The leader., 1897-06-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

CLARK LEWIS was hanged at fayette-
Vile, w. Va, on the 18th for the muir
der of Charles Gibson whose death APP
peared to be desired by Mrs. Gibson to
enable her to continue her carousals
with Lewis.
Miss SARAH CECIL. the hciress. who
was adjudged insane and inearcerated
in the Eastern Kentucky lunatic asy-
lum at Lexington last fall, and later
was allowed to go to a private santa
rum, was reported as starving herself
because her relatives will not turn
over to her certain papers. She is
worth more than $3.50, 900.
CORNELL won the boat race at POugh-
keepsie, n. Y, on the 25th; time, 20:34
Yale was second by 81 lengths; time
2O;44. Harvard came in third, five
lengths astern of Yale; time, 2l:00.
THE business failures in the United
States for the week ended the 25th
were 2l5, according to Bradstreets re-
port, against 2lS in the corresponding
week last year.
PETER NELSON, of Montour, Ia, was
recently drowned in the Iowa river
while trying to rescue a boy who had
been seized with cramps.
AN immense traction company has
been formed with a capital stock of
s., 800, 900, to consolidate and take in
the Lindell and Missouri street rail
way systems at st. Louis.
A PROPOSITION has been made by Bob
Fitzsimmons to Frank Dunn, manager
of John l.. sullivan. which has been
accepted, 1t is that sullivan and Fitz-
simmons meet at brooklyn the after
noon of July ;, for four or six rounds
If Sullivan's sparring shall be deemed
by the public and sporting writer's
creditable and indicative of his ability
to enter the ring for a finish contest,
terms and conditions for such match
to be arranged Immediately thereafter.
NEAR Bordley, Ky, some young
children were playing at hide and
seek" when Laura and Jennie Melton,
jumped into an old trunk, which shut
with spring lock, in the cellar of their
house. They could not be found and
when their parents came home "A search
was instituted and both children were
found smothered to death.
DURING a heavy storm at Hopkins
vile, KY. on the cath two earthquake
shocks were distinctly felt and the
walls of large buildings were shaken.
THE Brussels Reforma reported on
the cath that the entire Dhanis eXpe-
dition to the headquarters of the Nile,
including Baron Dhanis himself, had
been massacred by Soudanese. The
baron had enlisted 5000 men in the
Congo Free state to take part in
secret expedition.
Two dead bodies have been taken
out of the ruins of the Mulhol-
land building at Watertown, S. D.,
which collapsed the other night, and
four other persons were rescued, one
of whom will die from his injuries.
FUNERAL services were being held
over the body of Miss Clarisse Purk-
ing, near Denbigh, Va, the sermon
having been preached the prayer said
and the last hymn was being sung,
when one of abe female singers gave
shrek and fell to the floor in faint.
1t was then noticed that the supposed
corpse was alive.
MOB of 300 Infatuated peasants
seized and lynched one Dudnik, charged
with 10 murders, who was being con
veyed by the police from Kovibourg to
Kherson in Russia. The police have
arrested IS of the mob leaders.
BURGLARS at Chicago notified the po-
lice the other night by telephone that
they were blowing up the safe at 40
Dearborn street and to come quick and
get them, but the police considered it
a joke and did not go, although it was
only two blocks from the station
Afterwards the proprietor of the place
informed the police that the premises
had been robbed and an attempt made
to blow up the safe.
JAMES WEST, prominent citizen of
Montevallo, Ala, was under the hal
lucination that negroes were accusing
him of arson, and he determined TO
kill them. He shot George Smith. an
lnotfenslve negro, but was disarmed
before killing any Others
AN Italian laborers' shanty near
Brilliant station, Pa, on the Allegheny
Valley railroad, was blown up by
dynamite early on the Esd and one
Italian was instantly killed, another
fatally injured and several others re-
ceived more or less serious injuries
Thirteen Italians have been arrested
on suspicion Of being concerned in the
matter.