WESTERN NEWS ITEMS A c cat st rot into the matches at P H lawton lawtonw Law tona s corner grocery 1121 harrlson street san ban franciso Franc laoj monday afternoon and started a blaze that destroyed worth of property irving A Loy leydecker deckers the five year old son eon of trustee Loy leydecker decker ot of alm ala meds meda cal died monday morning irom the effects of drinking a pint pilot of gin which was waar accidentally left with in his bis reach A man was as found dead at wrighta Stat loo cal early monday morning the body was not identified but bat the man la Is supposed to have been in a 8 picnic party at sunset park sunday it is believed he be killed himself A pistol ball passed through the body samuel hensel a member of the santa monica cal T national soldiers Sol Sold diera lerm home was found dead by a haystack in the outskirts of town monday death was evidently caused by strychnine taken with eui intent the deceased ceased ue was a spiritualist and was a member of company 1 I ninth oa cavalry valry H H cole a pioneer resident real dent ol of san bernardino cal died on sunday at the advanced age of 88 hearp he was a native of new jorney and at sit an early age emigrated to ohio thence to iowa and finally in 1860 1850 to utah he was not a mormon and atter after twelve years spent in salt lake city moved to california mrs eva venny tenny a well known california Cal Cali Korna forna was taken before judge angelotti Angelo and insanity com coca miss louers wickman and dubois at san raise cal monday morning on a charge of insanity sworn to by marshal john X E creed of dation Sau sahto lito after hearing all the evidence and re belving the report pr noun bouncing cIng her dangerous to be at large she was ordered sent to the asylum two deaths death from the beat on the colorado ahsert are reported at san ban bernardino Bernardi fio cal and it the temperature continues what it has been for three days past mure more will probably be ao announced ced A chinese died at barstow munday monday morning and two mexican section hands were picked up by an incoming southern pacific train one odeol of them died and the other may not re cover A portuguese known as petely pete was drowned at the piedmont quarry cal monday morning while trying to save his hia old mule the quarry is above the head bead ol oi lake merritt and a deep poul pool time has formed in one part of it early in the ibe mornine the mule started to back into the pool and pote pete ran to his aid he grabbed the reins rains hut could not stop the animal and was drugged dragged in pete must have been planed pinned under the mule or cart for be h did not rise and his companions were unable to save ave him bernard bataran Ma taran of oakland CRI cal j died monday night as the result of a hen peck he was a dealer deafer in poultry and eggs and handled bandied fowl a great deal he purchased a hen boo recently at one of the adjacent village villager villa gec uno while returning res to his home was wae pecked antho in the hand by the chicken the wound was small but painful lt ll became inflamed and swollen at once and when a physician was called it was found that blood poisoning had set bel in death was then only a matter of a short abort time it la Is thought that some substance on the hens bill waa the he cause of the poisoning A shocking accident took place at the pacific mail dock san francisco franciaco on monday morning james jamee winslow loWy a foreman of 0 the stevedore fell into the forward hatch batch of the steamer newport loading at the dock and suffered injuries that will keep him in bed for many weeks it if they do not cause his b IB death he was carried to the deck from the bottom of the ves cepa hold where an examination showed that winslows Win slows jaw was waa broken his hie right leg fractured in two I 1 laces and three ribs and the shoulder blade were broken he is in about 40 yeats of age and has bae a wife and children ob ildreD the rho investigation into the conduct of the whittler reform school cal by order of governor budd at the request of mrs john W mitchell Mito hell one of the trustees trustee is j a not completed so bo far only the garls 1 school has boom been looked into and a most moat brutal torm term of flogging nai bus been disclosed one sample of this his occurred last summer at catalina Cata llna when it to is asserted that miss olmstead the girla 1 principal because of some trivial offense lense of took a seven seventeen too n year cearold old girl disarranged her and beat her with an overshoe the usual method of flog ging to is to make the girls strisand hen beu with a leather cat such as was waa formerly used in the abe navy from ton ten to fifty lashes are given on the soft bare flesh the thongs are dipped in water to make them sting aging more these brutal practices have been tally fully established littleboy Litt leRoy boy hambli the four year cearold aid son of W H hazell hazel a los Ane Arige JeB lell gal cal storekeeper died monday morning in agony from burns received sunday from gasoline set not ablaze by a newsboy named Ubi chillis llis the newsboy had bad a roller coaster on which he had a emu containing gasoline which he be set on fire and then hen coasted down the street playing fire engine he had bad consumed one can lull full of me be fluid obtained at a deruig store mud and had bad procured another at hazelj hazelkm s on the pretense that he wanted it tor for cleaning purposes when out of sight eight of the storekeeper be touched a m tob lob to the fluid and ray buy who bad followed him was seized by the flame and horribly burned JF E R mille and mr hazell hasell ran tu to the burning child anti and stripped the clothing cloth ing from him but it was toolate to save his bia life the san francisco police are ara investigating ti what they hey term an outrageous attempt to sell a pretty chinese girl t toto oto slavery her name Is dy day toy and several days ago she wn wan arrested in this city on a warrant from fresno freano charging her with rob robbery berF the war rant was sworn out by her heir husband who it is said is one of the principal conspirators several months ago a similar attempt was made macle to induce the unfortunate woman to lead a lite life of shame abade failing in their heir purpose the ibe conspirators threatened her with wish death and theo then resorted to applying hot hoc irons to the soles of her fet in order to force her to so do their bidd bidding I 1 ng she refused to enter apoi such a life joe and managed to escape manaay her husband discovered her heir whereabouts and bad her arrested ted oo on a charge of larceny the police ray may she ahe Is innocent and that the husband wants to poll fell her to a slave dealer in british columbia Colum bla for a life of shame the woman says baya she will suffer death rather than submit tf if the allegations of cruelty against the bisband can be proved it will so go hard with him