Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-07-13
EASTERN NEWS.
Another Dare Devil Act at the Falls
Of Niagara Yesterday.
A PHILADELPHIA SWIMS THE
WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS.
A Strange Disease Creates a Panic
in a Wisconsin Town.
A. MISSISSIPPI MAYOR MURDERS A
NEGRO.
A Break for Liberty by
Convicts.
WOUNDED FEELINGS, MURDER
AND SUICIDE.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESTINEL.l
Daring Fent.

BUFFALO, N. u, july Livery ie" VI
the thousands of persons who visited
| the Niagara Falls to-day bad any idea that
an adventurous man would attempt to
swim the whirlpool rapids, in which Cap
tain Webb lost his life. For some time
past @. D. Graham has been making pre-
parations for the attempt, but few persons
| really believed that his courage would hold
out long enough for him to make it. Such,
however, was not the case, and at about 4
! o'clock this afternoon Graham started on
his perilous voyage, which he successfully
accomplished. Graham had told Mr.
Porter all about his plans, and related
that ho would carry them out in time. He
requested that his scheme be not given TO
the public for fear the authorities would
prevent his purpose. Accordingly, very
few were among the spectators. Graham
kept a cask, il which be intended to make
his trip, in a saloon in this city. At about
IL O'Clock last night he loaded it in a
wagon, and, accompanied by several
friends, started for the Falls. They
reached there about 4 O'Clock this morn
ing, aud unloaded the cask at o point on
the American side of the river below the
Falls. and about 800 rods above the Cati-
lener bridge. Policemen arrested him on
suspicion of being a Tonawanda horse
thief, but his Buffalo friends secured bis
release on bail. When everything was
ready Graham go. into the barrel, and
closed the man-hole at the top. At this
point OF the river the current Is very
slight. A small boat towed the cask out
into the river to a point where the current
would catch it, ard where Graham was
started on what might have proved his trip
to eternity. The towing process took
only a few minutes, and the stream
caught the cask and started it towards the
whirlpool. At first it moved slowly down,
aud then faster and faster, until the mad
| current dashed it on with full force. The
cask bounded up and down over the great
| waves, and several times turned a COM
| plete somersault. but the wider portion re-
manned uppermost. although IL turned
around like q top. The cask kept pretty
we'll in The middle of the river, until 1t
reached the whirlpool, when il struck a
strong side current, and was carried
swiftly through, reaching the waters be-
yond in safety. From here the journey
was comparatively quiet. The cask was
picked up at Lewiston, five miles below
the starting point, and Graham crawled
out OF the barrel with only a slight bruise
on his arm. lie remarked: When L
struck the eddies il was one continued
round of Jerks, but / am not hurt q bit.
| Graham is . native of Philadelphia, 33
years old, and a cooper by trade. He is a
poor man, and did this thing for glory.
| The cask is seven feet long, 80 inches in
diameter at the widest portion. 90 inches
at the top, and 10 inches at the bottom.
It is bound with iron hoops. which weigh
| $50 pounds. The ballast, which was at
tached to the cask to keep 1t in position,
weighs $40 pounds. Graham will prob
ably repeat the trip. He says he will go
over Horse Shoe Falls.
A Strange Disease.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis, July 12.-Advices
received late tonight from Waterford. a
hamlet of 500 people, in Racine county,
Just beyond the borders of Milwaukee
county, are that the strange disease which
made it's appearance a few days ago Is
Spreading. Two deaths occurred. Six
others are expected. Forty have been
stricken with a virulent form; many others
| with u milder phase of the malady. The
people are terror.strieken, and the village
is being rapidly deserted. Stores are
| barred, schools closed, and the surround
ing towns have strictly quarantined the
place. The State Board Of Health to-day
made an investigation and found the
malady to be a species OF violent typhoid
fever. The attack produces delirium. 1t
wss introduced by q Milwaukee laborer,
who went, there sick. The receptacles
used by him were washed at a we'll. where
80 children wero attending a parochial
school. They drank the contaminated
water. Many OF these children are down
with the disease. II is reported the epi-
demic has spread to the n~eighboring town
OF Rochester.
A Seeker After NOtOrIety.
NEW YORK, July 10.-Colonel Glider. a
| Herald representative. will start this
evening on an exploring expedition Of I'M
known regions on the North American
| continent. He will take passage at New
| London, Connecticut. OF the northern
whaler Era. which will lay him on the
Cumberland Inlet. where he hopes. by q
bold dash, to reach the most northern
latitude yet touched. and. il possible.
plant the American standard on the North
Pole. Colonel Glider accompanied Lieu
tenant Schatka in his search for the re-
mains OF John Franklin's expedition. VIM.
Grifiths is the only white man who ac-
companies him. Glider will take with him
a number OF firearms and provisions for
one year. They propose to live principally
on fab and game. Glider expects TO find
an open sea to some extent, but not navi-
gableI
More MaiIabIe Articles.
WASHINGTON, July l2.-The Postmaster
General. in compliance with petitions
aligned by large numbers OF business men