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Show A SINGER'S UNTIMELY DEATH. Killed in a Railway Accident at tlie Dawn of Her Career, Telegraph Operator G. B. Kent sat in the Western Union office at Kansas City the other morning. The instrument before him ticked off its various messages, displaying dis-playing in brief the world's daily history of joy, sorrow and labor. His fingers flew over the pages on which he recorded these bulletins of information so important to the recipients with trained and unfaltering speed. His attitude was attentive; his faco impassive. Ho was simply a telegraph operator engaged in the usual transaction of his routine duties. Suddenly, however, his pen dropped and his look changed to one of astonishment and horror." This is the telegram that caused his hand to grow nerveless and brought tears to his eyes: "Myrtle was killed in a railway accident at Staunton, Va early this morning." Mr. Kent called his chief, told him tho news and went home to convey the snd intelligence in-telligence to bis wife. The Myrtle referred to by the dispatch was his sister-in-law, Myrtle Knox, a beautiful girl of 17 who, a few months ago, resigned her place as telegraph tele-graph operator at the Midland hotel, in Kansas City, to take a position in Rice's "Pearl of Pekin" Comic Opera company. MISS MYRTLE KKOX. The accident by which she lost hnr life occurred oc-curred on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. rail-road. The train for Washington was descending de-scending a heavy grade, when the brake rod of the engine fell, and the air brake was rendered useless. The cars rushed into Staunton at a speed of eighty miles an hour. The sleeper in which was Miss Knox left the track and was thrown on its side. It caught fire, but the flames were extinguished extin-guished by citizens. Miss Knox's injuries were so severe t hat she died a few moments after being taken from tho ruins. Other members of the company escaped with life, but received such serious hurts that all dates wero canceled and the troupe disbanded. dis-banded. The last letter written by Miss Knox was to a girl friend at Kansas City. In it was this terse bit of advice: "Whatever "What-ever your inclinations may be, don't go on thestaee." WISPS One of nature's strange freaks may be seed at the farm of Jones Stanford, four miles north of Flora, Mo. It is a colt, not unlike other colts, except a mark iu its face. Begining on a lino with the lower part of the nostrels and extending to a point just below the eyes is a perfect per-fect outline of a rattlesnake. Its mouth and eyes are perfectly formed. On its tail seven rattles aim a button may be distiuctly seen; and strange still, the outline of the snake is raised, being about as large as a lead pencil and not a hair on it. Thero is a lucrative opening for medical med-ical men in Iowa, not exactly as practitioners, practi-tioners, however, says the A.cdital Record. Tho Iowa legislature, which adjourned about the middle of April, passed what is called the pharmacy bill, conferring upon physiciaus the right to dispense liquors, and placing upon them no restraint whatever. They do not need a permit, like the drngfusts, nor is there any supervision of i heir manner of prescribing in sales their make. There aro about 5,000 doctors in the state, and if this law is io remain in force the number of "docs" will soon be beyond computation. |