The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-09-07
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WORLD BRIEFLY AND rERsE.
w NARRATED.
FROM everywhere
Fereien Lands, Throughout the Ne.
ton, and Particularly
From the Great
Southwest.


kinsville, KY, died from a fracture
Of the skull, received from striking
his head on a rock in diving in Lit
tie river. He was p years old and
unmarried.
DR.. D. NJ. Chatter, a prominent
physician of Kosciusko, Miss, was
killed, being shot in the breast with
a shotgun as he entered a drug store.
The proprietor and all his clerks
were out on the sidewalk and there
were no witnesses to the tragedy.
f. S. Wills, for more than 20
years superintendent Of the AtchiSon
(Kas.) Water Co., is dead, aged 70.
Mr.. Wills was Atehison's first rail
road ticket agent, in 1866.
The home Of Mrs. Mary Freeman,
at Gorsicana, Tex, was wrecked with
dynamite. The explosive was placed
under the corner Of the parior, ana
The sleeping nmases thereby es-
ceYed. The fotoe Of the explosion
tofe a hole about four feet square il
the floor Every window in the
house was broken, and much of the
glassware and chinaware was shat-
tered. \ piano fell through the hole
made by he explosion, and was de
strored.
While attempting to make q
fourth ascension in balloon a.
Wichita, kas., Mrs. Mamie Napier
was killed in fall of about 100
feet, caused by the parachute becom-
inc detached from the balloon in
some unaccountable manner.
The whole town Of Englewood, in
the southeast part Of Clark county,
Has. Is to he moved half mile
southeast of its present site. Engle-
wood has about 400 inhabitants.
There is a flaw in the title to the
land upon which the people have
built their homes and stores.
The city Of Fort Worth, Tex, has
raised the sum of $4,000 for the
fat stock show amphitheater that Is
10 be constructed there by the Ar
mour and Swift interests. n ike
sum is guaranteed by the s.ockmen
of the state, making a total Of $50
600 put up as a guarantee of the
permanency of the live stock exhibit.
on account of which the building.
which will cost $175,0O0, is to be
erected.
Tom Crutchfeld, 40 years old,
brieklaver, fell from a bridge, at Pa
ducah, Ky, and broke his neck. He
was riding a wheel in the dark, and,
no one seeing the accident, it is not
known how he happened to fall.
Jack Elliott, who worked, until
recently, for the Lester Mill Co,
Camden. Ark, was found dead near
the ice plant, He had fallen into
the hot water ditch and was scalded
to death.
The body 81 Lieut.. Clarence Eng
land. who was accidentally killed on
the cruiser Chattanooga at Chcfo6,
China. July %, arrived in Little
Rock. Ark, in charge of an escort,
representing the United States navy,
and his brother, Capt. LLOYD Eng
land, of the United States army.
The intorment was in Little Rock.
Fire at Prosper, Tex, destroyed
five frame buildings, together with
their contents.
The public Will reap no benefit in
express rates under the new rate law.
The rates of every company will be
identical with those of every other
The japanese have opened Dalny
as free port.
The colored troops that caused so
much trouble at Brownsville, Tex,
have reached Fort Reno, Okla. They
will not be allowed 70 visit Ell Reno
without passes.
Three Spanish ships captured in
Manila bay by Admiral Dewey have
been sold at auction for $l03. The
cost of advertising was 1873.
David r. Francis, president of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition, was
entertained by King Edward at Ma
rienbad, Bohemia, where the king is
sojourning.
The Arkansas pension board has
completed the work of allowing the
confederate pensions for 1906, and
warrants will be issued. The fund
amounts to $295,000, to be distrib-
uted among 5000 applicants.
At Anardarko Okla, Annie Dress
back, aged Is shot N. Mulliken, ac-
cidentally, discharging revolver,
and then, believing she had killed
him, shot herself. Both were fatally
wounded.
Ireland in menaced bv Z potato