The leader., 1897-02-17

The most malignant type Of measles
has been epidemic for over a month
throughout Jasper. Clark, Cumberland
and adjoining counties in Illinois and
was reported on the 18th as growing
more serious. The public schools at
Toledo and many country schools had
been closed.
COMMISSIONER WRIGHT, of the bureau
of labor, has transmitted to congress,
in obedience to joint resolution di-
recting the investigation, a report rela-
tive to the employment of men, women
and children in the United States.
The acknowledgement has issued
an order establishing the house-to-
house mail collection and sale of
stamps by carriers TO patrons at Omaha,
Neb.
MALVERN, Ark, has been almost
wiped out by fire.
THE League of American Wheelmen
in annual convention at Albany, N. Y,
on the 12th declined to admit profess
SIGNALS, no matter of what standing, to
either full or associate membership in
the league and also declined by heavy
vote to allow local option for Sunday
racing.
PAUL WAGNER and his wife were
found asphyxiated by coal gas at Mil
waukee on the 18th.
THE medical institute at Lancaster,
o., burned on the 18th. DIR. Julius
Simon, of jackson, w. Va, lost his
life.
AN incendiary fire at Plano, Tex, on
the 18th burned nearly 80 buildings,
including the business part of the city.
The loss was upward of 100000, with
practically no insurance. The post
Office was destroyed, but the mails were
saved.
THE boiler of Wyrick Bros sawmill,
near Magnolia, Ark, exploded and
Calhoun Wyrick, white, and John
Lewis, colored, were killed outright.
John Wyrick, one of the owners, was
fatally scalded and six other mill hands
were seriously injured. The explosion
was due to want of sufficient water in
the boiler.
THE Wisconsin Odd Fellows Mutual
Life Insurance Co., at Milwaukee,
which was organized in 1869, made an
assignment for the benefit of its cred
itors. During the past year over 5000
members dropped out, which crippled
the company so that it could not pay
it's losses.
A TELEGRAM from Sitia, Crete, on the
18th reported that - villages were in
flames and that the Christians were
killing the Mohammedan inhabitants.
Two cavalrymen fought a duel with
sabers at West Point, n. Y, and one
was slashed over the lips and had to
be taken to the hospital. 1t was
caused by a blacl1smith's daughter
favoring one more than another at a
soldiers ball.
THE Chadron (Neb.) steam laundry
was destroyed by an explosion of gaso-
line and John Morris came near being
burned to death.
GEORGE DAVIES, commission mer-
chant at Cleveland, o., was shot and
instantly killed by his wife on the 9th
after quarrel.
ANDREW WILSON, Preston Hall and
Henry Brown were drowned on the
10th in the Big Sandy river in Pike
county, Ky. The men had been on a
spree for several days and started to
cross the river, which was frozen over,
on their horses.
Two men were found asphyxiated in
a room at a hotel at Grand Island, Neb.,
on the 9th, the gas jets being open.
They were identified as Hugh Palm
and Charles Lehman, merchants of
Scotia, Neb.
THE much discussed fancy ball of the
Bradley Martins came off at the Wal
dorf hotel New York on the night of
the 10th. The costumes were exquisite
and the function eclipsed everything
of the kind that had ever taken place
before.
COMMITTEE of young men near
Clinton, Ok, took an evangelist named
Cogswell out of bed, rode him on rail
several miles and gave him "a hours to
leave the country. In sermon he had
declared literary societies to be insti-
women who danced as ''hell-cats."
FIRE early on the 10th destroyed a
cottage at Detroit, Mich, occupied by
the family of Stephen Rogulski. One
child was burned to death, another
fatally injured and five other members
of the family We're more or less seri-
ously burned The fire was thought
to have been incendiary, as Rogulski
was suspected of having killed man.
By the negligence of switchtender
the Union Pacific flyer was derailed in
the yards at Omaha, Neb., on the 9th
and Engineer Van Noy was picked up
unconscious and taken to the hospital
and Fireman Krause was caught under
the overturned engine and scalded to
death.
WHILE freight train was running
at high rate of speed on the Mobile
& Ohio road car truck broke down
near Poe station, o., and nine loaded
cars were broken into kindling wood.
Brakeman Purcell was ground into an
mass under the engine
and the engineer and fireman seriously
hurt.