The leader., 1897-08-11
MISCELLANEOUS,


springfield on the eth, passed a scale
Of wages and resolved to endeavor to
organize all miners now working and
to get them to come out.
JACK WILLIAMS was lynched near
Barbourville, Ky, for assaulting
leaf and dumb girl.
A CALL has been sent out to the st tie
presidents of eX-Slaves' Pension asso-
Citations for national convention to
be held in Nashville, Tenn, September
20, 1897.
THERE were PA business failures in
The United states for the week ended
The 9th, according t. Bradstreets re-
port, against 300 for the corresponding
week last year.
Four persons were burned to death
1T Cincinnati the other morning in
frame dwelling by fire which started
rom the explosion Of a gasoline stove.
CHARLES DlETz, of Philadelphia,
quarreled with Katherine SlSollen, his
sweetheart, Shot her, probably fatally
and then killed himself.
FIFTY leading society ladies of La
fayctte, Ind, recently moved the cleo
trio cars and gathered in fares for the
benefit of the Young Mems Christian
association. Thousands patronizcd
the lines, and many paid eXtravagant
fares for brief ride. No change was
returned by the handsome collecto
FIVE lives were lest and scores of
persons sustained serious injuries, II
Of them being firemen, in an explosion
which took place during the burning
Of the Northwestern grain elevator at
Chicago. Either the bursting of
boiler or the explosion of mill dust
caused the awful havoc. The building
was of composite construction and the
explosion caused a perfect lombard
ment of thing, bricks, etc. at almost
white heat, leaving little of the build
ing save the framework and a great
pile of blazing wheat. The total loss
was estimated at 100000, fully in
sured.
JOHN KENNEDY, an Old man who had
lived the life OF hermit ever since the
death of his wife and two children,
was found by his neighbors in New
York half naked, bound to a chair,
with his feet roasted SO that he will be
a cripple for the rest of his days. He
said robbers did it and got all his
wealth.
ALEXANDER l.. JAMES, an actor, and
l.. j. Curtis, clubman, fought duel
at short range on Wabash avenue, Chi
cago, on the 4th Although a dozen
shots were exchanged neither of the
duelists was seriously injured. The
trouble was over woman.
A LITTLE colored girl named Benetha
Jones was burned to death at Kan
sas City, Mo-, through playing with
matches.
THE plant of the jackson (Tenn.)
Wooden and Pants Manufacturing Co.
was totally destroyed by fire and 14O
hands were thrown out of employment.
A CALL has been issued by Rev. H.
II. Becker, of Dayton, O.; w. r. Covert,
Of St. Louis, and other prominent
anti-spiritualists for a national meet
ing of anti-spiritualist associations in
Anderson, Ind, on September to Or
ganize a national association.
II was reported at Ardmore, /. T.,
on the 4th that the Kiowa and Conan
che Indians were putting on war paint
and general uprising was feared.
The three Pamble sisters and Miss
Adams were drowned in Skunk river
near Lancaster, H., the other evening
while bathing.
-INcITED by the newspaper publica-
tons recently made, some of the high
government officials at Washington
have been looking up the title to the
Klondyke gold fields and say that they
are unquestionably within British ter
ritory, lying east of the 14lst meridian,
which defines the boundary line, by
about IS miles at least.
FIRE broke out in the extensive chem
ical works of Jayne & Son at Frank
ford, Pa, doing damage estimated at
si00,0 900. Several firemen were injured
by falling walls.
AT Carlisle, Ind, Mr. and Mrs. Grant
Hammond and DR.. and Mrs. Abner
Morris were drowned in the Wabash
river. 1t was believed . one of the
women was seized with cramps and
the others were drowned in trying to
rescue her.
A ST. Louis dispatch on the 4th
stated that operators on change who
aad been predicting dollar wheat saw
many indications Of q reallzatiop of
sheir hopes,