The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-04-08

+ nourh money has been raised TO purchase
n brary of 2,OJO volumes for the Printers
Home at Colorado Springs.
During the first three months OF this year
the Molic Gibson pad dividends TO the
amount Of s450, coo, which Is more than any
Other mine In the country did.
John Spellacy was instantly killed at Dem
yer few days ago by being crushed with
falling earth. He was undermining an en-
bankmcnt, when 1t fell upon him, killing him
instantly.
The state superintendent of public Instruc
ton Is preparing To irsue circular explain
ing the free kindergarten law passed by the
legislature. This is in answer to multitude
of inquiries coming from all over the coun-
try.
The boiler at a saw mill near the town OF
Rye exp odcd on the Goth with fearful effect.
The engineer. Charles Langrcnme. was blown
200 feet and killed. J. NJ. Hardin was badly
and Louis Murphy slightly injured. The
mill is total wreck.
A ccordrg to the new election law, II yon
fail to vote In places where there is per na-
nent registration, your name Is stricken from
the official register lists, and you have to
give good and sufficient cause and go through
a lot Of form and red tape before you can be
again legal voter in good standing.
olivlo Bonvlcino, an Italian miner en-
ploycd In the Mary Mile niue at Black Hawk
met with an accident Wednesday morning.
which Is considered necessarily fatal. lie WAS
working near the shaft, which Ia sunk from
The tunnel level, when he lo-t his foothold
and was p;ecipltated to the bottom,a distance
of 100 feet.
John Noas zone. an Austrian miner working
on contract In the Running Lode mine, Hck
Hawk, WAS Instantly killed Mt late hour
tuesday night by premature explosion OF
giant powder while charging hole. He was
alone in the delft when the accident occurred,
and when found the back OF his head was torn
OIL by the terrible conclusion.
At 9 O'Clock Friday afternoon gang Of
ten Mexican while at work at The snow
| sheds on the Siiverton branch OF the Rio
| Graude, eight miles from that camp, were
suddenly overwhelmed by a snowslde, which
! covered the track for thirty feet. Three men
| were slightly injured and two killed, being
| buried beneath an avalanche Of compact
| snow over twenty feet deep.
Andrew r. Reyuold.. "a i4-year.old son OF A.
| J. Reynolds. of the Carolin. Mining Com
! pauy, OF Ouray, fell 500 feet down = steep
mountain adjoining town on the west Friday,
| and now lies in a very critical condition. His
| ekull is fractured and he Is terribly bruised
| on every portion OF his body. The fall was
| almost perpendicular. and II Is the greatest
| wonder how anything mortal could survive It,
+! A deep snow drift alone saved him from In
| slant death.
| At Denver on the 31st William Nesbltt
fatally shot Mrs. Elizabeth Irwin In her bed
room at 24A LArimer street. Nesbitt firci at
his victim four times and three of the bullet.
lodged in her body. He 10 IS years old and /.
| gray-headed and gray-bearded. His victim
Mrs. Irwin is 40. The shooting was unques
tiouably premedItated affair. The troubl,
of which It 10 the result arose out Of law
suit in which Mrs.. Irwin wss plaintiff and
Nesbitt defendant. IL was settled in tn.
county court that day In Mrs.. Irvine favor
and chagrln At being worsted aroused tht
worst passions In the name nature, aat
prompted him TO take the life Of the woman
whom he considered had got the better Of him
The facts arc that he had cheated her in