The leader., 1897-02-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Patton seminary, boarding
school for girls at Oak Cliff, Tex, was
destroyed by fire on the night of the
eSth. About 40 girls were in the build
ing and they lost all their effects and
had to be taken in closed carriages to
Dallas.
ED HENDERSON and his nephew quar-
-eled in a machine shop at Charleston,
H., on the Goth and one used a monkey
wrench and the other hammer. One
was reported dead and the other dying
THE failures in the United States for
The week ended the Goth Bradstreet's
report) were $780, being decrease of
l02 from the previous week and of 81
from the corresponding week of last
year.
JIM JACKSON, negro farm laborer,
assaulted a girl at Six-Mile, Ala. Two
lours later d posse went after jackson.
who had in the meantime got hold of a
mule, and the chase was kept up for 20
miles, when Jackson was picked off the
mule by shot and the mob caught
him, strung him up by horses bride
and riddled him with bullets.
Two colored servants at the residence
Of Henry Daspit, at New Orleans, made
a charcoal fire in their room to keep
warm and one was found dead and the
other dying from the fumes.
GERTRUDE PALMER died at Mamaro-
neck. n. y, on the 29th, making the
third victim of Arthur Palmer's frenzy.
ne having previously killed his mother
and brother. The sheriff left for st. |
Louis, where Arthur Palmer had been
arrested.
AT the Georgia mine, near Fleming |
ton, w. Va, by an accident on coal |
incline railway, 80 men We're thrown
from a car and one was killed, two /
others were fatally and eight seriously
injured.
FIRE destroyed almost the entire bus
mess portion of the town of Center
ourg, o.. on the 2Sth.
ELEVEN men were injured, one, Louis
Fogler, probably fatally, by an explo-
sion in a coal mine at Foster. Ia
JOSEPH SMITH head of the Latter
Day Saints church, arrived in Atchi-
son. Kan, on the 2Sth to unite all Lat
Ter Day Saints factions in that city
With the reorganiZed church. Smith
S working to unite all factions of Lat
,er Day Saints in the United States, in
'luding the followers of Brigham
Young.
c. X. RASH, of Wayne, Neb., muir
lered his wife and three children.
When the sheriff reached the house
he dead bodies of Mrs. Rash and her
son lay on the floor,
gashed, and the two young
r children lay dead on their beds with |
heir heads mashed to jelly. 1t was |
that Rash's mind had become
as the result of the excite
nent of attending a revival meeting.
A SHEDDING party of about 2opersons
rom Tyrone, Pa, was precipitated over
stone wall about six miles from that
place. The party was mostly made up
If Young people. A special train con-
yeyed to the scene of the catastrophe
Ill the doctors in Tyrone. Several
persons were found to be seriously in
iured, having their arms and legs
broken and bleeding from wounds.
THE residence of Charles J. Barnes,
1T 223s Calumet avenue, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire at two a. m. on the
18th and Mrs. Barnes and four servants
had to flee from the flames in scant at
tire while the murcury was 10 degrees
below zero. Mr.. Barnes library, the
6nest in the United States, was do
stroyed. Loss over $500, 200.
THE first steps have been taken al
Omaha, Neb., for the consolidation of
al the German turner's between the
Mississippi river and the Rocky noun
tains into one big association for hold
ing grand tournament at Omaha |
while the exposition is being held.
Mrs. MARY ABRAMS, aged II, was |
burned to death at McKeesport, Pa. |
She arose to start fire in the room, |
when her clothing was ignited. She |
ran to her bed, where two young grand |
children were asleep and set the bed
clothing on fire. The two children,
though badly burned, win recover, but |
Mrs. Abrams was so badly injured that |
she soon died.
THE Tomboy mine in Colorado was
bought on the 10Th by the Rothschilds, |
of London. Within the past two years |
they have invested $3.50, 0oO, 600 in Amer |
lean mining property.
Ar a meeting of coffin manufacturers
at Chicago on the seth the old trust |
was reorganized and an agreement was
reached to advance the price of Baskets
10 to 20 per cent.
JACK EvERHARDT. of New Orleans
and Matt Matthews, of Brooklyn,
fought a 14-round draw at the Union
Park Athletic club at New York on
the 25th. Jacks left hand was injured
in the seventh round. Matthews made
an excellent showing.