The national leader., 1889-04-27
WASHINGTON. D c.. SATURDAY. APRIL 27 1889.
a pace some distance from Bedfv.c.
Station. New York.

George T. Ryder, of the firm of
Ryder & Co., dry goods merchants in
Middleboro, Massachusetts, committed
suicide on the evening of the 2lst.
Dread of insanity and the weight of
business cares are supposed to have
prompted the act. Samuel Mitchell,
aged 70 years, committed suicide il
New Durham, New Hampshire, on the
21st.
"A masked burglar entered the rail-
road station at Patronsbarg, Missouri,
on the evening OF the 18th. He cov-
cred the agent, the only person in the
station, with a pistol. and demanded
the key, which he received. He then
made the agent occupy a given position
and proceeded to plunder the safe. He
cleaned it out of everything valuable,
securing money estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000. Among the booty
was one express package Of $1,000, q
! letter addressed to the Pattonsburg
Bank containing 500. and a number
! of express packages. He also took all
the express. freight and ticket funds
and robbed the agent of his own money
I and valuables. The robber then backed
out of the station, mounted = hors'
and rode away.
! by II IaIl OI up coal IN tue NO. z
| Parrish slope at Plymouth, Pa on the
afternoon of the 22d. Adam KOrn1skle,
miner, was crushed to death. and
several others were badly hurt. The
dwelling of Patrick Joyce. bnilt On the
marsh on the outskirts of South Bos-
ton, collapsed on the morning of the
22d. Mrs. Joyce and three children
were in the house when it fell and all
were injured. A freight train on the
Boston and Albany Railroad broke
part on the morning of the 22i, near
! Worcester, Massachusetts,. and then
came together again, wrecking sew raj
cars and tearing up portion Of the
| track.
! Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
Marine Hosp tai Service, was on the
! 23d informed by the President of the
! Board of Health of Sanford, Florida,
that case of yellow fever existed in
/ that city. Every precaution has bsenI
taken to prevent a spread Of the dis
ease. Tie Health Commissioner of
Baltimore was on the 23d notified by
| Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
Marine Hospital Service. that at Santos
and Rio, the ports from which the
coffee importers Of Baltimore receive
nearly all their coffee, the yellow fever
Is raging more vlrulently than ever be-
fore. At the time of the last report
/ from Rio there had been 1S6 deaths
| from yellow fever in four days. A case
| of leprosy has been discovered at Spring
Lake, Wisconsin. The victim is a
woman. The character Of the disease
is well marked
Patrick Carroll, 26 years of age,
jumped from the south roadway of the
Brooklyn bridge into the East river, at
/ half past 6 O'Clock on the evening of
the 23d. He was picked up by a tug and
placed under arrest. The safe in the law
office of Hubbell & Co., in Elkhart,
Indiana, was robbed on the evening of
the 21st of notes and money amount
ing to $4,000. George Jones, young
colored man, was arrested on the 23d
and confessed his guilt. The house of
Jacob Reichard, In Allentown, Pa,
| was robbed of $4,000 in cash, four gold
watches and other jewelry, during the
absence of the family on the evening Of
the 22d.
AT noon, on the 23d, a man named
Mccarthy entered Collins & Sons
bank, in Ventura, California, where
Jack Morrison was alone. Mccarthy
complained of his poverty and desper-
alton, which had drawn him to think
of suicide. He laid a package on the
counter, which he said was dynamite,
and drew six-shoOter and demanded
thirty thousand dollars. Morrison
lodged behind the counter and ran out
of the bank door. The robber then
seized tray containing about $4,000
and walked into the street. Morrison
gave the alarm, and Mccarthy was
arrested and all the nonev recovered.
j. J. Scheepers, an employe in the
auditors Office OF the Burlington Rail-
road, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, commit
ted suicide in Chicago, on the 23d by
drinking two ounces of carbolic acid.
The Morgantown Female Semi
nary, at Morgantown, West Virginia,
was burned on the 23d, Loss, S25, 900;
insurance. $4,000. About 80 of the
pupils lost their clothing and effects.
McGrory's bakery in Prescott, Ontario,
was burned on the evening of the 22d.
Miss Gainsford perished in the flames.
While crossing the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
track in a wagon at Newport, Della
are, on the afternoon Of the oath, John
Wade. aged 81 years, his wife Ma
tilda, aged SO, and James M. Linder-
man, aged II, were struck by train
and killed. The horse was also killed,
and the wagon smashed in pieces.
Wade and his wife lived on a farm at
Appleton, in Cecil county, Maryland.
An explosion OF natural gas In