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The national leader., 1889-09-07
A BRAVE DEED.
Engineer Meern's Perilous Journey in
Flooded Mine.

Forty-five men were at work in the ALE
gheny mine, thirteen miles from Cumberland,
Md, when the wall between it and the ad
joining worked-out Boston and Etna
mine gave way from pressure Of
water in the old mine. The water
flowed steadily in strong stream over four
feet in depth, and there were grave fears for
the men inside. Hours passed before any
relief could be given the prisoners, and dur
ing that time the scenes around the mouth Of
the pit were heartrending.
Finally the water subsided so that an en-
trance could be gained, and 81. P. Meern, the
mining engineer Of the company started
down in search Of the imprisoned
men. none of the outsiders being
willing to make the venture. After
wading through water, against a strong cur
rent up to his armpits, for the distance of
1900 feet, he came to a group of forty-three
men, who told him of man and boy i'm
prisoned in a distant room. No one would
go to their relief, but the engineer
started on again, and finding the
two. he placed the boy ON his shoulder and
bidding the man follow, turned back and
Joined the group. They seemed terrified
and without Judgment. They declined to
go forward, and did so only after Meern
had taken the lead with the child
on his shoulder. Fortunately all escaped.
Meerns courage in entering the ruins, the
hope and encouragement he gave the en-
tombed employees when he met them, may be
Justly considered their salvation.
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South and West.

AT the national encampment of the G. A.
r. at Milwaukee, resolution endorsing Cor
poral Tanner in his administration of the
affairs of the Pension Bureau was unanimous
ly adopted.
The office of the Times Record at Valley
City, Dakota, has been mobbed and every
thing destroyed. The editor is prohibition
list.
A. M. PULLIAM, formerly County Judge of
Hardlnsburg, KY, has been sent to the peni-
tentlary for fifteen years for murder.
FIRE has wiped out nearly the entire bus
ness portion of Dansville, Mich.
MRS. P E. BENNETT and her sister. Mrs.
Dodson, were killed at Milwaukee, Wis,
while returning from the g. A. R. celebra-
tion. Chicago and Northwestern engine
struck the buggy in which they were riding.
The Republicans of South Dakota in State
Convection assembled at Huron, nominated
A. {. Mellette, of Coddington, for Governor
by acclamation.
THE Citizens Bank at Prairie City. Iowa.
has failed, liabilities estimated at from S75
600 to 100000.
WILLIAM E. DENNY, the defaulting Post
master at Bonneville, Indiana, has confessed
to the District-Attorney that he lost the
whole amount, $65O0, at card playing.
THE Democratic State Convention of
North Dakota has nominated R. M. Roach
of Walsh County, for Governor, and full
State ticket
WILSON NoCKUM, a colored man, was
hanged at Piaquemine, La, in public, over
1000 persons witnessing the execution.
MRS. w. E. CHRISTIAN, nee Julia jackson.
the only child of Stonewall Jackson, died at
Charlotte, n. c., after two weeks illness of
typhoid fever.
A PRAIRIE fire ten miles wide swept the
Minnesota bottom lands. Hundreds of farm
ers lost all their hay and stock.
REIMUND HoLzHAY, live highwayman,
who has terrorized Northern Wisconsin for
months past, robbing trains, waylaying
stage coaches and holding up pedestrians,
has been captured. While robbing stage
recently he killed one of the passengers He
is twenty-five years old, and took to the life
of robber as the result of reading dime
novels.
THE late Henry Shaw the st. Louis mill
ionaire, left most of his property to that
city. The famous Shaw botanical garden
and park are left to st. Louis. His estate is
SAMUEL c.. SHowALTER, aged sixty-nine
years, of Dayton, Ohio, who submitted to an
injection of the alleged Brown-Sequard elixir
of life for rheumatism. has died of blood
poisoning.
MRS. GEORGE CooNs, of Little Sandusky,
Ohio, has died of Asiatic cholera. The peo-
pie there are greatly excited and many are
leaving the village.
A SALOON row between white and colored
men in Bibb County, Ala, the killing of John
Lawrence by two colored burglars, and the
lynching of the latter have caused much bad
feeling between the two races.
ABRAHAM SKIES and Jude Spring. of Ma
lad City, Idaho, killed each other in duel.
They both loved the same woman.
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Melvin Garlitz Hanged.

Melvin E. Garlitz has been hanged at
Cumberland. Md, for the murder of his
wife He showed no signs of fear on the
scaffold and died without extraordinary
lstz,cglipg
fora his exesat;pn as follows: Il desire to
express my gran appreciation of the
+,.ao +r,ent of the Yieriff and his family to
,,,a While in iail: also the constant and con-
n;dorata IA attention of the guards. I would
:Si1l ~ have seen my little daughter before
aiod and TO be buried beside my wife, but
nc u fatber-in-law refused both requests.
dis 2 without any malice in my heart toward
any person" os+ o+roo;o ,,o
a. March 26 last, he shot his wife five times
-. n AZ H. streets of Cumberland Md. He held
~ a. n1oanon so close to his victim that the
re JresS canght fire. Garlitz put out the fire be-
9lesI 9ars he 1 essaped to Martinsburg, w. Va. He
,a lua a,,r1resfed ny that night. His trial lasted
VIZ Mas days the jury bringing in verdict Of
sn4 ~ o Il murder In the first degree. He ap-
sur1.J5 IaIt the decision was sustained by the
our Gnr1;tz IT, el6ped with his victim, Leah Eva
,.H1;4l al lis beautiful girl. They were married
y, I1oT IP1eoTnnsylyania, but their married life did
~ a[s en happy, and separation followed.
no1 plooo M ooorrsed his wife of infdelity, and
Gaimsz 5i,,ls That upon her forced admission he
~Lo} her down.
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OVER NIAGARA FALLSS;saEE
A Mans Trip in a BarreI Over the
Cataract.

At last a man has taken the plunge with
Niagara's roaring torrent and emerged from
the chaos of waters to tell the story of the
foolhardy feat The man is Carlisle D. Graz
ham, young cooper, who, with his barreE
shaped craft, has been before the public foIs
some time past, and the trip was made abou1
A. NJ, in the presence of half hundred
spectators.
The inside of the barrel had been heavily
padded and straps putin SO that the occupant
could secure himself The barrel was towed
out into the river, and at Gas A. NJ. the
manhole was closed down and the
barrel was let go. In addition to the fastenz J
ing on the inside, croSs-bars were laid oveEl
the top of the manhole cover and fastened
with spring locks. -.
At 7:1O the barrel was seen to pass tveE
the falls about 200 feet from shore. Fog
a moment it was out Of sight!
= Then it appeared a few feet from the falls
and floated out into one of the strong eddieSs
Elmer Jones, an expert swimmer. was watchs
ing and as the craftswung around toward the
shore he plunged in and, catching one OF the
long ropes attached to the barrel, brought 10
in to the rocks At 7:35 the cover was taken
off and Graham lifted out in somewhat e1-
hausted condition.
was taken to his hotel, where he still remains
in bed. In describing his trip he
says the Whirlpool Rapids are Moth
ing compared with this. Going
over the many ledges, which look so small
from the shore, is like dropping from noun
tain. He thinks he was partially uncon-
scious when he went over the brink. All he
could realize was the going down and
down. There seemed to be no jar. But
the first thing I realized" said he,I
twas something striking the barrel and CALI
ing out: Graham. are you alive? real3
lied that had not the strength to undo the
fastening on the inside, and SO I called outs
For Gods sake, break the barrel to-
pieces and get me out as soon as you cam j
have had all of Niagara I want, and if'
any one wants to go over the falls they are
welcome to it / do not think l ever want to-
hear their roar again. Why, their noise is
something terrible. do not know what q
shall do next, but I shall not go over the falls
again. /!
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AN UMPIRE SLAIN.
Fatal Outcome of a Baseball Game
Played at Darlington, S. c.

A terrible tragedy has been enacted on the
baseball ground in the little town of Darl-
ington, S. c., just across the North Carolina
line. William Marshall, a clever young man,
the son of Captain Joseph t Marshall, of
Wadesboro, was killed, his slayer being Leon
Dargan, seventeen years old, the son of
George W. Dargan, Congressman from the
Sixth Congressional District of South Caro-
lina The game was being played by the
Darlington team against the Wadesboro
team and was umpired by William Marshall,
of Wadesboro, and a member of the home
team
At the end of the eighth inning Wadesboro
was in the lead by score of eight to four.
One of the Darlington men in attempting to
steal third base was decided out by the um-
pire There was great hubbub all over the
field accompanied by threats of violence A
dispute followed and during the excitement
young Dargan, Darlington's shortstop,
rushed up with a heavy bat in his hand and
with a mighty blow on the side of the head
felled Umpire Marshall to the ground like
log. Pistols. knives and bats were drawn and
a general riot seemed imminent Young
Marshall lay senseless on the ground with
blood freely oozing from his mouth, nostrils
and ears Only by the greatest exertion was
a bloody riot prevented. Marshall was carried
home and every attention given to him, but
he died. Dargan has been arrested.
The national leader., 1889-09-07
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.


j. K. TooLE has been nominated for Gov
ernor, Fl. Conrad for Lieutenant Governor.
and Martin Maginnis for Congress by the
Montana Democratic State Convention.
AN oil tank exploded in the penitentiary at
Columbus. Ohio which did damage to the
extent Of $50, 600.
TEN THOUSAND visitors and exhibitors
from all parts of the country were present at
the formal opening Of the Grangers' National
Exhibition grounds at Carlisle Penn.
THE Convention of the National Editorial
Association has been held at Detroit.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES celebrated
the eightieth anniversary of his birth at his
summer home at Beverly Farms Mass.
SHERIFF FLAcK, of New York city, owing
to the scandal caused by obtaining divorce
surreptitiously from his wife, has rendered
bis resignation to Governor Hill.
THE Erie Canal franchise including liabili-
ties has been sold at sheriff's sale for $1,000,
the purchaser being Colonel Thompson, at
torney for the Pennsy ylvania Railroad Com
panv.
TIE Vanderbilts have purchased the Beech
Greek Railroad in Pennsylvania enabling
them to form direct line from Philadelphia
to Chicago $50 miles shorter than any now
existing.
AN explosion of hot metal occurred in the
dOmeSUead SUeel w WOfKS OF carnegie, FhlppS
q Co., at Pittsburg, instantly killing Andrew
Kebbler and another workman and injuring
seven others, two, it was thought, fatally.
DARWIN A. HENRY, superintendent of
construction of the East River Electric Light
Company, of New York city, has been killed
by shock received at the switch board from
a live wire.
LABOR DAY was celebrated in all the large
cities by parades, merrymakings and mass
meetings Business was practically sus-
pended.
THREE apprentices on the United States
training ship New Hampshire, stationed at
Newport, R. l., died in one week of typhoid
fever. The other boys camped in tents on
the beach while the ship was being disin-
fected.
In the first eight months of this year 222,-
O56 emigrants arrived at New York as
against 294, 191 in the same time last year
A REUNION of Abolitionists will be held
September 90 in fremont Temple Boston, to
celebrate the anniversary of the issuing of
the Emancipation Proclamation. One thou
sand invitations have been sent out to anti
slavery men throughout the country.
YARMOUTH and Sandwich, Mass have
each celebrated the 250th anniversary of
their incorporation as towns.
PROFESSOR GEORGE L. GooDALE of Har-
ward University, has been elected President
of the American Association for the Ad-
vancemeut of Science.
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ITELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
interesting Budget of Late
Dispatches.
} Annual nu!a G. A. B. Encampment
at Milwaukee Adjourns.

20 NaUonal Encampment. G.. A. R., has
q its session at Milwaukee, Wis. The
lon question was again taken up and de-
"a at length. Finally a resolution was
pied affirming the action of the twenty
nd National Encampmant upon the mat
and mstructing the Pension Com
ZEE 10 use allpOssible means to secure legis-
pm IN accordance with the resolutions of
encampment By this action the en-
fpment ndorses both disability and per
% bills for the second time.
aJorlty and minority reports were sub
ted on the proposition of the Department
massachusetts, disfranchising past depart
nt commanders, and allowing them here
FER SIMPLY seats upon the floor of the en-
|npment as visitors. The effect of this
'uld have been to largely reduce the vot-
strength OF the future bodies. The reso-
bon was finally defeated by vote of 1877
|58.
An adverse report was presented and ap-
pved. upon the proposition to give the
lest Sons OF Veterans qualified member
lp in the order
. resolution favoring an amendment to
9 Pension laws by which soldiers widows
ould continue to receive pensions on re-
arrying was rejected.
A letter of thanks from Mrs Sheridan re-
ting to the insertion in the last report of
emorial sheet and picture of her deceased
sband was read by General Warner.
After the appointment of the Council of
administration General Warner expressed
5 appreciation Of the confidence and sup
,rt which had been extended him during
S term of office and introduced his success
r. General Alger The new Commander-in-
hief. with the subordinate officers, were for
allv installed with the usual ceremonies,
i'd with three cheers the delegates filed out
the hall
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FIRE IN SACKETT'S HARBOR
The Business Part of the Historic
New York Village Destroyed.

The business portion of the historic village
of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y, has been de-
stroyed by fire. involving a loss of about S40,-
900. The telegraph and telephone Office, the
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg
Railroad ticket Office every saloon
in the place, dry goods and grocery stores,
hardware and general stores and the ware
houses containing the supplies of the
Government contractors for Madison
barracks and the best part of the
village below the railroad tracks
were all destroyed. There was no organized
fire department, and the efforts of the United
States regulars at Madison barracks, with an
old-fashioned hand-pump fire-engine alone
saved the entire village from destruc-
ton. The Watertown Fire Depart
ment were called upon and went
to the assistance of the Sacketts
Harbor authorities, but the fire was under
control when they arrived at A. NJ. Re-
Gently the taxpayers had voted down an APP
preparation to purchase steam fire engine.
The fire originated in Bottoms building,
which was vacant, and is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin.
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Foreign.

Mrs MAVERICK. the American woman
convicted of murder in England, has been
removed to the Working Prison. She wore
the regular prison garb during her journey.
She looked well.
ADvICEs from Samoa state that King
Malietoa declines for the present to assume
the royal prerogative on the ground of sick
ness, and that Mataafa still reigns.
THE Government proposal to endow a
Catholic university in Ireland has caused
excitement in political circles in England and
Ireland.
THERE is bad harvest this year in
Montenegro and the people have to face the
prospect of famine.
OWING to the failure of the crops a famine
nrevails in Maros-Torda, Eastern Transyl-
vania.
PEKIN advices are that number of high
Chinese officials have petitioned Prince Chun
to have all Americans employed in China ex-
pelled from the Empire. 1t is stated that
Prince Chun consents.
The British Parliament has been pro-
rogued. The Queen in her speech to the
Lords said: "a conference held in Berlin has
agreed upon a convention regulating the
Government of the Samoan islands. The in
strument has been accepted by me and by
the German Emperor, and now awaits the
assent Of the American Senate"
THE Catholic Cathedral at Harbor Grace
st. Johns, Newfoundland, has been burned
to the ground. The loss is placed at $3.50, 600.
THREE THOUSAND looms have been stopped
in Blackburn. England, owing to depression
in trade
AN indignation meeting of parties inter-
ested in the sealing industry in Behring Sea
has been held in Victoria, British Columbia
A resolution was passed asking for compensa-
ton for vessels already seized, for protection
in future, and for speedy settlement of the
difficulty.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was ex-
perienced in Erzerum, Armenia. The vii
lage of Kantzorik has been engulfed in lava.
One hundred and thirty-six lives were lost.
THE Liverpool dock laborers struck be-
cause they were refused an advance of a
shilling day.
THE Federal Council of Switzerland has
announced that it has learned with great dis
satisfaction that an illegal arrest of five
American citizens had been made by the po-
lice of Berne. 1t added that measures had
been taken to prevent recurrence OF such
cases.
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the resignation from the army Of Surgeon
Joseph Y. Porter, who resigned bscan Sc hs
was ordered from Jacksonville to Louis lana
THE State Department at Washington, has
been informed that the Government Of ara
quay has accepted the invitation of The Uni
ted States to attend the international Con-
gress, and that delegate will soon be.ap-
pointed
THE President has appointed General
James M. Warner Postmaster at Albany,
N. Y, and Mr.. James NJ Bailey Surveyor.
Of the Port ut Albany
" THE contractors for the gunboat PetreAwill
not ask for another trial. They will ask the
Government to accept the vessel, preferring
to suffer the penalty for deficient horse weT
rather than try further to reach the contract
requirements.
POsTMASTER-GENER.kLW WANAMAKER offers
a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and convic-
tion in the United States Court of any per-
SON found guilty of making an armed attack
upon any stage coach or railway train hay-
ing the mails in transit.
THE Indian Bureau at Washington has re-
ceived information that the Seattle and
Northern Railroad Company has begun the
construction of o railroad across the SWIM
omish Indian Reservation in Washington
Territory without authority of law.
THE President has appointed w. Veazey,
OF vermont, TO be member OF the Inter-
State Commerce Commission; Edward Mitch
ell, of New York, to be District Attorney
for the Southern District of New York; John
c. Watson, of Nebraska, to be United States
District Attorney for Alaska, and Willis
Vanderanter, of Wyoming, to be Chief JUS
tice of Wyoming.
OF the 9,23S, 900 coins executed at the
mlnts of the United States during August,
9,o75,0 600 were standard silver dollars.
GOVERNMENT receipts for August were
S34, 40 905, against S34, 269 249 in August last
year. The August expenditures were $685.
269, 249, against s4r r115 S4S in August, 1885,
THE Acting Secretary of the Interior
at Washington has requested the Secretary of
War to station troop of cavalry at Fort
Sill to prevent war dance or medicine
dance by the Kiowa Indians.
THE national debt was increased So, 070 900
during August.
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10000 Lives Lost.

Dispatches received from Japan increase
the horrors of the story of the destruction of
hfe.and property by the recent typhoons and
the floods accompanying them.
1t is now estimated that 10000 persons
were drowned or were killed at Wakay yama
JunkS crops and various material were de-
stroyed to an amount utterly incalculable
There has;been terrible suffering among the
survivors. Over twenty thousand people
are left homeless and without the ordinary
necessities of life
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Two Murderers Hanged.

William Walker and Jack Spaniard, re-
spited from August 9, have been hanged in
the Jail yard at Fort Smith, Ark, the execu
tion being witnessed by only few persons.
Walkers crime was the murder of Calvin
Church in Indian Territory about two years
ago.
! Jack Spaniard, half-breed Creek Indian,
murdered United States Deputy Marshal
Erwin in Indian Territory.
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stealing ride were buried under the wreck
and killed. Engineer Comstock had orders
to wait for the extra freight at Colgrove,
and it is supposed he was asleep when the ac-
cident occurred
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DISASTERS In THE EASIfa
China and Japan Visited by Typhoona
and Floods of Great Severity. :

North China and Japan have been visited
by series of typhoons of almost unprece-
dented violence. The number of junks and
lives that have been lost through inunda-
hons at Wengehow and Ningpo is enormous.
According to the latest intelligence from
Japan, too, the number of persons who have
lost their lives by drowning in consequences
of the floods is at the lowest estimate five
thousand 70
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THE reward of $50, 900 for the capture OF
Tascott, the alleged murderer of Millionaire
Smell in Chicago. has been renewed.
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His Nan was Fatal.

I. .;rht trains on the Buffalo, New
rNor, PennsylVania Railroad came to-
x-ork gu coIgrove Station, Penn. Fifteen
nSthhera wrecked md one engineer, J. B.
ges afs was lied. A brakeman was
en- Gnn,stt TO- ss,red BY j1mping from the train.
sSsdlF PIX tool IRE, but was extinguished
ppTTbs Tbs nDsnnpapy Two tramps who were
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neath by the Guillotine.

o,clock in the morning about 1000
Al Urrifnessed the beheading of Nael, the
persG9nse p9urer in a public square at st. Pierre,
mu[uJI ma!.aIon a French possession off the New
MlquTI.d HAM. coast by means of the guillotine
log1s sos1y;sht jacket w9s put on the prisoner
FSIH;s lands were tied behind his back.
ana III tbs a wagon took him from the jail to
After W. w. bouse where he confessed to the
the cou wing that liquor caused him to
Judses, sSe SS murder. From the court house
conlnN. N..Iou .le to public square, where he was
he was a,.S % He kissed the priest six times be-
bebeaas~~. s~~.iEed to the platform. 1t was
fore Dc .Nael who was to drop the knife.
chIm o. lining min to the crowd, said: Dear
Nael w, ,y name is Nael. l am the first
friendISTh Thn3 this way in st. Pierre. 1 am
man Sn' chat I have done, and I hope in
sorry p no execution like this will ever
st. PERI lrSoin. May God protect you ALL"
happep sSsn laid on his face on plank and
HeT sto it. The plank was pushed into
place lDao, ssDo not make botch of the
execut5g t5galo executioner touched a spring and
Job lpes,lar knife fell, but it did not sever
The tran although death resulted instantly;
-. red in the Naval Battle.
W tbe naval battle at Milwaukee,
Wis, cunnou on the United States revenue
hay sgS-Senden was discharged premature
cntta 20 .E.o sailors--J John Schulz of Detroit,
IL alt TI1os Mottshead, of Montreal, Canada
md .s;onsly injured about the hands.
-wefe sTs hands will have to be amputated.
tnr exploded on one of the mortar
Dasi1 two sailors, Frank Sayles and s.
boas snu ,oere painfully but not seriously
s. BccH
DNDsJ by the premature discharge of
LEO ipu IN the Steamboat Henry Sill, of
rOrpn IA received severe burns about the
ll;Sht blp veterans were overcome by the
'sS estras. ras.,noke. but were taken to the tents
,,sst sr9aod Cross, where they were well
Of tp are Of
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Washington.
SECRETARY oF WAR PROCTOR has accepted