The national leader., 1889-02-09

c0Vory Is doubtful.
"A switch engine, moving live or.
cars on the st. Louis aud San Frano,s
co Railroad, jumped the track An
went down an embansment nao
Springfield, Missouri, on the eyenin
of the "a, carrying ten men with IL
William Miller, George Lowry. Charle|
Mason. q. F. Browning and E1ward
Lane were killed, Frank Crawford snd
John King fatally injured. They war1
all railroad men. While James Rora,
and John Mccormick. arm jn-arm snd
so intoxicated That they could scarcely
stand, were crossing the tracks of th1
Shore Line Railroad, in New Haven
Connecticut. on the 4th, they wers
struck by an engine and INSTANTLY
killed.
1t is reported from Canaiobar,e
New York, that at Pine Lake. FnltonI
county, on the 4th, while "a tsams
were drawing logs across the lee. II
gave way after seven drivers and
teams bad reached the shore. The Ia-
naming drivers and horses were
drowned. None Of the seventeen
bodies have been recovered.
"A telegram from Marquette. Mich.
igan, says the severest storm Of tha
season has been raging there since the
4th. After abating somewhat on the
9Th, it re Ommenced with increased
severity In the evening. Il high wind
prevailed, with falling temp rature. A
heavy hall storm with high w1nd passed
over the western portion of Rockbridge
county, Virginia, on the evening of the
9th, del 6 much damage Snow has
fallen throughout the northern part of
Ontario, and strong wind caused 1t to
drift In some localities, delaying rail-
! road traffic. The thermometer regis
tered % degrees below zero on the 5th.
Charles Sink, an engineer on a
Kentucky and Indiana bridge train.
put his head out of the cab window as
the train was entering the bridge on
the 9Th, and was struck by the fence
hat protects the fOotway. He died IN
a few minutes. He lived at New Al
bany. Two runaway gondola cars on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad dashed into
freight engine near Shamokin, Perna..
on the morning Of the 9Th. Conductor
William Linderman and Fireman A.
Reed were badly injured.
Lee Wiley, a mailman, attacked
and killed Francis Valentine, 81 years
of age, with knife In Baltimore. on
the evening of the 4th. Henry Han
son. who had been drinking. shot and
killdd his wife in st. Louis, ON the
evening of the 4th. They kept a lodg-
ing house. During factional church
fight in Anderson, Indiana, on the 4th,
Thomas Donahoo was fatally injured
by Simeon Shore. John Dempsey shot
| and killed his sweetheart. Maud Nc
Clellan, in the street in Chicago, on the
evening of the 4th, and then CON-
mltted suicide. The girl was a domes-
tic and recently arrived from Canada.
walter s. Bradley shot and killed
hi, wife in Chicago. on the 9th, and
then committed suicide. Both were
employed by morning paper, the hus-
band as a reporter and tho wife as lit
erary editor. They euarrelled, and it
is said that Mrs. Bradley had de-
cided to separate from her husband.
Some time during the evening of
the 4th George Haggerman was taken
from the COifax county jail, in Schuy-
Ter, Nebraska, and hanged to tree in
the court yard. He was charged with
horse stealing and arsoJ. John and
Joe Lee. Cinnamon, were fatally beaten
and robbed by burglars in their laun-
dry in Rome, Georgia, on the evening
of the 5th. at Little Current, Onts-
rio, on the 81, Christina TOgesh, a
haIf-breed. was assaulted by five Indi-
ans and then literally torn to pieces.
Two of the murderers have been
caught.
"A blizzard from the northwest has
for two days ragged throughout tte np-
per peninsula of Michigan. Traffic
has been stopped on some Of the rail-
roads, but lumber hauling IS facilitated
by the freezing of the swamps. At
Sand Beach the temperature was 9 be-
9th. A telegram from that point says:
''The air is full of fine frozen PARTICLES,
and it is almost impossible for a man
or beast to move. Twenty inches OF
snow has fallen, but it is heaped III
drifts by the gale and all travel and
business Is suspended" A blizzard
prevailed at Oswego, New York. On
the 9th. Trains were from three TO
six hours late, The Boston train from
Ottawa, Ontario, was abandoned on
the 9th, OWING to the storm. A Dllz-
zard prevailed in Montreal, on the 6th,
and the trotting races and the opening
OF the Park toboggan slide were post
poned. The cold wave continues
throughout Canada, the Thermometer
registering from 10 to 40 degrees below
zero.
Fifty prominent women OF Adams
county, Nebraska, made a crusade
against saloon and gambling house In
Prosser on the evening Of the 4rh, de-
molishing the entire establishments
The women att acked the building wnen
1t was crowded, with their aprons Iuh
of Jumps of coal, breaking every WIZ
dow glass and cleaning out the estaD-
lishment. The inmates scattered IN
every direction. some of the lonngers
being husbands of the women. WHISKY
and beer flowed freely into the gutter.
The place has had hard reputstlon
for selling liquor without license.
William Frost died Of hydI ophoo's
at Palatine, Illinois, on the evening OF
the 9TH He WAS hitt0n by uOH b lew