Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-09-03
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a Trick Horse to Journey in Mid-Air
Over Niagara Falls.

Trick Horse to Journey in Mld-Air
Over Niagara Falls
BUFFALO,, Sept. 2.-Now it is the great
Snowman, Adam Foregaugh. who is to
startle the world by his powers in dealing
with the national dangers of the great Nj
agara. AS his manager has announced, he
has decided to walk his horse Blondin over
a tight cable stretched on the brink of the
great cataract on September 18th. All the
arrangements are being made to that end
Thomas H. Davis, his representative, says:
"Blondin is a Morgan colt which Adam
Forepaugh bought near Westchester, Penn,
three years ago. He was four years old
last S1prmE ne is i4 bands high is
began training him at Philadelphia early
last fall to walk the rope. At first the
rope was placed but two feet from the
ground, but before the circus started out
he could do 21a-inch rope thirty feet long
ana m twenty feet from the ground. He goes
never yet had fall. He has no fear what
ever of falling, and don't think there is
any doubt but what he will 30 over the
Niagara gorge all right on still day.
He wears a patent rubber shoe and Is
very careful and sure-footed. 1t will
this, for it will be big card for the show
and still bigger one for the Madison
Square Garden next winter if he does it.
1t Is easier for a horse to walk rope than
a man, after he knows how, for he has
more legs to balance himself with. AMI
gence they possess. Blondin is of a mild
and tractable disposion. ! don't think he.
will be afraid at all, but if he should be.
Lester, who does the slackwire and turns
somersaults with boots and spurs on, will
60 with him. Cooke is at Niagara now
and rs soon as he gets the cable arranged
we shall begin advertising for Sept. 18TH"
A Desperate Encounter With a Prisoner.
CHICAGO, Sept.2.-A Times Joliet special
says: Mike Mooney. the prison Jumbo,
created whirl Of excitement in the prison
wire mill this afternoon by making a mur-
derous assault upon foreman, named Bur
rows The desperate murderer has been
watched very closely by the prison officials
since his return to prison on life term for
numbering his cell mate, John Anderson.
Mooney seemed to attend closely to his
work until to-day. when he was repri-
manded by Foreman Burrows for not
keeping up the fires in the annealing fur
mace, it being Mooner's duty to stoke the
furnace with long iron poker and keep
the wire red hot When spoken to by Bur
rows the desperate quickly drew his poker
from the furnace and attempted to drive
the point of hot iron into the body of the
foreman. Burrows saw the danger just in
time to ward off the blows by sprnging to
one side and fled down the shop for his life
with the giant Mooney and his toasting fork
in close pursuit Burrows sprang through
the side door out of the devilish convict's
reach. Mooney attempted to follow, but
Officer Pettis, shop guard, made a grab
for the stoking iron and succeeded in
Wrencbing it from the desperate mans
hands. Mooney then turned upon the
guard and struck him several blows upon
the head with fish bar. Superintendent
Paulson came up behind Mooney and at
tempted to pinion his arms, but Mooney
turned around and threw Paulson half
way across the shop. Burrows then hit
Mooney with his fist and knocked him
down, but the desperate was up again in
an instant, glarng about for some weapOr
with which he mightAstrik death blow
BY this time the convicts in the shops
were in fever of excitement, and half
dozen Of them made rush for Mooney.
A burly negro convict picked up stick of
wood with which he dealt Mooney a fear
full blow upon the head, but it did not stag
gerhim. The two convicts clinched and fell,
the negro being on top with his hands
clinched about Moneys throat. 1t was all
the guard and foreman could do to keep
back the other convicts who were diving
to get at Mooney and if they had been al
lowed to reach him, they would undoubted-
ly have taken his life, as the convicts in
the wire mill most thoroughly detess
Mooney for the brutal murder of his inof-
fensive cellmate, Anderson. The negro
came pretty near ending Moneys career
! by choking him, but the officers pulled the
negro off and took Mooney to the solitary,
where he was thrust into cell. Before
reaching there he was loud in his threats
against the life of Burrows
Camp Hancock.
ST. PAUL, Sept. aberdeen special to
the Pioneer Press: Arrangements at Camp
| Hancock are completed. Nineteen comma