The national leader., 1889-03-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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vein and those directly above in the rock
vein of the Central Colliery Company
have caved in. These chambers
are almost directly under the
centre of the Hyde Park section.
The north wall of the Wash
burn Street Presbyterian Church
building is much out of plumb. The
residence of Rev d. j. Stearns, the
Pastor of the church, and that OF Mine
Superintendent Hughes are thrown out
of shape by the crush, as also are the
dwellings, of Helen FulVer and Wesley
Lanning.
Peter Nearsbalsky, the sixth of
the miners imprisoned in the Black
Diamond Colliery, at Mount Carmel,
Penna. and who, it was stated, had
perished, was dug out on the afternoon
of the 10th, alive and suffering
little beyond nervous prostration. He
had been half buried in debris and
shut in for fifty hours.
Edward Swan. OF Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, paying teller OF the National
City Bank, was before Commissioner
Hallett, in Boston, on the 10th, on the
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amount of $63.595. He restored stock
valued at $33 ,450. Swan is 35 years
old. He has wife and two children,
and has lived beyond his income in the
endeavor to support them in style. He
Bpeculated in stocks. He was placed
under $50, 900 bail. -Four masked rob-
bers bound and gagged II. j. Brown,
night watchman at the Pittsburg Sewer
Pipe Works, near New Brighton,
Penna.. early on the morning of the
10th, and then blew the safe open with
powder. They obtained about one
hundred dollars.
Blanche Gray, aged 40 years.
notorious woman in Baltimore, died Oh
the evening of the 18th. "Bill'' Shan
non, in tit of jealous rage. cut her
throat on the evening OF the 10th.
james Irwin, Superintendent OF
the Carnegie Gas Line, was arrested in
Greensburg, Pa, on the evening OF the
10th, charged with murder. During
the afternoon Irwin turned on the gas
on the new line IN the neighbOrhOod OF
Harrison City without, 1t Is alleged,
notifying the workmen On the line.
The extremely high pressure burst a
pipe where half dozen men were en-
gagged at work, and portion OF the
pipe struck one of the men. whose
name could not be learned. killing him
instantly. Another workman was
seriously Injured. Irwin claims the
gas was turned on by accident. 1t is
now believed that the Flowers family,
whose remains were found IN the ruins
OF their burned house at Hollow Rock,
near Huntingdon, Tennessee. on the
evening of the 10Th, were murdered
by "Moonshiners," with whom
Flowers had been .'meddling" Of late.
They feared that he would inform
upon them. Lawrence Brill was shot
and fatally wounded at Cedar Lake,
Indiana, on the 18th by man named
Hanson. Brill had made some remarks
to Hanson's sister. Deputy United
States Marshal w. A. Moody, was
killed in Indian Territory on the 10th
by two men named Bonner and Hill,
whom he was attempting to arrest.
The bodv of un"n% nnAn about i've
feet six inches in height and well
dressed, was on the 10th found hanging
to tree in Rich Ill township, Greene
county. Penna. The face and skull
had been crushed out of human semb-
lance as though beaten with a heavy
hammer. There was no clue to lden-
ti6catlon.
1t is reported that freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
backed into an express train at Desh-
ler. Ohio. on the morning of the 18th,
killing the engineer of the latter train
and dangerously iniuring the fireman.
George Leeman and John Peele were
drowned by the swamping of a boat at
New Hamburg, on the Hudson, on the
afternoon of the 18th. Thomas DOH
erSy, stableman, who quit work dur
ing the late street car strike in New
York, and who has been idle since, was
on the 18th sent to an insane hospital.
The defeat of the strikers preyed on
his mind and he had made several
attempts to throw himself from the
window of his residence.
The northeast gale continued on
Massachusetts coast, on the evening or
the 18th. with an occasional velocity of
fifty miles an hour. No disaster is
thus far reported. The damage done
bv the storm on the evening of the
10th at Asbury Park and its vicinity is
estimated at $50, 900.
AT the Mahanoy City Colliery OF
the Reading Company, on the 18th,
while David Evans and his sons, David
and Edward. were ''robbing" pillars.
the roof fell upon them. The elder
Evans and his son Edward were killed.
David escaping with severe injuries.
An elevator In the machine shops of
Flynn & Enrich, in Baltimore. fell on
the morning Of the 18th from the
fourth floor, a distance OF forty feet,