The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-13
LIFE In JEOPARDY
MRS. AUGUST BEURMAN OF Law
RENEE MUST STAND TRIAL.
Cosoner's Jury held Her Insane, But the
Her Arrest and Her Moral Guilt or Her
Mental Uns0undness VIII be for the
Jury to Decide-High- Fly er in San Fran
cisco Goes Broke and Robs the Man Who
Befriends Him In His Distress-Crime
and Catastrophe.

Lawrence, Kan, Jan. i2.-Mrs. August
Beurman was arrested this morning ami
arraigned on a charge OF numbering her
Husband. The warrant was sworn out
by a brother of the murdered man. Mrs.
Beurman had previously been released.
the coroners jury holding that the wo-
man was insane She will now DOUBT
less be tried for her life.
ROBBED HIS FRIEND.
San Francisco, Jan. 12-Julius Hirsch.
young man who claims TO be the son
of wealthy parents in New Orleans. is
locked up in the tanks of the city pris-
on awaiting an investigation that is be-
inc made by the detectives. concerning
his life in this city during the past six
months.
Hirsch came to this city last June and
has since posed as the scion OF veal
thy and illustrious family. Incidentally
he had been forced on one or two oc-
casions to part with his personal bag
gage in lieu of cash with which to set
tie his board bill.
NOT being in position to settle his
bill at the Russ house recently, he was
ejscted by d. E. Wiley. An employe OF
the mint took pity on him and allowed
him TO use mis- room at the hotel. Dur
| Ing Wiley's absence young Hirsch broke
into his friends trunk and stole several
articles of value which ne pawned- Up
on discovering his loss Wiley reported Il
10 the police, who promptly arrested
Hirsch and found pawn tickets for the
stcien property in his possession. The
young man is about % years of age and
claims 10 be a graduate of a southern
| college. He has confessed guilt. Hirsch
| has been charged with petty larceny.
BORROWED THE GUN.
San Francisco, Jan. 12-Henry Miller.
a middle-aged German. entered a Kear-
ney street gun store and asked 10 see
some pistols. He was accommodate
and while fitting a cartridge in the
chamber of a revolver shown him he
deliberately turned the gun upon him.
self and fired. The bullet struck him in
the left chest, just over the heart. and
he fell to the floor fatally wounded. AT
the receiving hospital ne said that with
| in the past few years he mad been
member Of the livestock exchange OF
Chicago and had been a heavy handler
of cattle At one time he had been
worth $4,000, most of il made in cattle
deals. Subsequent losses had left him
practically peninless. About month
| ago he had left Chicago and gone 10
! Portland, Oregon. Thence he came to
| San Francisco two years ago. Miller
said he had three married daughters III
| Chicago but he did not care 10 have
| them notified of what he had done, for
| fear his act might stain the family
| name.
| WRECK ON THE PANHANDLE
| Pittsburg, Pa, Jan. 12.-The Panhan-
! die limited was wrecked last evening
| near Mcdonald. Pa. bad rail is sup
posed to have caused the accident Pres
| ident Roberts and party. of the Pennsyl-
| wanna Railroad. were on the train and
| their cars were thrown from the tracks
but none Of the party were injured.
! Chief Engineer T. ID. Johnston was ser
| iously but not fatally hurt.
| MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
| Pitsburg, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE magazine
| of the Pennsylvania Topedo company,
| limited, located at Shamokin. Pa, blew
I'D today. Two men and two women
were killed and one man injured The
| killed were:
| L. D. STINCKNEY., superintendent.
| JAMES MCLOSKEY, workman.
| Two girls. names not known.
| The injured man was Walter Crane
He will likely recover.
The explosion was at the plant of the
| Columbia Dynamite company. brancn
| of the Pennsylvania Torpedo company
| limited. The building, which was two
| story frame structure, was down 70
! atoms and the report was heard thirty
| miles away.
] The explosion occurred about il
| o'clock and completely demolished the
building and tore a large hole in the
ground. Buildings In the Immediate "
1 cinity were badly shattered.
| At Shousetown the public school build
| ing was partly demolished and panic
among the pupils ensued. but no one
Was hurt, Economy. Coraopolis and
/ other towns report that the shock broke
! windows.
The cause OF the explosion Is not
| known.
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