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, 1891-06-07
MACDONALD IS DEAD.
After a Long and Brave
Struggle for Life,
The Canadian Statesman Gives
Up the Fight.
Lady Macdonald Frustrated
With Grief.
SIR John Macdonald pend.

OTTAWA. June 6-Sir john A. Mac
donald is no more. The distinguished
statesman who has guided the political
destinies OF Canada for nearly half a CEN
tury passed peacefully away at 1918 to-
night surrounded by his entire household.
Lady Macdonald, who bore up SO bravelv
during the fatal illness, Is now Frustrated
with grief. All the church bells are toll
ing and thousands OF citizens are express
ing deep regret at the premler's demise.
For hours the members of the household
had beer watching at the bedside waiting
to see life depart Although the physi.
clans declared last night that Sir John
could not survive until morning, they bad
not made allowance for his marvel
Gus vitality. he had lost conscious
ness thirty hours agJ and had
taken no nourishment since. save small
quantities OF champagne, which are ad
ministered with difficulty. The emi
sick unto death. kept up the unequal
struggle until after 10 O'Clock tonight.
For days it is assumed that he resisted
the inevitable by sheer force of his power
tul will. but yesterday consciousness dis
appeared never 10 return. In the ensuing
period nature, now no longer restrained,
asserted itself. and life's fire. already
burning low, hickered and smouldered as
though the soul would leave ITS earthly
tabernacle.
At 10 O'Clock this morning hundreds
who called to make inquiries realized that
all hopes had now vanished forever. The
news from the sick room was more dis
couraglng thau ever. A strange and
leaden color overspread his countenance
and his extremities assumed an lev cold
ness Once or twice the watchers at the
bedside thought death had come and DR..
Powell. holding the premier's pulse. dis
covered only a faint trace of life. Lady
Macdonald, for three hours before the
sad event. never lett the room for an in
slant.
The other watchers included Mary. her
invalid daughter; John Hugh Macdonald,
the premier's son; Job. Pope, Sir Johns
faithful private secretary, and near
friends of the family. At 10 p. IN. com
plete collapse set in. In the succeeding
few minutes the premier's breathing be-
came more and more labored and only the
slightest f1utter of the heart indicated
life's presence. At 1918 the premier
gave "a lew lOuR auu HthNy TesplTaIlOls
and. without a struggle or the slightest
evidence Of pain, passed away.
The undertaken was promptly notified
to prepare the body iorembalmment. The
funeral is likely to take place Tuesday
next and will be OF a state character. On
that day the body will likely be removed
to the senate chamber aud lie in state for
four or FIVE hours. The interment will
subsequently take place at Kingston,
Ont, where the premier's first wife and
father are buried.
, 1891-06-07

New YORK, June 6.-Joseph Shan
nahan, a convict, on the way to Sing Sing
to serve a slx-year sentence. escaped from
a deputy sheriff at the Grand Central
depot this morning. \ Shanuahan was one
of a batch of eleven prisoners to be taken
TO Sing Sing. They were divided into
three groups. The second group, in which
was Sbannahan 10 charge OF Deputy
sheriff Burke, had just stepped on the
platform of the car when S~haauaban's
hand shot up and the handcutf Tell off.
Shannahan jumped off the platform and
made for the entrance TO the railroad
yards As soon as he jumped Deputy
Sheriff Burke fired a shot after him and
started in pursuit. He fired three shots
more and was gaming on %Shanuahan.
when he tripped on the track and came
down, dislocating his shoulder and %receiv-
ing other injuries. Shannahan dashed
on to Forty-fiith street, where a cab was
waiting for him, and he jumped in and
drove off. The theory OF the escape is
that Shannahan had a haudcuff key
furnished him by confederates.
, 1891-06-07
How Aerated wator Is Produced

NHaANA ~ = AuN
In the reighborhood of the extinct
Eifel volcano, near the Rhine, in Ger
many, are found springs of mineral
waters which give off large volumes of
natural carbonic acid gas. This natural
gas becomes thoroughly purified in pass
ing up through some two or three hun
dred feet of water, which of course
means a considerable pressure upon the
gas. This gas, being duly collected on
the surface, is subjected by means of
pumps to the pressure of five or six hun
dred pounds per square inch, condensing
it into a clear transparent liquid, which
is forthwith stored in steel or wrought
iron cylinders of special construction and
exceptional strength.
The manufacture of aerated waters is
now readily carried on by means of these
tubes, which are easily transported in a
at once simple, rapid and mex
pensiye, no machinery whatever being
required The apparatus consists simply
of a closed copper vessel of any required
size, nearly filled with ordinary pure
water and connected with a tube of COM
pressed gas.
On turning a tap OIL the table the lib
Grated gas rushes under high pressure
into the copper vessel, becomes thor
oughly incorporated with the water, and
produces forthwith the aerated mineral
water which is so largely consumed and
SO justly appreciated at the present day.
The aerated water a now be drawn off
for immediate consumption or bottled
for future use. Mineral water thus pro-
duced is stated to be entirely free from
any flavor of chemicals, sometimes dis
cernible in that which has been prepared
from artificial carbonic acid gas.-Cham-
bers' journal.
, 1891-06-07
BASE BALL.


BROOKLYN, June 6.-The home teal
by lucky hitting, aided by an unfortunate
error by Arson, won today's game.
Score Chicago ., Brooklyn 6. Batteries
stem and Kittridge, Caruthers and
Daily.
INV YORK, June 6.-The Giants won
their eighth consecutive game today. CIn-
cinnati could do nothing with Rusie.
Score-New York 4. Cincinnati 0. Bat
teries-Rusie and Buckley, Rhines and
Harrington.
Boston June 6.-Ganzel's unfortunate
muff of a foul fly aud a questionable decis-
ion By McQuade gave Cleveland the game
today. Score-CleYelaDd :, Boston 6.
Batteries-Young aud thinner, Getzein
and Camel.
PHuADELPHIA. June 6.-The Quakers
defeated Pittsburg today after a stubborn
fight OF twelve innings by superior field
ing. Score-PhiladelpLia 3, Plttsburg >.
Batteries-ThorntOn and Brown, King
and Fields.
, 1891-06-07

NEW ORLEANS. June 6 The Daily
States has recently been criticislnR the
deal OF certain members Of the board of
health in the slaughter house matter and
declaring that Governor Nichols should
make a clean sweep of the board. Today
DR.. OlipLant, president OF the board,
sent Editor George W. Dupree a note
d~enouncing him as a liar. coward and
traducer. Editor Dupree at once went to
the office of the board aud demanded
that DR.. 0Iiphant step outside. Pistols
we're Immediately drawn and firing began.
Dupree says that several employees of the
board of health commenced striking him,
diverting his aim, aud that one of them
cut him in III. face while Mr.. Ohphant
was firing on him. None OF the bullets
took effect. and the combatants were soon
apnarated
, 1891-06-07

WASHINGTON, June 6 Acting Rear
Admiral John G. Walker, the commander
of the squadron of evolution, is a firm be-
lever in music rs a factor in naval discip,
line and a strong advocate of the PROPOSE
ton to increase the size of the Marine
band. He said this morning:
I'VE are very mean about our national
music on this side of the Atlantic. In
my opinion the Marine band ought to be
increased to at least eighty-fve men, and
then paid large enough salaries to make
it an object Tor first-class musicians to en-
list. We had an excellent opportunity to
observe this matter OF government bands
while the squadron was in Europe. and
the comparison reflected little enough
credit on the United States. Every man
of-war Of any size has a b ind large III pro-
portion TO the complement Of men. An
American squadron of twenty vessels would
have a band of sixteen pieces. You have
no idea Of the value that a band Is ON
board ship. Why, on the Chicago it is
one of my most efficient means of main
tanning dicipline. Nearly every evening
in summer | send the band forward and
have it play all sorts OF music for the men,
and sometimes there will DO as many as a
hundred iacktes dancing on the deck at
once. The music e%nlivens them, cheers
them up, changes the natur Of their
thoughts and mskes them more contented.
Then. too, the band is Of the utmost as
s~islauce whenever there is any heavy haul
ing to be done. If there is a big pull to
be made We get the men along the line.
start up the band and give the word, and
the way the rope Is pulled would make
you stare. When we cast the anchor
which is one OF the worst jobs OF hauling
on board ship-we nearly always station
the band in the bows and play a lively
march. and the lump OF iron comes shoot
ing up to the rail in no time There
ought to be more music in the world, and
particularly in the navy, where the men
lead hard, uninterest ng lives, and where
any sort Of change Is whole ONE.
, 1891-06-07

New YORK, June 6.-The stock mar.
ket today was dull aud steady in the
main, but a firm tone developed in a few
stocks which gave character to trading
and was the means OF leaving most OF the
list slightly higher at the close. Trading
was. in the main, merely professional and
reached only small proportions.
Governments steady.
PetrOleum-July closed at GS3CdG9.
Money on call. easy; closed offered at 3.
Bar Silver, 974
Following are closing prices Of stocks:
u. s. As, registered, 10. u. s. As,
coupons, 20; Pacific 6s. g.: Atchison,
300; American Exuress, IA; Canada Pa
cific. 7S4, Canada Southern, 40: Central
Pacific. BOT; Burlington, S65, Delaware,
Lackawanna X Western. 35t: Denver X
RIO Grande. $50; Erie. 1873; Kansas 4
Texas. l49, Lake Shore. 10, Louisville
& Nashville, TAI. Michigan Central, 9O1;
Missouri Pacific. OH: Northern Pacific
249: preferred, est; Northwestern, SSs,
preferred. 1873; New York Central.
999; Oregon Navigation. II; Oregon
Improvement, 274; North American, l4B,
Pacific Mail, 35t; Reading, 3l4; Rock
Island, ia; Milwaukee 4 st. Paul.
63; St Paul 4 Omaha, %; Texas Pa
ciic, l36; Union Pacific, 44s; Fargo Elk
press, 40; Western Union, 500; Oregon
Short Line. 253; American cotton oil 224
Rio Grande Western. 3s; preferred, IS
tirsts. 76.
CHICAGO. June 6 -Cattle-Receipt
1000. Market steady. Prime to extrs
steers, So. 1906 20; others, 81. 5O95. 20
Texans, 81. 5OCG5 90.
Sheep-Receipts 5000. Market steady,
Texans, SO 25G4.75; Westerns, 4 SOFA
$40; natives, 81 25@5. IS; yearlings
S.. 2595 so.
, 1891-06-07

Weighing machines and scales of some
kind were in use 1900 B. G., for it is
said that Abraham at that time
weighed out" 400 shekels of silver, cur
rent money, with the merchant to Eph-
ron, the Hittite, as payment for a piece
of land, including the ave and all the
standing timber 'in the field and in the
fence" This is said to be the earliest
transfer of land of which any record sur.
wives, and that the payment wa made
in the presence of witnesses.
The original form of the weighing
scale was probably a bar suspended from
the middle. with a board or shell sus.
pended from each end, one to contain
the weight, the other to contain the
matter to be weighed. The steelyard
was probably 80 called from the material
of which it was made and from its for
mer length. It is also known as the
Roman balance, and is of great an
tiquity.-St Louis Republic.
, 1891-06-07

WESTMINSTER, June G.-Trar

WEsTCHESTER, June G.-Track fast.
Five furlonEs-Hrs Highncss won, Can
vass second, Clara (coItI third. Time,
:59!.
Milc-Lintriguauta won, Rev Del Rcy
second, Mountain Deer third. Time,
l:4O!.
Six turlonSs -Tammany won, dead
heat between Osric, Hellgatc and Dago-
net for place. Time, l:l2!.
Six furlOngs-Correction won, Sleipner
second, Sauuterer third. Time, l:IlA.
Mile and a quarter-Eon won. Tristan
second, Tournament third. Time, 2:O65
Seven furlongs-Taviston won. Arab
second, Kempland third. Time, l:27t.
, 1891-06-07

LAToNIA, June CRACK slow.
Mile and a srxteenth-Alphouse won,
Rainier second, Cashier third. Time, :5S4.
Mile-Aunt Kate won, Little Annie
second, Mary II. third. Time, I:57!.
Half mIle-Francis won, Umatilla sec,
ond, Ollie Glenn third. Time, :524.
Mile and seventy yards-Marchma won.
Eli second, Hamlet third. Time, 2:O24.
Five and one halt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
won, Marion second, Rosemont third.
Time. 2:ll.
Mlle-Sir Planet won, Rimini second.
Llederkranz third. Time. l:5l3.
For SALE-Old papers. LEADER Office
, 1891-06-07

CHICAGO, June Track slow.

CHICAGO, June 6.-Track slow.
Seven MISUNDERSTANDING won, Geo.
Carter second, Bill Nye third. Time,
l:4I.
Six furloDgs-Lena Frey won, Blaze
Duke second, Bon Voyage third. Time,
l:2G.
Mile and seventy yaris-Brlly Pinker,
ten won, lnsolence second, Du,ter third.
Time, 2'O44.
Six furlongs-Ruth won, Post Odds
second, Patrick third Time, l.25.
MIlc-Ben March won, Silverado
second, Fnendless third. Time, l:4I.
, 1891-06-07

PRINCETON, N. j., June 6.-The
annual Caledonian class games were held
this morning. Luther Carey broke the
worlds record in the 100 yard dash.
Timer Hughes held two watches. The
nth second watch shows 9 3,5, the quar-
ter second watch was between % and u.
Lees watch showed 9 AS seconds;
Frasers's. ct seconds, The record was
made on Fraser's watch, which gave the
ing against Carey.
, 1891-06-07

Denver denver /, Kansas City s.
Lincoln-Omaha game postponed; wet
grounds.
St Paul-St Paul 5. Milwaukee -.
Sioux City-Minneapolis game post
pOned; wet grounds.
, 1891-06-07

With, the correspondent learned that
amounts ranging from IS. 200, 900 TO
twice or three times that amount were
obtained by various provinces for inter
nal improvements One of these loans
to Cordoba, the correspondent says, is
larger than the entire province is worth.
The Earrings also have large investments
in railroad bonds, but these will yield fair
returns in time.
, 1891-06-07

St. Louis-St. Louis IL, Baltimore 10.
COlumbus-Columbu e, Athletic 3.
Louisville-Louisville s. Baltimore :.
Observation-Disclosures game post
pOncd: rain.
, 1891-06-07

81 don't see how you make your
patients obey you, doctor. A man who
is fond of high living never will diet"
He can't help himself, madam.
When he has paid my bill he has to re-
duce bis living. "-Harper's Bazaar.
, 1891-06-07

CHICAGO, June 6.-The following is
the standing Of the National League and
American Association clubs intending to.
days games.
, 1891-06-07

TOLEDO, June 6 The grand jury re-
ported four charges of embezzlement
against Police Clerk William Il. Cook of
this city. Three counts charge him with
appropriatinV city funds In the sum of
$40, 900, aud the fourth OF embe zzliug
81, 1000 belonging to the Equitable Life
Insurance company of New York, while
acting in the capacity OF agent.
Subscribe for The Leader.
, 1891-06-07

The Wabash Line is now running its
Canon Ball train from Kansas City I o
Toledo, %vestibuled, leaving Kansas City
at $40 p m, making direct connections
with all trains from the West at that
point.
Free reclining chair cars and Pullman
buffet sleeping cars from Kansas CITY to
Toledo, at which point as well as at Fort
Wayne and Defian, We, direct connection is
made with all the limited trains for the
East, Southeast, and Northwestern points.
This is a star route. Ask for your
tieket. via The Wabash line.
q. VI. HampsOn, commercial agent
1927 Seventeenth street, Denver, Colo.
G. Ia. Allen, travelling agent.
DENVER, March Is
Lack Ernst hnnr is the hest
, 1891-06-07
|3O4 w. 18th STREET,

1cal Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo
, 1891-06-07

Ice cream in any quantities furnished
for family use at Germania hall.
, 1891-06-07

Cherries for canning at
Heath's.
, 1891-06-07

Printing at the Leader office.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02

notifies the JOURNAL that Titus A.
Bricks dispatch to the effect that a
Pompey Smash cat had given birth to
two kittens and four raccoons, is en-
tirely correct as to the kittens.
1t is not right for one editor to call
another "a pessimistic nincompoop,"
but it would be occasionally correct.
The Morgantown CIV. Va) Ne,c Do
minion is after the graduate of moral
suaslon schools with an accentuated
CAD.
If there is nothing in the theory of
evolution, where do all the Lonacon-
ing insects come from?
Reader, compare the quality and
variety of the original matter contain
ed in this paper with that of any other
published within a radius of 100 miles,
and if you can find one that equals it,
the JOURNAL Will be content to step
down to second place as a paper and
have Frostburg abdicate second place
as a town.
And now is the time to subscribe.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02

1t is a New Yorker who knows that
spring has come when tho children
bring out their hoops and marbles.
That would be mighty poor sign in
Frostburg, where the kids play
marbles in January.
Mr.. Pink Whiskers, of Pocahontas,
was in town Thursday. lie said a
man was kicked in the breast by a
livery stable mule up there Tuesday,
but was saved from injury by Water
bury watch which he carried in his
vest pocket, It was the mule that had
to be repaired.
1t was John J. Ingalls, and not John
Chambers, who, when handling a
spade in preparing for fence-posts was
asked-"what are you doing pan
swered -"unfilling hole"
Thursday mornings Homecoming
Star is beginning to reach Frostburg
on the second train eastward, thus
coming, astronomlcally speaking, in
conjunction and DIRECT competition
with the nocnday sun.
Eight members of Samuel Myers
family, at Eckhart, are down with
typhoid fever.
Mr.. Pink Whiskers. of Pocahontas,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
Take the New Water Supply,

1t is generally acknowledged that
the use of spring and well water was the
occasion of the few cases of typhoid
fever that have occurred here during
the winter and spring.
Indeed, they cannot be charged to
any other cause.
The precipitation during the winter
was unprecedented in amount, and
the surface flow hence into springs
and wells was accordingly unusual in
volume.
AS a fact bearing on our sanitary
welfare, it furnishes a commanding
argument to all to abandon the coz
sumption of drainage and take the
water that is filtered through the
virgin crust of our glorious mountain
slopes and distilled and crystallized in
Gods own laboratories before it
bubbles up pure and soft through the
silver sands.
In palmer terms, take the supply
furnished by the new Frostburg water
works. The system belongs to you
and under the terms the money you
pay for rents is so much loaned to
yourself, repayable in good health
aud long life.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
Real Estate.

The following transfers of real estate
have been filed in the Clerks off CO
since our last report
S. H. Albright and }. Wilson Humbird to
AEanias Long, lot No. 8, Allbrghts fourth
addition to Ellersie, 800.
John Henry Firle to Hugh Mcveigh, q
acres of land in Midland. slS7.
James Morrison to Elizabeth Ross, lot of
ground in Morrisons addition to Western
port 500.
Catherine f. Blume to Edward l.. Blume,
lot of ground in Mount Savage. IS.
Catherine E. Blume to Edward l.. Blume,
parcel of land adjoining Mount Savage, $3.50
The Union Mining Company to Solomon
Martin, parcel of land in Dutch Hollow,
near Mt. Savage, minerals reserved, 81, 03s.9i.
David J. Davis to Thomas J. Griffith, part
of lot No. Ill, McCulloh's addition to Frost
burg, SOL.
Sarah Wright to David II. Powell, lots No.
SIS and h6 in Grahamton, 500.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
Writer" and Interpreter"

The JOURNAL very effectually
squelched the Stars grammarian last
week.
AT the same time the Star has par
TALLY learned something-that IN them
selces verbs have no number; that they
merely take certain forms from the
numbers of nouns which dominate
them.
The Star, however, excerpts to the
JOURNALS right to regard "2l pounds
OF sugar. as a unit, corresponding
with that other equivalent unit of 100
cents called "a dollars worth"
The JOURNAL had as much right to
SO state its meaning as the Star has to
spell its EDITORS name-"Robinson."
Some people spell it Robertson" bat
there is no "decadenee of the Ian
guage" on that account.
If writer" were to send letter
addressed to Joey Joker Robertson con-
tanning money enough to buy ''a dol
lars worth" of the Star, joey Joker
Robinson, the" interpreter," would not
likely return it accompanied by the
following message:
Book up old man, and give us good
English or none.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
PUBLICATIONS.

oar Lifhs t~ss for MAY j. upon our table
This little magazine Is one ~ the best pub
lishel, and the May number b. fuii II pretty
stories and pirtures which will delight the
young folks ~ we'll As Interest the older ones
The article entitled The Gondolas 81 Ven.
ice, tells Of the mo-ie of Passage IN that far
of Italian city. Robin Boys Risldles" are
continued. Among the uther stories We no
tice 'rea's Memorial pay "Ths Dress that
Margaret Made" "i,ia's Kitten, "roilys
Bear, &c. Published by the Russell Pub.
Co, d Bromficld st, Boston, Mass.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
viii Die Very Young,

The national executive committee Of the
United Mine Workers Tuesday decided to
postpone the great strike for eight hours that
was to have been ipaugurated May l. 1t is
the intention to fight cut tiie coke strike first.
The decision is surely wise one. The coke
strike is big and troublesome one, and the
labor leaders have their hands full without
beginning another one.-Cumberland Times.
The coke strike. as a pretext for
postponing the most colossal fiasco OF
modern labor agitation, is din ct dis
pensation of Providence, which can
not be accounted for in any other way
than that Divine Wisdom is not ready
as yet to teach the world of counter
felt labor that eight hours day is a
delusion and snare.
The dictum of eight hours for labor,
eight hours for sleep and eight hours
for picnic as theory, enjoys an in
definite pull on time.
As condition it will die in the act
of being born. ..
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1891-05-02
MINING JOURNAL.
FROsTBURG MD. MAY 2. 1891.
Mayor Boyd.

The greatest paper in the county is
compelled to acknowledge that Iona
coming, through its Mayor, furnishes
all towns an example worthy of closest
imitation.
Mr.. Boyd affords his people an
official statement of the condition of
the town.
In short, he gives an account of his
Stewardship so full and satisfactory
that it is an unqualified pleasure to
learn that municipal government can
be wisely and profitably administered.
For the paragraph below only have
we room:
1t is hoped that the people of Homecoming
will always keep their municipal affairs as
far apart from politics as they can. Then.
and only then, can they enjoy the full benefit
of incorporation.
If the JOURNAL We're able it would
coin this in junction into proverb and
write it in luminous and ineffaceable
gilt on every wall in Frostburg.
1t puts to shame all the little,
narrow, picayune considerations that
inspire the stimulated aspirations of
men enjoying small but unmerited
preferment, and it teaches that the
council chamber is not a structure
whose highest purpose is to afford
"accidentals" stepping-stone to the
Legislature.
1t affirms the broad gauge doctrine,
too, that the money contributed by the
people of all parties for the main
tenance of the streets and the preserva-
ton of values is not reward offered
to the mayor, councilmen. bailiff,
policemen, clerk and street supervisor
for fealty to a single party.
The message is worthy of precious
memory in Lonaconing-a memory
that the people ought to keep bright
by requiring all Mr.. Boyd's successors
to follow the shining precedent he has
laid down.