Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-11
NEWS OF The WEST.
4 Husbands Injury Causes Ills WiIe'S
Death.
MASGLED BY A SOWING RACINE.
Escape from Jail-Dea'h Of a Notable
War Veteran Blew on
An arm.

A young man named c. Fikus wns
admitted TO the county hospital at
Flesno, Cal, Monday with both less
horribly mauglsd below the kneee by
a moving machine which no was
working. The accident occurred near
keedloy, Cal.
While cleaning ME gun at noon
Sunday Giles Megec, foreman OF the
Maltomoro vineyard, FTesus, Caln
blew of the lower portion of hls lell
arm. There was an uuexplodeI
cortridge In the barrel. Amputntion
was performed by the county phy't-
clan.
Sometime during Sunday night
James Phiilipe, a prisoner in the
O. unity Jail, al Modesto, California,
under q charge OF steallng horaeC,
broke out OF iAil. An iron
oar Of the tank was sawed of, the
door pried open anu the iron ecreen
anu bar of the Jail sawed off on the
utside Of the wall.
Sunday was Wheeimen's day
at Stockton, California. The
annual watermelon run given by the
rerni oil City wheeimeu Of Stocktpn
was big affair, Over 5OO visiting
cyclers were in the city. The parade,
headed by band, formed on the
Para anu was piloted thrOnvb the city
before going to Entrscht Psrk where
the dsy's festivities w,ie Uelu. a
luncheon. consisting principally OF
wstermelons, war served TO many
HUI dreus.
Mrs. Michaels Of San Francisco,
Cal, had her lower jaw broken Sln.
day night in peculiar manner. she
was walking aloDg O'Farrell street to
her home, when che saw Two men
fighting. As she patsed one OF the
men AIMED blow at his auveteery
and, missing him, struck her in the
face, breaking her jaw. The injured
woman visited the receiving hospital
where the fracture was feduceI by
Assistant Police Surgeon TDrmey.
Her sssailant was not arrested.
Colonel Augustus q. Bennett, one o
San J ose's leading anu mgst mighty
esteemed citizen, died ~ his home in
| san Jose, California, Sunday, after q
lengthy illness, caused by cancer o.!
| the stomach. Dtcps sed was born In
Oneida county, N. In 1886. When
| the war OF the Rebellion broke out he
| enlisted rs q private in the eighty hrsl
| New York Infantry, and was on
| promoted TO lieutenant, then captain.
He served in the Peninsular campaign
| with Mcclellan. While in the Sou h
he recruited regiment Of negroes
| and was made colonel OF the com man /,
He was stationed al Morris islam, Bnu
| when Charleston surrendered II was
| to Colonel Beunett. He had charge OF
the city under martial law which he
declared.
Two men, one Graz d with pain, the
other despondent on account o.
poverty, sought surcease OF sorrow anu
relief by taking their lives at L1i
Angsise, Cal, Sunday. The frs
suicide reported was that CT James III
Whitburn, sged 45 years. an engineer
by profession anJ well.to-1 10 IN THU
worlds goode. He shot himseI
through the top U. the head. Fol
months Whitburn had been an Invalid
The second suicide was that OF An
tcpio SOluri, an Italian isDOrer who
was out OF work al d out OF money
Ii maze a cocktail tut OF an eighth o.
an ounce OF strychnine ana som,
whisky. Alter drinking the mixture
Soiuri walked the streets until taken
with spasms. a physician was sum.
moned, and also the suicide's brother
hut the man was beyond help. To hi,
brother he told before his death what
he had done.
Mrs. s, Andrea, wife of Daniel An
drea, who was crushed 90 badly at tht
Ju son iron works at Oaslsnd, CAL,
died Sunday night from psralytiC
stroke produced by the shock OF tht
news that her husband had been in
jureI. Mrs. A ndrea broke down when
told Of the accident, but rallied later
in the day, srd the friends who broke
tue news 10 her seemed to think tina
she would be all right. Late this
aternt on she was found lying on the
flor in her room, in an uGconscioue
condition, by neighbor who called to
ste her. DR.. J. Austin Miller was
summoned, and 1t was thought at fret
that she had fallen in an epileptic Il t.
S1e did not recover Consciousness,
however, but grew weaker, AID diei
| at 5 O'Clock. Andrea W. 8 not in orrne
OF the death OF his wife, for it was
feared that the shock would kill him.
His leg was mputated sunday even
ing, and he is quite low bimselt.