The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

minister. has astounded his brethren
at Mayfield, Ky, by deserving his wife
and II children. He eloped with &
buxom colored sister.
WILLIAM KAUFMAN, of Wright coun-
ty, Ia, was attacked by hiccoughs the
other day. He was man of strong
constitution, but was compelled to take
to his bed and succumbed, passing away
in terrible agony.
THE failures for the week ended the
10th in the United States, according to
Bradstreet's report, were 1875, against
IA in the corresponding week last
year.
The two sons of Mr.. Hesson, aged 0
and Is years, living at Greenland, Ark,
took bath, dressed themselves in their
best clothes, took dose of strychnine
and then went to bed after pinning a
note on the door bidding their parents
good-by. The act was done because
their parents had gone out and left
them at home.
In drunken fight on a shanty boat
at Bellaire, O., Jim Williams, the
owner, killed his wife and Charles
Horner with club and then foated
down the river with the dead bodies
The story was told by one of the COM
batants who escaped.
A DYNAMITE explosion recently oc-
cured in a deep mine at FLanglaarte,
Africa, Eight English and 26 native
miners were killed.
A DISPATCH from New Haven, Conn,
said that Clarence Verrill had broken
the strength record made by Charles
Chadwick, of Yale, recently. Chad
wick's total was 1,63S kilos. Verrilrs
was 1876. Verrill is a scientific school
freshman. He weighs only 145 pounds
ONE of the most picturesque struc-
lures in New Orleans, known as the
Moresque block, was totally destroyed
by fire on the 18th. Its walls were
built entirely of iron, in Moorish de-
sign.
THE department of agriculture has
sent out to farmers and to experiment
ii stations large amount of beet sugar
seed with view to determine the fea-
'ibi!ity of growing the seed in certain
sections of the country. Bulletins
will te prepared from time to time and
the people kept informed regarding
the matter.
TIE agricultural department has
taken steps looking to the exterinina-
ton of hog cholera and, as an initia-
tive, has sought the cooperation of the
states of Tennessee and Iowa in an ex-
pertinent to determine how economi-
:ally the malady, which is devastating
swine interests, can be stamped out.
DoTTIE FARNswoRTH defeated Helen
Baldwin in the 25-mile bicycle race at
Detroit, Mich. Time, 1:0S:3O.
CONGRESSMAN SHArrUCK, of Ohio, on
The 18th nominated d. j. Bundy,
,olored lad of Cincinnati, to cadet
| ship at Annapolis. He has been urged
TO withdraw his name, but says he
will stand by the appointment. There
| have been threats from the students of
ohe naval academy of resigning.
POLICEMAN CRAFTS was cleaning his
revolver at Chicago in the presence
If his sweetheart, Miss Lottie Z.
Jacobs, when it was discharged and the
bullet entered Miss Jacobs left arm
near the elbow, followed the bone DIP
wards and pierced the heart. She fell
20 the floor dead.
GEORGE w. GUNTER, Is years old, shot
lis 15-year-old sweetheart, Alberta
stanford, in a jealous rage at Hot
Springs, Ark. The girl died instantly.
THE New York assembly on the 18th
| passed the Greater New York charter
Dill over Mayor Strong's veto by vote |
If iO6 to S.
GOV. BLoXHAM has issued a call for |
national fisheries congress to assemble |
1T Tampa, Fla, January 10, 1898. Gov
ernors of the various states of the union |
are asked to appoint delegates to con-
gress.
WHILE on a lake near Nashville, |
Tenn, attending to their fish nets, |
Iohn Bridges and John Brennett were
drowned. The wind was strong and
The waves so high that the boat was
overturned.
THE big sawmill plant of the Can
ield Lumber Co. at Garfield, Ark, was
completely destroyed by fire on the
18th. Estimated loss, S5o,Ooo; insur-
sIice, $4,000.
Two young men, Otto Snyder and
his cousin John Snyder, were drowned
al Eldora. Ia. the other night. They
went out to sail boat and not return
ing . search was instituted and the
boat was found capsized. The bodies
were not found.
BECAUSE he could not write William
Mitchell was arrested in East st. Louis
and taken to the Chester, Ill, peniten-
tiary. Mitchell was a paroled convict
under the new Illinois law and prison
ers taking advantage of the law must
'eport by mail once a month to the
warden. Mitchell relied upon friend
"a write Ia thew arden bnf thu frfead