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Show WESTERN HEWS ITEMS, Sleepers Off 16s Trad; Passeagei Killed. DKO.e O.Elt THE UIKE.1 Uubh.-i or A:T,0.-Diphtheria lia COtOIIAIKI. 4 Teliuride, Oct. 3. A row-at Ame this morning engendered by whlsJy resulted In the fatal rhootlng ofl a nun named Anienou by Andy Johnson. Audcrs'in, with others, AltAvked Johnaon, who tried to get away fmm them, lut finding hliu-self hliu-self oo closely jiursueil he used bis revolver. Anderson died almost Instantly. Johnson was broucht to Telluridu and be Is now In the ccun-(y ccun-(y Jail. Ames Is on Uie line of Uie new railroad and has been a touch hole tn? summer. w -s A rerlocu railroad accident occurred oc-curred about 8 33 o'clock yesterday mornlog, three milts eaU ofSargent to asseiiger train No. X Tho train was'ruunlug at n moderate speed when alter rounding a curve one of the a'cepers Jumped the track, nulling null-ing three other cars Into the ditch with it. Tlie engine and day coaches did not leive the track and no one in these cam were hurt. TLc tourist car, whlcli was Immediately lu the rear of tho da' roaches, wis crushed to splinters and one of its tassenecrs killed. James Clark, a teamster, came b his death In n shocking manner Saturday morning. He ts salJ to have been partially intoxicated ani was driving his horse at a rapli rale. Near Zaug's brent ry there x an embankment fully flrteeu fret high. Clark did nfttsee-m to uoUit: his danger, though several persora shouted to him to be careful. He drove blindly over the edge, was caught under Uie overturned wagon and died soon after. The horse was badly hurt. Clark lh ed st tlie corner cor-ner of Third aud Chicago streets. The embankment which caused bis deaUi is decldcdl dangerous at night. Several narrow escapes have been recorded. IDAHO. Mullaii, Idaho, Oct 5. Mulkui was again Iat night the scene of a brutal and daring robbery. A transcr vs walking along the street about S o'clock when two men stepped from the side of a vacant wilding and struck him over the heai with a club, which knocked him senseless. They then robbed ilni; It Is supposed, of nearly $150. The man's cmdition Is a very critical one, a he has not yet recovered re-covered his reason, and the doctors think that If he rrcoveis at nil he will never le In his right miod. No arrests liavo been made, Denvtr A'eira. vomuo. .Engineer P. MatliUou and Fireman Fire-man Cyrus Cornier, who were so badly burned in the wreck at Rock Creek, aro repotted as greatly lia E roved. Tneyare both eery badly urned. There is a gleater turfare burned on Madi'son than on farmer, far-mer, UitUtc latter Is burned worse about the face-. It was feared hfci eye were s0 badly burned tliat he would luse his sight, but it Is now thought theic is no clamier of this Mr. MatliUon's ami was quite tally hurt and a few stitches were necessary. neces-sary. Roth will remain iu bed fur kuk time. JtwjmtTauff. MJMlSK.l. Diphtheria has been on (he In crease lately In Omaha, and has been spreading iu the northern an 1 northwestern perls of Uie city so as to occasion considerable nUrm. Tlie mortality lias not been lafrge, but a panic exists nnd th sehocl attendance attend-ance in Uie localities mud a'JVctnl lia fallen efi" very rajiWy. In the Walnut Hill sehvol, cut f a total enrollment of 333 pupils there La niw an atteuJacreof only 130. One of tliepri tclpal cauacs cf the. rpre-id ef Uie disease la Ihcught to be the fact that the occu(auts of the houses remove Uie warning placards tacked ui by order of Uio Board of Health |
