The leader., 1889-11-16
South and West.

| A FIRE has occurred in Petersburg, Va,
| which destroyed property to the value of
| $3.50, 600, and caused the loss of one life
AT Bayou Boeuf, La, a mailman attacked
number of men with a knife, killing one,
and badly wounding three others. He was
afterward killed himself
FREQUENT burnings of barns and hayricks
in McDonough and Hancock Counties, ILL.,,
| cause much excitement among the farmers,
who are keeping a sharp lookout for the
! torch bearers.
! GEORGE HANCOCK Mormon high priest,
has been arrested at Payson, Utah, charged
! with numbering Mrs. Hatch and her son,
| George Jones.
OSCAR BERGHsTROM, of Willmar, Mimi,
while hunting, was drowned in Long Lake.
| He accompanied Nordenskjold, the explorer,
On his expedition north of Asia
! A FIRE in a new thirteen-story Touring
mill in st. Paul. Mimi, has caused the de-
struction OF that mill, with loss of $50, 900.
FIFTEEN convicts confined in the peniten-
! tiary at Huntsville, Ala, attempted to es-
! cape. One of them was shot and killed and
| two Others were wounded.
| HUNDREDS of cattle and sheep perished in
| a severe snowstOrm in New Mexico and at
least five cowboys were frozen to death.
FIRE has destroyed property to the value
of 800, 900 at Columbus, Ohio.
The clothes taken from the body of Dr.
| Cronin by his murderers, with his case of in
struments, have been found in sewer at
Chicago.
j. D. VAUN has been hanged at Summit
! vile, Tenn, for the murder of North White
He had tried suicide twice, and the rope
sank into the wound breaking his neck.
| AT Leesburg, Va. one hundred armed
! men took Owen Andrews, colored, eighteen
years of age, from Jail and hanged him for
attempting to assault Miss Leith, a white
school girl
THE convention of the National Women's
Christian Temperance Union began in Chi
cago.
A WOMAN, said to be an important witness
in the Cronin murder case, was sand
bagged in Chicago
| THE Catholic Centennial was opened at
| Baltimore by imposing procession of
ecclesiastics and pontifcal high mass at
which Archbishop Ryan preached the SER
| mon.
| GERMAN DAY" was celebrated in Louis
| vile, KY, by Turner's singing societies and
other organizations to the number of Is, 900.
COLONEL WILLIAM GooDLoE died from the
! effects of the wounds he received in his en-
counter at Lexington, KY, with Colonel
! Swope, in which the latter was killed.
! PATRICK AIRY, pugilist of New Orleans
was shot and killed by Andy Berrill
Miss FRANCIS E. WILLARD was reelected
| President of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, which met in Chicago.
! A FREIGHT train was derailed near Kenton
Tenn. and badly wrecked. Brakeman
Thomas Carter and Engineer Thornton
| Emmons were killed, and Fireman Avery
| Hudson and Conductor De Witt Newman
were seriously injured.
NEARLY complete returns show that Boies
| Democrat has plurality of about 5000 for
! Governor of Iowa. The remainder of the
Republican State ticket was successful by
| pluralities ranging from 1000 to 5000.
| c. A Ross, preacher living near Locke
! ford, Cal shot and killed his wife, his eight
| year-old son and himself. He was Metho-
| dist preacher for several years, but lately
had been an itinerant Congregationalist, en-
| gagged in selling books.
CHARLES A. SMITH, prominent Alabama
| politician, and brother of Ex-Governor Will