The leader., 1897-02-03

WILLARD coLroS, of Cleveland, O.,
came home at three o'clock on the
morning of the Goth, quarreled with
his wife, shot her dead and then shos
himself through the head.
A POWDER magazine at the Crystal
Ridge colliery, near Hazelton, Pa, ex.
ploded about midnight of the 2sth, do
ing considerable damage. The night
Waterman was the only person injured.
The heat from a stove was thought to
have caused the explosion. Hazelton
was considerably shaken up.
FIRE destroyed Olson & Co.'S furni-
ture factory at Chicago on the Goth.
Loss, s35, 900; partially insured.
ALBERT CUNNING, a coachman, shot
and instantly killed Mrs. Benning at
Chicago and then attempted to shoot
her two boys, but failed. He after.
wards shot himself in the breast. Gun
ming had an undue liking for Mrs.
Benring and she had forced him to
leave her house.
To keep out the cold Mandilla Hunt
made big fire in her house near Spar
tanburg, 5. c., and went to bed with
her two children. The house burned
down and the three were eremated.
Mrs. JOHN SHAW, of Aurora, ILL.,,
while in state of temporary insanity,
administered arsenic to her two young
boys and herself. They were all re-
ported in a critical condition.
THE fruit steamship Albert Dumois
collided with the steam yacht Argo in
the Mississippi river near New Orleans
on the 2sth. The yacht sunk and two
reporters for the Picayune were
drowned.
THE small steamer Plankinshaw was
scuttled by ice and sunk in the Ohio
river near Evansville, Ind, on the night
of the 27th. The engineer was drowned
and II others on board escaped to a
barge in tow, but suffered considerably
from the cold weather and several were
badly frozen.
THE bill to permit glove contests has
passed both houses of the Nevada leg
islature and Dan Stuart has announced
that the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight
will occur in that state.
THE pottery factory of Conciad Bros.
at Peru, Ind, the largest in the coun-
try, was burned on the Goth.
A SECTION hand on the Mobile & Ohio
railroad at Beech Ridge, Ill, was found
frozen to death the other morning.
The Colonial express on the CONSOLE
dated road struck and killed five men
at East Norwalk, Conn, on the 27th.
The men had been working on the
track and stepped out of the way of
one train directly in front of the eX-
press.
THE greater portion of the village of
Holland, n. Y, was burned. The citi-
zens fought the flames with bucket
lines.
ARNOLD TREUTHART, farmer, was
found frozen to death near his home at
Nauvoo, Ill.
By the explosion of gasoline stove
in Popp's livery stable. at Toledo, o.,
which caused fire, - valuable coach
and blooded horses were suffocated by
the smoke and 20 others were so badly
burned that the majority of them had
to be shot.
AN explosion of nitro-glycerine oc-
Cured in a storehouse of the Ohio IL
Michigan Torpedo Co. at Brader, o.,
and two men were blown to atoms.
SAM BoYKIN. a carpenter, was over
come by smoke and burned to death in
fire at his boarding house at foakum,
Tex.
A BLOODY battle took place in Gray
son county, KY, q. ". llazelip, Alfonso
Hazelip and his son on one side and
Eugene and John Carrier, Luther
Scaggs and Nathan Scaggs on the
other. The fight was caused by the
alleged betrayal of the Carriers sister
by Alfonso Hazelip. Two of the Haze
lips were fatally wounded and Nathan
Scaggs was probably mortally wounded
and looker-on was shot in the hand.
Observation-Disclosures WILSON has
made public the statement of postal
receipts for the quarter ended Decem-
Der 81, 1896, as compared with the re-
ceipts of the corresponding period of
1895, which shows a decrease of about
$50. 900. OF SO offices only II show an
increase, while II show a decrease.
AS the result of misplaced switch,
an engine drawing a train of empty |
cars collided with loaded passenger |
train on the Brooklyn elevated railroad |
on the night of the 2Sth. One person
was killed and five were injured, one |
perhaps fatally. The engine and the |
forward car of the loaded train top |
pied over into the street 30 feet below. |
A HOUSE on farm near Belleville, |
Mich, was burned through defective
and Miss Anna Vanadawater
and a girl and boy We're burned so
badly that their bodies could not be
TIE large grain elevator of the w.
II. Purcell Mailing Co. at Chicago was
destroyed by fire on the Goth. The loss
vas estimated at $350,00 The fire
men were handicapped by the intense
old.
PROMINENT stockmen of the Indian
erritory and the Panhandle in Texas
nave reported that the recent blizzard
lad resulted in the deaths of thousands
If cattle on the range.
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.