The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-03-13
Chicago Happenings.

Vernon Blair, a student of the
Northwestern university, Evanston. mar
rowly escaped death by strangulation by
swallowing a tack.
While crossing the ice in the Calu-
met river Robert Sharp. y years DID,
fell into the stream and was drowned.
Miss Nellie Hendricks was seriously
injured by wire stretched across a side
walk by boys on Temple street.
Mrs. Bessie Hicks. niece of Senator
Beveridge and a bride of two months,
drank carbolic acid by mistake and was
saved with difficulty.
Mrs. Hannah McGann was burned to
death in FIRE which resulted from the
explosion of a lamp in her home.
A pay car Of the Illinois Central
railroad was destroyed by fire and for a
time the blaze threatened to spread to
other cars in the vicinity of the park.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Case, Il years old, was
burned to death in her home by the over
turning of a gas stove in her sleeping
Moses e. Butterworth, pioneer gold
seeker and one of the founders of the
Quaker colony at La Porte, Ind, was
found dead in bed at his residence.
While working at the bottom of a
shaft seventy-fve feet underground Jo-
seph Frank, 40 years old, was struck on
pounds. The iron edge of the pail crushed
his skull.
The plate-mill department of the IL
linois Steel company at South Chicago
has been shut down for the remainder
of the week. This was due, it was said,
to overproduction. 1t affected 2oO men.
John f. Coates, who until two weeks
ago held q responsible position with the
| Gates Iron works, is being sought for
by the police of the North Halsted street
station, who hold a warrant for him
which charges him with forgery.
The dead body of Mrs. Margaret
Fitzmaurice was found floating in the
river. The woman had been miss
ing from her home since November
g. and it is believed that while tempo
rarily insane she committed suicide.
Reuben Palmer 26 years old, was
found dead in his fiat. He was discov-
cred by the janitor of the building, who
smelled the fumes of gas, and on in
vestigation found Palmer's lifeless body
on bed. Several gas jets were open.
Palmer's wife left him several weeks
ago.
-Au eastbound Forty-seyenth street
electric car crashed into a buggy at Cali
fornia avenue and killed two men, whose
identity at present is unknown. One of
the occupants of the buggy was caught
instantly crushed to death, while the 9TH
er received injuries from which he died
an hour later at the county hospital.
Harry Moran of Chicago is one of
the latest gold-seekers to find a grave
in his quest for riches. Shortly after his
mother, Mrs. X. Moran, and her son,
| Charles. had read a letter from him, in
| which he told of possessing claims worth
| 100000 a telegram was received at the
| family residence, 707 Forty-ninth street,
| conveying news that he had been
| drowned off Cape Smudge, on the coast
of British Columbia.
John Maskell was held UP by three
men. and when he attempted resistance,
he was stabbed in four places with a
pocket knife. James Murphy was ar
rested and charged with robbery and as
| sault with a deadly weapon. Maskell
was taken to the Samaritan hospital. He
will recover. The other two highwaymen
escaped.
| Mrs. Julia Shevlin. better known to
| the police as 'Old Mother Shevlin,' the
mother of four sons who have police rec
ords, is dead. She had been suffering
| from heart trouble for several weeks
The only mourner at her bedside was
her eldest son, John. who is paroled
| from Joliet, and, as he says, trying to
| lead an honest life. Two sons are in
| the penitentiary and the other is fugi-
| tive from justice.