Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-22
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Sleeping WalChmau Caught and Killed
by a Falling Tree.
CHOPPED TO Prices by A LuNA1IC.
Almost Sung 10 heath by China.
man burn d TO Dea h-Killed
by Robbers.

| the outskirts OF Folsom, Cal, was de.
siioyed By fire, cyemsting an OLD
| Chinaman who nad occupied one OF
eiooms Tor several days. He was
cd ana inffm to get cut If narm's
way.
| l.. V. Ball, for some time In charge
OF the whsri Mt San simeon, Cal, died
Sunday morning Rs the result OF y
| wound received late Bsturday night.
| BAH was cleaning q lonu.d pistol when
the weapon was discouraged, the bullet
pSssipg through Ball's body. De.
o ased was a young man, "a years oil
| age.
A gfuesome story comes from Ana
| heim, CAL, about tho violati ~ o. the
grave OF a young man named Virgil
Smith, who was buried at tnat place
| twenty years ngr. His relatives re-
Gently went to have the remains take n
up and removed 10 Downsy, In this
couniy, but on opening the grave 1t
Was fCu nd TO be empty. The body
must have been removeI as early as
1879.
An italian Waterman named Pietro
Msriinelii,emp Dyed by the Usal Lum-
her 90. lot Uh,aU, CAL, was crushed
to death Friday by falling tree. Mar.
'iuelli was sleeping In the WOODS witt
a railroad tie for n pillow, when the
tree isll aud struck him. The bod y
was crushed to pulp. Friend. near
the sleeping man saw the Tree descend.
lug and endesvered 10 awaken HIM,
but without avail.
While stealing q ride Into Sscrs-
meuto, GAL, on q freight train SUI
day night Edward Boyle, thinking hs
had arrived In the city, swung out,
AMI letting 60 his hold, plu Eed in to
the middle OF the river. Luckily b q
did not Sc consciousness, and hls
| cries aroused King Lee anu John
Davenport, who secured boat snu
Iest ued the man AZ he was sinking the
LIST time.
Michael J. Lyons, an oldtime Puget
Sound resi1t was murdered bu i
Jay night, In nis saloon ana bosrding
house al POr, Blakeley, nine miles
rom Seattle, Washington. Two un.
known ma, ked men entered the SAILOR
and ATTEMPTED t. rob the place, hut
meeting with Resistance each fired,
both bullets biting Lyonp, resulting
in his death. Lyons WAS 65 years old
and leaves several children.
Sunday evening, while Mrs. Laux,
who lives just south Of Red Buff,
Cal, was away from the house, man,
evldeutIy ram entered the h II use.
When Mrs. LUX Returned she fouu d
the man unueF tie bed. He made his
| e. cape, but was later osnght by 5heT q
Bogard and landed in tue couny Jail
on charge OF burglary. He readily
admitted the charge, but said that he
was In the house looking Tor tome-
thing to eat.
On Sunday, an Insane patient nun 9 d
Rhodes, at the Warm Spriug, asylum,
| Montana, killed James Walters, an
employe OF the place. Ri .des was
cJnsinerej harmless, and was assist.
Ing Walters In chopping weed when
an insane impulse prompted him to
turn the AK on Walters. The maniac
literally chopped him to pieces.
Ruodes then went TO the house vii b
the bloody wsapon and Informed the
attendants what he had done.
Henry Fisher, one of the Oldest
resi- ents OF Nevada, com United sui.
eide at Dayton, Nevada, Sunday even.
Ing. While seated In u chair ne sent a
bullet through his brain. He then
crossed his hands In q comfortable
position across his knees sgd die },
Fisher was rich bre wer In Nevada %
pslmy days. He was associated with
Mark Twain and Martin, VINO after.
ward became famous as wizarJ. De.
Ginning health and broken fortuns
inducsd dependency.
w. II. Elkins, a young man living
nerr Livingston, CAL, shot and killed
his brOther-in.law, a man named De
Angeles, Sunday night. The exact
cause OF the affair 10 not known, al.
| though II IL supposed to have grown
out OF an old fsud that has existed be.
tween them for some time and which
| started over . dispute regarding prop.
erty matters. Toe killing 10 said to
have been Witnessed by l.. Gillba m,
| tue stspfather Of the wives OF the
young men.
Sundy aftern oen Samuel Rucker
went to Samuel Allison 70 farm, a M lie
from Nevada City, Cal, to see the old
man, who has lived there alone for
thirty years. Rucser fsuud him lying
! on q lounge on the front porcn dead.
l. 10 had beea extinct several hours
anu death resulted from heart failure.
Allison was n years old and had no
| relatives In the state. He was one Of
tho nost prominent anu successful
fruit rsisers In the country, AMI had
won many frat prizes at district and
| state lairs for fruits anu berrise.
Alto tel ok Sunday night fire at
Fsiton, Cal, destroyed the barrel fac.
| tory owned by J. A. Roster OF San
Francisco and q cottage belo nging to
w. b. Diem. While the root OF the
| factory was burning William Glass
| entered ths building aud carried out
two barrels Of giant powder anu lot
of tools owned by the couny which
had been stored there. People feared
/ TO approach the buildings on account
OF the powder which they knew was
| stored there. The ighburing houses
we're saved with III euliy. The fire
| is supposed to have bseD caused by
trsmps. The loss was about 81, 200 and
wus covered by insurance.
W. NJ. Parker Of Ban Bsrnardino,
Cal, was stung almost TO death by
bees at the mouth OF Devil canyon
sunday morning. With bis wife he
had gons to the mountains to spend
the day. AS they apr )aohed the
canyon swarm oil bees came down ou
| the vehicle. Parker called 10 his wife
and children to run for the brush, and
| ne followed. The bses attacked his
.