The Colorado statesman., 1912-11-16
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Daniel Thomson, brakeman en-
ployed on the Newcastle-Cambria line,
was crushed to death between two
cars at Cambria, Wyo.
Five persons were killed in hunting
accidents in northern Minnesota and
Wisconsin, according to reports which
reached Virginia, Minn.
THE practice of giving little girls
dolls to play with makes neurotic wo-
men," declared Rev. DR.. NJ. H. Lich-
liter before woman's meeting in st.
Louis.
Ricardo Ascarate, son of wealthy
Mesilla valley rancher, is in Jail at
Las Cruces, n. NJ, without bond,
charged with the murder of his fifteen
year-old wife.
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the
religious sect founded by John Alex
snder Dowie in Zion City, ILL.,, has pre-
Gicted the end of the world with the
fall of Turkey.
In a fire that was started through
the carelessness of a workman, the en-
tire plant of the California paper and
hoard mills was destroyed at Antioch,
Cal. Loss over 100000, partly in
sured.
Former Senator William Lorimer,
who is i'll of appendicitis at the Presby-
terian hospital in Chicago, was report
ed improved and his physicians said
be might not be operated upon for
Eeveral days.
That Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has in
,,oJ,J Cn,,+barr California and ic liV-
ing incognito with friends at Venice,
IS the belief of many Venetians, who
say they have seen her on the streets
and in the cafes there during the last
ten days.
OF 100 talesmen examined at Fort
Worth, Tex, Walter Portwood and j.
d. Crane, farmers, were accepted as
jurors in the second trial of John Beal
Sneed, Amarillo banker accused of
having murdered A. G.. Boyce, wealthy
ranchman.
Mrs. Ella Crawford, a wealthy wild
ow, murdered her 9-year-old daughter,
Eleanore May Crawford, and then
made two unsuccessful attempts to
Fill herself at her home in Chicago.
The mother, said by the police to have
become insane, drowned her daughter
in a bathtub.
James O'Callaghan, brother of Rob
ert OCallaghan, former Western
league baseball magnate, must serve
an indeterminate term in the peniten-
tiary for conspiracy to rob the Polk
county treasury at Des MONIES, Ia,
two years ago, according to decision
handed down by the supreme court.
Inability to hire track laborers has
forced the Burlington company to
abandon temporarily the construct'o on
of its extension from Thermopolis to
Orin Junction, Wyo., known as the
Powder river branch of the Burling-
ton system. Only eight miles of the
extension is uncompleted.
Details of the plans for the construc-
ton of the new union station at Den
yer were discussed at a meeting in
Chicago by officials of the various
lines which enter the proposed ter
minal Special consideration was Civ
en- to the distribution of the cost of the
structure and a decision was reached
to have a new draft made Of the agree
ment whereby the terminal will be
jointly owned by the various lines.
Annie Morris and Bessie Williams,
both under twenty, charged with high
way robbery. tunneled their way from
the Tarrant county, Tex, Jail and es-
capped. They dug through wall two
feet thick, making a hole two feet in
diameter. The drop, to the ground was
sixteen feet and they used rope OF
blankets. Bessie Williams was cap
tured in a house in the suburbs. She
said her companion, a large woman,
obtained mans clothing and fled the
city.