Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-09
oUsrAyE ncaorR KILLS His WIFE
AND HIMSELF.
AcuArrrn or nonnons.
Murders. suiciis.. storm aud rirc.
S.lr.. Itc.

hAAANk AANlAAA NNNH y NAN anu 'AlAANANNN W NW
had been visiting there. a young
lady accompanied Ms. Gregg. On
Sunday, Ira johnson, noighbof,
called on the way home from church
aud accepted an Invitation TO dinner.
Eight persons sat down 70 The table.
soon after dinner they nil became VIC.
/ lently ili, exhibiting all the symptoms
OF poisoning. Shortly nferward q yer.
want, who mad In the meantime eaten
4 dinner, became ~, showing the same
symptoms. Since then all grew stead.
| ny worse, AMI the recovery OF none
Of the victims Il expected. What tho
nature Of the poison was and how 1t
was admlnislufcd il unknown.
= uLooDy TRAGEDY.
LANA, o., Sent. s.-Thh morning
while James and Tom johnson were
running thfrshlng machine, u man
named Lewis cut johnson the hand.
| Although lac asserted that u was nn
accident, johnson struck him a terrible
| blow. Lewis fen directly under tue
| cylinder and was drawn into the ma
/ chine, his head and body being ground
70 pulp. Frank LOWS, his brother,
/ made dash with n pitchfotk, which
/ ho plunged Into Johus0n's bowels,
| killing hlm Instantly. Lewis has been
1 arrested.
4 POLICEMAN KILLS A MICRO.
CoLuMnus, o.. Sept. ,.--John Henry
| Webster. n tough negro, was shot aud
killed white resisting arrest this morn.
ing by Ollicet Feist after a running
hghl IN which the negro shot at the
O1lccr twice.
Kills ms WIFE.
TurrisA, Kan. Sept. s.-thiz morn.
| Ing Gustave Berger shot anu instantly
killed his wife aud then committed
suicide. The couple have been quar-.
roliug sincc Saturday over some rent
money paid 10 them. The wife asked
| the husband fof n dollar 20 buy some
clothing for onc VI her children, whore
up0n tile husband threatened 10 kill
her. She ran from the drawing room
10 the porch and lac followed, shooting
| her through the back. The murderer
wasa native VI Germany and had lived
here about six Year,. The couple had
been divorced and were remarked
about year ago.
\ NEgRD sKiNSED ALIVE AY 4 MOB.
sHRrsvEroRT, La, Sept. s,-News
was received here today OF horrible
outrage committed On the person VI n
young lady school teacher near Ar.
uadia. a few days ago the young
lady started for her home, two
miles distant, amy In lonely
place on the road was set upon hy
hurly negro, who dragged her Into
tho woods near by, tied her 10 tree
aud kept her there two days. When "a
searching party found her there on the
| evening o. the second day she told
them her story, telling thom 70 hide
near by ~ the negro would soon re-
| turn. In "a short time the negro ap.
prarod aud was captured. llo was
| irarlully tortured, baing akinnel alive
anl cut 10 pieces. His body was left 10
the buLlards.
a FEARFuL OAiE.
HALiFAN, Sept. s.--A fearful south.
castcriy gale prevailed In this region
last night, the storm raging with terri.
ble violence from 10 o'clocs until after
midnight Il must have been dlsast-
croustl shipping on the coast, as several
| g0oi.sizei vessels and a number Of
| small crafts were Dashed 10 pieces In
! this hatb0r and other damage was
done. Half Of tho inter.colonial rail-.
/ way BRUCE NcFGhs ti4u hhThoI NJ Tue
Narrows ma disappeared aud the grain
safe nj the lnteT-colonlal elevator was
carried away by a fierce wind. Trees
and fences were levelod In the city and
u large amount OF minor damage was
| done.
The cyclone struck the harbor from
the east aud swept along tho wharvcs
and through the city, tearing down
every loose aud insecure particle OF
property In its path.
| Advices from places outside or the
city show that the gale was severely
fell In all parts Of the province, but 20
far no serious damage Is reported. From
| Yarmouth 10 Cape Breton the coast
was swept anu Il Is probable that nu'
merous shipping casualties VIII be
heard of In a day or two.
a DISASTROUS FIRE.
New YOm;, Sept. s,--Thc ive.story
storage warehouse Of n. g. Layton, %
and - South street, burned today.
Five FIRE men were injured, two terl.
ously.