The national leader., 1889-05-04

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Indianapolis is reported to be
flooded with counterfeit $40 greenbacks,
which are part of lot printed on an
island near st. Louis IN 1878.
Engineer j. S. Burns and Fireman
James Merriman were killed on the
26th by a train running into wash
out On the Richmond and West Point
Railroad. near West Point, Virginia.
Charley Dickman, aged 5 years.
and his 0-year old cousin. John Hexa-
mer, quarreled over a play ground at
Malvern, Carroll county, Ohio, on the
9th ult. Hexamer, becoming en-
ragged, seized a shot gun and shot
Charley Dickman in the head, intlict.
ing wound from which he soon after
died. The Hexamer boy was knocked
down and seriously injured by the fir
ing Of the shotgun. William Summers
was shot and killed at West Plains,
Missouri, on the evening of the 25th
nlt. by A. Livingston, lawyer. Sum-
mers was well known throughout the
State. Both men hal been drinking
and quarrel arose over bond.
Webber. editor of the Ifepublacan Daily
Ledfet, attempted to shoot General
Powell Clayton in saloon in Little
Rock, Arkansas, on the morning of The
9th ult. Both were arrested. A
political quarrel is said to be the cause
of the trouble.
Willis s. A. lyle, of st. Albans,
and Frank P. Collins, of Fairfield,
Maine, were drowned at Aroostook
Falls on the 9th ult. The Lehigh
Valley Railroad had washout, 80 feet
long and eight feet deep, on its east
track, at Pine Hollow, Penna., on the
9th ulI.
"A despatch from Portland. Oregon,
says that Peter Hanson. Peter Boomer,
John Larsen and Lawrence Maelstrom
were drowned, at the cascades. on the
Columbia river. on the evening of the
26th ult. The men were all employed
at the locks and the canal on Govern
ment work. Their boat was caught in
the whirl, and, despite all efforts, was
swept over the rapids. When about
half way down the boat struck on the
rocks, was thrown 20 feet IN the air,
and the occupants were pitched into
the roaring, angry waters. Three
Of the men never rose to the surface
, again. The fourth man clung to the
perished. None of the bodies have
| been recovered. The terrible accident
was witnessed by many persons on
shore who were pOWerless to render any
| assistance.
"A dynamite bomb was exploded
under a wooden building in Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the morning of the Goth
ult., shattering the building and smash
Ing the windows of neighboring houses.
Four of the inmates were injured. The
house was occupied by Michael Voek.
Hungarian, and countryman of
his, known as John Smith, has been
arrested on the charge of having placed
the bomb. Twelve of tle gang who
have been depredating near McClel-
landtown, in Fayette county, Penna.
have been captured. They were sur
rounded and captured by Sheriff's
posse of forty men, and were taken to
Somerset on the 10Th ult., and lodged
in Jail.
John F. Hartt, of Boston, Massa-
chusetts. who was injured in the wreck
On the Santa Fe road. near Lorenzo,
Illinois, on April 10th, died at Mercy
Hospital, in Chicago, on the 28th ult.
One of the walls of Blocks Theatre,
In Altoona, Pa, which was burned
about two months ago, fell at noon on
the Goth ult and crushed to death John
W. Keller. aged II years.
Nicholas Chick, an aged German,
was run over and killed In Cumber-
land, Nd, on the 30th., by an engine
while picking coal i'll the yard of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. George Schultz, aged years,
was accidentally killed on the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad bridge
over Gwynn's Falls. on the evening of
the 10Th ult. He was walking on the
outer rail and was struck by the steps
of a train and knocked off.
During an exhibition of fireworks
in Chicago, on the evening of the Both
ult., about 30 people were badly In
jured, some by being crushed and
others by serpentine piece of fire.
works, which struck portion Of the
crowd and wormed its way through.
While Nelson Battery was firing a
national salute in Selma. Alabama, on
the 30th ult., Jessie Russell was dan.
gerously wounded by the premature
discharge Of cannon. Floyd Rice,
colored, feel through the dome of the
Richmond Theatre In Richmond, Vir-
ginia, on the evening of the Both ult.
while hauling down an American flag,
and was instantly killed. The dis
tance was 10 feet.
Jacob D. Shaulis, a wealthy far
mer, go years old, was found dead
hanging to tree back of his residence,
in Jefferson Township, Pa, on the