The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS,

fatally wounded and number more
Or less seriously hurt by an explosion
On the steamer Nutmeg State, while
she was lying at her slip at Bridge
port, Conn, on the 23d.
A JUBILEE of home and foreign mis-
sions of the A. NJ. f. church was held
at Ocean Grove, n. j., on the Esd,
about 8, 900 colored people being in at
tendance from all parts of the country,
including all prominent colored clergy
men.
A BOAT containing 45 employees of
the Hamburg engine works capsized
in the river Elbe on the 23d Six per-
sons were drowned.
In the state L. A. ". race at Grand
Rapids, Mich, for a purse of 81, 1000
Bald was first, Kiser second and Cooper
third.
ANEGRo named Jim Grey was lynched
near Goldville, S. G., for assaulting a
little girl.
THERE were go business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 23d, according to Bradstreet's re-
port, against 2S0 for the corresponding
week last year.
ROBERT SHADROwsKI, the three-year-
old son of Mrs Elizabeth Shadrowski,
\ widow, was run over and killed by
switch engine at st. Louis.
A CONVICT in the Michigan City pen
itentiary has made a written confess
sion in which he states that Mrs. Hin
shaw was shot by a man named Van
Tassel at Belleville, Ind. Should the
confession prove true, Rev. ". Hin
shaw, the woman's husband, who was
sentenced to life imprisonment for the
crime, will get his liberty.
THE bodies of 20 infants in rough
deal boxes have been discovered in the
tower of ST. Peters church at Seville,
Spain. 1t was supposed that whole
sale crime had been committed by the
church warden, Orellana, and his wife,
and they have been arrested.
DEWITT COMPTON, a peddler, attempt
ed to shoot his wife at Chicago the
other night. His revolver would not
work and he pounded her on the head
with the butt until he believed her
lead. He then went into the room
where his two-year-old boy was sleep
ing and, putting handkerchief around
the little ones neck, twisted it until
life was extinct. He afterwards at
tempted to cut his throat with razor.
A HORRIBLE case of restitution came
TO light at Fort Smith, Ark, on the
21st when the emaciated form of Mrs.
John Hauer was discovered lying
stretched out in a little hut she called
her home. Her body was almost naked
and parched with a high fever. In
another part of the room lay cold in
Heath her two youngest children. The
babies had died from starvation. On
further investigation Mrs. Hauer's
mother and three other children were
found to be all sick from lack of food.
THE fifth annual convention of the
national union of German Christian
Endeavor societies opened at st. Louis
on the 31st with nearly 500 delegates
present.
Four women and three man were
killed by an explosion in the armory
of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.
at New Haven, Conn, on the 2lst, and
five others were taken to the hospital
badly injured.
THE Naumbang cotton mills at
Salem, Mass, have decided to close for
a number of weeks, and the 1000 oper-
tives have been SO notified. The shut
down is due to an unsatisfactory
market.
TON COOPER won the mile match race
between Cooper. Eddie Bald and Earl
Kiser at Detroit Mich, on the 21st,
notwithstanding he did not finish first
in any heat. The decision was upon
points and Cooper's total figures ex-
ceeded those of Bald's by one. The
announcements the official result was
received by the people present with
mingled cries Of Rats" Kisses and
cheers
Afford CONES and Ramsey Crosby.
two Choctaw Indians, were convicted
of the murder Of old man Goings. an
uncle of Afford Goings, at the Sulphur
Springs, !. T.. court and were both
sentenced to be shot on August 81.