The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-15

Ninth cavalry, from Fort Robinson,
were camped at Chadron, Neb., one of
the negroes raided John Larkin's sa-
loon at one o'clock in the morning,
picked up a sack containing $500 in
silver and though pursued by n crowd
he managed to escape.
WIrH reputation gone, and made
desperate with shame, Miss Lula
Cutchin, aged %, of Suffolk, Va, took
refuge in death. She belonged to
family of the highest responsibility,
and was a member of the NJ. L. church,
in whose choir she was the leading So
prano. She made a confession TO her
father discriminating a prominent citi-
zen of the town.
AT least % persons were killed and
most of the bodies burned in a collision
shortly after midnight of the 9th IL
miles west of Newcastle, Col, due to
the mistake of the conductor of an ex-
ira stock train on the Colorado Mid
land railroad in reading the wrong
column of figures. The westbound
passenger and express train of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad was
telescoped and all of the passenger
cars except the rear Pullmans were
burned. A number of passengers who
were not killed outright, but were
pinned in the wreckage and could not
be extricated, persisted in the flames.
| There were about 200 passengers, fully
one-fourth of whom were either killed
or injured.
A TERRIBLE crisis was reached in the
strike situation at Hazleton, Pa, on
| the 10th when band of deputy sheriffs
| fred into a crowd of miners who were
marching to Latimer. The miners fell
| like so many sheep and the excitement
was so intense that no accurate figures
of dead and wounded could be OBJ
tanned. Reports run from 20 to rs
killed and 80 wounded The men
killed were all Ilungarians
The Chicago Times-Herald said ma
tional meeting of Methodist laymen
would soon be called to lay plans to
secure equal representation with the
clergy in the great quadrennial legis-
lature of the church.
NEAR Churchville, O., burglars en-
tered the home OF George Smith and
overpowering him secured 81 $50. In
the scuffie Mrs. Smith was shot.
THE annual report of the auditor for
the interior department shows that the
amount paid for pensions during the
last year was $40, Az, 637. The pay
ments on pension account for the fiscal
year of 1896 were Sl3s, 1872, 127, and for
the fiscal year 1925. $40, 55S,G41.
DOUBT has been thrown upon the az
curacy of the survey of the boundary
between Georgia and Tennessee, and
if the theory of eminent legal author
tiles is confirmed, it will be found that
Chattanooga is on Georgia soil.
A DARING attempt was made on the
night of the 9th to hold up a Katy"
train near Bond. |. T. Engineer Rag
land slowed up the train in response
to the signal, but when he saw eight
men standing by the tracks he opened
the throttle and sped by them.
AT Pittsburg, Kan, on the 9th the
representatives of 5000 miners met in
convention and organized the Western
Miners and Mine Laborers' Protective
association, which is expected to be-
come power in the west. Ileadquar-
tiers will be at Pittsburg.
A REVISED list of the victims of the
terrible wreck on the Santa Fe near
Emporia, Kan, on the night of the Sth
places the number of dead at Il. The
coroner's jury will meet and try to
place the blame for the catastrophe.
The loss to the Santa Fe railroad will
exceed $1,000 900.
ii. :. PERRY was hanged at Decatur,
Ga, on the Sth for the murder of Bailey
Lanier, a theological student, on March
last. Perry protested to the last that
he committed the act to avenge an in
suit offered to Mrs. Perry by Lanier,
and that he was justified in killing him.
IT has been definitely settled that
Henry Wall, young white man who
was lynched near Richmond, Va, for
an alleged assault upon Sadie Cook,
was innocent. and there is great indig-
nation against the leaders of the mob.
PENSION examiners in the field have
received instructions from Washington
to give out no information to the press
in regard to their work.
AFTER much opposition the Creek
council at Okmulgee passed bill pro-
viding for d treaty with the Dawes
commission and allotment of their
lands This leaves only the Cherokees
and Seminoles, of all the five tribes,
who have not entered into an agree
ment with the Dawes commission.
The coinage of silver dollars and
minor coins, which was suspended at
the varions minis during July and Au-
gust, will be resumed.
At Owassa, Mich, Mile Comstock, 81
music teacher, wrapped herself in
blanket saturated with kerosene and
lighted it. She died as the result of
her burns.
REPORTS to the ST. Louis Republic
On the 9Th from the principal corn-pro-
ducing states indicated a decrease in
this years corn yield of about ten per
cent, caused by the drought of the late
summer.
THE United States pension office on
the sth received contribution Of $3.50
from pensioner in Pennsylvania, who
said he had obtained the money fraud
ulently.
AT Huntington, Ind, Timothy Sulli-
van and two other members of his
household were dangerously poisoned
by eating fried chicken which the
hired girl had accidentally rolled IN
arsenic instead of -four.
w. r. KURTZ, the freshman who was
badly injured in the rush" at the Cal
ifornia state university last week, will
recover, though he will be marked for
life.
DROUGHT and extreme heat have
practically ruined late corn in Mis-
souri, and Kansas. Pastures have been
burned by the sun, and in some places
trees have been killed during the
drought.
WESTERN passenger rates are rapidly
becoming demoralized. While freight
business is the heaviest on record The
passenger business on nearly all west
ern roads has shown little or no inn
provement