The national leader., 1889-02-16

on the 9th. They met in a bar room
and opened fire simultaneously. Wal
ton was killed, and d. A. Martin was
shot in the arm. The Marshal was
not Injured.
"A broken rail threw a freight car
and passenger coach OF an accommo.
datiOn train off the track at Naginey,
Pa. on the 11th. There were nine
passengers on board and they were all
injured. none fatally however.
"A fight took place ten miles from
Newport, Kentucky, on the afternoon
OF the 10th, on the line of Huntington s
new railroad, between Italian work
men and negroes. Three men are re-
ported to have been killed and a score
wounded. The trouble is said to have
begun in dispute over the ownership
of a jug of whisky. No particulars
have been received.
while two young sons of Eli w.
Carpenter were firing at mark against
a woodshed, at Bucyrus, Ohio, on the
11th. one of the bullets penetrated the
siding and struck their mother, who
had Just entered, in the side, inficting
fatal wound.
On the morning of the 18th an
explosion occurred at point midway
between Williams Bridge and Bedford
Park, on the line of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
just as the train from Stamford, Conn.,,
which Is due in New York at $40 a.
m. passed there. 1t is believed that
the explosion was caused by a gang of
Italian workmen throwing out a dyna-
mite cartridge too suddenly. Every
pane of glass In the train was shat
tered, aud the 500 passengers were ter
ribly shaken up. A large number
received severe cuts about the head
and face from the flying glass.
Mrs. Garrison was stopped by two
men a few feet from her residence in
Chicago on the afternoon of the 11th.
One of the assailants caught her by
the throat and tried to wrench her
handbag from her grasp. She held on,
and, failing to break her hold, he threw
her to the sidewalk, and struggle en-
sued. The lady screamed for aid, but,
while many people were in the neigh
bOrhoOd, none went to her assistance.
The thieves finally secured the satchel
and fed. Mrs. Garrison was badly
bruised and greatly frightened. Her
cloak and dress were badly torn, but
she was greatly pleased when she found
that her assallants had failed to secure
her pOcket-boOk, containing a large
sum of money, which she had trans
ferred to her dress pocket before start
ing home. Two masked men broke
into the house of John AFTER
burn, at Nabob, Kentucky a few
nights ago, and took S740 in
cash aud notes to the value Of several
Thousand dollars. Mr.. Arterburn is
nearly 80 years of age. Four burglars
were arrested in Waterbury, Connecti-
cut on the morning of the 18th, after
they had wrecked the safe of the New
town Savings Bank, in Newtown.
There was nothing of value in the
safe William st. Clair, proprietor of
a gents furnishing store in wilkins
burg, a suburb of Pittsburg, was ia! ally
shot by burglars early on the morning
of the 18th. The burglars were tracked
for some miles in the snow, but they
escaped. Two burglars tried to effect
an entrance to the house of A. M.
Crlttenden. in Minneapolis, Mimi, on
the evening of the 11th. The servant
girl, who was alone in the house with
a child, procured a revolver and fred,
wOunding one of the men, in the arm.
The burglars fed. John Cohen. a
clerk In the pawnshOp of Ralph Cohen,
in Boston, disappeared on the evening
Of the 18th taking with hum package
Of jewelry, valued at $1,000, and S28 In
cash.
"A secret service officer arrested
two more cOunterfeiters In Butler
county, Penna., on the 18th, making
IL in all. The work of ferreting out
this gang commenced several years
since. but active measures against
members were suspended, because the
arrest of one of the party scared the
Others so badly that they ceased work.
"A loaded car dashed down the In
cline at Galusha A. Crows mines,
near East Brady, Pa, on the 11th,
killing Edward M. Baker and iniuring
Robert E Crisswell. The shaft in a
coal mine at Mitchell, Iowa, broke on
the 11th, precipitating the cage 95 feet
to the bottom. George Harper was
killed, his son slightly and a man
named Reynolds fatally injured. Arthur
Dexter and Melverne Cole, two young
men, were drowned in Liverpool river.
Nova Scotia. on the 11th. by the up
setting of canoe.
During a fight between Pranzero
Pace and Jack Mela in Brooklyn, New
York, on the evening of the 18th, the
latter was shot in the leg. Policeman
Short arrived and Pace fled, and, re-
fusiDg to stop at the officers call, was
shot in the side and fatally wounded.
DIR. J. w. Cox, prominent citizen of
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was shot dead
on the morning of the 18th by Edward
Harrell, whose house he entered
''against Mrs. Harrell's protest, :"
during her husbands absence.
The case of Miss Margaret l..
Williams against David Kearr. for So.
600 damages for breach of promise of
marriage was tried in New York on
the 18th, aud resulted in verdict for
the plaintiff for S450O. Miss Williams
was the sister of Kearr's first wife.
Policeman Jeffords arrested Frank