Show t A remarkable hable wair affair I 1 A coi at mile siding on the memphis and charleston railroad sends us the particulars of a moat singular and deplorable occurrence which occurred at that place ou an the hist three children of mr wm wen roberts a voi kinan kman at the mill at the siding went 0 out ut to the woods a few hundred yai maids d s from the house to gather sticks for the fire to cook dinner they were a little boy of nine moo years of age another of soven seven and a little sister of ficq api they 1 aey had with them some small cords or strings a plaited from the raveling elings 0 R of old 9 gunny undy sacks the elder boy it beems elems had be become conic by some mean meaux possessed of a m mania iii aon on the subject of 1 lunging and often spoke sometimes aimas in t way way and at other times apparently in in erinest ea chi inest riest of hall hanging dirig himself but his parents had no idea that lie he seriously meditated anything 0 of the kind pr would attempt to carry it into effect while out in the woods on this occasion he took his smaller i brother to a b ansh not over s i ls feet high ruid and bending 6 it doan required his litt little le sister to il told it b bent ent jahile ji hile lie he tiled Q one de ot 0 the te strings mentioned around hys brothers neck and fastened the other end to the top of the brush and then lien let it go the rhe brush however had not sufficient spang to ian gle the little fullow fellow and only c clinked oke him to a slight extent tile the elder brother then united him and took him to a stump which had bad a pr electing in limb and tried hard to ban hang him to it but the cord after passing around his neck was not long enough to tie ai around the limb and lie he abandoned the attempt i I 1 havin failed to hang bang his brother the bv boy ahen then seems to have determined to hang himself and climbing up a sapling about fifteen feet high ideh 0 and about the thickness of a mans arm at the ground lie he made a slip elip noose with the cord which li hea placed around his neck cand and tying the other end and to the top of the li sapling apling lie jumped from the bush bending it down with bi bis weight and being stran strangled giba almost instantly iby by ti tightening 0 on his neck n k the brother and sister ran to the boyse house and gave the alarm but when assist assistance drice arrived arlivea the boy was quite quit dead I 1 his knees wre were on the ground ar an the cold sti tight by ih the I 1 spring fj I 1 the san aalst i 1 wed used hd had made t abb in work 6 of death faath e sudden budden and an dure 1 s tire I 1 I 1 I 1 the whole affair is a very singular lat one considering tho the youth vic tim the act was clearly prom edita bcd ted and ana the probable effect of the means understood a I 1 0 ON wednesday day las last it says the nevada cal transcript of Nd november vember 2 nat bailey i in the vicinity of fall creek a thice legged deer one of the fore legs of the anuval was off just below the knee joint tha stump bad healed and had bad grown over with hair the animal had either had its e eg shot ON off or broken it was ill in excellent ci condition I 1 and apparently fared as 03 well as its f our legged fellows OK thursday evening october 30 i abile Vau was walking t on the hank bank of the old jamison claim at iowa eipl cal he slipped and fell from the hank batik a distance of somo some seventy five feet killing mm him instantly ELVE i chill chuich ches cs iq tev york have b oy 1 airs 1 I 1 f I 1 0 1 I i I 1 AN it 10 lr I 1 u S t birj CI AV y 4 I 1 1 I 11 I 1 3 I 1 A |