The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-16

AUGUSTINE CHAcos, sentenced to b,
hanged on the 18th of this month for
murder, sawed his way out of the jai
at Solomonville, AriE.. and escaped.
JAMES NJ. GoRDY was hanged a
Georgetown. Del, on the 18th for tn,
murderer of his wife. He protested
his innocence on the scaffold and
scored the newspapers numerically
as being responsible for the poopl,
thinking so i'll of him.
THE blowers and gatherers of the
Anderson Window Glass Co. IS four fac
tories at Anderson Ind, struck on tn,
10th and IL was feared the troubl,
would extend throughout the entir,
nation and disorganize the Window
Glass Workers national association.
THOMAS NEAL, living IN Cheste
county, 5. c., drove his wife away frou
home in Jealous fit and sh,
went to live with her grandmother
Neal afterward went to the place anC
broke in the door, split his wife's skull
with an ak, killed the grandmothe
with the same weapon and shot anothe
woman who was present. lie theI
poured oil on the bodies, burned tn,
house down and escaped.
THERE were 256 failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th, &C
cording to Bradstreet's report, com
pared with 234 for the corresponding
week of last year.
The fatality from famine and plague
in China was reported to be appalling
In one large town near Szechuan hal
the population had persisted from
starvation and the fever that follow!
in its wake. Along the route to smaller
towns, numbers of bodies laid dccom
posed in the streets while the sky wal
black with vultures. Smallpox wa'
prevalent also in Tochege.
ANTI-CHRIsTIAN riots have broken out
at Lin Ching, China A Catholic
priests residence was attacked, three
Christians killed outright, among
them Rev. Father Mazclie, eight
wounded and four captured.
Miss LEoNA GOODMAN, a popular So
ciety belle, was killed in a most shock
ing manner at Rover, Ark. The other
night party of young men and wom-
en- were out serenading and went to a
house where a young teacher named
Lipp was stopping. When awakened
by the serenaders Lipp deliberately
fred pistol shot into the party and
the bullet struck Miss Goodman in the
neck, causing instant death.
WHILE making test near Washing
ton of gun-cotton shell, the invention
of a Chicago man, in 20-inch breech-
loading rifle weighing 1915 pounds,
the cartridge prematurely exploded
and the big gun and carriage were
wrecked and pieces thrown mile down
the Potomac river The gun was worth
S25, 900.
A DESPERATE battle took place at
Whiting, Ind, the other day between
eight tramps, who had taken posses
sion of Michigan Southern freight
house, and two police officers, during
which two of the tramps were wound
ed. The tramps had refused to vacate
the building when requested.
TIE supreme lodge A. O. L. w. met
at Milwaukee on the sth with 100 dele
gates present. The session will con-
tinue for a week or ten days.
A MORTGAGE for S50, 000, 600 was given
by the Lake Shore Il Michigan South.
ern railway and placed on record in
Cook county, Ill.
THE establishment of the Udell
Woodenware Co. at st. Louis was COM
pletely destroyed by fire the other
night. The loss on the stock, which
was valued at $50, 900, was complete
and the building was entirely con-
sumed. 1t was valued at about $50, 600.
The loss was covered by insurance.
BATES SoPER, who murdered his wife
and two children at Archie, Cass
county, Mo-. six years ago has been
arrested at Ashland, Ore. lie has made
a full confession of the crime.
PETER MAHER and Tom Sharkey
fought at New York on the night of
the 9th for $4,000 purse, but at the
end of the seventh round the police in
terfered and the contest resulted in a
most unsatisfactory draw, the relative
merits of the men being as much puz-
2le as ever
TACoPo FERRARI stabbed and shot
Mrs Guiliani at Washington and then
shot himself through the head. Fer
rari had been paying so much atten-
ton to Mrs. Guiliani that he made
himself offensive to the woman and
her husband and had been recently
warned not to visit the house. The
woman may recover.
A MATCH dropped by workman at
the fireworks factory of NJ. Shure at
Chicago caused terrific explosion the
other evening. Many people were
badly hurt ou the street by flying
rockets, but fortunately most of the
workmcn had gone home and there
were no lives lost. The building and
contents were entirely destroyed
| Loss, 500, 600.
! Two men named Henry Foster and
John Shootman quarreled at Albany
Ky, and Foster stabbed Shootman. A
man named Redell went to Shootman''
assistance and shot Foster. Foth mer
were fatally wounded. The men had
| long been at outs.