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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
A CARS Wild PLUNGE.

a Hand Car Ran Away Down o Steep
Mountain, and Two Men Were Killed.
A thrilling ride down the mountain ON
q runaway hand car, q broken axle, md
seven men were flung from the track at
q curve down q ravine 30 feet deep. Two
were killed outright, and the other five
sustained serious injuries.
Early in the morning Frank Eek, atrack
foreman on the Lehigh Valley railroad,
and six laborers set out from Beaver
Meadow for Halle Creek on a hand a r
The road down the mountain has apitch
Of so feet to the mile and Is skirted by
deep ravines. There are numerous small
bridges that span torrent eaten abysses.
and sharp curves are plentiful.
Four stout men seized the handles that
work the machinery, and the car started
down the road at a keen pace. The air was
frosty, and the rails were slippery. The
momentum that the brawny arms at the
pumps gave the car, added to the incline,
made the human freighted vehicle fairly
spin. When half way over the journey
the brake block snapped asunder. There
was now no way to check the flying cars
speed. On it rushed. and around curves
it sped. The men were alarmed and en-
deavored to slacken the speed, but they
could not accomplish much. They tried
to stop the wheels by holding the handles
of the pump machine, but that failed.
Suddenly they dashed around a short
curve where a high precipice yawns be-
low. They were in sight of the Black
Creek station, and they thought the or
orator might help them.
At that moment an axle, overburdened
by the terrific run, broke down, and the
car and the seven riders shot over the
wall. Down they went 80 feet and land
ed on the rocky bed of a creek.
Men from the Black Creek station
rushed to where the wrecked car and the
seven men lay. Six of the workmer
were bleeding and unconscious from the
shock.
Andrew Conitz died while being re
moved to his home.
Michael Mortsky, whose body was bad
ly mangled and fearfully bruised, ex
pired o after reaching his home.
Foreman Eek was cut ON the head ant
the body, while Thomas Laurenz suffered
q broken arm and other serious hurts
The other three. who are Hungarian la
borers, were cut and battered, but al
will recover.-Hazleton (Pa.) Dispatch.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
A Thorn I'm His Knee.

When q boy II years Of age, in the
year 1850, ". Newell, who now resides
beyond Nichols ranch and is now over
90 years of age, was out hunting and
ran in his knee what he supposed was .
thorn. It broke off SO deep in the knee
that the wound closed up, and all search
failed to locate it. Mr.. Newell finally
concluded that he was mistaken, and ev-
erybody told him his troubles were
caused by rheumatism.
OF late the old gentleman's knee got to
be so bad that he had it lanced several
times and was treated for rheumatism.
A few days ago the thorn worked its
way out and was found to be half an
inch in length. Mr.. Newell says after
suffering untold misery for 43 years he
now feels easier with the thorn in a lit
tie bottle instead of in his knee.-Grass
Valley (Cal.) Union.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
COIN PER CAPITA.
AM Interesting Table Compiled by
the Treasury Department at
Washington.
France Has the Largest Amount Of
Money In Proportion to
Population.
The United States lis Near the Top
of the List-Money of Other
Countries.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The treasury
department presents q table showing
the monetary systems and approximate
stocks of money in the aggregate and
per capita in the principal countries of
the world. This shows that France,
with a population of w, 800, 900 has the
highest per capita circulation OF any of
the countries named in the table, viz:
$780, 81.
The Straits" with a population of
$500, 900, have a per capita circulation
of $2S.9 "a. Others are:
Belgium, $780, {; Australia, $26.O5;
the United States, $26.02 the Neither
lands. $24.34.
In China, with a population Of 402,-
600, 600, the per capita circulation is but
$3.50, all in silver. Following China in
this respect, Roumania has q circulation
per capita of $3.50; Servia, $4.27; Swe-
den, $2.71; Turkey, 1870, with a popu-
lation of $50, zoe, 900; Central American
states, $3. 70; Japan. $4.00; India, %. A,
against a population of 287, 200, 900;
1Adyu, T4.SU.
The United Kingdom $2O.44, and
Germany $3.50 to each person; Portu-
gal, with a population of but 4, zoe, 900,
has a per capita of $2l.O6, and Egypt a
per capita of $19.85. The South Amer.
lean states have a per capita of
$19.67; Cuba, $12.81; Canada, $12. 90;
Italy, 5000; Switzerland, $14.48; Greece,
$12.22 Spain, $l7.14; Austro-H Hungary,
$9.95; Norway, $500. Denmark. ST. 20;
Russia, $9.17, with a population of 124,-
000, 00O, and Mexico, $500.
Since this statement was tabulated
the per capita circulation of the United
States has decreased to 1855.
The table puts the stock of gold
money at $3, 901, 900, 900; silver, %, 931,-
100, 900, and uncovered paper meney,
81, zoo, O00, 900. ,dT
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
THE ORIGIN or THE TORNADO.
Professor Haxen VIII Try to Solve 1t Pa
ii Benefit of Mankind.

Professor Haxen VIII Try To- Solve 1t FOR
the Benefit of nkin
81 want to get there-right there, into
the business end Of the storm where the
tornado is generated. / want the tor
nado's secret, it's agent, and God helping
me / shall have it. If electricity, then
we may be able to d~issipate Jeve's most
awful wrath and relieve our great cities
Of their worst nightmare, their most in
sidious and most ~implacable foes"
The man who made this bold and strik-
ing remark is Professor Henry Allen Ha-
zen, expert meteorologist of the United
States weather bureau, who has nearly
completed arrangements for a series Of
not less than 1000 high altitude balloon
ascensions, TO be made as often as three
times a day. under a new and original
principle of gas conservation, with new
scientific instruments made in England
expressly for the purpose.
The proposition is now before the
board of advisers, who may be expected
to report on the application as soon as
Professor Langley, secretary OF the
Smithsonian, shall return to his post,
Professor Langley himself is much in
terested in the subject of free air oh.
servation, especially in an idea he has Of
sending mp self registering instruments
to the highest possible attitudes without
risking the presence of a human being
In a balloon. Professor Hazen. how
ever, regards this method as only sup
Elementary to the work of personal OBJ
~servation and instrument readingswhich
he has in view.
Aerial transit across the Atlantic
ocean is the ultimate object toward
which Professor Hazen's plans are tend.
ing. He states un~reservedly that he
will make the trip If he lives. He is al
ready looking forward to the construct
ing of a balloon basket in the form of q
completely equipped open boat with air
tight compartments. In this vehicle
stored with food and drink for many
days, the professor will set ont without
o qualm of fear.
The only apparent difficulty that ha'
ever beset the problem has been the in
ability Of the asronauts to keep the bal
loon ON q steady horizontal plane. Th,
rising and the falling Of the balloon ca,
be regulated by an original device o
Professor Hazen's. He will carry
bucket at the end OF . long rope, and wa
ter drawn from the ocean will constitut
the necessary ballast whenever his bal
loon seems to get more buoyant. tn
water will be poured ont again when tn
balloon needs Observation-Disclosures
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

The funeral of Judge John E. Ben
net, which look place at Clark on the
Bird inst. is said to have been n of the
largest ever held 10 the state. Gov. Shell
don and staff, remaining members OF the
supreme court, state officers, delegations
of Masons, Brotherhood of Purpose, K. of
F., G. A. r., 1. o. o. F. and many prom
insnt citizens of the state were present.
Rev. Nj. w. Springer Of the NJ. E.
church, preached the funeral sermon.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
The Times ON Trade.

LONDON, Jan. 5.-The Times, in an
article on the trade of 1898, says: 1t
may be regarded as the most trying year
of the decade. American currency and
American action on the tariff checked
enterprise. The Australian banking
crisis and the depression in American
railroads, coupled with home investment
troubles depleted incomes and enforced
economies which affected traders. The
conditions Of trade have generally sea
sound and remained so to the close of
the year. ? What is lacking is confidence
in the stability of affairs abroad.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
GHOSTS ~ f7a.:PEon couAT.

The Apparitions Still startle the Inhabi.
tants OF lhe Place.
The ghosts at Hampton Court palace
still are said to brighten the inhabitants
and officials of the place. and even visit
ors, it is declared, are not exempt, sew
eral of them having terminated their
visits abruptly owing to the noises they
have heard. A resident in the palace
sends to the London Graphic an account
of an apparition seen by an attendant in
the gardens, who was sitting on a bench
waiting for the inspector to pass on his
rounds at night, when suddenly he felt
a hand laid upon his face, and looking
up saw a tall, pale lady dressed in gray.
He sprang up at once. but she vanished
before his eyes, and the shock caused by
the apparition was so great that he had
Nto resign his post. He became SO nerv-
Gus that he rs absolutely afraid to re.
main in the gardens at night.
Nor are the ghosts confined to the gar.
dens, for a few nights ago two of the
maid servants. %fancying they smellei
something burning, went down one O
the ~sJalTCaSRs III lflb mlulI6 OF the nl1l
and met a tall. pale lady with "a reflect
ed light on herface" and dressed in black
She. too, vanished through one of tn
queens gates. though the door itself wa
shut. and no footsteps could be heard
Other servants in the palace have bee
visited by these royal ghosts. One sery
ant declares hat she felt somethin
come and touch her face in the dar
when she was asleep in bed. and anothe
maid sleeping IN the next room Gale
out to her TO leave off walking abo,
her room,' as she heard footsteps mo-
ing about. Several visitess to the pa
ace have noticed extraordinary noises
q particular room. and only d fe
months ago two ladies were standir
talking lea this room at about II 80 o.
night when they heard a loud crash al
saw n brilliant light fash through II
room. a sight which they could not a
count for In any way. The Grsyhi,
informant is positive that no practic
joker Lii the author of the disturbanc.
AZ has been suggested i'm some Quarter
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
Novel Insurance.

- At an inquest held in England the
evidence brought to light the queer fact
that the dead mans life had been in
sured for 800 by the liquor dealer whose
bar he chiefly pa~tronized. No secret
was made about the matter, it being
perfectly fair and above board, the liq-
o dealer only wishing to insure him
self against the loss of business conse-
quent on the death of a valuable GUS
toner. The practice is stated to be
quite decentralization Letter.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
Ayicioas Fish.

In South America there is a small fish
that not only attacks its fellows of the
sea and river, but ID greatly dreaded by
the natives, who during certain seasons
have to ford the streams in which the
carbitos are found. Bathers are oftenat-
tackled by them, the sharp, chisel shaped
teeth taking a bit fronkthe flesh wher-
ever they attack. They are perfect
scavengers, eating the animals that float
down the riyer--dead or alive.-Pitts.
burg Disnatch
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

Pierre dispatch, 3: The supreme court
convened at 10 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Official recognition of the death Of
Judge Bennett was taken. Hon. Coe l.
Crawford, in his official capacity as at
torney general, appeared before the
court and said:
If the court please, it is my painful
duty to formally to the court
the death GIFTS beloved presiding justice,
the Hon. John E. Bennett, who died on
Sunday evening last, and l move that
the court do now adjourn"
Judge Corson, presiding pro tenn, said:
1.-THE remaining members OF the court
have heard with profound sorrow of the
death OF our esteemed associate and, in
view Of the fact that his remains are
now lying awaiting burial, the court will
grant the motion and adjourn. More
formal proceedings will occur at a future
date"
At L o'clock, noon, Judge Corson and
Kellam qualified before Chief Clerk
Goodner for the new six-year term of
office to which they were elected last
fall.
At the converting OF court the official
chair the deceased presiding judge, John
z. Bennett, occupied had been appropri-
ately draped in mourning, as well as the
judges desk. The clock which was sus-
pended on the wall above the, Judge was
also draped in mourning, and was stop
ped the hands pointing to the hour when
death had made vacant one chair upon
the bench. The doors leading to the
: court chamber and to Judge Benefits
room bore Grape upon them.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
Women MT the Polls.

"Do unmarried women possess the
ballot in this country" asked the Eng
lish tourist.
Mot to any great extent" replied the
native. I'm Wyoming women are al
lowed to vote, and in few other states
they vote on school questions"
Don't they vote in Pennsylvania at
alp
sNo."
aThat's odd. ! certainly heard some
one speak Of the maiden vote the other
day."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

ST. PAUL, Jan. 5.--Governor Nelson
has appointed the following as a state
medical board: Three years, Perry III.
Willard, st. Paul; Charles M. Hewitt,
Red Wing; Franklin Staples, Winona.
Two years, Charles L. McComb, Duluth;
X. Hoegh, Minneapolis; M. J. Mayo,
Rochester. One year, w. Ell. Leonard,
Minneapolis; Edward Boeckman, st.
Paul; w. l.. Beebe, st. Cloud. Doctors
Hoegh, Boeckmann and Beebe are the
new members.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
velvet Shoes.

While enjoying the comfortable pref
tiness Of o tea gown the social dame or
demoiselle now incases her feet in vel
vet shoes. They are to be had in all art
shades, and fancy may choose from rare
olives, rich sapphires, bronzes, old blues,
porcelain pinks, sunbeam tints and leaf
tones.-New York PressA
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

Brookings dispatch, 2: Last wsah Iur-
ing a row which occurred at u dance in
the northwestern portion of this county
near the Minnesota line some roughs
from Minnesota gave Edwin Lien a
severe pounding. Lien came to Brook
ings and procured warrants for their ar
rest. Deputy Sheriff Comstock went
out aud enticed three of the men into
this state and succeeded in capturing
two Of them. The third, Ole Lovere.
escaped and ran across Lake Hendrick
into Minnesota. The officer brought the
two prisoners, Ben Running and Pete
Hagen, to Brookings this evening.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. o. William
Fremont Perry, past master of the Oak
land Live Oak lodge, Free Masons, and
secretary OF the Masonic Widows and
Orphans Home association, was arrested
here. charged with embezxlement Of
$500 sent to him for the association and
never accounted for. It is alleged that
his d~efalcations viii amount to about
x6. 900. .-kas
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
q the Policy.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.-The report
MAT the Pennsylvania intends to extend
its system to Omaha, is characterized by
Second Vice President Green as absurd,
it being the settled policy Of the COM
pany not to build or acquire any ~lines
west of the Mississippi river.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
yermillion figures out about $4,000
worth OF improvements the past year.

Judge Frank r. Aikens has refused to
grant a new trial in the celebrated Pol
lock divorce case and it will now go to
the supreme court.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

William Nswson, a cattle rustler OF Fort
Pierre. who was bound over to the grand
jury in $1,000 bonds at Rapid City, has
skipped out leaving his bondsmen in the
lurch. He was implicated with other
parties in shipping a trainload of stolen
cattle from Rapid City last August.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
spoiled : Good Case.

LONDON, Jan. 5.-The News i'm its
financial article, commenting ON Nh.
Wilson's attack on the Bank of England
in The Investors Review, says it is the
opinion Of leading bankers and others
that MIR. Wilson spoiled a good case by
excessive heat OF language, and that the
facts do not warrant wholesale
tions Of bad management.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
Not Politics But Famine.

LONDON, Jan. ga dispatch to The
News from Rome says: Signor Colajanl,
q member of the chamber Of deputies
who has Just returned from Sicily, says
1t il not politics . but real famine which
has induced the masses to revolt.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
OF SUBSCRIPTION.
m ADVERTISERS.

THE DAILY LEADER makes a special feature OF
furn;shIny intDrmstloa concerning the advantages
and resources of the city of Madison and OF the
state nj large emitting IL 90 the patronage OF ad-
~vertieers of every class.
J. r. STAHL, Proprietor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
Fear an ocean wreck.

LONDON, Jan! "A dispatch from
Folkestone says it is feared there that d
large vessel has foundered. A hfeboat
has col.4s ashore with it's bottom stoyein.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

An American humorist once said that
''the only way to define a kiss is to take
one." Oliver Wendell Holmes called a
kiss the twenty-seventh letter OF the
aiphabet-.'the love labial which it
takes two to speak plainly"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
DRUGs
SEE AGAIN rs m YOUTH
TNesa vvo nneReul. lrnar,

THESE Wo MDERFU W. LENSES
Are the result Of years OF scientific expor.
tmcnting. and are now placed. owing to
their superiority. preemfnently above every
They are acknowledged b.. experts TO be
tho ines and most perfectly CONSTRUCTED
Lenses KNOWN. n are peculiarly adapted
lions. trial % the kQnIe0oa win Convince
you they are SflFEct s,0tU RelE6eR&
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-03
SAN JUAN SETTINGS.
A Capital City Visitor Talks OF Sub
stantial Improvements in North
west New Mexico.

Hon. G. H. McHenry, ono of San Juan
county's best known citizens, arrived
over the narrow gauge last night, en-
route to Tempe, A. T., where he has in
terests. He has many good words to say
for San Juan county and northwest New
Mexico in general. The winter has been
exceptionally fine, stock and farm inter-
ests are prospecting and the work of e1-
tending and charging the irrigation
bitches continues. Considerable imml-
grafton is coming in. Pennington, says
Mr.. McHenry, has made remarkable pro-
gress during the past year. In TACT, IN
his travels of some 1900 miles he has seen
no town that shows greater improvement,
there having been erected there during
the season thirteen brick houses. A fine
brick church for the Presbyterians is
now being built under the supervision
of Rev. J.. H. McGaughey. The southern
Methodists are building church at Flora
Vista. At Aztec is substantial Presby'
terrain church; hotel of twenty rooms
has been Just completed and six or eight
good brick dwellings, have been put uT
during the past season. The La Plate
valley has during the past two years
doubled in farming population and II
cultivated area, also Olio and Jewett maxi
the same good showing-'and all OF 'en
are for statehood first, last and all tn
time. Indeed" added Mr.. McHenry, :"
do not believe there will be dissenting
voice in the county on the statehood pro
| PROPOSITION"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-01-03
CAPITAL GRIST.
News Paragraphs of the Day Gath
cred from Several Sundry
Sources.

The board of penitentiary commission
ers meets at the institution tomorrow.
DR.. G. B. Kohlhousen and DR.. A. j.
Stalnaker, of Ration, have been granted
army pensions.
Supt. of Schools Mariana Larragoite,
reports thirty-six public schools with an
attendance of 1000 scholars in Rio Ar
riba county.
Supt. Bergman reports only 125 con-
victs in the penitentiary to-day, and adds
that the courts are not sending him many
victims these days. The largest number
in the institution at one time was IT..
This Office is IN receipt of the annual
report of Gov. Thornton, made to the
secretary of the interior. The report ls
an able document and makes good
showing for the territory.-Chama North
west 4
The pension commission have investl-
gated the cases of between $50 and 80
pensioners in this city and will now sep
arate, part of them going to Mora and
part to the new county of Guadalupe
Las Vegas Optic.
The Clayton Enterprise comes down
from Union county this week bristling
all over for statehood. Itpresents a fine,
double column picture of Delegate DO
seph and refers to him as "our next
state senator from the state of New Mex
ico."
Everything is reported very quiet at
the local U. s. land Office, with good
deal of important business in the pros
pective. The application of David Ray
to purchase certain valuable coal land
at Monero will be contested by W. f.
Brood on January 8.
Chairman Gable, of the New Mexico
board of equalization, announces, after
correspondence with members thereof
throughout the territory, that the session
called for this week has been postponed
to some date in the early future not ye
agreed upon. This action was necessar.
owing to the inability of several member
of the board to be here this week.
The election of mayordomo of the ace
quia in old Albuquerque, January l, wa
full of excitement, and the aid of tn
courts had to be called in. A peremp
: tory writ of mandamus was issued b.
Judge Collier against John Duran order
: ing him to receive the votes Offered
Santiago Baca and Tranquilino Sedill
filed an affidavit to the effect that Dura
had refused to recognize the writ, an
Judge Collier will investigate the case te
morrow. Manuel Garcia, Republican
was elected by majority of two. Their
will be contest.
The determination of the problem {
the amount of water to be used for irr
! CATION in the west is the object of an IL
4 vestigation now in progress by tn
geological survey, the outcome of whic
o will interest New Mexicans. The sciei
9 lists of the survey have completed cha
q showing the s'mean annual run off in tt
;. streams of the United States" tt vi
compiled under the direction of Geolol
ist F. H. Newell, and is the first map I
y its character ever made. It is result I
a about fourteen years of study, thong
= only six years since has the investigate
been conducted on an extensive seal
During the past six years all the lart
:, rivers in the country have been gauge
y by survey scientists.