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A Furious Cow. — The Star oi May i8, 1889, says: 

 ' ' A cow having a calf broke away from a band that was being driven 

 to the Union market slaughter-house, and charged eastward at full speed, 

 bent on mischief. On Summit Avenue a child was saved from being run 

 down by running into the house, and on reaching Marengo Avenue the 

 maddened animal saw a crowd coming from the Friends church, where a 

 meeting had been held. She first made for Wilson Kirk (whose wife was 

 hurt by another cow a short time ago), knocked him down, then directed 

 her fury against Mrs. Williams, a lady of Modena who was attending the 

 meeting, catching her on her horns and throwing her high in the air. Mr. 

 Kirk was but slightly hurt, but Mrs. Williams was cut in the face and in- 

 jured about the limbs. The next person in the path of the bovine hap- 

 pened to be Jonathan W. Bailey, one of our venerable and well-known 

 citizens, whom she knocked down and gored, breaking his collar bone, 

 bruising his face, and probably injuring him internally. Mr. Kirk and oth- 

 ers beat off the cow with clubs, when she made for a buggy, but was 

 stopped by a shot fired by the herder. Two charges of shot and a bullet 

 from a Winchester were required to bring the animal down. Mr. Bailey 

 was taken into O. Burlingame's residence, and Drs. Grinnell and Dixon 

 called, who dressed his wounds." 



THREK CHII^DREN BURNED TO DEATH. 



The Pasadena Standard oi September 21, 1889, reports : 

 "Wednesday night about half after ten o'clock a house occupied by 

 Mrs. Beaton on Orange Grove Avenue below California street caught fire 

 and burned to the ground. Three little boys, aged three, five and ten 

 years, were burned to death. • 



" lyittle Johnny and his sister Mary were asleep in one room, while 

 Willie and the baby were in their mother's bed in the adjoining room. The 

 children had all retired about half past seven o'clock. The mother sat up 

 sewing till after ten, then went up-stairs with a large kerosene lamp, nearly 

 full of oil. She set it down on a box, and went to see if the children were 

 all right in the other room, when somehow not known the lamp fell to the 

 floor and broke, spreading the oil, and instantly the room was all ablaze. 

 She grasped a quilt from the bed and tried in vain to smother the fire with 

 it, getting badly burned herself in the effort. I^ittle Mary, only seven 

 years old, jumped up, called to Johnny, then ran to the window and broke 

 it out with her bare feet and hands, getting them severely cut, climbed out 

 on the little porch roof, and from there into an orange tree and down to the 

 ground. The up-stairs rooms were low, half-story attics, and the blaze of 

 the oil reached to the roof slopes, and caught quickly into curtains, bed- 

 clothes, and hanging-garments. Mrs. Beaton finding it impossible to reach 

 the younger children through the doorway, got out on the porch roof to try 

 to break through the other window and so get to them ; but the room was a 

 mass of flame, and she was in extreme agony both from having drawn 

 flame and smoke into her throat and lungs, and mental anguish for her 

 children, so that she sank powerless, and jumped or fell from the roof into 

 Mr. John Withiel's arms, he being the only person who had yet reached the 

 scene. In a few minutes Rev. Geo. P. Kimball got there, then Rev. D. D. 

 Hill and others. But ere this the three little boys were suffocated, and en- 

 tirely beyond reach of human aid, the whole up-stairs of the house being 



