The leader., 1897-01-27

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THE Iowa mille-s passed Resolutions
1T their convention ~ Des Moincs asle
ing congress to restore reciprocity
with Central and South American
countries In regard to -four and cereal
products.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Santa Fe rail-
road collided with hand car at Sealy,
Tex, and two men were killed and an
other fatally injured.
By the explosion of kerosene can
w. L. Kimball, of Urbana, ILL.,, his wife
and two children were badly burned.
The children will die and the condition
of the parents was critical. The house
was saved from destruction.
FIRE broke out early in the morning
in the medical college, one of the build
ings of the Bellevue hospital at New
York. One thousand patients were
asleep at the time, but the firemen con-
trolled the flames without disturbing
them. Many valuable records and in
struments were destroyed and IS cada-
vers were cremated.
IT was reported as being almost GER
tain that a big miners strike would be
inaugurated in the Des Moines, Ia,
district. Miners have been asked to
accept so cents for all coal taken out,
instead of the old scale of so cents.
The miners declare that they cannot
live at the reduced rate.
THE German savings bank at Des
Moines, Ia, closed its doors on the 21st.
GEN. WYMAN recently received q tel
egram from Havana stating that there
were 1900 cases of smallpox among
the residents of that city.
JOHN HoCH was executed by cleo
tricity in the state prison at Auburn,
N. Y. July 10, 1895, he murdered Min
ME Ingersoll, 10 years Of age.
THE three-masted schooner Nahum
Chaplin went ashore near Quogue, l.. l.,
during fierce gale and her crew OF
nine men was drowned.
THE first snow of the season struck
Oklahoma on the night of the 10Th.
THE trial of Edward J. Ivory, the
alleged dynamite conspirator, came to
| sudden conclusion in London, the
government withdrawing from the
prosecution. Ivory was discharged.
AN earthquake occurred recently at
Kishma, an island in the Persian gulf,
attended by an enormous loss of life.
The island is populated chiefly by
Arabs.
A MOB Of colored women rescued a
notorious negro who was being taken
to Jail at Tallahassee, Fla, from Cen
terville. The women disarned the two
officers who had the negro in charge,
tied them to trees, gagged and beat
them with sticks until they were insen-
sible and then left them. At last ac-
counts the women and the negro were
surrounded in a house by sheriff's
posse and it was hoped they would be
captured without any bloodshed.
SECRETARY FRANCIS is preparing an
order for the election from the Chero-
kee country of all intruders who have
not complied with the provisions of the
law by giving satisfactory proof to the
Dawes commission.
A BULLETIN has just been issued from
the census bureau on the working hosts
of the United States, including those
engaged in professional pursuits.
The final proposition of the mine
managers to the striking miners of the
Leadville, Col, district, which was APP
proved by Gov. Adams and f. V. Debs,
was rejected by the miners. This end
ed all negotiations so far as the govern
or was concerned. The miners insisted
on arbitration.
AN earthquake occurred at Delvino,
Turkish Epirus. Several villages,
mostly inhabited by Christians, have
been destroyed, and it was feared many
people have persisted.
THE Missouri and Kansas Association
of Lumber Dealers in session at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the Goth elected the follow
ing officers to serve during the ensuing
year: Ii. C. Taylor, of Lyons, Kan,
president; Jesse Childs, of Richmond,
Mo-, vice president; George d. Hope, of
Kansas City, treasurer. The directors
reelected Harry Gorsuch secretary and
made j. L. Lane honorary secretary.
TELEGRAMs have been sent by the
citizens committee, of San Francisco,
to the governors of Oregon, Washing
ton, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, ask
ing the people of those states to unite
with California in sending ship load
of grain to the starving people of India.
ANTONIO ANGELO, a contractors la
borer at Greenwich, Conn, placed
some frozen dynamite cartridges near
the stove in his dwelling to thaw them
out and soon after his ten-year-old son,
who was playing with one, placed it on
the stove for fun, when it exploded,
killing the boy and fatally injuring
his father and mother and another
| man.
The boilers of the French steamer
Saghalien exploded while off the Chi
nese coast and II stokers and an en-.
gineer were instantly killed and sew.
eral other men died soon after from
their injuries The passengers were
panic-stricken for time.