Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-02-15
NEWS OF The WEST.
4 Widow Sues a Married nal for
500, 900 Damages.
MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED.
Rtaults OF an Explosion Of From 10 600
10 10000 Pounds Of Giant
Powder.
MOTHER AND CHILD DROWNED

Tho coronet's jury at Bulc, Mon,G-
ms, has fixed the blame fIt thC disaster
ut that point on the keuyon.COuntll
Commercial company and tue Butte
Hardware company. They lind that
from one to twonly tons Of dynamite
were stored In the warehouses;.
BOX Ling, Chiucse cook, giving Of
consumption In shauty a. Chluc-
town, nt MnryHvillr, Cal, lighted
lamp 20 tmoko opium, In como way
tue II imes iguited the cover. when
discovered tue bod was aiifu aud tho
famoa were making rapid hesdway ny
the walls. BOX Ling's body was 90
badly burned that hu died.
The Union Pacific train orcws I'm
Nebraska say that the recent weather
is the wofei known In the history o
the foit. The tnnd wnssimply tighuul
between Grand Island AMI koarnCy.
frequently the train was compelled 90
stop and the crew wns forced 20 got cat
aud W th Bhoyeis clear the t.acE u
sand That had driitod ulon 10.
Mn. Laura D. HuI, Of san Frauolt.
Co, want $4,000 damages from a 3.
EIgerley, % Fresno, and Tor cause of
action charger that that gentleman
toy od with her affections in "a most
ftrfrhuuBiblo muuuer Mt. Hull is
widow who halls r. m Stockton, and
the alleged pny L0thutlo 10 wealthy
fpaident OF Fresno, who ~ married
man and old enough 90 know hCtlUr
than TO be- guilty OF the naughty thiugs
which the lady chargea against him.
Monday afternoon J. jacobson, With
bis vile anu child, Ia q cart tried 20
ford Marsh creek, near stone House,
Cal The creek ia very high and the
wulur runs very rapidly. The horse
rot over HE depth Gud the current
over turned tue cart, throwing the &C.
Cupai g. Into tho water. Nit. jacobson
succeeded IN getting 30 shore, but bis
VIE and babe were swept nwry and
drowned. A searching party left here,
but at last report tho b0ulos had not
teen recovered.
Between rs. 900 and 10000 pounds OF
giant powder were exploited under a
hill south Of Sinuyan and west Of
Rlvoli avenue, few days ago, says
the San FranciaC0 Chronicle, Tor the
purpose OF getting material 20 fll IN
lots which arc below the official grade.
The blast, NJ fsr Ne tearing up the bill
was concerned, WAS a success. The
bill was almost turned inside out. Tho
SHOCK was felt for blocks around, and
in many houses new supply OF crock
cry will b. required. Dishes and
glassware were thrown from shelves
anu broken into bits on the iloorp. Tho
wntst sufferer by the blast l. j. Hen.
derson, He occupied a once tory cot
tagn on Rivnli avenue about 200 feet
south Of stsnynu street. His home was
nearly blown to pieces. The side Of
the house next 10 the nil was CONF
pletely torn away and the ceilings Ia
the rooms ami the roof were dialodgod.
That Mrs. Hcnderson escaped being
killed 10 marvellous. Two men were
tlightly injured.
Water Il. Ellsworth, Of Portland,
Ore, whose wife died suddenly Sum
day morning under suspicious circum-
stances, has been arrested charged with
having POISONED his wife with atTych.
nine. In the Intervals between con.
vulsione, lust before her death, Mr..
Ellsworth complained OF tho bitter
taste OF "A powder her husband had
given h6r, and Ellsw0ith stated to the
physlclAu that he had givun her some
corn starch to s0oihe her, hophysiclan
reported the circumstances 10 the cor
oucr and chief Of police, and it WIS
decided to hold an autopsy. ExauinG.
ton OF the Contunta Of the stomach
sh wed the presence VI slrychnine.
Before the clrlneT's jury, Ellsworth
protested his Innocence Of murder or
any knowledge Of tho cause Of his
wifo's death. The statements he had
made about tho matt n were proved 90
b. inlso by the physicians who nj.
tended his vito, and the Jury found
that death hal been caused by stTych-
niue poisoning.