Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-03-30


charge of gun with which he and some
other boys were playing, not knowing it
was loaded.-Near Cumberland, Ind, a
young lady named Meyers was seriously
wounded in the eye By the accidental
discharge of pistol while trying in 3
jOcular way TO wrench it from
the hands of a young school-teacher
boarding at her home.-At Whitewater,
Wis, a young man named Henry Deu-
ter was shot through the heart by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun while hunt
ing.-At st. Louis, Mo, Oscar Marshall,
picked up pistol which he supposed to
be unloaded, and going up behind his
step-sister, Henrietta, aged Il, who was
reading, he snapped the pistol close to
her ear in order TO brighten her. A ball
penetrated her brain, killing her almost
instantly. They were children of a
well-to-do and intelligent colored family.
John Louder, aged 60, wealthy
and respected farmer of Lafayette Town
ship, Allen County, Ind, hanged him.
self in his barn. Ill health and general
depression of spirits were the only known
causes of the suicide.-Andrew Shorts,
aged 81, a well known farmer of Mont
gomery County, Ind, loaded his rifle,
fastened a string to the trigger, placed
the gun through crack of the fence,
with his head against the muzzle, and
deliberately pulled the trigger, blowing
his brains out. The supposed cause was
mental arrangement from long contin-
ued i'll health.-Mrs. Andrew Kaiser,
no 30 Of al
and lady of high social standing, of
Burlington, Iowa, committed suicide
by taking morphine. Cause, jeal-
Ousy.-Charles Guthell, young
man of Houghton, Mich, drowned
himself, as is supposed, on account of
domestic troubles.-Henry Nasten-
brook, a farmer in Vergennes Township,
Kent County, Mich, was defeated in a
lawsuit, and, crazed with anger, took a
shotgun and went in pursuit of the man
who sued him. Not finding him, he
placed the muzzle of the gun against his
own head, and blew his brains out.-P.
+. Vanarden, First Sergeant Co. f, It'll
Infantry, stationed at Camp Baker,
Montana, shot himself with needle
gun; cause unknown. The deceased
was said to be the son Of the Countess
Vanarden Dement,, of Hague, Holland.
Charles Alderman, aged IL, of Green
point, n. Y, was threatened with
logging for some trivial offense, which
SO mortified him that he went and bor-
rowed a revolver and shot himself
through the abdomen.
Foreign Notes.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, little
daughter of Joseph Brown was scalded
to death by falling into tub of hot
water.
Mr.. Gladstone was hustled in Fleet
Street the other day, by mob, who
cried out: "Traitor! Traitor!" The
ex-Premier of Great Britain sought re-
fuge in Coutts's bank.
Plus IN had curious habit of writ
ing the clauses of his will on separate
sheets of paper, just as an idea struck
him. These sheets, eleven in number,
we're attached to each other by q silk
thread.
The italian peasants believe that
soon the Pope and King are to be one;
there is a prophecy to that effect. To
this end they believe that Prince Anna
dec is to become priest, be elevated to
the Papacy, and succeed to the Crown
by the death of his brothers and his
next heirs.
The Peabody Fund Trustees in Eng
land, in their thirteenth annual report,
state that during the past year they have
received an anonymous donation ex-
ceeding $4,000. They have purchased
more property and have just completed
another set of dwellings.
-Gortschakoff, the real ruler of Rus
STA, is so years old; Bismarck, of Ger
mary, is GO; Marshal MacAiahon, the
President of France, is nearly 20, and
Dufaure, the present head of the French
ministry, 70. Lord Beaconsfeld, Prime
Minister of England, is in his seventy