The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

1ORlER L ARMS, dpeu 10 years, cOHl-
mitted suicide at Quincy, Ill. His
mother said he was naughty, and to
punish him she sent him to his bed
room shortly before noon. Soon after
younger brother entered the room
and found his brothers body hanging
to the closet door. Life was extinct
when the Mortified mother reached the
scene and took down the body.
SoLLY SMITH, of Los Angeles, Cal,
knocked out Johnny Griffin, of Bos-
ton, in the seventh round at San Fran
cisco.
AT the reunion of the survivors of
the Army of the Potomac at Troy, n.
y, on the Goth about 1000 of them
were in line in the parade. Presid ent
Mckinley reviewed the parade.
AERoNAUT ALLERD fell 800 feet from
his balloon at Electric park, Chicago,
on the Goth, every bone in his body
being broken. He became entangled
in a guy-rope and was dragged from
his parachute.
PADDY PURTEII., the American box
err, met Lachie Thompson in a contest
for 20 rounds at Birmingham, Eng.
Purtell won easily in six rounds. 1t
was his first battle in England.
WILL Lips, James Mccullough and
n-year-old boy were fatally injured
by the explosion of thrashing engine
boiler on the Spring Creek ranch, near
Hastings, Neb.
MAMIE KEIFER, TO- many years a
well-known balloonist of Peoria, Ill
was drowned recently as the result of
a drunken spree. She crossed the river
in company with another woman and
two men, and when in midstream the
boat was capsized and all thrown into
the water. Three were rescued, but
the balloonist was drowned.
IT was said on the 10Th that the Off,
GERS of the United Mine Workers pro-
posed to call a conference of all feder-
ated unions to secure their co-opera-
ton in a plan to tie up traffic on rail
roads, so that the supply of coal would
be cut off and the operators be forced
to negotiate for settlement of the
coal strike.
ABOUT 10000 people lined the broad
boulevards over which the great flower
parade of the Colorado Springs, Col,
carnival passed on the 10Th. The pa
rade, in which $500 people took part,
was 219 miles long and the turnouts
were particularly gorgeous
ST.. LOUIS spectators in wheat
cleared upward of So, ZOO, 900 on Sep
TENDER options during the recent
bulge. Ex-Secretary of the Interior
ID. r. Francis was said to have netted
$500, 600.
HARVEY DE BERRY, colored, was
hanged in the Jail at Memphis, Tenn,
ON the 10th for attempting to rape a
seven-year-old girl on October 8, 1896.
The Pittsburg & Gulf railway will
have its own rails into Port Arthur,
Tex, by September TO-
THE elevator of the Davenport Ia
glucose works was the scene of two
terrific dust explosions on the 10th, as
a result of which four lives were lost
and two persons seriously injured.
SIX hundred striking miners, eight
abreast, marched into Coffeen, ILL.,, on
the 18th, despite the amazed deputies.
The guards were ordered not to shoot,
but they began to make arrests as fast
as possible. The invasion was for the
purpose of inducing the men at work
in the mines there to join the strikers.
The commissioner of pensions has
had statement prepared on the num-
Der of applications for pensions filed
since July, 1896. The comparison
shows that in July, 1896, applications
for pensions aggregated 2,s9S, while
in June, 1896, there were 30, 1859, largely
for increases and for widows and
minor children.
Much damage was reported on the
nth as being done around Wilmot. s.
D., from a snowstorm which had ragged
for several days and a terrific wind
which accompanied it. standing grain
and garden stuff, being blown down.
Heating stoves were in full blast
AN explosion of fire damp in coal
mine near Pennington, ILL.,, on the
10th resulted in the killing of one
miner. Thomas Martin, and the serious
injury of two others.
The steamer Belgica left Antwerp on
the 10th with the Gerlache antarctic
expedition on board. The crew of the
Belgica numbered 81 men and She had
on board provisions for two years