The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-02

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Wayne, Ind, struck recently for an in
label.
DESIRE Bruno, the well-known BIZ
cyclist, was killed at Chicago on the
2Sth by fall from his wheel.
SEVEN hundred convicts, comprising
the jute mill force, in the prison at
San Quentin, Cal, recently rebelled at
the prison fare and refused to work
unless an improvement in the menu
was promised. The prisoners were Or
dered placed in solitary confinement
on bread and water until they agreed
to conform to prison rules.
JOHN L. JOHNSON, late president and
cashier of the State national bank OF
Logansport, Ind, who pleaded guilty
to embezzling over 100000 of the
banks funds, was sentenced to ten
years imprisonment in the Ohio state
penitentiary on the 2Sth by Judge
Baker, of the United States court for
the district of Indiana.
THERE were 257 business failures in
the United States for the week ended
the 2Sth according to Bradstreet's re-
COIt, az dlhoI So loi tic COl lSS pOhulhS
week last year.
WHILE Frank Hail. a boy of II years,
was in wagon which was being loaded
at Dallas, Tex, the mules took fright
and ran away. The wagon struck
post and parted in two, the boy being
dragged on the front wheels and soon
after dashed against telephone pole
and killed.
A HEAD-END collision between a
freight and passenger train at Amer
lean Falls, 25 miles west of Pocatello,
Ida, caused the death so far as was
known of nine men and the serious in
jury of eight others. Two of the lat
ter will die.
REPRESENTATIVES, of independent
telephone companies throughout the
central and western states met in Chi
cago recently for the purpose of effect
ing a national organization of all the
Independent telephone companies in
the United States to combat the Bell
Telephone Co., and to protect the
smaller exchanges against any action
that might be taken in the courts by
the Bell company in reference to the
recent Berliner decision by the United
States supreme court.
MANY of the New England cotton
mills are talking about shutting down
during the summer because of the
present unsatisfactory state of the
market.
THREE employees were injured as the
result of panic which followed the
breaking out of fire at the jefferson
Chair Co. IS place in Chicago. The fire
caused a loss of $4,000.
A FIREMAN and another man were
killed and the proprietor and two 9th
ers injured by the explosion of a boiler
in Haney's sawmill at Glen Hazel, Pa,
the other day.
THE Thompson house and two bust
ness buildings at Marseilles, H., were
destroyed early the other morning by
an incendiary fire.
The low districts of FL Paso, Tex,
were again flooded on the 27th and
many of the adobe houses of laboring
men were melted away by the water,
their household goods floating away in
all directions. There were reported
400 homeless families on the streets, a
large number of them being without
the necessaries of life. it
THE tollgate warfare has spread into
Robertson county, KY. A band of
raiders the other night swept over the
county and cut down every tollgate
except those on Falmouth and Walford
roads. The raiders sent note to the
county Judge stating they would have
their ri uhts or die
CHIcAGo's annual census. taken by
the directory company is nearly COM
pleted and will show a population of
!, 500, 600, an increase of 600, 900 since
1890.
MAY CAMPBELL, variety actress of
ST. Louis, overheard her husband and
a woman planning to elope together.
She then emerged from the clothes
closet in which she had hidden and
shot both her husband and the woman.
The man was fatally wounded, but the
woman was only slightly hurt
WHILE returning home from fishing
near smithlapd, KY, james. Edward
and Park Ghenes were drowned by the
oyerturning Of their skitf