Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-12
NEWS OF THE WEST.
AIR SHIPS DROVE HIM INSANE.
Law Against Splitting ON sidewalks
A Nan With n Rock In
His skull.

DeLa Mar, Nevada, Lode: Charles
c,o,mer. who 1t 10 said is chopping
wnod IN our hills, ID heir TO II large
sstste left him by the death Of his
father and mother IN the East.
A cult for $50, 900 damages has been
,pstituted by DR.. q. A. Stoddard
against the city OF Pueblo, Colorado.
lie claims to have been thrown from
buggy Us q result OF the dangerous
condition OF the streets.
Lswistou, Idaho. Tribune: II. G.
Dnnlap has been arrested st Laval on
the charge Of raping his two Uaugh-
teIs. aged Is and l o years. The same
marty was recently acquitted on the
charge OF rapiDg the daughter OF one
Of his neighpors.
The city board Of trustees OF Sacra-
mento, CAL, has passed an ordinance
against splitting ON the sidewalks, in
street ears, or any public place. The
mayor has sig ned the ordinance and
tue police have been Instructed to
rigidly enforce the law, which they In.
tend to do without fear or Iavor.
De La Mar, Nevada, Lode; b. f.
Bonnslli writes Sheriff FreuGentbai
from Rioville that the body oI an un.
known man has been found about
three and q hall miles up the Virgin
river, and that 1t was case OF SUI eide
from hanging with piece Of baltng
wire.
q, NJ. Mareski Of Oakland, Cal,
went to slesp after reading In
he'd by the light OF an oil lamp. He
awoke TO find the lamp overturned aud
the room ablaze. The department
was called out and extinguished the
blaze alter about $500 damage had been
uone.
Bennett Moyle, young man 25
years Of age, had o narrow escape
from death at the Randolph mine,
three miles west OF Grass Valley, Cal,
and, as 1t is, has uIslocated his aw
and his right ear IL 30 badly Iacerated
that IL hangs by mere shred. A
bucket was being hOisted from the shalt
when Moyle tpoked his head out OF
the DRIFT and 1t got osusht between the
bucket AMI timbers. Ii Is doubtful II
the ear can be saved.
Oscar Chase OF Victor, Colo, on
Wednesday was riding q h0rse up the
horse became frightened and ran away
in the direction Of steep cliff about
forty feet high, over which he plunged
with HE rider. The hovse was killed
and Chase sustained G broken Jaw,
had one Of bis ears torn of and was in
tefnally injured. He was not dis
severed for come time.
Mrs. Jennie NJ. Young lie lying at
her home at Berkeley, Cal, only
partly conscious, as the result oil con.
iusion on the back OF the head. How
the accident occurred no one know,
end the attending physician sayB that
even II the Injured woman Receivers
sufficiently to talk she may not know
what caused the blow. Her life hsnge
In the balance. She is supposed 10
have been struck by train as she was
found unconscious and bleeding near
the track.
Through long porting over marvellous
airship stories, James Lewis, an old
man past the three'soore mark, has
been ordered to the Highlands Insane
asylum at San Diego, Cal. He WAS
captured on the outtkirts of the city
violently insane, gibbering OF flying
and peering into the skies for the air.
ship that conveyed him from San
Diego to heaven. He said a ship came
down and took him aboard, landing
him at the peariy gates and after
short visit he hurried back to San
Diego. When placed In jail the old
man became frantic with rage anu
tore his long hair and beard,
Felix Gorsky, a quarry laborer, had
apiece Of rock driven Into his skull by
a blast At Leona Heights, near Oak.
land, CAL, on "Wednesday, but was
not even Inconvenience TO the extent
OF being rendered unconscious. He
was knocked down by the blow and
the fragment Of rock pierced the bone
Of his skull, but be got up without
help and took car down to the Rsceiv-
Ing hospital where he got surgical at.
tention. His case is pronounced one OF
the stfaDgest ever treated at the hospi.
tai, for 1t was deemed almost impossi.
bic Tor man to be burt in that man
ner without having radiating fractures
or suffering conclusion OF the brain.
The death of Don George Carmonia,
member Of the Mexican Congress,
occurred at San Diego, CAL, Sunday
through an accident, a lead pencil hav.
Ing poisoned him. Some weeks ago
ne cbastised messenger boy, who had
incurred bis displeasure, and the boy
Lstalisted by jabbing his pencil into
CnfmonA's WHIST. The wound was 80
small that NO attention was paid 10 II
until 1t began to swell and cause pain,
when three successive operations were
performed TO save the hand, then the
arm, anu then tho Victims LIE. A
black coating covered bis tongue dul-
ing the latter days Of his sick Iess, iu.
nloatinE the presence OF gsngrene.
Carmona fingered for over week In
me greatest agony, being comstose Tor
.evefhl days betors his death