The leader., 1897-12-22

caused early on the morning of the
nth by the burning of the Hotel
Dakota at Grand Forks, n. ID. IL was
large five-story structure that cost
s25O,OOO. Two large wholesale stores
adjoining were also destroyed.
GRADY REYNOLDS and Bud Brooks
were executed at jefferson, Ca, on
the nth for murder.
Bud BEARD, colored, aged IA, was
hanged at Carrollton, Ala, for assault
ing an eight-year-old girl
KID Mccoy, of Indiana, fought
Dan Creedon, of New Zealand, at New
York on the 18th for the middleweight
championship of the world. After 10
lively rounds the latter threw up the
sponge and acknowle dyed the Hoosier's
superiority.
| WILLIAM CARR was hanged by the
sheriff at Liberty, Mo-, on the 18th for
the murder of his three-year-old
| daughter.
WHILE a herd of sheep, numbering
10, 600 head, belonging to NJ. o. Muir
| ply. was being moved out of Schleicher
county, Tex, to a new range, dense
fog suddenly came up The herders got
bewildered and the entire herd drifted
away and were not found, although
searching parties were out several
| days.
THE date for the national ehcamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public has been fixed for September
| 5-l0 at Cincinnati.
BEGINNING with the new year the
Missouri Kansas & Texas railway will
be operated from the roads Texas gen.
eral office located in Dallas A. A. AL
len, vice president and general man
ager of the katy and his entire Of
flee force will go there from st. Louis
The change is due to an order from the
Texas railroad commissioner, which
made the residence in Texas of an active
vice president of the road a necessity.
Mrs. MARGARET HOGAN, aged IS, was
found murdered in her store at Mo-
bile, Ala. The place had been robbed.
THE steamer Cleveland which re-
Gently left San Francisco for Seattle,
Wash, was wrecked on the coast of
Vancouver island and % of her crew
were said to have been drowned.
Mrs. ANNIE WE'LL stepped on par
Tor match at St. Louis, causing it to
ignite. The blaze caught her under
skirt and she was fatally burned.
john MORGAN was executed before a
crowd of 10000 people at Ripley, w.
Va, for numbering three members OF
the Green family.
THE advance guard of 10, 600 Croatian
colonistS arrived in Denver the other
day. The colony will locate in this
Shenandoah valley of south western
Colorado, where houses, schools,
churches and various industrial insti-
tutions will be erected, the Rio Grande
railroad promising to construct a
branch into the country.
FIRE destroyed the United States
courthouse at Ardmore, |. T., on the
10th. The records were safe in the
vault but valuable papers in the Offices
of the marshal, clerk and commission
er were lost. Only the bare walls were
left standing. The fire also destroyed
the Cobb house, Arch Matthews feed
store and 60 bales of cotton in COM
press yard. The blaze was believed to
have been of ineendiary origin.
THEODORE DURRANT was sentenced
to death on the 18th for the fourth
time for the murder of Blanche La
mont at San Francisco. One of his at
torneys intended to go to Washington
and make final technical fight based
on questions of federal and state law.
AT a house party given by +. l..
Caiitf at Jacksonville, Ga, the other
night, the conduct of Shaw Griffin,
who was drunk, became offensive and
he was requested to withdraw, when
he opened fire on his host and in the
fusillade of shots both principals were
killed, besides another man, and two
women were fatally wounded.
JEWISH congregations in Cleveland,
O., were much exercised over a sermon
preached by Rabbi Cries in that city
in which he urged the adoption of
Sunday as the Jewish Sabbath. The
attendance at the Saturday services in
the Jewish temple for long time has
been very small.
The threatened strike of the New
York printers Cor q nine-hour day has
been compromised, 019-hour day be-
ing offered by the proprietors and the
printers accepting it.
A TERRIBLE sandstone ragged the
other day at Pearsall, Tex, and sur
rounding territory causing all houses
and stores to be closed and the suspen-
sion of business.
SPARKS from burning livery stable
at Daingerfeld, Tex, set fire to cot
ton warehouse 800 yards distant, and
between 900 and 1000 bales of cotton
were burned. Much of the cotton be-
longed to farmers, none of whom had
any insurance.
THE agricultural department at
Washington on the 18th issued the fol-
lowing: The special wheat investiga-
ton instituted by the department of
agriculture indicates crop of $50, 00O,
900 bushels. These figures are subject
to slight modification in the final re-
port.
THE bishop of Havana is gathering
all the authoritative reports of deaths
in Cuba for the past year The patriot
priests of all the parishes are report
ing to him the number of persons who
have died in their districts. Accord
ing to Trustworthy information, the
priests had found that 500, 900 persons
had died in Cuba in this short time.
THE controversy at Omaha, Neb., re-
garding the best method of calculat-
ing freight rates on shipments of live
stock has been solved by the freight
department of the Burlington & Mis-
souri, River announcing that it will
change it's live stock rates from cents
a hundred pounds back to dollars a
carload on the 18th. The Missouri
Pacific also followed with similar an
nouncement
TIE schooner Susan =. Thurlow,
bound for Hillsboro, n. b., from Ne.s
York, with a cargo of plaster rock,
went to pieces near Portland, Me-, and
the captain and five of the crew were
drowned.
ODDITIES OF FASHION.
The newst style in Russian tlouses il
TO trim them with large rundown col