Show WIFE OF MACHINIST TAKES A DOSE OF strychnine left letters explaining that her life had been an unhappy one street car struck by lightning home destroyer by fire i A dose of strychnine ended the 1 of clr coursey at her home no 44 first west street lake yesterday morning the dead wu man was the wife of john V course a in the employ of the salt jake machine company letters left by the unfortunate woman give the only known reasons for her raeh act they are given here as they were found CONTENTS OF LETTERS ff salt lake city june 9 jno F course y this is the last letter you will ever receive from rue as 1 I intend fo take my life and I 1 hope to make a good job of it do not blame anyone for I 1 am doing it all on my own accord and I 1 am sure I 1 will never bother you again 1 put all of your in my trunk you can do with things as you like you will find a note to my sister and one to my brother you can send them rif you dike you will also find a set of silver and forks in the birawer ri rawer you can return them to edards store for I 1 only got them sata and I 1 did not pay anything on mbeni I 1 guess ami all oil yesa will put my opal ring on my finger and I 1 rike if when am in ath but you can take my wed ding ting kofl if you want to f wilt now say goodby I 1 dont chink anyone will grieve over inc 4 FROM YOUR WIFE po nac blame me for what I 1 affa going to do I 1 will leave roy keys under the mattries under my bed to her sister mrs frank who lives at muscoda Mu scoda wis she wrote my darling sister dolly I 1 am going to eleen now and if I 1 never wake up I 1 I 1 will die of a broken heart from your loving eister MINNIE dolly dont grieve over me for my life been a very happy one to a brother at canon city colo mrs coursey wrote mr george W castlebury canon city colo my dear brother I 1 guess this will be the last you ever hear from me as I 1 am going to take a long sleep and rest s I 1 am so tired of this life it sunshine so I 1 will say goodba from your loving sister MINNIE the story told the police after the body was found is that mrs coursey left her home the evening before os to visit a neighbor she did not return until after her husband left for work yesterday morning she then washed the dishes ayt her house in order took a bath and creased herself in clean linen locked the doors and took the poison her groans brought neighbors to the horns and dr W F beer was summoned he did all in his power to restore her but he was too late and the woman was dead before the arrival of the police aside from the information contained in the letters found in alie bouw houw no reason can be for the suicide the neigh knew of no domestic trouble VERDICT AGAINST WOODMEN in the case of retta sterling against head camp pacific jurisdiction wood men of the world which has been on trial before district judge lewis the jury brought in a verdict in favor of he plaintiff for the suit wag by the plaintiff to secure e in the sum of 2000 due her as the beneficiary named in the certificate of her husband C sterling deceased who was a member of goodmen woodmen of the j world at the time of his death FIHE AT HOME OF J J THOMAS the beautiful suburban residence of councilman J J thomas was completely destroyed by fire at 1 this morning mr thomas was awakened by the smell of smoke and in a few minutes heard a crackling noise Itu shing upstairs he found the house on fire his daughter who was the only other occupant of the house at the time he quickly awakened and then turned in the alarm from his own telephone mr thomas and his daughter succeeded in getting a few of the valuables out of the house and a half dozen neighbors were quickly on the ground to render assistance they made heroic efforts to belve the furniture but only a faw pieces could be saved A terrific baet wind vaa steadily blowing and an outbuilding to the west caught fire and j was alo destroyed mr thomas could not state what the loss was but he thought it would be between and it is partly covered by insurance the north bench fire department was quickly on the gnp but the fire had gained such headway and the wind was blowing such a gale that all effort seem pd fruitless until the fire died away of its cwi accord STRUCK BY LIGHTNING lightning played havoc with the elec wires telephones and street cars I 1 in the city yesterday afternoon during ali severe thunder and rainstorm that whited salt lake reports from outside places show eliat the damage was not entirely local considerable destruction having been done in towns south of here the telephone company suffered mot mo t severely A second south street car was set afire the car was crowded and was a panic for a few moments but the fire did little damage and no one was hurt the storm is one of the heaviest that has visited the city in some time in a half hours time more that a half inch of water fell the whole caly was given a thorough washing A heavy fall of hail accompanied the rain the storm of local origin appeared in the form of a heavy through not large cloud that hung in inky blackness above tho city suddenly there wae a blinding flah and a streak of fire seemed to pasq across attic whole city it was followed by a crash that shook the tall buildings it was this flash that did the most damage here car no on the fort douglas line was in front of the salt lake floral companas comp anys green houses as the flash camp it struck the wire and in an instant the whole car seemed wrapped in flames people on the street aaa a flash and a volume of smoke rise from th car as if had been an explosion of powder the fuses of the car wore burned out and th e curtain were et afire they were burned considerably but the rain soon extinguished the flames else the car would probably davd been badly damaged the people on the car act the shock |