The leader., 1897-05-19

days preceding the 14th. The disturb
ances were particularly severe at
Kingston, where the buildings were
damaged and some of the inhabitants
have taken TO living in tents for safety.
The returns received by the immi-
grafton bureau during the last few
months show a marked falling off in
the number of immigrant arrivals in
this country. Commissioner-Genera
Stump estimates that the decrease for
the entire country during the fiscal
year ending June so next will not be
less than 9S, 200, of which New York
will show 1000.
FRED HOLMAN was hanged at Pax
ton, Ill. on the 18th for the murder of
Mrs. Weibke Geddes.
FIRE broke out in the courthouse at
Lexington. Ky, on the 14th and in an
hour nothing remained but walls.
Harris beautiful statue, Woman Tri-
umphant," bought by Lexington wom-
en- for S., 900, was in the rotunda and
was destroyed. The records were
saved. The courthouse was built ten
years ago at a cost of S120, 900.
THE westbound Southern Pacific pas
sengcr train was held up by masked men
$50 miles west of San Antonio, Tex, on
the 14th and the two safes in the eX-
press car were dynamited and the con-
tents secured. The amount secured
was thought to be about $4,000. The
express car was badly wrecked.
THREE negroes, who had been con-
fined in the Jail at Rosebud, Tex, on a
charge of attempting to assault a white
girl, were taken from the officers of
the law, who were taking the negroes
to another place for safety. and hanged
to a tree bv a mob of / 900 masked men.
A THIRD negro was reported to have
been lynched near jeff, Ala, the other
night for being implicated in the
wholesale poisoning of the Kelly fam
lily.
A REPORT reached Guthrie, Ok, from
Lincoln county that two travelling men
attempted to ford the Deep Fork river
and were carried down in the swollen
current and drowned.
A NoRTHBoUND cattle train jumped
the track a mile north of Eufaula, /.
T., on the 18th, the engine turning bot
tom up and ten cars of cattle being de-
rallied. Four men were injured and
colored boy killed. There were prob
ably 80 head of cattle killed and others
so badly hurt that they had to be killed.
A sAwMILL boiler exploded on Reels
river, near Tiptonville, Ky, killing
Ed Patterson and Dink Hodges, white,
and two colored men, whose names
could not be learned. Three other
men will die.
STELLA, Neb., was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. The loss
was about $50, 900.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
the heads of departments were seri-
ously embarrassed by the number of
old soldiers presenting themselves for
reins tatement in positions, from which
they had been removed by the previous
administration, being incapacitated
for properly performing their duties
on account of feebleness and other
causes
THE ninth annual convention of rail
road commissioners was called to or
der at st. Louis on the 18th, deleg ates
being present from nearly every state.
FIRE broke out in the antitrust
straw board and paper mill at lama
City, Ia, and the portion of the mills
known as the straw cutting and beat
ing rooms was destroyed. Over 100
men were thrown out of employment.
FRANK BARI, his two sons and a
brother met their death by asphyXia-
ton while digging we'll on their farm
at Redfield, S. ID.
LAUGHEAD e MADEsETTE's planning
mill at Uniontown, Pa, was burned re-
Gently. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, 49,
00O
AT day break on the 18th the bodies
of Mollie Smith and Amanda Franks,
two negro girls, were found hanging
OK trees on the side of the road lead
ing from jeff, Ala, to Huntsville,
Tenn. They had been lynched during
the night. The girls were suspected
of poisoning the family of Joseph
O'Kelly at Jeff. Amanda Franks is
said to have made a confession.
THE tenth annual meeting of the
Funeral Directors association of Mis-
souri, was held at st. Louis. The pres
ident of the association said that their
efforts were to bring the funeral to as
near stage of absolute simplicity
as possible.
THE fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Chiefs of Po-
lice of the United States and Canada
opened at Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 18th
with about 200 delegates, representing
nearly every large city in the country.
ELMER CLAwsON was hanged in the
county Jail at Somerville, n. j., on the
18th for the murder of Harry Hodgett,
a farmer. The victim was shot be-
cause he refused to re-employ Claw
son, which caused quarrel.
The fourth volume of THE Messages
and Papers of the Presidents is ready
to be issued from the government
printing office. 1t presents the history
of our government from 1S41 to 1S49.
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