Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-05
NEWS OF The WEST.
Thrown Oul and KILLED by a Run
away Team.
BILLED by a DRUNKEN MAN
rara q Poor Mony iaall- nlsslng
MANS skelotos Touud--iun
Uvtr Baby.

n introducing the postal slreetcat
torvlee In that city.
On wednesday Jessie Donnelly had
her right hand caught between ttd.hot
rollers in n laundry at WRuonvllle,
Cal,, aud tho hand wos crushed anu
burned 10 n crisp She Il In u dangerous
condition.
Mrs. Norma r.. Prussia, n widow,
s8 years Of age, died Thursday after.
noon at her residence In Oakland, Cal.
The cause OF death, ~ given on the
ooronof's bloiiof, 10 "Death by opium
poisoning" The facts ate such that
The coroner proposes 10 hold thor
ough examination.
There was frso.for.all fight In Oak.
land, Cal, Thursday night ua tho 70.
salt Of n to- literal exchange OF viOwa
On political topics, and Charles John.
son, an iron m0uldef, aged &c yeaif,
came forth all but n cripple fDf lie
lie happened 70 be In the middle OF
tho fracas, anu besides beng kicked
aud beaten he sustained knife wound
ou the cheek aud another on the olin,
with numerous cuts about tue scalp.
About 1 O'Clock "Wednesday morn.
log Special Ofiiccr Frank 1oal was
shot and almost inaiantly killed. by
Dan Wayne In front Of tue Castle
saloon al Vallejo, Cal. The murderer
was mad with dIinK at the tiuis oi tho
fhootlng, which was Without pfov0ca'
tiln. roal was shot through tho boy,
but bsiOfo failiDg hu snot Wayne
through the abdomen and II IL thought
thu murderer will die. Wayne " a gOoi
man when sober, but a yeritable demon
when In liquor.
Monday nlght Mayor Murphy OF
Tempe, Arizona, says tho News Of
that town, was awakened by hearing
loud rafting on tho veranda, near
his window. Procuring u light ho
proceeded 10 investigate and found
ollled beneath his window a big rattle
snake. Toe Toptiiu was soon dispatched
aud was found 10 have nine raitles aud
button. It IL n very unusual occur
renee 10 hnd ono Of these snakes IN
town, although they are aaid to DO
quite plentiful Just across the river.
Phoenix, Aria, Gazette: Thursday
two drunken men, one named Clay
son, n nursorymGu, tho other Cookney
the iowelot, came along ina buggy
and ran over little girl four years Of
age. "Got out OF tho way You bfats,"
yelled ClaysoD. Toe ohildrod tried 10
get away, but Clayton chased back
and forth TIL bO caught the child.
The horses feet knocked the little one
down and beth wheels passed over tho
body rendering her UNCONSCIOUS for
some time. anu her life Is yet In great
danger.
Alfred J. MoAull1e, q farmer, was
found dead on tho road Thursday
metning near baofAmenlo, Cal. His
four.horse toam was found aome dis
lance on, tangled up In n barbod wire
fence, and Indicated that ths horses
must have run away anu thrown him
rom his seat. His right arm aud both
legs were broken In several places ana
tits thought from that fact that when
he fell ho must have been entangled
In the wheels In some way. He was
about ~ Year, old ana leaves n vile
and family.
The skeleton OF Thomas y. Darling,
who left Sacramento In May, 1875,
with -, 900 or $1,000 In each with
which 10 invest In northern mines and
was never heard from afterwArd, was
discovered In n crevasio near Jackson.
Vile, Oregon, n few days ago. The
skeleton was Identified by an amethyst
ring and n package VI nodded papers,
most OF which were yet quite deoiphet.
able. Among these papers were two
letters written from Sacramento In
August, 1875, by Barney w. TildeD,
then = resident Of that city, to Darling,
who was his brother.in-law. Among
other papers was 10 und n scrawl read
ipRi 81 was murdered by John r."
Tempe, Arizona, Nown J. Il. stuf.
geon IL fast earning tho sobriquet
Calamity JIM" Since coming ~
Tempe he has met with three acct.
dents, any 0ns Of which might easily
have been the death Of him. FiIsl,
while chasing q steer, after dark, he
ran full tilt into n wire oiothsline which
caught him under the chin anu nlmofl
broke his neck. Last summer an In.
iutiated steer attacked and disembow.
elod horse which he was riding, and
Ia Jumping from the morse he sustained
n compound fracture OF one OF his legs
which confined him TO his bed ioI
ieveTal month"; and famed him ioI
life. Tuesday afternoon ho Topod a steer
by tho mind legs anu a. he WAS taking
mitch on the rope his horse bucked
aud threw him on. His head struck
the ground with tuch force that he
was knocked aenaeleaa ana he did mol
come 10 for half M hoaf, He IL un.
able TO leave his bod nnd - suaering
much pain.
Herman Tersado, an aged lsrmeI
living near Portland, otegon.on Wed
nesday learned TO his regret that BARN
hfe not as safe deposiiarivs As banks FOL
specie. That day he reported TO The
chief Of police that ho had been robbed
o; $500 In gold coin. II came about IN
this way. On Monday night hl
Hecrstod tho money, tied up In hand.
kefchiof, among some SACKS OF wheal
In his barn. His own family he alleges
did not know that no had the money
and he carried the Key ~ HE barn IN
his pocket, hence he believed his colI
was perfectly safe. "Wednesday, whil,
he was on the west slide Of the river, .
nelghbor called ut Teresdo's house
telling hie wife that her husband owed
him twenty sacks OF wheat. She Ft'
marked that tho key TO the barn wa
In tho possession Of her hutbanu, bu
told tho neighbor no could effect o.
entrance through n large opening Ovel
tue door, through which he also coulI
Ret out the wheat. This program wal
carried out, anu II 10 TereSdo'B impEeS'
sion that tho person taking the cefea
also stumbled upon aud appropriate,
the gold coin.