The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-09-24
West and South.

west n South.
A DUEL was fought at Terrene, Miss, be-
tween Leland Leatherman, mayor of Arkansas
City, and James Rucker, a prominent attorney
of the same city. The difficulty grew out o
certain rulings made by Mayor Leatherman in
a case in which Mr.. Rucker was professionally
engaged. Both combatants were wounded al
ths first fire. Leatherman was hit in the arm
and Rucker received a wound in the eide which
it was believed would prove fatal.
THE fair grounds at Kansas City, Mo WEI.
densely crowded with sishtseers when a fir,
broke out in the main hall of the exhibition
building, and the people fled in every direction
trampling on one another in their efforts to es-
cape. The flames soon spread to the grand
stand, where II, 900 persons were watching thu
races. The people fled in terror, but many fell
and were trampled upon and "a large number
were manned or mutilaied. Thebecuniary los
is about $685. 00s
GOVERNOR JEROME, of Michigan, has issue
a PROCLAMATION to the people of the Unite
States appealing for aid for the Mlchiga
sufferers by forest fires. He says that the de
s.ructlon Of property will be great in the foul
counties affected, and in some townships com
plete and that 200 lives have been lost b,
burning and suffocation, while many have be-
come helpless through injuries and exposure
and some are blind. h number of men
women ard children left without shelter is est
mated at Is 900, and the destitution prevailing
in the suffering counties is appalling.
A FIRE at Austin, Nev., destroyed twent
buildings, entailing a loss of about 100000
CLEMENT GALLON, the murderer Of Thomas
Daily and wife, was hanged at Cambridge, III
A CHICAGO dispatch says that the schooner d
Il. Van valkenburg, corn laden, for Buffalo
went down with all hands, consisting of about
six persons, off whitefsh bay.
FIVE men clearing atrack for a new railroad
near Mulsnomna Falls, Columbia river, Oregon
were drowned while crossing the river.
AN extraordinary case is reported from
Frederick county, Nd, where DR.. Harrison
Wagner-until about two years ago considered
to be helplessly insane-in the fall Of 1875
caused much amusement by going before q
country magistrate and entering several hun
dred suits for damages against leading citizens
in all parts OF the county who had never seen
or had dealings withhim. The amount of dam
ages sued for in each case was between $50 and
500, the limit for which suits can be brought
before magistrates in Maryland. No attention
was paid to the supposed ~lunatic's suits, and
the cases were soon forgotten, but were severa.
times recalled to memory by notices of hum
dreds ofother suits being brought by Wagner,
who frequently entered as high as one
hundred claims against one person. Early
in 1880 Wagner disappeared from public
notice, but in the fall of that year the entire
community was thrown into a furore of excite.
ment when it was learned that Wagner had
commenced proceedings to enforce judgments
in /. 800 of the suits. 1t was then learned for
the first time that the persons sued, having
failed to appear before the magistrate to an,
swer. judgments had been entered in each case
for the amount named in the complaint. Wag-
ner made no effort to collect the judgments
until q year had expired, when by law the
power of appeal had lapsed. In November
iast. therefore, h was possessed of 1900 judy
ments, averaging SIS each, against about 800
county residents and corporations, Each judg-
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