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Show NORTHWEST NOTES in . hi .... m !.. ... . t Mrs. Joseph Hagerty, of Butte, whoso husband committed suicide last week after shooting her and her children, chil-dren, is dead. Harry Hart, a well-known young man eighteen years of ago, loot his life just west of Livingston, Mont., whilo-attempting whilo-attempting to board a moving freight train. Tho year-old son of Mr. and Mrs-John Mrs-John C. Toland died at Union, Ore., last week from tho effects of the bito-of bito-of a woodtlck, causlng-parnlysis of the-throat the-throat and blood poisoning. Whilo playing In tho Cooper orchard orch-ard near Wcnatcheo, Wash., tho two sons of Fred Cooper, aged 11 and 9' years respectively, wore struck by lightning and killed. Two sranller children chil-dren woro stunnod. Whilo out picking wild strawber ries on the hills near Portland, Media Boehror was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Her body was found by n searching party, her father being at tho head of tho numbor. A dispatch from Grand Encampment, Encamp-ment, Wyo., says Mrs. Dot Wilson, alias Miss May Shipley, Is dead from a doso of poison, sclf-adminlslcrcd. Tho woman was onco tho wife of a prominent mining man of Colorado. Mrs. Clementlno D. Rosier, aged 38, committed suicldo at Butte whilo temporarily tem-porarily Insane. She blew hor head off with a 44-caliber revolver. Her husband Is foreman of tho Montana Ore Purchasing company's smelter. According to advices from Reno, Nevada, a largo party of surveying en- gincers has been at work in tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of BecWwlth Pass, making .linos for tho Western Pacific road- which is to bo built through tho mountains. moun-tains. A doublo tragedy took placo twolvo miles oast of Eugene, Ore., on tho 1st. John Richards shot and killed his sis-tor sis-tor and hor husband, Sanford Skinner, Skin-ner, following repeated quarrels ovor family matters. Richards is under arrest. ar-rest. Lancelot Steele, tho lu-yoar-old son- t ,o&,omasSteelo of mica. Mont..,. I ,whlloouUhuntlngtwlthfJ,l.Valtq,1Jn.VWP'a!J and ' Bradley Waito was instanTly " killed by a big boulder, which beenmo iK dislodged in somo mannor and rolled B over him. Olovia Stnumbaugh, a Lakovlew, I Oregon, schoolgirl, was fatally burned on tho hillside near tho school, while I several of tho children wero playing. I Ono of tho small boys lighted a little- I bonfire, nnd the Stnumbaugh girl's I clothes caught. Henry Arao, tho Japaneso murderer of a Spoknno Chlneso, Sam Chong, was hanged at tho penitentiary at Walla Walla, Wash., at an early hour-Saturday. hour-Saturday. The murderer was unusunl- ly brave throughout the ordeal and died in twenty-two minutes, Edward Challenger, .Too Johnson and" Lentz Borst, being hold awaiting trial at Choteau, Mont., escaped from tho Toton county jail nnd aro still at largo. Johnson and Borst cut their way out of tholr cells with a fllo mado of a casoknlfo, procured tho Jailor's keys, and weapons from his offlco during dur-ing his absence, and released Challenger. Chal-lenger. George J. Klndel, a well-known manufacturer man-ufacturer of Denver, has been arrested ar-rested on tho charge of having criminally crimi-nally libeled tho late Henry II. Hyde, founder of tho Equltablo Llfo Assurance Assur-ance society, by printing his picture In a circular between those of two outlaws, ovor tho Inscription: "Ktn-del's "Ktn-del's Gallery of Dead Cheaters." Tho dead body of Oliver Atkins, a young man living In Aldridgo, a coal camp near Livingston, Mont., who disappeared dis-appeared last winter while hunting, has beon found In a like. Ho evidently evi-dently was drowned whilo trying to. cross on the ice. Killing Ernost Hickman or Oregon. City In. a saloon row at Pralrio City, Ore., six weeks ago, may cost Marshal W. H. Lucy of Prairie- City, a term Jn tho penitentiary. Ho has just boon found guilty of manslaughter, but his case will be appealed. Dick Anwlno. owner of n lmrhAr- shop in Casper, Wyo., has been missing miss-ing for several days, and an Investigation Investiga-tion shows that ho lias loft many creditors cred-itors in tho lurch. Tho mon who woro working in his shop havo taken stops for tho recovery of their wages, The cavo-in at the United Verdo mino, at Joromo, Ariz., on May 22, proves to bo loss oxtonsivo than at lirst reported. United States Senator iW. A. Clark, of Butto, owner of, tho property, lias received a report that tho'plant Is running ugalhl'lacklng one. (ifu'rnaco; . - |