The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-28

parts of the city. The alarm among
the guests of the big hotels was great
for a time. and many feared to return
| to their beds
BoYCE SfILCHER, who lived near
Glendale, Mich. was visited recently
by several of his neighbors, who tarred
and feathered him and rolled him in
the sand. lie had slandered certain
women and was ordered to leave town.
lie left.
THE Tudor iron works at East ST
Louis closed down three of its depart
ments, letting out $50 men, on account
of the scarcity of coal, and it was
stated that unless a supply of coal was
obtained within a few days the entire
mill would shat down, throwing 600
men and boys out of work.
THE Casino summer tkeater at Ra-
mona park, Paducah, KY, was burned
while performance was being given.
When the fire broke out the audience
was panic-stricken and probably 100
were injured by being burned or tram
pied upon. The building, being COW
cred with tar paper, was a mass of
flames inside of minute.
DIAL HAWKINS, of California, and
George Dixon. champion bantam
weight of the world, fought 20-round
draw at San Francisco on the 23d. 1t
was fast fight all through, but neither
man struck his opponent a dangerous
blow.
THE Chinese steamer Crihengann
was wrecked in squall off Malacia
| aud 1OD rarxnnS Nyarp drowned
THE main building of the Peoria
Ul.) Grape Sugar Co. was destroyed
by fire on the Esd. Loss, 500, 600; in
sured.
THE powder magazine at the Empire
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was struck
by lightning and 30 tons of powder ex-
plodcd. The building was shattered
and many houses in the city injured by
| being shaken. One man was killed
while driving past.
SIN men and two women were under
arrest at Trinidad, Col, on the Esd for
the murder of two deputies who were
in search of cattle thieves in the spring
of 1896. One of the prisoners has con-
fessed that the deputies were killed
from ambush and their bodies after
| wards burned and the ashes scat
| tered so that there would be no trace
of the bloody work done.
THE Chicago sugar refinery, which
uses 900 tons of bituminous coal daily,
has suspended operations because of
the high price of coal.
A TERRIBLE cloudburst struck
Youngstown, o., on the night of the
22d, flooding the entire valley and
causing great damage to property,
both in the city and along the railway
lines. Many people were supposed to
be drowned. The cries of the people
in the houses were heartrending. 1t
was midnight before boats could be
| got to the flooded district and the work
of rescue started. Many people were
| picked up clinging to debris.
THERE was little change reported on
| the 21st in the strike of the coal min
ers in the Pittsburgh, Pa, and the
West Virginia districts. The expected
meeting of the board of arbitrators did
not take place, owing to the nom
arrival of some of the members. The
Il. & o. railroad has laid an embargo
on all West Virginia coal and orders
have been issued to hold all coal at
junction points, as the railroad com
pany wanted to keep ten days sup
| ply always on hand.
A RECENT dispatch from India stated
that the famine still continued there
and that people were dying by hun
dreds daily of starvation.
JACK DAVIS, a negro, was hanged by
a mob at Baldwin, La, for assaulting
a widow.
A CIRCULAR was issued from Peoria,
! H., on the Goth by Grand Master Sar-
gent and Grand Secretary Arnold, of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, to all subordinate lodges denom-
| mating the present coal miners strike
a contest between labor and corporate
capital and asking the firemen to con-
tribute literally to the assistance of
the strikers.
DISPATCHES received at Atlanta, Ga.
on the goth confirmed the report of the
lynching of DIR. Rider, who murdered
Miss Sallie Owen at Talbotton a year
ago. The action of the mob was as
cribed to the indignation of the people
at the case being continued.
FEDERAL JAILER Connolly, at Guth-
rie, Ok, has received a pardon from
Pre- sident Mckinley in favor of Wah-
Maxi a-She, a full-blooded Usage In
dian, who is 9s years of age. The
Indian has been in Jail 80 times for
selling whisky in the reservation. He
is so feeble that he cannot live long,
hence the pardon.
Two men entered McWilliams' bank
at Odell, ILL.,, on the Goth and ordered
Cashier Van Busllirk to hold up his
hands and pass over the cash, but he
grabbed his revolver and they bolted
| out. A posse pursued the would-be
| robbers and they were finally captured
in cornfield and landed in Jail.
THE steamer BENTON, recently taken
to Sioux City, Ia, from st. Louis to en-
gage in the upper river traffic, collided
with the combination bridge draw and
sank in shallow water.
DR.. MARION DoRsETT, of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington,
has arrived in Clarinda, Ia, to officially
experiment with the use of anti-toxin
serum as preventive for hog cholera.
WHILE employed in pitching wheat
to thrasher, George Mackey sudden
ly became insane and attempted to
| take the lives of number of men at a
| farm near Chelsea, |. T. The intense
heat was supposed to have affected his
| brain.
JUDGE PHILIPS, of the federal court,
has granted the temporary injunction
restraining the association of cattle
| spectators at the Kansas City stock
| yards, known as the Traders Live
Stock exchange, from interfering with
the business of others. The order will
hold till the trial of the case on it's
merits in the November term and dis
solves the exchange till that time.
| THE Wichita and Caddo Indians at a
council held in Oklahoma came to the
conclusion that 100 acres apiece was
not enough land for them to live on.
They elected delegation to go to
Washington and try and get $40 acres
allotted each member of the tribe.
SCIENTIEiC SCRAPS