Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08


without looking leaned backward and
fell from the window to the ground, a
distance of 80 feet. He was fatally in
jured.
AT Berea, Ohio, some workmen
were raising block of stone out of 3
quarry by means of derrick. They
had gotten the stone in position to be
dropped, and let go the power, when
boy named Date Sabin, about II years
of age, got caught in the rope-spool, and
was dragged into the coil head fore
most. The stone, two tons in weight,
had just started, and nothing could pre-
vent the calamity. The spool whirled
Is times, wrapping the rope as many
times about the BOYS body, crushing
every bone except in one leg from the
knee down. The weight of the stone
was upon each coil, and of course, death
was caused instantly.
Suicidal: A woman about 60 years
of'age was put off the cars at Hillsburg,
Clinton County, Ind, because she could
not pay her fare. just as the train
started she threw herself under the cars
and her head was cut off instantly. Her
residence was not known, but her name
was thought to be Wells.-George Rob-
erts, aged %, of FredOnia, N. Y, had
engaged as principal of the high school
at MOntOur, Iowa, and was visiting some
friends at MarshalltOwn, in that State.
He had recently complained of pains in
his head, and remarked that he believed
he would some time go crazy. The
other morning he was found under a
cherry tree Just breathing his last, with
two cuts across his throat and razor
lying by his side. He was hard stud
ent and a young man of unusual intelli-
gence.
Shooting casualties: VIM. Hardy
was instantly killed by the accidental
discharge Of his gun, while hunting
near Detroit, Mich.-George Hitchcock
of WATERFOWL, N. Y, went out hunting
coons, and while he was climbing over
a fence his revolver was accidentally
discharged, killing him instantly.-At
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Frank Brooks,
aged II years, was accidentally shot and
instantly killed by q playmate named
George Rogers. They were fooling
with a gun and 'sdidn't know It
was loaded."-A son of Nathan
Hastings, a farmer living near Eaton
Rapids, Mich, started to go hunting.
His father forbade him, and some angry
words having passed between them, the
old man grabbed the gun from the boy
and attempted to smash il across log.
The weapon was discharged, the load
entering Hastings's abdomen, killing him
instantly.
Foreign Notes.
st. Paul's, London, was the scene of
a wedding on Sept. 9, for the first time
in 100 years. The parties were the Lady
Mayoress, the Lord Mayors daughter,
Miss White, and Cecil Price.
in the early part of 1910, Napoleon's
attention was drawn to the magnificent
diamonds worn by a certain lady; he
inquired who she was, and learned that
her husband was q tobacco manufacture
er. In the following November decree
appeared which announced that this
trade would in future be State monopO-
ly. 1t is so to-day. There are sixteen
factories
The Dowager Marchioness of Lo-
THAN, convert to the Roman Catholic
Church, who lately died, has left to the
officiating priest for the time being of
St. David's Chapel, Dalkeith, Scotland,
a gold locket, with the word "Rome"
engraved ON the back, containing q
relic of the true cross which formed
part of the relic of the true cross in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, in the time
of James ii.
The laying of subterranean tele-
graph wires continues with great activ-
ity in Germany. The line between Ber-
lin and Mayence was lately opened. and
the former city will soon be in subter-