms were burned off of each, and the blazing
rafters from above were falling down upon
them. The body of the oldest boy, aged ten,
was found behind the bed room door, burned
to crisp. Blood was found spattered upon
the bed clothes and upon the mothers gar
ments. The appearances indicated that the
woman poisoned herself and the children and |
that life was extinct before the flames reached !
them. No marks of violence could be found |
upon the bodies, but the matter is being
rigidly investigated.
Rev. William II. Wickof, secretary of the
American Bible Union, dropped dead yester-
lay in his bath at his residence in Brooklyn
He was seventy years of age.
Boston, November Sc II. Haywood
lnown as the leader of the free lovers of this
State, has been arrested on a charge of circu-
ating obscene literature.
The Enterprise has been informed by John
Mckinney that from the LIST of July last
nt1 the LIST of the present month the water
4 Lake Tahoe fell thirty-two and half in
hes, which was the greatest reduction he
as ever seen in any four mounths since he
as lived there, which is since 1862 And
ct on the LIST of November, four years ago,
% lob on1 bolf i1obos |
IAN it is now.
Mr.. E. B. Washburne is about to bestow
work of art, bought in Paris, upon White
de county, Illinois. This is the portrait,
hief, Prophet, whose village once stood
Don the site of the present village of
rophetstOWn, named ia his honor. The pre- r.
ntation of the portrait is to be the occasion
great mass meeting, picnic, dinner,
asts, and many speeches by delighted b,
icials.
Chicken raising by machinery has reached
last and most glorious period-it even sup
es an artificial mother hen for the guileless
icken to brood under at night and fly to in
'ments of peril during the day. The by
omere is French invention, and strikingly !
embles real hen in all but one particular:
meath its downy breast, instead of warm "
art, there is only warm water. Thus, one af-
another, by the chicken Matching machine, c
the chicken-food- examining machine, and
v by the heartless hydromere, are the in
.opt ioyC Of cbiolar- hood al
Worcester, Mass, contributes a little girl {
ty, the 10-year old heroine of which is GER -
lily remarkable. Having stolen $50, cut
hair and put on boys clothing, she came OF
his city, where she remained three days,
then went to Boston, where she was ar 4
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