Show NEWS NOTES A peculiar accident happened in the vicinity or of freshwater frech water cat cal chrit christ mas maa evening while engaged in trimming Chri etwas trece ethel etner getcho betchell loss an eye she requester reque her bar brother to band her a pair of sc leBora lemora he throw threw them hem to her bet with some ome violence striking tn kini her la in toe the left eye ye entirely destroying the eight harry waldby a bank cashier of adrian mich keeps many oaf cats la in his bie barn when asked why be did this thia he be said when I 1 got get up in the morning and things go wrong bitu the birou girl and the children and the household generally I 1 don dont ft scold and storm I 1 just bet grab an ax and go out to the barn and kill a oat A sailor bailor named william Brown Brownjr from om the ship queen of england waft wab run over and badly mutilated near port Cos taCal on IS sturdy Bt au aday night brown was waa seen sh afore midnight witti some other d dahlien V on sailors and after leaving them w waa a killed by one of the freight trains traina that pass pace about that time lime but was waa not found until about 2 in the morning the unfortunate man was waa about 65 55 years of age a and tid leaves kavee no relatives in this thia country so far as aa to ie known A badly decomposed body wae waa found floating in the bay near port costs coeta calon calion saturday morning it boa baa been Id identified entitled BB as that of one gus andersook anderson Anderso ov who for some home years was a well known character oter along the water frost of lat inte yeara eyears adderson has earned his bia living by digging claws clams and as he be drank to excess it Is ie supposed be fell overboard while drunk he leaves relatives residing in ban francisco the ban joaquin and kids river biver canal and irrigation company cal ass filed upon inches of the water of the san ban joaquin river the pol point nt of division being near the june junction of the river ant ana fresno freano slough blough rne estate of miller lux is the principal stockholder and the purpose of the filing is to contract the water sup ply of the san ban joaquin it to la under stood that a couple of large canals areto be built south and west of the river for the irrigation of land in fresno and merced coun countice tibe A distressing and probably fatal accident napp happened ened at R jund mountain house bouee twenty three miles northeast of fresno cal on friday night santa claus was waa nearly neaily burned to death the school house stands in a sparsely settled district out oat W 0 the lioe lide of the road and with little facilities tor for communication with the world Cent centerville erville Is ia the nearest town when it was known that santa claus claua was going to visit the round bound mountain tain befool house and that a corlet man maa tree was among the attractions the children flocked to the place train far and near the mothers and grown astern of tine the little ones onea were there too and a score or two of men went to see lee the run lun there were over persons in the school building when the accident happened the Cori christmas umas tree with colored takers burning buro loic amid the evergreen branches bra nohea and their gifts was immediately in front of the rostrum at the appointed time santa sant claus r represented resented by george brown who jives at bound mountain made his appearance he was waa got up in the usual icyie with white looks looka and beard sod and a liberal application of cotton batting to represent the now abow clinging to his bia garments in mailing in making his bia way past pait the tree santa claus WB was seemingly a trifle confused by the joyous shouts of the children for or he be go got too loo near the tree and one of the abe candles set ei fire to the inflammable man of cotton within halt half a minute santa claus claua was waa wrapped in flamed two or three men in the audience had bad the presence of mind to prevent the unfortunate man from ble bin purpose of rushing down this the center stale aisle sod and out into the open air the poor fellow was waa forcibly hold held before be reached the door and the flames were extinguished by boats freely torn lorn off by the wearers bearers to wrap around the abe suffer eVe face land and body meanwhile the crowd in the me schoolhouse burst out by every possible exit every window had bad a sash mash torn out and a number of women and children child roya were out by the fallen glass or bruised in be scramble to escape it is not known exactly how bow many were hurt or what their names are but a dozen oases cases are under care brown unfortunate cause and victim of the trouble may not live jive to act the part of santa claus again he is burned on the lace face arms and hands bands quite badly sod and nas also shown siglo of a sarious shook to the system |