The leader., 1897-11-24

confessed robSeries to his creCit,
walked into the police station at Dam
bury, Conn, and gave himself up, say
| ing that he had been plying his trade
for month. but was starving with it.
He located the hiding place of stolen
goods to the police and was held for
trial.
GEORGE BoGART. ex.city clerk of Ev-
anston, ILL.,, pleaded guilty on the 10th
to having embezzled funds from that
CITY amounting to ss,s9l.
THERE were 23j business failures IN
the United States for the week ended
the 10th. according to Bradstreets re-
port, against 300 in the corresponding
week last year.
AT Dayton, O., on the night of the
18th Oscar Gardner and John Van
Heest fought 90 rounds to a draw.
A TRAIN on the Chicago & Indiana
coal railroad loaded with 500 miners
was wrecked near Coal Bluff, Ind,
two cars leaving the track and plung-
ing over an embankment into several
feet of water. Over 30 men were in
iured, three of them fatally.
J. w. HARRIS, editor of the Waco
Times Herald, and w. A. Harris, his
brother. on one side, and Judge G. Il.
Gerald, a prominent citizen. fought
duel to the death on the street at Waco,
Tex, on the 10Th. w. A. Harris was
shot dead. J. W. Harris wounded IA
tally and Gerald was shot in the side
and may die. The trouble was the
outcome of the mobbing of w. c. Brann,
,,,I1ighor 81 +ho IaOnCplaSt
WHILE gambling for pecans negro
named Gen. Chatham was stabbed
twice and killed at Bryan, Tex. An
other negro, Tom Sweat. was arrested
for the crime, nut was taken from his
guards and strung up to the limb of
tree The vigilantes were said to have
been negroes.
The annual report of Secretary of
the Interior Bliss was made public on
the 18TH He stated that there were
200, 900 more pension claims awaiting
adjudication and twas estimated that
half of them would be finally adj
mitted. Speedy action is recommend
ed in securing proper legislation for
the coming eth census. The Indians
and the Dawes commission, the condi-
ton of Alaska and the Nicaragua ca
nal were also touched upon in the re-
port
OSCAR GARDNER, the Omaha Kid, was
defeated at Buffalo, n. y, on the 18th
by Billy Rotchford, of Chicago, in a 20
round bout.
A TERRIFIC prairie fire passed through
Lubbock, Hale and Crosby counties,
Tex, doing great damage to the
ranges The flames made a fire ten
miles wide which travelled at lightning
speed At least 400 square miles of
territory were burned. Cattle were
burned to death and north of Emma,
1000 sheep were burned in one flock.
Many farmers lost their winter feed,
fire burning it in the stacks.
THE town of Loreto, Ecuador, was
nearly destroyed by n hurricane, the
loss of life being heavy.
THERE is probability that the case
of Capt. Dreyfus, the Frenchman con-
victed of being traitor to his coun-
try, may be reopened.
JACK MOORE was sentenced at Dali
las, Tex, to 80 years in the peniten-
tiary for the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Pate.
c. A. BRAND, a conductor on the
Rock Island railroad, fell between the
ears in Des Moines, la. the other night
and was Instantly killed.
Two negro boys set fire to the Jail at
Waycross, Ga, in which they were con-
fined and managed to escape, but an
other inmate was fatally burned.
AT Carrollton, Ala, Leona Barnes,
an 1S-year-old white girl of progresses
ing appearance, was convicted on the
charge of lniscegenation and was given
a two years term in the penitentiary
Last March Miss Barnes eloped with
Andy Beard, a negro laborer on her
fathers farm. The affair created a
big sensation and a mob pursued the
couple and Overhauled them and Beard |
was shot to death in sight of the girl.
COLORADO college vanquished the OF |
tawa (kan.) university football team |
by the score of five to four at Colorado |
Springs, Col, on the 10th. There was
a binding snowStorm and the mercury |
was down to freezing.
A FIGHT took place at the edge of |
Knox and Clay counties, Ky, between |
John Smith and Fred Harkler over a |
debt. Both parties drew revolverS and |
fired instantly and the two men were |
dead in an hour.
THE Ohio supreme court has decided |
that the Clark law passed by the last |
Legislature, requiring that in filling |
appointive county and city Offices pref
erence should be given to honorably |
discharged union soldiers, is invalid
The International League of Build
ing and Loan associations held its
annual convention at New York the
other day, about 60 delegates being
present
FRED HORN. aged IS, was convicted
at Ell Reno, Ok, of numbering an old
soldier named Trip, in order to get
S1.5O. and was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life.
A FARMER at Cushing, Ia, named d.
Spickler. killed his wife and then blew
out his brains. The couple were sep
arated and family troubles were the
cause of the crime
NATHANIEL S. JOHNSON, manager of
the Central Union Telephone com
pany, at Massillon, O., killed himself in
his office by shooting himself. He left
letter in which he said that he was
threatened with blindness and had
nothing to live for.
THE 18th annual session of the Bap-
fist congress of ministers opened at
Chicago on the 10th, many of the ablest
divines in that denomination being
present
THE store house of the c. A. Woolsey
paint and color works in Jersey City,
I nnl1anSa1 the 18th The %
people in the structure had time to es-
cape and no one was hurt Loss, $780,
900.
CECIL ROBINSON, boy IA years old,
accidentally shot and killed his IT.
year-old sister at indianapolis. Ind.
He snapped a revolver at his sister.
thinking it was not loaded, and the
weapon sent bullet into her head.