The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-06
A WOMAN and her four children were

Potosi mountain, in Colorado. The
vein was said to be wide and continu-
GUS and to run thousands OF dollars to
the ton.
The 18th annual convention of the
Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical
association took place at Iowa City, Ia
DIR. l.. c. McElwee, of St Louis, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
Two freight trains collided on the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
near Colmar, Ill. and several cars were
badly damaged and one of the locomo-
tives rolled down an embankment. A
fire then broke out and Is cars, loaded
with merchandise, were totally de.
stroyed.
A SUMMARY of the yellow fever cpl.
demic made in the Office of the surgeon.
general of the marine hospital service
at Washington gives total of 6s2 cases
and 60 deaths in the entire country ur
to September 80.
PARIS mountain, seven miles from
Greenville, :. c., was shaken by an
earthquake the other morning. The
guests of the hotel at the summit were
aroused by the rocking of the building
BOsToN has won the league pennant
for 1897 in the National Baseball
league.
THE members of the National Irriga.
tion congress at Lincoln, Neb., got
through with their business on the
3Oth and adjourned. Cheyenne, Wyo.,
was chosen for the next meeting place.
Many resolutions bearing on subjects
! L.
J. H. Churchill, of Kansas, and Thomas
Knight, of Missouri, were among those
placed on the national executive com.
mittee.
A sKIFF upset in the Ohio river as q
party of five negroes were returning
to kentucky from ball game at Tell
City, Ind, and three of them were
drowned.
FRED ID. WARNECKE, president of the
| Peoples bank, of kinPtisher, Ok, was
found hanging by the neck dead on
| the evening of the 30th. lie occupied
the room in which the suicide was
committed for sleeping purposes. War
necke was wealthy and without q
family.
A DISPATCH stated that a few days
ago two strangers camped on John
Bowdam's ranch, at Pearsall, Tex, in
search of buried treasure, and dug up
an earthen jar containing $4,000 in
gold.
FIRE in a warehouse at Mobile, Ala,
DESTROYED the shed and damaged 45C
bales of cotton.
The Dawes and Creek commissions
at Musllogee, |. T., concluded treaty
whereby the Creek Indians agree to
allotment and change in the form OF
their government.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway celebrated its silver anniver-
sary at Topeka, Kan, on the Goth. In
the big parade there were 5000 EN-
ployes of the system from four states |
and 200 floats, representing the evolu- |
ton in commerce brought about by |
the roads growth. Afterwards ad |
dresses were made by officers of the |
road to an immense crowd at the fair |
grounds.
THE National Irrigation congress at
Lincoln, Neb., on the Goth was surfeit |
ed with papers on irrigation topics.
Action was taken for a permanent
w. j. Bryan addressed the meeting in
the afternoon and at the night session
Mrs. Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation
army, spoke on The Farm Colony of
the Salvation Army"
AT seven p. III. on the Goth the saw
mill of Newman e Spencer at lronton,
O., was discovered on fire and before
the fire department reached the scene
the flames had extended to the mills
and lumber yards OF the Pennsylvania
Lumber Co. The loss was estimated
at from $500, 900 to $500, 600. An area
of three squares in length and two
squares back from the river was en-
tirely destroyed.
NEARLY all cities in eastern, central
and southern Texas have declared shot
gun quarantine against Houston, on
account of the suspicious case of
negro woman, whom the state health
officer has ordered guarded.
INFORMATION was received a. the
general land office in Washington that
the survey of the Blackfeet Indian
reservation in Montana was completed.
The reservation is now ready to be
thrown open to settlement as soon as
the reports can be prepared and APP
proved by the interior department.
The lands will be subject to entry
under the mining laws.
| A MOVEMENT was said to be on foot
looking to the sale by the full-blood
Choctaws of all their rights in the In
dian territory and the removal of the
entire tribe, as far as represented by
he ,,1a 70 frn oil g 1nf, -,
Mexico.
A FIRE at Williamsfield, H.. de.
stroyed two blocks of stores in the
| business district. Loss estimated at
So, 900.
Two companies of cavalry have been
sent to the Fort Hall Indian agency at
Rossfork, Ida, to quell the ant:-school
riot there. The young bucks are
hostile to the girls going to school and
are backed up by the old squaws.
The six-year-old daughter of Perry
| E. Timberman at Bridgeton, Ind,
struck a match in the barn loft, set
ting fire to the hay. The flames spread
so rapidly that she was unable to es-
| cape and was burned to death, as were
also two horses.
| AT Abilene, Tex, Patrick II. Grady,
prominent blacksmith and iron
merchant, attempted to murder Rev.
Father Dole, formerly priest in charge
of the diocese. Grady alleged that the
reverend father had alienated the af-
fections of his wife and destroyed his
| home.
| THE goth was record-breaker in
the number of yellow fever cases re-
ported at New Orleans, the total being
%. At Edwards, Miss, there were "a
new cases and at Mobile, Ala, only
four were reported. Two suspicious
cases at McHenry, Miss, We're pro-
nounced by the doctors to be yellow
fever.
PERSONALITIES.
| 1t is well known that James Gordon