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THE LEADER.
PUBLISHED EVERY 8 ATURDAY.
P
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Entered at Washington, D. C., Postoffice
as second-class matter.
ROBINSON BROTHERS,
Pgo?mmus.
R. B. ROBINSON.
BUSINESS MANAGER,
MAGNUS L. ROBINSOY,
MANAGING EDITOR.
Frederick Douglass, Jr.,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
Tenxs:—Postage Free, one year, $2.00, © mos,,
$1.00; 3 mos, 60 cls, payable In Advance.
Moatnly s1bscribers at 20 cents, vable at end
of each month. Single Coples, 5 Cents.
Advertiaing Hates furnished en application.
‘The Editor of the LEADER will not be responsi
ble for views expressed by correspondents,
Am‘!:e- all commaunications, business letters,
»
THE NATIONAL LEADER, ’
Omce : Room 16, Robbins’ Building, Cor. ¥ an
Tib sireets, N. W.,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
R E——
Harrisen is ‘*All Right!”
**The colored man will find in me a
true friend, 2n1 they ought to expect
the fairest treatment at my hands, and
they shall have It.”” The above are
words of President-elect Harrison to a
colored State Senator of Louisiana.
Good for General Harrison! We need
the fairest treatment at the liands of
the most Influential and prominent
forces of the Natlon. Unfair treat-
ment has been the course towards us
all the way along since the pretense of
giving us freedom and equality before
the law was made by the amendments
to the Constitution. The appropriate
legislation to enforce the amendwents
is yet to be made. In that legislation
will be found the falr treatment that
the colored men have by loyalty and
earnest endeavor to become good citi-
zens 80 richly deserve. i
The words of Geuera: mnarrison
strengthen the hope of the colored citi-
zens 1n the next Republican adminis-
tration. The treatment received by
colored citizens of the South makes
cltizenship in this Nation valueless and
beneath the dignity of a farce.
Through the suggestion and guidance
of the Harrisons, the Chandlers, and
others of our party it 1s to be hoped
that the rep:oach to our nation, caused
by its long inability or lack of desire to
protect its ewn citizens in the enjoy-
ment of life, liberty and property, will
be cast out. Let it uo longer be said
that thls nation 13 more potent in pro-
tecting 1ts citizens in a foreign land
than 1t is at home .
It is gratifying to have the assurance
of fair treatment from the man who
will be the executive head of the Na-
tion for the next four years., We need
it not only in the South, we mpeed it
right here in Washington and through-
ot the North. Let President Harri-
son in the District of Columbia see to
it that falr treatment 1s accorded its
colored citizens, Here, since tue in-
cumbency of Iresident Cleveland, un-
fair treatment of the negro has gained
an impetus altogether incompatible
with the idea of justice or equality
before the law. We must have fair
treatment In schools, fair treatment in
the distribution of benefits of taxes,
falr treatment in the selection of juries,
fair treatment by the police authorities
and the rights of citizens respected in
all public places. Such attempts as
are being made by Cleveland’s pretend-
ed Republican Commissioner to take
away our school houses because they
are felt to be too good for us by the
sympathizers with that sentiment fur-
ther south that assassinates Republi-
cans, should be stopped at once upon
our- party coming into power. Alto-
gether the signs are propitious for the
acknowledgment ana protection of the
fall citizenship of the negro in this
Ration
o
A CORRESPONDENT of the Atlanta,
Ga., Constitution, writing from Felicity,
Ohilo, is trying to show that much
trouble exists in that locality over
mixed schools, which he alleges was
brought about over the Arnett resolu-
tion, which was passed two or three
years #go Dby the Mtate Legislature
striking out the word *‘*white.” Now
this eorrespondent has labored very
hard to make it appear that the intel-
ligent and wise people of that particu-
Jar locality 1n the State are wild with
rage, because s few respectable colored
children are attending a public school,
No one believes this correspondent,
exocept, perhaps, the prejudiced negro
haters of the South. The true way to
do away with prejudice and unite
American citizens in all the varions
trades and industries In this country is
through mixed schools, the wisdom of
which will sooner or later be admitted
by all true Americans. Forty years
ago mixed schools were established in
Rochester, N. Y., making one public
schoo!l for all its citizens, This com-
munity ranks with any city in the
eountry and is far in advance of many
for ecivilization, justice and enlighten-
ment.
“Weare willing to let the North-
erners deal with the race question and
settle it in their own way, provided
they will come down here and make
themselves familiar with.the facts of
the case. A Northerner,K makes a
mighy good Southerner when he set-
tles 1n the black belt and surveys the
situation.”— Atlanta Constitution.
Tne Constitutwon, we are sorry to say
18 right In its conclusion that a North-
erper makes a mighty good Southerner
when he settles among them. A
Northerner's mind, when he takes up
his abode In the South, is bent on the
almighty dellar; he often succeeds In
getting In the good. graces of the
highly civilized and cultivated South-
erners, by simply cursing the negro,
which is a very easy thing to do. Some
of the low whites of the North, bave
been known to get into the boasted
clvilized and cultured familiss of the
South, simply by damning the *‘nig-
ger.” «
‘WHAT should concern the colored
citizen mogt in the make-up of President
Harrison’s Cabinet is, who will be the
Attorney-General, It will be mainly
through the efforts of this officer we
may expect to gain what is unlawfully
withheld from us. If beisa strictly
cold and conservative man, we will
r.ain nothing. If heis a straight-for-
ward upright-man, full of justice for
all American citizens, we may expect
through his administration that all
Americans wiil fare alike, and that is
all we want.
IF a man has reached the topmost
round of a ladder, and yon are unable
to reach such a heighth, pull him down,
whether such pulling down will aid you
or not, seems to be the logic of some of
our negro journalists,
THE Southern Democracy seem to
take delight In sneering at the Hon.
W. E. Chandler for the noble stand he
has taken for the rights of Awmerican
citizership all over the country.
ARE NOT those among the colored
people who have been less fortunate in
gaining an education more united than
those wha have been less favored?
VERY few colored journals are fair
enough to state the position of Hon.
Frederick Douglass in the Mahone
Langston @ fliculty,
Is 1T pusitle to unite the colored
Press Convent:on on any line of policy
in the Interes: of the cause of the
negro? -
CAN the educated colored men of
this country become united to pursue a
policy in the interest of the negroes
cause?
Colored Republicans of Virginia and
Maryland urge President Harrisen
to appeint General Mahone In
his Cabinet.
A committee of colored men from
Virginia and Maryland walted upon
the President-elect on the 1st instant
in the interest of General Mahone for
a Cabinet place, The delegation com-
prised Hon. A. W. Harris and W. W.
Evans, members of the House of Dele-
gates of Virginia; J. C. Asbury, Com-
monwealth Attorney for Norfolk
County, the only colored prosecuting
attorney in the United States: G. L.
Page, ex-assistant postmaster of Nor-
folk; Rev. Wllliam Miller. Robert Scott,
Jr., of Virginia, and J. W. Adams, of
Baltimore. This committee was ap-
pointed at the same \Washington meet—
ing that named the committee of white
Virginians that visited the President-
elect a couple of weeks -ago to present
General Mahone’s name. Mr. Harrls
acted as spokesman, and presented
General Harrisou with a memorial set-
ting forth what General Mahone had
accomplished for his party in Vir-
ginia, (rrespective of color. Mr.
Adams also presented an engrossed ad-
dress from the Southern Republican
Association of Maryland, the largest
and wealthiest colored Republican or-
ganization in the country. It was
signed by 250 of the most prominent
colored men of Maryland, and strongly
recommended General Mahone to the
consideration of the President-elect.
As colored men tuey asked nothing,
the color line was buried with them
and with toelir people; they presented
General Mahone’s name as the man
who had built up and maintained the
only Republican organization they
ever had in Virginia. They returned
from General Harrison highly grati-
flied with their reception. They said
the President-elect had many good
words for General Mahone and that
his views on Southern matters, so far
a3 he expressed himself, met their
hearty approbatien. They did not
claim that General Harrison gave them
any encouragement.
They Will ask For a Separation In
Heaven,
From Detroit, Mich., “Plaindealer.”
The following from the Detroit
Tribune 80 neurly represents the ordin-
ary Sovthern Curistian that it 1s worth
preserving. It should be in the hands
of every Southern clergyman that he
might see himself as others see him:
**Southern Presbyterian to St Peter
—Is this the gate to the white man's
heavern?
St. Peter—TkLere I8 only one gate;
all who enter, enter here.
Southern Presbyterian —That’s a1l
wrong, but we’ll have to make the
best of it I suppose. I'll go in, but 1
want it understood that I’'m to have a
vlace entirely separate and apart from
that of the colored race. This is in
accordance with our resolutions adopted
St; Peter (loterrupting)-—Stand back,
please, and let Fred. Douglass pass in
—Mr. Lincoln Is waiting for him.
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THEEIGHTH DISTRICT CONVENTION
A SUCCESS. :
GREAT INTEREST MANIFESTED,
net Pecition, and Hon. L. W. Cor-
bett, the ‘“Napoleon of Alexan-
dria Polities,” Commended
for the Alexandria
Post-office.
The colored Republicans of the
Eighth Virginia Congressional District
met at noon yesterday in the Old
Friends’ meeting house in Alexandria,
Va.. in pursuance of the call, for the
purpose of electing two delegates and
two alternatea to represent the district
in the National Colored Convention to
meet in washington, D. C., on March
0 next.
Mr. Magnus L. Robinson, editor of
the National Leader,called the meeting
to order, and stated the object for
whi h they had assembled, which was
that they might counsel together,
choose proper representatives to the
convention, and have that body
memorialize Congress to take steps to
redress the wrongs perpetrated upon
the colored people of the South in their
right of suffrage, and the frauds com-
mitted uvon the ballot box.
~On motion Mr. Robinson was chosen
temporary chairman aod John F. Wil-
liams, of Culpeper, secretary. The fol-
lowing were appointed a committee on
credentials: Messrs, W. W. West, R.
B. Hopkins, L. 8. Norman, Isaiah
Allen, Daniel Lomax, R. H. Baker,
and J. R. Bowen. On permanent-or-
ganization: Messrs. B. B. Hopkins, J.
R. Bowen, H. Lightfoot, B. B, Mar-
tin, R, H. Baker, 5. H. Rush, J. F:
Brodus, and M. A. Russell. .
The committee on credentials re-
ported the following entitled to seats.
Alexandria city—N. Font, R. B.
Hopklns, Johu W. Payne, W. A. Car-
ter, and R B. Robinson, 8
Alexandria county—H. L. Holmes,
Tibbet Allen, J. R. Bowen, Western
Green, and Jas. Bolden,
Culpeper county— WalterWest, John
F. Willlams, E. H. Grody, Henry
Lightfoot, aud J, S. Murray. .
Falrfax county—J. F. Norman, A.
Wesley, A. J. Carter, R. Jackson, and
J. B. Howard.
Fauquier county—G. W. Smith, Z.
Dade, R. H. Baker, M. A.Russell, and
C. H. Kenny.
Loudoun .county—Geo. - H. RKuss,
Robt. Jordan, and Isalah Allen.
Prince Wilham county—J. F, Bro-
dus, P. 8. Gusten and T. Lomax.
The committee on organization re-
ported the following as permanent offi-
cers and they were accepted: Henry
Lightfoot, of Cu'peper, chairman, and
H. L. Holmes, of Alexandria county,
secretary. .
The committee then proceeded to the
election of delegates to .represent the
and the following were placed in nomi-
nation: Magnas L. Robinson, J, F.
Norman, . L. Holmes, C. H, Kenny,
Walter West and D. W. Lomox.
Before the vote was taken Mr. Rob-
inson stated that he was not seeking
the position and preferred to work in
the ranks. The election resulted in
the choice of J. F, Norman, ef Fairfax
county, and II. L. Holmes, of Alexan-
dria county, as delegates, and Magnus
L. Robinson and H. H., Worriug as
alternates. Mr. Robinson offered the
following:
WHEREAS we, the delegates repre-
senting the colored Republicaus of the
vention assembled this day In the city
of Alexandria, Va , for the purpose of
electing two delegatss to the national
colored convention to meet at Wash.
ington, D. C., March 6th, 1889,
Resolved, That we tender our hearty
congratulations to the President-elect
Benjamin Harrison, and bhail with
joytul acclamation the return of the
Republican party to power, Be it
further
Resolved, That we heartily endorse
the b ave and dauntless Wm. Mahone,
ex-United States Senator, for his zeal-
ous advocacy of Republican principles,
devotion to State interests, aud the
interest he displayed in advancing the
rights of the negro, politically and
educationally.
TResolved, That we do recommend
ex-Senator Mahone to President-elect
Harnson for a cabinet position.
Resolved, further, That- recognizing
in the person of Hon. L. W. Corbett,
of Alexandrnia city, a true and tried
Republican of unblemished character,
popular, aggressive, and a friend to the
negro; a representative man 1n every
sense, and he beluy the choiee of the
white and colored Republicans of the
city of Alexandria for the position of
postmaster of said city, it being the
first In importance In the elghth dis-
trict, we do heartily indorse and recom-
mend him for the same, and urge upon
President Harrison the fitness of his
appointment.
The resolutions were put upon their
passage, wben Henry Ligbtfoot lefit
the Chair and made a speech againsat
the adoption of the resolut'oa endors-
ing General Mahone. Also B B. Mar-
tin, of Fairfax, opposed the adoption.
Mr. West ably defended the resolu-
tion, commending Geueral Mahone, as
dii also Mr, Robinson and others, The
resolutions were then adopted with
but two dissenting votes, Henry Light-
foot and B. B. Martin The Conven-
tion adjourned at 7 o’clock midst much
enthusmasm.
—Advices from Hayti are to the ef-
fect that there is but little change at
Port-au- Piince. President Legitime,
by his arrests, imprisonments and occa
sional executions, has quieted all ex.
pressions of open opposition Lo his rule
in the capital city, Hyppolite's [lorces
remaining near Laecaer, on the road to
San Mare.
—While erossing the Missouri river
on the ice above B smarck, Dakota, on
the 2d, Mr. apd Mrs. Jobhu Olsen and
three chldren were drowned. The
team broke through the ice,
—Advertisers will nm}.n ::l:holr ad-
vantage to advertise paper,
Terms—eash and cheas.
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS | A=
eighth district In the March convention !
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Open Letter to Senator Morgan,
of Alabama, Through the Columns -
of the **Natienal Leader.”
29 GROVE ST., BOSTON, MAss.
SIR:—Recognizing the fact that it is
my right as a citizen of this grand Re-
General Mahone Endorsed for a Cabi- public to note and criticiss the acts
and utterances of its public servants,
and 1n pursuance of that right, I there-
fore address you tbis Jelter. I have
often read your discourteous language
and the epi:hets that you seem to de-
licht lo indulge in toward a people
whose m'sfortune it was to have been
ens'aved In one of the most diabolical
ipstitutions ever known In ancient or
modern civilization, but your language
in the Senate chamber on Wednesday,
the 16th inst., about the young negroes
of Alabama was wanton in every par-
ticular, and pioves beyond a doubt that
you are not a philosopher. And such
& course as you pursued can not but be
condemned by every f«ir minded man,
be he Democrat or a Republican, 'L'he
course which you, Oates and Vest. of
Massouri are pursuing clearly demon-
strates that you and they are some of
the few that yet remain of the old
school of the notorious Bob Toombs,
who has long since gone to his reward,
and if there is such a place as Toppet
{and I have no donbt but that there is,)
and according to his deeds he certainly
wmust bs among the lowest of its in-
habitants, and I should regret very
much to know that any of the despised
negroes should be found there in his
company. In your attitude toward the
negre, you are sinning against light and
kuowledgze, and if persisted in, will in
my opin:on, be more to'erable for
Sodom and Gomorrbha fin the day of
judgwment, than 1t will be for you.
**God will not always chide, melther
will he Kkeep his anger forever.”
In vour wou'd-be magnanimous offer
to Senator Blair, of New Hampshire,
(a wan whom God made and honors,)
you sbould remember that the negroes
are LO more yours to give and to sell
as you please, they aie no more goods
and chattels, but they are citizens of
this country as much so as you are,
and can go whenvver and wherever
they please, if they have the means to
go with. It is or 1t should be to your
everlasting shame when you attempt to
hold up to public gaze the imperfec-
tions of the negroes of this country,
and try thereby to antagonize and 1m-
pede tue progress of a people who are
indeed without doubt the truest and
most loyal citizens of this Republic,
especially are they such when com-
pared with the whites of the Southern
States. If we are thieves your ances-
tors set the example by stealing us |
from the srores of Africa, and con-
tinued the outrage upon their children
and their children’s children down to
within the memory of the present gen-
eration, and you and such as you would
still continue it, had not the Govern-
ment which they love and uphold de-
prived you of the power. 8till, angry
over your defeat, but not daring open
re-istance, yet burning with revenge,
you seek it in abusing these unfortu-
nate people and throw every obstacle
you can think of in" the way of their
advancement. You extend them no
aid in their efforts to improve their
condition. You cheat and wrong them
out of their wages. They are treated
with “ scorn aund contempt 1n your
presence. Y ou appose schools for their
instruction. They receive nothivg but
indufference and injustice in your
couris, and nothing but bludgeons and
bullets, if they resist unprovoked and
wanton attucks of violence upon thelr
persons, or attempt casting a ballot,
contrary to your wishes or desires,
And theough you have made them
elghth cougressional district, In con- | all that they are that 1s delestable, you
have the shamelesspess to villify them
in Congress before the whole .country
and express your desire for their re-
moval from that portion of it which
you dishonor and represent. Verily, a
people thus robbed of every right
which renders life desirable, what is
left for them but to flee from such a
commun:ty of white-skioned rascals,
To seek some more hospitable locality,
shake the dust from their feet, and
leave forever your detestable State.
Respectfully,
W. H. PHILLIPS,
HoON. JouN F. MORGAN, U. S, Senate,
Washington, D, C.
JANUARY 23, 1889.
Chase, the Hot-Headed and Reversible
Negro Editor.
From the Petersburg,Va., “Lancet,” February
2, 1889.
The editor of the Washington Bee
had the hysterics last week. He was
in the highest state of convulsions,
He had read what purported to be the
remarks of General Mahone at Charles-
ton, 8. C,, and without stopping to
discover whether they were trathfully
reported or not became violent—in-
sanely violent, and proceeded to char-
acterize the distinguished Virginia Ex-
Senator u#8 a contemptible coward.
But this is not unlike Brother Chase.
He is notoriously known throughout
she country a8 *“Chase, the hol-headed
and reversible Negro editor.” Hels
the only editor in the Upited Siates
who is so inconsistent as to pralse and
abuse a man in the same issue of his
paper. It 18 related of Mr, Chase, the
editor of the Bee, that on one occaslon
when he called at the. White House
and sought to get on good terms with
Piesident Cleveland after baving filled
his paper with abuse of that gentle-
man, that the President listened to the
warm words of p:alse doled out by the
reversible editor and then drew from
his pocket the back numbeis of the
papers contamiog the vile criticisms
and read them aloud for Chase’s bene-
fit. Iv 18 reported that the cheeky
.ewspaper man was covered with con-
fusion and it f.shed upon Lim for the
first 1me that he had put himself in
the deailly paral el column attitude, It
m«y be that at some time 1uthe nu
distaut ‘uture the vyes of the Washing-
ton edior will stare again from the
minst of bis confusion whijle having
reasd to him by sume distinguished wan
the worus of abuse he now p: ints in hus
paper cencerniug the ablest and most
ipfluential Svuthern Rapublican,
The Red Riding Hood cloak is worn
by little girls ander eight years of age.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—Rev. Father Cornyn, of Stratbroy,
Ontario, was found dea! in his study,
on the 1st, with a bullet hols in his
bead. It is nct known whether the
shooting was the result of an accident
or euicide, John Rhodes apd William
Boyd were dangerously. if not fataliy,
burned by an explosion of benzine iu
New York on the 1st,
-—Deople have been attacked by a
strange and fatal disease in Webster
county, Kentucky. Tbe doctors have
been unable to do anything for the
afilicted, and have not agreed amoug
themselves as to what the disease is.
It first made its appearance In the
neighborhood of Yate’s saw-mlll, be-
tween two creeks, into which, for a
number of years, slabs and othe! refuse
have been cast and allowed to decay,
thus poisoning the atmosphere for a
considerable distance &round. The
diseage has spread to the acjolning
neighborhoods. Only one pers>n has
recovered, or thought to be recovering,
and he is said to be blind. Tae rest
have all died, death usually occ.rring
from six to 12 hours after the sttack,
and 1n many cases before a pliysiclan
could be procured. Physicians frst
pronounced it cerebro spinal menin-
gitis, but later on they called it spotted
fever, The victims rapidly turned
black after death.
—The Spanish smack Lola has ar-
rived at Havana with the captain and
fourteen of the crew of the Ausirian
bark Cavalier Iaamisevich, from Pen-
sacola for Italy, which foundered off
he Tortugas Islauds.
- —In the bobbing races in Albany,
New York, on the 24, Charles O'Hare,
aged 14 years, was Killed. He was one
of a crew on a bob that became uncon-
trollable and dashed into a crowd.
Several persons were injured. Walter
Ivers, aged 10 years, fell from the top
of a nine-story bullding in Denver,
Colorado, on the 2d. He first struck
the telephone wires, then rebounded to
a hosse’s back in the middle of the
street, and then fell to the. pavement,
Both bis legs were broker, but he will
recover.
—Masked burglars chloroformed a
viclous bull-dog, in Johu Forshner’s
Jewelry store, in Wilkesbarre, Penna.,
on the evening of the 2d, and tnok
clocks and jewelry valued at $600.
Burglars entered the post-office at
Warren, Ohio, on the evening of the
ist, and stole 8"2(200 worth of stamps,
—A drunken policeman named Far-
ley fired five shots from his revolver
into a crowd who were watching fire-
men at work 1n New York, on the 2d.
One shot grazed a fireman’s wrist and
another entered the side of a bystand-
er, The policeman was arrested.
George . Clark, colored, butler for
P. F. Munger, in Chicago, shot and
killed Tillie Hylander, & Swedish girl,
about 23 years ot age, on the morniog
of the 2d, and then committed suicide.
They had been lovers, but quarreled.
—A car of the Berkeley Motor Line,
in Denver, Colorado, bLecame unman-
ageable on the afternoon of the 3d,
while go ng down a long and steep hill,
and dashed to the bottom of thq hill.
When nesr the bottom-the car ran off
the track and was smashed to pieces.
The car was filled with people, ail of
whom were injured, several danger-
ously. John Berry, a_ passenger, and
Wiilllam Greenman, conductor, are not
expected to recover.
—A large sectlon of the wall of Max
Meyers's brick building 1n Omaha, Ne-
braska, which was recently burned,
was blown down by the wind on the
afternoon of the 4th. Two buldings
on the east side were wrecked, and
Edward Oleson, Mrs. Hincher, Michael
Martin, Thomas Houston. Peter Boyer,
Thomas Lombard "and Rudolph
Mitchell were killed, and seven others
were injured.
—The safe In the post-office in Ed-
wardsvllle, Illinois, was blown open by
burglars on the night of the 4th and
robbed of $300 in money and the con-
tents of registered packages, amount
unknown.
—In the Mohawk Valley, 1n New
York, onthe 5th, the thermometer reg-
istered from 18 to 24 degrees below zero,
The thermometer at the Signal Service
Station at Saranac Lake, New York,
registered 32 degrees below zero on the
morning of the 4th. A temperature of
32 degrees below zero was reached in
Rome, New York, on the evening or
the 2d. Reports from various parts of
New England show that the thermom-
eter registered from 30 to 40 degrees
below zero on the morning of the 4th,
In the district surrounding Ottawa,
Ontario, on the 4th, the thermometer
ranged from 24 to 37 degrees below
zero. ‘The first day of the carnival
festivities in Montreal was ushered in
by the coldest weather experienced in
three years, In the morning the mer-
cury touched 30 degrees below zero,
The American visitors, many of whom
came completely unprepared for such
temperature, suffered terribly, and
noses, ears‘asd bands bave In wmany
cases been badly frost bitten. Owing
to the recent mild weather, the ice pal-
ace Is not 80 picturesque as In former
years,
—A heavy wind storm prevailed
throughout Nebraska on the morning
of the 4th, doing much damage in the
western part of the State. Bulldings
were unroofed and trees levelea At
Hastings a school house was wrecked
and one of the puplls was killed, ap-
other and the teacher being fatally
injured.
—E. F. Hecht, cashier for Kestner
& Co., in Chicago, was attacked on one
of the streets of that city on the after-
noon of the 4th, by three bighwaymen
and knocked down twice with a piece
of lead pipe. He was carrying a valise
containing $1200, whicb he bad j
drawn from bank. He beld on to the
valise, and the robbers were frightened
away by passers by who ran to his
assistance,
—Adam Lefevre, a promineut far.
mer, of - West Lampeter, Lancaster
county, Penna., was found suffocated
at bis own lime kiln, on the 3d, He
bad fallen asleep while attending to the
fires. Rev. Mr. Nash, of Newark,
Onlo, went to Zan;lvmu:: o?% :b;ad to
temporarily fill the D! ames’s
Episcopal Church. He fell down g
stairrway of the church and was so
ust | thrown down an embankment. Everett
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badly injured In the spine /]
coveryh;loubflnl. Wt Akl
—A switch engine, moving Jiv
cars on the St. Louis and -.\:n F:::c)ie :
co Railroad, jumped - the track an
went down an embaniment neg
Springfield, Missouri, on the evenin
of the 3d, carrying ten men with |
Wililam Miller, George Lowry, Charle
Mason, C. F. Browning and Eiward
Lane were kuled, Frank Crawford and
John King fatally injured. They we,
all rallrosd men. While Jumes Regar
and John McCormick, arm in-arm and
so Intoxicated that they conld sgarcel
stand, were crossing the tracks of (h
Shote Line Rallroad, iu New -Haven
ccnnzct.{fut. on the 4th, they wers
struc! y an engine and i
killed. T
—It is reported from Canajol
New York, that at Pine Lan?]l"h:lr(:)e
county, on the 4th, while 24 teams!
were drawing logs across the iee, 1t
gave way after seven driyers and
teams bad reached the shore. The re-
walning drivers and horses were
drowned. None of the seventeen
bodies have been recovered,
—A telegram from Marquette, Mih-
igan, says the severest storm of -the
eeason has been raging there sice’ the
4th. After abating somewhat o1 the
6th, 1t re ommenced with increased
severily in the evening. A gh wind
prevailed, with falling temp-rature., A
heavy bail storm with high wiad
over the we-tern portion of Rockbridge
county, Virginla, on the evening of the
5th, del g mucii damags. - Snow has
fallen tbhroughout the northern part of
Ontario, and a streng wind caused 1t to
drift In some localities, delaying rail-
road traflic. The thermometer regis-
tered 2) degrees Lelow zero on the 5th.
—Charles Sinx, an engineer on a
Kentucky and Indlana bridge train,
put his head out of the cab window as
the traln was entering the br:dge on
the 5th, and was struck by-the fence
bhat protects the footway. He died n
a few minutex. He lived at New Al-
bany. Two runaway gondola cars on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad dastied into
a freight engine near Shamokin, Pecna.,
on the morning of the 5th. Conductor
Willlam Linderman anad Fireman A.
Reed were badly injured. )
—Lee Willey, 8 madman, attacked
and killed Francis Valentine, 62 yeurs
of age, with a knife 1n Balt'more, 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 a factional c¢burch
fight in Anderson, Indiana, on the 4th,
Thomas Donahoo was fatally injured
by Stmeon Shore. Jobn Dempsey shos
and killed his sweetheart, Maud Mc-
Clellan, in the street in Chicago, on the
evening of the 4th, and them com-
mitted suicide. The girl was a domes-
tic and recently arrived from Canada.
—Walter 8. Bradley shot and killed
hi- wife In Chicago, on the 6th, and
then committed suicide. Both were
employed by a morning paper, the hus-
band as a reporter and the wile as lit-
erary editor. They quarrelled, and it
is sald that Mrs, DBralley had de-
cided fo separate from her husband.
Some time during the evening of
the 4th George Haggerman was taken
from the Colfax county jail, in Sehuy-
ler, Nebraska, and hanged to & tree in
the court yard. He was charged with
borse stealing and arso,. Jobkn and
Joe Lee, Chinamen, were fatally beaten
and robbed by burglars in their laun-
dry in Rowe, Georgla, on the evening
of the 5th. At Little Current, Onta-
rlo, on the 21!, Christina Togesh, a *
half-breed, was assaulted by five Indi-
ans and then literally torn to pieces.
Two of the murderers bhave. been
caught,
— A blizzard from the northwest bas
for two days raged throughout the up-
per peninsula of Michigan. Trafic
has been stopped on some of -the' rail-
roads, but lumber hauling s facilitated
by the freezing of the swamps. At
Sand Beach the temperature was 6 be-
low zero on the 5tbh, and z¢ro c¢n -the
6th. A telegram from that point says:
**The air is full of fine frozen particles,
and it is almost impossivble for a man
or beast to move. Twenly inches of
snow has fallen, but it is heaped in
drifts by the gale and all travel and
business 18 suspended.” A blizzard
prevalled at Oswego, New York, on
the 6th. Trains were from three to
six hours late, The Boston train from
Ottawa, Ontario, was abandoced on
the 6th, owing to -the storm. A bliz-
zard prevailed In Montreal, on the 6tk,
and the trotting races and the opening
of the ’ark toboggan slide were post-
poned. Tha cold wave continues
throughout Canada, the thermometer
registering from 10 to 40 degrees below
serc,
—Fifty prominent women'of Adams
county, Nebraska, made a €
against a saloon and gambling house in.
Prosser on the evening of the 4th, de-
molishing the entire establishment.,
The women atiacked the building when
“fwl” crowded, with their aproné :uul’l_
of lumps of coal, breaking every
dow glass and cleaning out the estab-
lishment, The inmates scattered in
every direction, some of the loungers
being husbands of the women. Whisky
and beer flowed freely into the gutter.
The place has had a hard reputation
for seiling liguor without a license.
—William Frost died of hydsophobia
at Palatine, Illinois, on the evening of
the 5th, He was bitten by & dog a few
weeks ago., His wound was cauterized
by a physician and he afterwards had a
*‘mad stone” applied until it would no
longer adhere.
—Late on the evening of the bu_:. a
frelght train on tbe Lomsvile, New
Albany and Chicago Rallroad, struck a
broken rail near Quincy, Indiana. The
Bve rear cars with the caboose were .
Co rake , received fatal inja-
fl;,in:ibdua%nme morning of ' the
6th. Conductor Charles Wilson and
ing of the 6th, in
(1?:."{“ .g:f:he: oglmxdavll.l‘- Dbear,
Wilkesbarre, fatslly burning teo
mi Michael Metroand John - So-
laski, The latter died beforp reaching
bome. Jobn btove, sged 40 years,
employed at Clancey’s fertilizing works,
near New Brunswick, New Jereey, was
scalded to desth on the