Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-16
NEWS OF The WEST.
A CFt7y Farmer CTushsS His
Daughters Skull.
One Son Drowned and Another Crush, d
Poisoned with IT, 0sbte-- Aeci-
d,ul In a Minis.

George II. Freieticks, aged n
years, u native OF Germany, but long
. resII"t ., Fresno, Cal. was instBnt-
~ killed by bsing thrown from.a LOAF
OF nay. H. was mounting wag u
when tho horses started, throwing
him uuGef the wneele.
Reynold Y. Moore, farmer anu
stock raiser nonr VIII Il 1wer. CAL,
u mmitted suicidr Friday Y shooting
| himself with pistol. The Uuiiet en-
toied the temple and caute infant
| death. He was quite well to do nnD
leaves wife auu four young chill
dren.
Alfred Smith, the two.yesr.old son
| Of ines Smith OF Sar Francisco, died
| Saturday, ir,m he effects OF creCsote
| poisonin Thursday afternoon the
Gnild i.unu bottl' OF the puihon on
bureau In HE home ana drank Il por-
ton OF toe contents. His mother al
| once Uncovered his condition and
iook him 10 the hospital.
Sunday morning John ID. Nav,
farmer living a lew miles from Gree
ey, n brankr, attacked his married
dsua hier, My J. Hughes, with IA
hsmmer, crushing her nkull aud in
| tiictlng iatai II iufies. He drove the
iamily from the mouse aud set flte to
| II ard then fired the wheat stacks anu
barns. Msw, who Ii so years OF age,
mas been mentally unUnlsIced for
| yesrs. He In In jail.
Ed. &. joiner, q negro barber, was
fatally shot In hls room at Sscramen o,
| Cal, Oh Euncay evening, aDd died
abLut three hours later without hay-
log regained consciousness. Del
| Cont z, an sctorOou woman who wss
| the only one PR sent at the time OF
the shooting. WIS arrested. she claims
to have shot Jones in seli-de fe Hse.
| She shot and killed a man In Stockton
several years ago, but was acquitted.
A peculiar accident happened to u
man named Garner In Klickitat cOun-
| ~, Wash, recently. While lassoing
steer his thumb was caught between
The rome ana the tadule's horn and
torn If. In the excitement Garner
| lid not know that lie had lost his
thumb until he had gone hall a mile
| lrt m Tho scene OF the accident. He
knew, OF course, 1t was hurt, out sup
posed 1t was only q case OF losing III.
tie skin.
/
Aberdeen, Wash., Recorder, has q
rooster which has taken charge OF an
orphaned brood Of small chicks. He
calls them TO their meals and attends
to the proper distrihution OF their iood,
ciucss aud "currs" ami covers them
with his wiDgs as carefully and ten.
d. rly as tteir own mother could.
| But he shakes them up vary rudely
when he flaps his wings preparatory
10 growing in the morning.
The little town OF Garden Grove
CAL, Is mourning with the Widow
Hunt, an estimable resident OF that
place. Thursday her 9.year.old son,
Arthur, fell into spring near her
Kitchen door and was drowned in two
feet OF water. The boy was taken with
an epileptio 1T anu reelet to his death
without g.oaD, not tea feet from
where his mother was sewing. Later
10 the aiterhoon second con was
thrown from runaway horse and
mangled anu bruised 90 that recovery
is impro babie.
The San Frau cisco Chronicle says
hat IsiuOr Blum, VIM. Shulig, a..
tlisn,ni OF San Francisco, aud James
l.. Fowler OF Calsveras county, four
In ls45, met Thur.day At nooa and sx.
changed congratulations. They are
the only survivors Of the passe myers
who lsudod from the old clipper ship
Brooklyn. They celebrated the event
aroundItbe. ba uquet table at restaurant,
reviving old amt sacred memories. The
Chronicle 10 mistaken in saying the
TOUR men named are the only sur.
vivors.
DR.. Stratton OF the receiving hos.
pital, RtOsklaad, CAL, together with
teveral members OF the Baptist church,
decided that It would be- necessary to
tell John Daniel Andrea, whose leg
was ampuiatsa Sunday, Aug. S,h, OF
the death OF his wife the follow ing
Jay. They accordingly informed the
tbs patient OF what had happened In
as gentle manner as was possible,
tut the result was pitlfui In the ex.
tfemc. Andres, who has been wait.
lag patiently for days to see his wife,
Wept like child snu protested his
Willingness to follow now that she had
been taken from him. The doctors
fear that 1t may reduce his chances
Tor recovery very materially.
Mrs. K. GeKay Townsend was
found dead In bed In San Francisco,
op Friday morning, by her husband,
evidently having been asphyiated by
gas. She was the wife Of well
known capitalist and mining map.
Every thing indicates that It was An
accident, the gas fixture being de'se.
tive and the window open. Mrs.
Tow nsend has been in ill-heslth for
some time and has had the constant
attsndancs OF a nurse. She has been
tomew hat better during the last few
dnye, and Wednesday night the nurse
was absent Tor the night. 1t Is sup
posed that some time during the nigh
che missed the nutas from her room
and went In searcn Of her. she went
into the room the nurse was scou.-
toned to occupy and iay down on the
bed. In turning off the gas 1t Is
thought che Inadvertently TUNED IL on
sgaiu after the light had been exlin-
guished, the fixtures being loose.
Jerry MOrritssy and Joseph H.
DuVelle, both station tenders at the
Mountain Con mine, Butte, Montana,
were victims OF an accident rhursiay
uight, which resulted In fatal Injuries