Heroic Deed Of A Mother

Bakbbspield, Cal., July '.!■". - Mrs. Jonathan Curnow, living on a ranch ncar here, Tharaday attempted to start a fire with kerosene when an explosión occurred and she was wrappcd in flames trom hcad to foot She rushed toward a pool of water, but bcfore she reached it her elothes were burned off and her flrsh was terribly charred. She then found the house on fire, in which her two children were sleeping. With bleeding hands and entirely naked she pumped water and extinffuished the flames and su ved her children. Then she fainted. The doctors give sniall hopes of her recovery. EtevcliquRke in Indiana. EvA.Nsvii.i.i:. hul.. July 27. - At 8:30 last eveniny this city experienced .a severe earthii i':r shock. The entire town uas thiown into a panic, conretratiims in al] 'h churches rose to their feet in the m.tlst of the service and ran peil mell into the Btreet, woraen and children screatning1 and fainting. The duration of the shock was scarcely more than tlirrc Becdnds, but it was long enoug'h to uuhousï nearly every man, woinan and child in Kvansville. No serious il. :,. r ,■ waa doae,