The Nevada County picayune., 1906-08-17
THE LATEST EVENTS OF TIE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TEhSE-
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FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Na' ton, and Particularly From tho Great
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 was attacked by c bull and nearly lost his life. Both shoulder blades were broken, his chest crushed, hls back wrsnched and the flesh badly torn. His life was saved by his large bird dog, which attacked the animal and drove him off.
 Miss Mary Wells, daughter Of the postmaster of Colfax, La., and Granddaughter of former Gov. J.. Madison Wells, of Louisiana, was drowned in Rod river at night. The party had gone down the river Ill the gasoline launch of Capt. Samuel Wells, brother. Gasoline that had leaked from the tank exploded, and created a panic, resulting in the overturning of the boat Miss Wells was caught underneath and drowned in the swift eaerant that carried tho boat and its victim beyond reach. The others managed to get ashore
 >J. B. Slade escaped from the Ran kin convict farm near Jackson. Miss. He was a successful planter of ilke county, and was convicted a year ago of murder. Slade spent fortune In his defense.
 At the Haywood plantation, on the Altheimer branch of the Cot ton Belt, in Arkansas, George F. Thomas was shot and killed, it is alleged by Jim Robroy, who was fir ing, it is said, at Robert Smith Smith was shot in the head and probably will die. Robroy escaped.
 The report published in London that Pope Pius is suffering from a dangerous form of gout, threatening paralysis of the heart, is, says a ca blegram from Rome, without foun- dation.
 An automobile was overturned on a country road near Houston, Tex, killing George Meiklejohn and severely hurting J. Canpdean and P. Reimer of Rockford, III. Some thing became wrong with the gear ing, and the accident occurred before the machine could be stopped.
 J. W. c. Wilder, . farmer resid- ing near Tom Bean, a town six miles from Sherman, Tex, beat out his wife's brains with a flatiron, and then shot himself fatally with shotgun. Three small children of the couple witnessed the deed.
 Mrs. Cragie, authoress, died in London. She gave several great books of English literature.
 During the past fiscal year ended June 30 the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Go. earned, gross, s6l ,669, 15o ; net, S22 2,973, ,446.
 After a royal reception in Monte video, capital of Uruguay, Secretary Root departed for Buenos Ayres, Ar genuine.
 Two hundred kegs of powder ex- ploded in the press mill of the local powder plant at Fontanel, Ind, kill ing one man. The explosion was felt at Terre Haute and Greencastle, and was at first thought to have been an earthquake.
 During the G. A. R. encampment at Minneapolis, Minn., a number of veterans were overcome by heat. Fully one hundred thousand visit ors were present after the first day. The strike in the four mills of the Berkshire Cotton Go. at Adams, } Mass, has ended, and 4,000 em- ployes have returned to work.
 Alex R. Chisholm, paying teller of the First national bank of Bir- mingham, Ala, hss been arrested, charged with the smbeszlement of &97, ,0O0.
 The trsternM order of Eagles held thsi1 nstiopM convention in } Milwaukee, Wis. There are now 2bo,. 900 Eagles in the United States, an increase of 3s,ooo during the past year.
 John J. Hxtchison, one of the two surviving officers of the confsd. crate privateer and blocade runner Shenandoah, died at New OrleAnA aged 6s.
 c. W. Buttsrworth, who was ap. pointed commissioner at NlsA, | T., and later found that the govern ) ment had failed to attach salary to his job, has notified the powers that be that he is no longer holding the job, and has turned over hii books to Judge Hyams at Sapulpa Judge Butterworth resigned com. missionerahip at Sapulpa to take tn. Tulsa job. Another man was ap. pointed at saPulpa, and now But