Show NEWS NOTES items gathered from various sources on thursday last at rawlins kawlins wyoming john smith a section hand band on the union pacific was struck by a passing train and fatally injured wichita kas april 11 A most distressing tres ing accident occurred this evenin evening g to claude the 2 year old son of jamee jame e benton B enton the little boy with his bis 4 year old brother was playing playing with a ver when the latter ho bending diug the firearm close to claudes head pulled the trigger the revolver was loaded with a blank cartri duce and exploding filled the little fellows face with powder blowing out both his eyes lie he now lies in intense pain and his bis life is despaired of nogales A T april ll 11 charles john zimmermann en engineer gincer at the yards here was shot and instantly killed on the street last ni tit at 12 by john Sher mau a ii larmer lr of texas the remains of the deceased will be taken to tucson for interment by the brotherhood of locomotive firemen zimmermann came to this territory from california sherman has not yet been arrested but it is said that he be will give himself up says the longmont Long mont colorado ledger bairds bairas minstrel troupe wis was billed to show in the dickens opera house last week but did not give eive their promised entertainment because there was no audience to listen to their old musty jokes tickets for reserved seats were on sale for a week prior prier to thursday evening but only a single one was sold there were five or six disposed of at toe the ticket office during the evening bairas bairds minstrels have evidently outgrown their clothes the management is carried away with the tae mistaken notion that the people must have the privilege of attending their show in order to live and so our citizens were charged one dollar for a ticket of adin admission is to the show while in towns north of here the prices were only 50 and 75 a cents the manager said if the people of longmont Leng Long mont were not willing to pay 1 for a ticket they could stay at home and that is precisely what they did denver april 12 C W thomas a switchman employed in the union pacific yards was run over and instantly killed near the twenty third street viaduct last evening about 10 thomas was attempting to make hakea a coupling at the time and was walking along between the movin cars when his bis foot was caught in a frog before he could extricate himself he was knocked down by the car behind him and in an instant the heavy wheels had bad passed over his bis arms and trunk severing the one from his body and horribly mangling his chest and shoulder the iron stay rod of the brake beam penetrated the baft of bis head inflicting an injury tal have been fatal his fellow switchmen saw his lamp fall to the ground and hastening to the spot found his bis lifeless remains ayi lying ng under the car his bis body was removed outside the rails and aad the police and coroner notified deceased was was unmarried about 30 years of age and came caine to denver several 1 years ago from wheeling west virginia where ills his parents reside he contemplated a visit home and had bad partially arranged for the trip when an unforeseen accident terminated his bis life |