Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-02-27
NEWS OF THE WEST.
Church Interference In California
Politics.
KILLED by AN ELECTRIC SHOCK.
Fell 450 Feet 10 Min, shaft-Ban'
crOfI's Book for pluiOcrats-
List of Fatalities.

Wednesday morning to San Qlen / o
for three years asd 1ned 500. Ine
court gave Gay severe lecture.
Mrs. Gay No. l was In court anu
smiled over the sentence.
Alexander Guerronan, a French
man, about go years OF age and phoio-
graph ret0ucher, commltled suic'us
Tuesday night, In San Ffanclsoo, Dy
turning on the gas in his room. me
Indications are that he was demenIeu,
probably by roason OF poverty, irienu- :
iessneas ami age.
X. Takata, Ii. Ikuta and 3. Yamsp.
ouchi were among the passengers That
landed in San Francisco from the
steamer China "Wednesday. They
arc engineers OF the department 81
communications OF tho Japanese gov.
eminent and have come 10 America
on an investigating tour.
Fred Slutz, young German em-
ployed rs an electrician by the South
Yuba company at Sacramento, CAL.
was instantly killed on Wednesday by
an electric shock. He was working on
pole and took hold OF a live wire
with both hands. The current passed
tbrouge his body anu he was dead
when picked up.
Articles OF Incorporation OF the
Truckee and Lake Tahoe Railroad
company were filed In California on
Wednesday. The purpose OF the com.
pany 10 to connect tho town OF Tru ckee
with the northern shore OF Lake
Tahoe ut or near Tahoe city. The
estimated length VI the proposed rail-
road Ia seventeen miles.
Captain J. g. Wilson, an old ami
respected citizen Of San francisco,
died ON "Wednesday OF u broken heart.
The strange death OF Captain Wilson's
son. Hugh, by drowning while SWIM
ming near Stockton, occurred last
September. This sau loss WINS con-
stantIy upon Captain Wilson, mind,
and 81 emphasized his physical faii-
ings that he could not bs rallied.
Calvin q. Sprague, an employe OF
the Pacific Lumber company, met
with n serious accident at Scotia, Cal,
ON Wednesday. He was riding in the
cab OF locomotive, and attempted to
alight before the train stopped. He
fell to the track and was struck by the
car. His left log was broken below the
hbSo nav oho W. tWp
The leg had TO be amputaled, as IL was
badly manglcd.
A dependent carpenter named
Charles II. Lloyd committed suicld &
at Oakland, Cal, wednesday morn
ing. The unfortunate went to the
Girard House and took room. when
he did not make his appearance NIX
morning the landlord decided to mas e
an investigation. When the door
was opened the room was found full
OF gas. Lloyd evidently mad been
dead Tor some time.
Food inspe ctors at San Francisco on
Wednesday made seizure OF large
quantity OF canned food that WINS unfit
Tor human use. The goods consisted
of eixty-six cases OF canned jane, jsl
lies, mustard, lobster, mackerel, etc.
The inspectors found most OF the goods
10 be rotten, the cans Containing she
goods being so swollen that 1t was
surprising that their condition was
not apparent to the purchasers. The
shle OF thirty.three barrels OF syrup
was also stopped and an Analysis Will
be made to determine its purity.
In his new book, Achievements of
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1t "the most extraordinary book IN the
world" However that may be. the
Idea will bring the historian a good
sized ioItune,wit few OF the pains aud
difficulties that attend the ordinary
publication, since nearly all the 400
copies are already subscribed for-l5J
OF them at s., 800 each anu $50 a. ST..
600 each, waicn means S625, OGO 80
good us BANKED to Mr.. Bsnureit's
credit.
Frank Monahan was killed In an
accident al the Savage mine, Virginia,
Nevada, Wednesday afternoon. Mon.
shsn and Dennis Sullivan were em.
ployed In retimOering shaft. They
had been WORKING n few feet below the
400 level and were removing "a plat.
form Of pInnks. MonahRn had passeu
one OF the planks to sullivan, the
latter warning him to be careful OF his
footing. A moment latter Monshan
slipped and fell into the chat, his booty
landing en- sthe platform on the $50
level, sou feet below the place from
which he fell. When found his body
was crushed into shape es, mass, the
shoes And c.othiDg belug tIrn from the
bosy. The deceased was a native OF
Ireland, aged IS ysArs.
In April twenty-five Menuouites
bound Tor the South Dakota colony
will be landed In Miuasapolis by a
500 train, after oue OF the longest con.
unuouB journeys on record. They are
now living, says the st. Paul Pioneer
Press, In TasbkeuU, sn ancient Per.
sian town captuIei IN 1852 by the
RUSSIANS. They are qliet German
sect, and after 100 y.Ars' residence
In Russia have no. LIST their iuyIy d.
uaiiIy. Frugal in habits, thty have
amasssd small fortunes, most Oh them,
and are anxious TO sell their farms In
Russia aud move to iTeer country.
The colonies now settled in Minnesota,
Iowa, the Dlkotas and Manitoba are
but the advance guard OF the 50, 600 |
who Will probably he found In tnis
country within the next ten years,
The twenty-five from Tashkenu win
ride overland across the steppes by a
wagon route to o iessa, Russia's great
port on the Baltic, thence by rail
across Russia TO LiLAu, on the Is attic,
where On agent Will pui them Aboara
Wilson line steamer TO Liverpool,
There they Will leave by the RI,ai
Mail Allen line for Quebec, sad by
the Canadian Pacific and tue Boo u
minneapolis, where they Will be me