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The leader., 1897-04-07

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April s.-The old.
est veteran of the G. A. R., William
Harding, celebrated his Tooth birthday
yesterday evening at his farm near
Waseka. He is also veteran of both
the war of 1919 and of the Mexican
war, having entered the former at the
age of l5. Mr.. Harding was born at
East orsley, Eng, April 1, 1871. He
lived at Burlington, VT, at the break.
ing out of the Mexican war and en-.
listed under Gen. Taylor. After this
war he lived in Chicago for ten years,
moving thence to Waseka. In 1862,
when over o5 years of age. he enlisted
In the Fifth Minnesota.
The leader., 1897-04-07
TWO BOYS HANGED.
Blanc Brothers Executed at Lafayette, La.
for Most Brutal Crime.


LAFAYETTE, La, April 3.-Thc Blanc
brothers were executed here at two p.
m. yesterday in the presence of 5000
spectators. They murdered Simon
Begnaud, a merchant at Scott, La,
about year ago The boys were both
under 20 years of age. They got into
Begnaud's store when he was alone,
before retiring. They forced him to
open his safe, bound and gagged him,
got the key of his money drawer from
him and obtained about $4,000. They
then forced him to sit on his bed and,
while helplessly pinioned, stabbed him
to death. The boys spent several
weeks in New Orleans and made tour
to Europe. After squandering their
money they returned and were arrest
ed. They made a full confession.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Congress May Take q Recess.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-There is talk
that the house and senate may take
recess of four weeks to al.ow the SEN
ate committee to work on the Dingley
bill. The house cannot take a recess
longer than three days without the
senate's consent, but the adoption of a
joint resolution making four weeks
recess possible will probably be carried.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Murder Over n Woman.

HAYDEN, Ky, April 3.-Tom Ogle-
thorpe, a prosperous farmer, accused
his wife of having been intimate with
Henry Schneider, farm hand. They
quarreled and Oglethorpes wife left
him. Oglethorpe then went to
Schneider and shot him through the
heart with a Winchester, after which
he turned the weapon to his own head
and killed himself. He was about SO
years old and had no children.
The leader., 1897-04-07
eleventh MAN KILLED.
Lightning Strikes Tree to Which Convicts
Are Eastened. with Inusual Result.

Are Fastened, with Unusual Result.
WAYNEsBoBo, Ga, April 3.-A flash
of lightning here last night killed
Frank Dent, the 18th man in row of
convicts. Dent was strung on a chain
with ten companions when death came
suddenly. The batch of IL convicts
were working in a field late in the
evening when a severe storm came up.
The guard quickly strung the gang
upon long chain and hustled them
toward tree. Dent was at one end
of the chain, while the other end was
made fast about the tree, thus securing
the crowd. A bright flash came, and
in an instant the tree was in splinters.
Swapping and sizzling, the current
leaped from the tree along the links of
the chain, making cracking noise as
it went. The flash blinded the gang,
and long before the sulphuric smell
passed away the convicts awoke from
the shock to find Dent, on whom the
current had stopped, dead, and two
others badly burned.
The leader., 1897-04-07
WORK FOR Mr.. BRISTOW.
The "Headsman" of the Post ONCE Depart
ment VIII Make Fifty Appointments a

The "Headsman" of the Post Once DEPART
ment VIII Make Fifty Appointments
Day.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The distinc-
ton of being the first fourth-class
postmaster appointed by this admins
tration has fallen on John P. Kelley,
of White Cloud, Doniphan county,
Kan. About $500 cases now confront
Fourth Assistant Bristow, represent
ing the accumulation of cases since
the outgoing assistant postmaster-gen-
eral, Maxwell, about six weeks ago,
ceased making appointments, out of
courtesy to the new administration.
These, together with the current ex-
pirations of commissions, will necessi-
tate daily list of about so appoint
ments at fourth-class offices for the
next few months.
The leader., 1897-04-07

THE American Bible society's library
at New York is to be deposited with
the Lenox library, partly to secure its
safety and partly to enrich the already
large Lenox collection of English edi-
tons of the Bible. 1t includes more
than $500 volumes and represents the
general accumulation of so years. The
character of the library is biblical, the
larger part of the collection being
made up of volumes of the Holy Scrip
lures in various editions gathered from
many lands and under conditions that
cannot be repeated.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Department Bulletin on Chickens.

WASHINGTON, April S.-A new farm
ers' bulletin, which is likely to prove
of great interest to chicken fanciers, is
being sent out by the department of
agriculture. 1t is devoted to a careful
and thorough description of standard
varieties of chickens, and is the work
of George E. Howard, secretary of the
National Poultry and Pigeon associa-
ton. The description is given in de-
tail of 81 standard varieties of fowls
and several promiscuous varieties
which are raised in this country. All
the leading breeds are illustrated ex-
cellently from drawings by Howard.
The leader., 1897-04-07

For nearly, two score Of years the W..
chester has been the standard rife Of ~, IN
world. 1t is found in all lands and Il is ' =,
ways very highly thought of ON accon ~
81 Its accuracy strength and durability
in use to-day, but the makers have re gun, u
learn of any dissatisfaction with tbsI 70
Such recommendation as this shoulS "aI u
vince everybody OF the exceptionallv III b1I
quality of Winchester guns. Wincbessssan
ammunition is of as exactly as bigb 4
standard and always gives entire satisf,S
ton. When used in Winchester guns II.
results obtained cannot be equalled SsnS s
to the Winchester Repeating Arms a.
New Haven, Ct, for large ILLUSTRATED
catalogue free, '"'eu
The leader., 1897-04-07
Tariff Biu VIII Re Modified.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The repub-
lican members of the senate committee
on finance are continuing their work
day and night on the tariff bill, with
the intention of reporting it to the
senate at the earliest possible day.
They are not yet prepared to give out
any of the results of their investiga-
tions. There is, however, a we'll de-
fined impression about the senate that
the bill will be generally remodeled,
and the rates considerably reduced in
many of the schedules.
The leader., 1897-04-07
want, But Five MUTTON Acres.

LAGRANGE, Ind, April a.-Simon
Pokagon, chief of the Pottawatomie
Indians, who at one time resided in
this part of Indiana, is preparing to
prosecute claim against the United
States government on 5000, 0e0 acres
of land in Iowa, which was received
by the government by treaty in 1926.
The leader., 1897-04-07

VIENNA, April 3.-Count Baden,
prime minister of Austria, rendered to
the emperor this morning the resigna-
tions of himself and the entire cabinet.
The reason for the resignation of the
cabinet was the fact that Count Badeni
found it impossible to maintain lib
eral majority in the recently elected
reichSrath
The leader., 1897-04-07

THE towboat Raymond Horner passed
down from Cincinnati recently with
the largest tow of coal ever Aoated on
the Ohio. perhaps the largest on any
river. 1t contained go barges, loaded
with 900, 600 bushels of coal. or $1,000
tons This would freight 1,0sO railway
cars 20 tons each and would require AZ
trains of 40 cars each.
The leader., 1897-04-07
A Church Two Hundred Years Old.

New YORK, April g. Trinity church,
full of years of ecclesiastical honors,
will soon celebrate with great cere-
mony the bi-centenary of its existence.
The Trinity's 2oOth birthday, the ami
versary of the issuance of it's charter
by William III. of England in 1897, falls
upon May 8. 1t will be dignified by an
eight days festival, beginning on Sun
day, May 2, and ending on Sunday,
The leader., 1897-04-07
Trumped-Up Charges Not sumcient.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-The president
has caused the announcement to be
made with renewed emphasis that re-
movals of postmasters will not be
made upon trumped-up charges, and
that where ''pernicious partisanship"
is alleged as a cause for removal, the
partisanship must be shown to have
been detrimental to tho performance
of public duties.
The leader., 1897-04-07

A RUSSIAN inventor, M. Karnia, who
has devoted much time to the elabora-
ton of an apparatus to guard against
the somewhat remote contingency of
being buried alive, laid his results at
the feet of the czar, but the car re-
ferred him to Paris An ingenious lit
tie mechanism is placed in the throat
Of the supposed corpse, and any effort
to breathe moves little knob, which
comes in contract with the end of a
wire, thus completing an electric cir
cult and ringing bell in the lodge of
the cemetery keeper, and indicating on
board the number of the grave.
The leader., 1897-04-07
SeYerA Hail Storm.

The section around Meridian was Wis
tied by most destructive hail storm
last week. The stones were unusually
large. Many windows were brokon.
The damage to crops, especially to gar
den truck, is very heavy. The young
plants were beaten into the ground in
many localities and replanting will be
necessary,
The leader., 1897-04-07

Gov. PINGREE, of Michigan, in an ar
ticle recently contributed to the Arena
on 1.-The Problem of Municipal Re-
form" is of the opinion that we under
stand reform theoretically, but have
little inclination to put our theories
into practice. He calls attention to
the endless speeches, essays, editorials
and sermons that are directed toward
municipal corruption, and the compar-
atively little activity that has been
displayed in the most corrupt of cities
to bring about a correction of the evils
eomplained of
The leader., 1897-04-07
Big strike at ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, April s.-Five hundred
employees of clothing manufacturers in
st. Louis struck yesterday, and the
latter will have fight on their hands
that may prove serious. Last fall the
price paid for making coat was re-
duced from IS to so cents. 1t was
promised that the old rate would be
restored in the spring, but as this has
not been done the workers struck.
The leader., 1897-04-07

SIXTEEN lawyers and five guardians
ad Item appeared recently before the
supreme court at Brooklyn. All but
one of the lawyers represented Edmund
Hendrix and 173 co-defendants in a
suit begun by Horatio Gomez and six
other plaintiffs for partition of the es-
tate of the late Matilda Gomez, who
died three years ago in the Blooming.
dale insane asylum, leaving 81, 900 and
no will. The 1900 apportioned among
the heirs, the IS lawyers, the five
guardians and the printer will net the
claimants sums ranging from l-1ssth
part of the $4,000, all the way down to
IL, 320th part.
The leader., 1897-04-07

An actress in Stockholm lost her
power of speech and memory the other
night through sudden grief and could
not take her part. She was accord
ingly hypnotized, and the operator
having suggested that she should pro-
coed to the theater and go through her
part, she did so quite unconsciously
and in such natural manner that the
audience remained in ignorance of
what had taken place.
The leader., 1897-04-07

STATISTICS compiled by the American
Grocer show that the consumption of
both alcoholic and non-alcoholic bever-
ages has not increased during the hard
times between 1892 and 1896. The con-
sumption of whisky and other spirits
during this period has decreased from
one and half gallons to one gallon
per capita. There was a larger per-
centage in the decrease of wines, while
the consumption of beer remained sta
tionary, the average individual con-
tepting himself with about Is gallons
per year throughout the time COW
cred by Mr.. Cleveland's administra-
ton.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Another Arkansas Tornado

WARREN, Ark, April ga tornado
passed over the southern portion of
Cleveland county yesterday, destroying
10 or Is country residences and injuring
several persons. win Shurley was
killed and others are seriously injured.
The leader., 1897-04-07
The Doss Case.

Lee Doss, who killed Luther Ball at
Pickensville, Ala, for sending his sis
fore Judge E. o. Sykes last week at
Aberdeen on a writ of habeas corpus
and remanded back to the custody Of
the sheriff of J.owndes county. The
governor OF Alabama refused to issue q
reauisition for him and the sheriff of
Lowndes county was compelled to re.
lease him. He proposes to go back to
Pickensville at the proper time and
stand his trial. Hs is now living at
West Point smporarily.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Mrs. John W. Andrews.

The remains of Mrs John w. An
drews were inferred in the Bethel
Church Cemetery, nine miles south Of
Aberdeen, last week, followed by large
body of relatives, friends and acquaint-
ance. Mrs. Andrews was reared in
Monroe county, and was liked by all
who knew her. She leaves two daugh-
tiers and largo circle OF relatives and
friends to mourn her loss.
The leader., 1897-04-07
PERFORMS A NEW FEAT.
Chicago Physician Watches the Laundel
ing of a Mama Stnmach

Chicago Physician Watches the Launder-
ing of a Mans Stomach.
CHICAGO, April 3.-With a little ma
chine which looks like an egg-beater,
DIR. Fenton b. Turck has performed
the feat of laundering the inside of
mans stomach at the post graduate
medical school, and by means of the
Roentgen ray he at the same time
viewed the internal apartment where
his little device was at work. The OPP
operation marks an era of progress in
the medical world, as the experiment
was the first of its kind made in full
view of the operator
The leader., 1897-04-07
GOVERNORS SON ELoPEs.
The WOuld-Be Groom Is Seventeen and Hi
Intended Bride Is Only Fourteen

The Would Be Groom Is Seventeen and His
Intended Bride Is Only Fourteen.
ATLANTA, Ga, April 81. p. Akin
son, the 17-year-old son of Gov. Akin
son, and Miss Ada Bryan Byrd, aged
IA, eloped yesterday morning. They
took a train for Tennessee, but, fear
ing detection, they left the train, Sc
cured horse and buggy at Kingston
and left for Rome. The parents of the
youthful couple are greatly shocked at
the conduct of the pair, and have of.
fered a reward for their detention, if
apprehended before the marriage takes
Mace
The leader., 1897-04-07
The President to Take a Trim.

NEW YORK, April S.-A Sun special
from Washington says: The president
has decided to flee from the office
seekers and next week he will enjoy a
brief vacation by taking trip on the
Dolphin, now lying idle at the navy
yard. The trip will last for two or
three days only.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Gen. Merritt Succeeds Gen. Ru9er.

CHICAGO, April 3.-Maj. Gen. Wesley
Merritt yesterday received the first
official information of his transfer to
the New York command. Gen. Ruger's
stay at Governors island expired at
noon to-day, and his successor will
probably take charge in two weeks.
Gen. j. r. Brooke, of St. Paul, is ex-
capO
The leader., 1897-04-07

THE civil service commission reports
to congress that a total of 17s,717 per-
sons are now in the employ of the fed
eral government, not including those
in the military and naval service, and
their aggregate wages amount to $780,
bs9, s27 annually. Of this number, 81
los are now in the classified service,
and not subject to the spoils doctrine.
And of the 91,609 persons outside the
classified service, G6,725 are fourth
class postmasters.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Money Raised for Flood sufrere,s.

ST. LOUIS, April S.-Nearly 1000
has been raised in St. Louis to aid the
flood sufferers in the south. The Ter
minal Railway association, composed
of all the railroads entering st. Louis,
gave notice that it would transport
supplies free.
The leader., 1897-04-07
WILL OFFER A BIG PURSE.
A Boston Syndicate Wants Fitzsimmons
and Corbett to Meet Arain

A Boston Syndicate Wants Fitzsimmons
and Corbett to Meet Again.
BosToN, April 3.-A syndicate of
wealthy patrons of sport has sub
scribed purse Of $4,000 for 20
round contest between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons, to take place in New
York at a date to be agreed upon.
The plan, as arranged, is to place
the entire purse in the hands of
well-known Boston newspaper man,
with full power to act, and if the syn
dictate fails to pull off the contest at
the time and place select ed, the whole
amount is to be forfeited.
The leader., 1897-04-07

A PARIS doctor has discovered the
microbe of badness and has exhibited
IL az the st. Louis hospital, together
with a sheep inoculated with IL which
had lost its wool. He is now hunting
for the means of destroying the mi,
crobe or rendering IL innocuous.
The leader., 1897-04-07

A NEW law enacted in Indiana takes
away from juries the right to deter
mine the length of sentences, and
leaves them only the power to deter
mine the innocence or guilt of the pris-
oner. Even the court will not impose
a definite term of punishment, but will
simply state the maximum and mini
mum period. The length of imprison-
ment must be determined by the con-
duct and the purposes of the convict.
The leader., 1897-04-07

THE post office department has ruled
that boycott pastors" may not be sent
through the mails. This ruling was
occasioned by letter mailed at st.
Louis, on the cover of which was o
small pink paster, requesting the re-
cipient to boycott certain firm.
The leader., 1897-04-07
KalIrosd shop. Increase rhine.

In every department in tho Illinois
Central shops at Water Valley the en-
ployes have been given an increase in
time. Instead of working eight hours
per day and five days in the week, they
will now work nine hours per day and
six days 10 the week.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Water Famine In Cuba.

HAVANA, April 3.--There is great
scarcity of water at Santiago de Cuba
and the authorities have been com
PEELED TO reduce the water ratfons of
the prisoners and sick persons In the
jails and in the hospitals.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Killed BY n Freight Train.

Charley Bates was killed one might
last week at Iuka by freight train.
Bates was in the employ Of the Mem
phis & Charleston Railroad Compa as
night operator at Corinth. He lived at
huntsville, a station between Corintb
and Iuka, and had started homo when
he met death. A freight train was pull
ing through Iuka and Bates attempted
to board it. He was thrown under the
wheels and both logs were cut off just
below the knees. Bates lived about
three hours after the accident. Bates
was very young man, being only 20
years old. He had been in tho employ
of the railroad company for several
years, and was reliable in every way.
He married last November, and leaves
q young wife.
The leader., 1897-04-07

Contracts for tho grading OF the first
ten miles of the Memphis, Tuscaloosa
& St. Louis Railroad have been awarded
to c. b. Wilkins & Co., OF New York,
who are now at Columbus with large
force of men and teams and are ready to
commence work just as soon as some
complications which have arisen in re-
gard to right Of way havo been settled.
The leader., 1897-04-07

In a recent lecture before the Amer
lean Geographical society at New
York Mr.. He'll Chatelain, formerly
United States commercial agent at
Lowanda, in West Africa, stated that
out of the 200, 900, 900 inhabitants in
Africa 100000 are slaves. He also
made the startling assertion that in
one section at least, that of Morocco,
the slave trade was carried on under
the protection of the United States
Aan
The leader., 1897-04-07
Fred Grant Declines a Place.

New York, April s.-CoL Fred d.
Grant has decided to decline President
McKinley's offer of the position of the
first assistant secretary OF war.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Bond for Jeffries,

At Holly Springs last week Judge Ste
phens heard the habeas corpus proceed
ings in the matter Of Paul Jeffries' APP
plication for bail. Jeffries' physicians
testified that his health was such that
confinement in Jail this summer would
be greatly detrimental to him, if not
fatal. Judge Stephens granted him
fries, 1t will be remembered, shot Dem
ton Odell, Jr., his father-in-law. in the
summer of 1895, and was himself Sc
verely wounded in the encounter. He
has never recovered from these wounds.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Determined to Wipe Ont Blind Tigers.

The war on the blind tigers at Mori-
dian took another sensational turn last
week. b. L. Waddell, one OF the men
raided by the police recently, and who
took an appeal from the city court to
the circuit court, jumped his bond, but
was overhauled at Lauderdale and taken
back. He was again arraigned before
Judge Woods and fired $500 and son.
fenced to thirty days on the county
roads. Two other blind tiger keepers
were also tried by Judge Woods and
fined $3.50 each and given terms on the
public highways.
The leader., 1897-04-07
Telephone for McComb CITY.

McComb City is to have telephone
system and expects to have 1t in opera
ton by May Is. All nearby towns will
be connected, thus giving the people of
McComb City as we'll as those in the
neighboring towns many excellent ad-
yantages.
The leader., 1897-04-07

The Chicago Tribune says: Among
the combinations to be hit by the re.
cent antitrust decision of the supreme
court will be one of the worst of all,
the hard coal trust This organization
Is composed Of group of eastern rail
road companies which own nearly ali
the important anthracite coal mines
and which mouopolize the carrying OF
the product 10 distributing centers.
These companies fix every year the
amount of coal that shall be mined in
each district and the price that shall
be charged for various periods, chang
ing the figures as to price as often al
nay seen desirable tor their interests
The leader., 1897-04-07
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
d. co,a.p,.oa,, Murder.

Ono evening recently Robert and Eu.
gene Beeson, two young men Of Quit
man county, went to Jamestown, and
from some cause remained until after
night. About 10 O'Clock that night ,
citizen OF that place heard, as he
thought, tho sound OF blows and scuf.
fling out in the street, and procuring a
lantern went out to discover the cause.
Lying In the street he found tire bodies
OF two men, both seemingly dead. Ho
Immediately aroused some other citi-
zens, and it was found to be tho bodies
OF Robert and Eugene B'yeson, Robert
being dead and Eugene in an uncon-
scious condition. After examination 1t
was discovered that they had been
knocked in the head with a club, which
was afterwsrd found-a stick about ave
feet long. Several persons were ar
rested but suspicion pointed more
strongly TO . negro man named Haines
living in that town. 1t seemed to be an
evident fact that he committed the
crime, or know who did, SO some OF The
citizens threatened to hang him, which
brought out q full confession, his ex-
cuse being that he was to be married
that night, and had no suitable clothes
for the occasion, and that as the Beeson
boys were well dressed he wanted their
clothes and money. He bad gotten s45.
So coldbloodsd and dastardly was the
crime that the citizens took the law
into their own hands and swung him to
tree near the place whore the murder
was committed.
The leader., 1897-04-07
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent.

Over 100000 cured. Why not let No,To IA.
regulate or remove your desire tor tobacco
Saves money, makes health and manhood
Cure guaranteed, SOC and 81 90, all druggists
The leader., 1897-04-07
Not a Well Day
Did She Soc For Months-Can Now
Sleep Well, Eat Vol, and Palms
Have Disappeared.

" For several months my health had
been failing, and l did not have well
day in this time. ] had severe pains
in my back, my limbs ached and was
restless at night. I suffered with loss
of appetite and severe nervous head
aches. A friend advised me to try
Hoods Sarsaparilla. After taking this
medicine for a while l found | was
gaining in health rapidly. l now have
a good appetite, can sleep well, and the
pains with which l suffered have al
most entirely disappeared. l am gain
ing in flesh. / am still taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla and 1 recommend it wher-
ever l 60" Miss SARAH SMITH, 81
North Park Street, Chillicothe, Ohio.
The leader., 1897-04-07

1t is little singular that passengers A..
not allowed to converse with the man al tbe
wheel, though he is spokesman of the slim
The leader., 1897-04-07

He-'I love you betterthan my life" She
Considering the life you lead, cannot say
that l am surprised. Indianapolis Jour.
nal.