The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-29

ALTON, |. T., was almost wiped ont
by fire on the oath. All the business
houses were destroyed, the Frisco de-
pot and 10 ears of wheat. The loss
will footup be tween $50, 900 and S75, 900.
A DISPATCH from Bonn bay on the oath
stated that the bubonic plague was
again active and a wide area was
affected, owing to the withdrawal of
the medical officers for service with the
troops in the rebellion on the frontier.
A FREIGHT wreck occurred at Van
Buren,, Ark, the other night on the st.
Louis & San Francisco road, when
freight train No. 50 wrecked six cars
of merchandise. The accident was
caused by the train breaking in two.
A valuable race horse, owned by i. ID.
Craig, of Paris, Tex, was instantly
killed, and her driver, who was in the
same car, seriously injured.
THE interstate commerce commission
has requested all the railroads to re-
port by the first of next month as to
the number of ears equipped with au-
tomato couplers and air brakes.
NOAH JOHNSON, aged %, waylaid Miss
Tacy Mang, aged IS, while she was on
her way to school at Gas City, Ind,
and blew her brains out. They were
lovers and had quarreled the previous
evening.
SYLvANUs JOHNSON was legally
hanged at Key West, Fla, on the ed
for assault. He confessed his crime.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai the other
day said that Chinese boy, aged II,
was swinging some article about his
head in play when it struck his mother
and killed her. He was condemned by
law to be sliced to death and all forts
to avert his doom were unavailing.
PROF. WIGGINs, of Ottawa, Can, has
predicted that great storm will occur
on the afternoon of the Goth with high
tides on the North American coast.
SUIT has been brought by the United
States against the South Omaha Live
Stock exchange and all its members,
under the Sherman antitrust law.
The fleet of the suit, if decided as the
Kansas City case at Topeka was, will
be perpetually to enjoip the South
Omaha Live Stock exchange from car
rying on its business.
A THKEEDAYs' celebration of the
completion of the new steel arch
bridge over the Niagara gorge at
Niagara, n. V, was begun on the 23d
with burst of music from $50 must
clans of four of the finest military
bands in the United States and Cana
da. A salute of 81 guns was fired from
the bridge.
AT Saline Il. To courthouse David
Ridge, sheriff of the district, and Jesse
Sunday, sheriff-eleut, both Indians,
and Thomas b. White were killed in
drunl-en row by Samson Bait. The
murderer was arrested.
THE John Gund Brewing Co.'S plant
at Lacrosse, Wis, was destroyed by
fire on the ed. Over $4,000 barrels of
beer, 200 bushels of barley and sew
eral car loads of malt were consumed
The loss exceeded $500, 900.
WHILE Charles and Philip Mas were
loading wagons with sand near Rock
port, Ind, the bank caved in and
Charles was taken out dead and Philip
was thought to be fatally injured.
WILLIAM TRIFT, aged 30, employed
on the government tug boat Alpha
from Cairo, ILL.,, was taken TO the Ma
riIe hospital at St Louis on the 2Ist
as a yellow fever patient from Cairo.
THE ella river, swollen by excessive
rains, did considerable damage around
Phoenix, Ariz.. on the 2lst and many
farms were ruined and animals and
houses swept away.
lN a head-end collision on the Georgia
& Alabama railroad near Americas,
Ga. an engineer and fireman We're
killed and conductor dangerously
wounded The two engines were
totally wrecked, together with - tox
cars