The leader., 1897-03-17

THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 12th, &C
cording to Bradstreet's report, were
227, against 2s2 the same week last
year.
A DISPATCH from Trenton. n. j., on
the 12th stated that Vice Chancellor
Reed had dismissed the case against
the American Tobacco Co. and the trust
was victorious in the big fight TO de-
stroy it,
THE Wabash river dyke in Sullivan
county, Ind, broke on the 18th and
over 10, 600 acres of farming land were
flooded, together with two big coal
mines.
THE plant of the Jenney Electric Co,
at indianapolis, Ind, was destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $4,000. About rs employees
were thrown out of work.
ARTHUR MAYHEM, a negro, was sue
cessfully electrocuted at Sing Sing, N.
Y, on the 18th for the murder of
Stephen Powell He died proclaiming
his innocence.
SEVEN young men of Edmond, Ia,
have been arrested for taking r. 8.
Ferguson from Jail and riding him on a
rail, beating him and Thea leaving him
half dead in barn all night, whereby
his arms and feet were so badly frozen
that amputation was necessary. Fergu-
son had been jailed for being drunk.
FIRE broke out in John A. Tolman's
wholesale grocery house at Chicago on
the 18th and did damage to the amount
of $500, 900. Chase s. Sanborn's spice
house also suffered. Both firms were
fully insured.
THREE men lost their lives in a fire
at the Chicago hotel at Buffalo, N. Y.
on the 18th.
By the breaking up of the ice in
Saginaw bay on the 18th about $50
fishermen, mostly belonging to Bay
CITY. Mich, were carried out on a foe.
All but five, however, managed to
escape to Maison and Lone Tree islands
About $500 worth of nets and 20 shan
| ties also went.
MGR. MARTINELII, the papal delegate
| to the United States, recently had to
| leave New Orleans in hurried man.
ner because he had stirred up the Italian
Malta and they howled for his life.
The eminent Catholic had made some
structures on the Italian immigrants
who come to this country.
A SEVERE wind and hailstorm passed
over Leila and Morrison, Ok, on the
night of the 10th and hundreds of fruit
trees and wheat fields for miles were
ruined. Chickens and small stock were
killed by hailstones, window lights
broken out and some few houses were
blown down.
BY the falling of a section of the old
wall of the old town of Fee, in Africa,
$50 workmen were killed.
THE northbound Illinois Central St.
Louis express collided with freight
train at East Cairo, KY, on the 10th,
killing the colored fireman and injur-
ing the telegraph operator who was in
the station, which was knocked over
into the backwater by the passenger
engine which left the track.
The safe of the Lexington savings
bank, a colored institution at Balti-
more, Md, was opened and found to
contain S2S.92. The net liabilities
were said to be about S16, 900. Everett
j. Warning, the colored president and
cashier, was reported missing.
ERNEST MASTERS and a stranger were
drinking and throwing dice at Lince-
cum, La, when a quarrel arose and
Masters shot the stranger and the
stranger killed Masters with knife
and then staggered little way and
dropped dead.
ONE hundred and five bodies were re-
covered up to the 9th from the San
Francisco mine near Sombrerete, Mex,
and IS miners We're said to be still
missing. Nearly all the bodies recov-
cred were so burned as to be unrecog.
nizable.
| WHILE Taylor Stivers and John
Bailey were working in a mine at Alta
mont, Ky, on the 9th a large piece oil
slate fell upon them and their bodies
had to be mined out.
FIRE started at the Belvidere apart.
ment house at Chicago on the after
noon of the 9th and Quilted the third
and fourth floors and caused a total
loss of $4,000, fully covered by in
surance. Many of the tenants had
narrow escapes.
THE dam at Mount Morris, N. Y,
broke on the 10th and low-lying farm
lands were flooded. All the factories
| in the village which used water power
were obliged to shut down.
The government of Sweden has mott
fed the Canadian government that
Prof. Andrae will start from Stock
holm about the end of June in search
of the north pole and requests that in
structions be given to report the bal
loon if sighted.
| j. w. ARGABRIGHT, the policeman
who killed his father-in-law, William
Smelzer, at Auburn, Ncb., was con-
victed of murder and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Two freight trains collided at Tee
garden, Ind, on the 10th and both en-
| gines were ruined and 81 cars ditched.
No one was killed, but a tramp was
badly injured.