The national leader., 1889-03-23


vertically. which as the elevator reached
the top struck the ceiling, and the
strain upon the light rope broke the
cog wheel controlling the drum which
at once gave way, causing the elevator
to fall. A fourth man who was on the
elevator saw the danger and jumped
from the elevator to the fourth floor.
"A despatch from Parkersburg,
West Virginia, says that Detective
Baldwin and an armed posse, who
went into the wilds of Wyoming and
Mcdowell counties to hreak up gang
of illicit distillers, have been sur
rounded and their lives are threatened.
The moonshlner band is made up of
noted desperadoes, who for three years
have defied the law. Thirty have been
captured, and it was while attempting
to arrest forty more the officers were
entrapped.
The boiler in Whitney & Tuttle's
saw mill at Pound, Wisconsin, burst
on the morning Of the 18th, wrecking
the building. Otis Clement was killed.
and August Regel, Frank Greenman,
Julius GOkey. Henry Dewey, Frank
FOrcea and Philip 6oodchild were Sc
yerely injured. 1t is feared some of
the Injured will not recover. Josiah
Rhodes and his mother were drowned
while trying to cross the Ohio river in
a boat at PomerOy. Ohio, on the 18th.
Peter Nearshalsky, the miner who was
imprisoned for 81 hours at Black Dia-
mond Colllery, at Mount Carmel. Pa,
and who was liberated on the 18th,
died on the 18th from nervous exhau5-
tion and internal injuries.
Constable Harnishfeger from Los
Angeles, California, to Garvanza will
lage on the 18th to arrest B. S.
Sprague, an old man, for beating his
little girl. Sprague shot and fatally
wounded the constable and then opened
fire on his deputies. The deputies
returned to the city and gave the
alarm and posse started after Sprague.
During the battle which followed
Sprague was shot through the abdo.
men and fatally wounded. Sprague is
thought to have been insane
1t is reported that gold and silver
in paying quantities have been discov-
cred in Sweat Grass Hills, 55 miles
northwest of Big Sandy, Montana, and
that miners in Eclipse Gulch are max
ing from $50 to $50 a day. Men from
all parts of Montana and Dakota are
flocking 10 the new fields. without
making adequate provision for subsis-
tence. 1t Is feared that famine will
follow, as supplies cannot be taken to
the ground fast enough to feed every
body.
An express tain on the Inter-
Colonial Railway cOllided On the 10th
with o special freight train near
Rimonski Station, Quebec. Both en-
gines, the baggage Car and two freight
cars were wrecked. Four train hands
were killed and two injured. The
passengers escaped injury. In drilling
out an unexploded blast of dynamite at
the Cumberland Hydraulic Cement
Company's tunnel in Cumberland,
Marylan on the 10Th, an explosion
occurred whereby Joseph Hammer
smith and Joseph Wegman were
fatally, and Noah Long and Solomon
Moore severely injured.
Eight tramps forced an entrance to
the Midland depot, in Anderson, lndl-
ana, on the evening of the 18th, and
took possession. About thirty citizens,
armed with poles and barrel staves, led
by the town marshal, went to the
depot and formed gauntlet along the
railroad. Through these lines Of men
the tramps were forced to run, their
speed being accelerated by heavy blows
well laid on by the men. The tramps
were numerically whipped, the blood
trickling from many of them by the
time they had reached the end OF the
gauntlet.
Three cases of drowning In Chesa-
peake Bay were reported in Baltimore
on the 10Th. They all occurred during
the wind storm on the evening of the
10th. John Manoughs, of New York,
was washed overheard from the bug.
eye Pinto, and was drowned In spite Of
the efforts to save him. Solomon j.
Hall, Of Baltimore, was missed from
the slope Undine, while che lay at
Oxford, Md. His hat and boots were
found on the wharf on the morning OF
the 18th. John Cooper, also of Balti-
more, was drowned from the schooner
julia while In the city dock, Annapolis.
"A despatch from Indianapolis,
Indiana, says that the shortage Of John
E. Sullivan, the County Clerk, 80 far
discovered, is about S35. 900 in the trust
funds. In addition to this he Sc
cured SIS 900 from the County Treas
ury by fraud.
by the burning of dwelling near
Baldwinsvilie. Massachusetts,. on the
afternoon OF the 10th, Mrs. aussell,
aged 70 years, and two daughters.
aged respectively s and Is years, OF
neighbor named Truehart, lost their
lives. W. H. Albright, fireman on
Baltimore and Ohio freight engine. was
on the 10Th missed by his engineer