The leader., 1897-09-22

prohibited season. A meeting of all
states and territories that handle cat
tie has been called at Fort Worth,
Tex, on September 81, to examine the
cure.
AT crossing over the track of the
Versailles & Midway railroad near
Versailles, KY, train struck q car
riage containing Ambrose II. Wilson
and J. w. Bridges, killing the former.
The latter jumped In time to save him
self
WHILE cooking dinner at Grandview,
KY, the dress of Mrs. Elizabeth Chap
man became ignited and she was ia.
tally burned.
RAIN softened the roadbed and caused
the derailment of a freight train on
the Katy near Fort Worth, Tex, and
four cars were smashed.
THE great Dismal swamp of Virginia
and North Carolina, covering an area
of perhaps 400 square miles, was afire
from one end to the other on the 18th,
the result of an unprecedented drought.
Forest fires were also raging in adjoin-
ing counties.
A DISASTROUS wreck occurred on the
Wisconsin Central railroad, near Chip
pewa Falls, on the 18th, resulting In
the death of five people and the serious
injury of four others. Two freight
trains, through mistake in orders,
while going 40 miles an hour, met on a
curve and came together with terrible
force.
MARIAH BILIISesLY, a widow. went
to prayer meeting the other night, after
locking up her five children in the
house at Richmond, Ark. On return
ing home she found the house in ashes
and the children cremated.
THREE daughters of Preston Howard
were burned to death at Port Alma,
Can, on the shore of Lake Erie.
THE lifeless body of D. T. Watson, a
colored school-teacher, was found
hanging to a tree in Lonoke county,
Ark, the other morning, with this
placard found on it: "A warning to
Niger school-teachers. We want
none of this kind of people in this
country; others beware" Watson had
been teaching a school in the county
during the last three months.
THE work of collecting evidence for
the inquest on the bodies of the strik-
ers shot by deputy sheriffs at Halle
ton, Pa, is being prosecuted by the
strikers representatives. and the Sec
rotary of the Hungarian consulate at
Philadelphia. The warrants sworn
out for the arrest of the deputies will
not be served while the militia is on
the ground.
TnRoUsn a Misunderstanding of sig
nails the steamer Catskill was run into
by the excursion boat st. Johns and
sunk in the North river near New
York. The st. Johns had 900 excur-
sionists on board and there was a regu-
lar panic amongst them and some
jumped overheard. One boy was
drowned and two women were reported
missing.
A CALM pervaded Hazleton. Pa, on
the 18th and the striking miners main
tanned silence and good order. Maj.
Whitney issued an order to his soldiers.
however, not to accept food or drink
from any one outside the camp as it
was feared an attempt would be made
to poison the troops.
WHISKY. pistols and razors came in
10 so much prominence at big negro
church meeting near Seneca, 5. c.,
hat Sheriff Moss and dozen deputies
arrested six of the principals. One
nan is said to have been shot through
.he brain, two were MORALLY cut and
several others were seriously wounded. |
Each of the six prisoners had from one
to six revolvers.
TIE Dawes and Creek commissions
have begun negotiations at Muskogee,
l. T., looking to the allotment of the
lands belonging to the Creek Indians,
the dissolution of their tribal govern
ment and the establishment of town
sites in the nation. 1t is the general
opinion that satisfactory treaty will
be arranged.
OSCAR GARDNER, the Kansas City
featherweight, had 20-round 60 with
Tommy Dixon, of Rochester. N. Y,
before the Rochester Athletic club,
and, although Gardner did not knock
out Dixon, Gardner was given the de-
cision, which met with general ap-
proval.
THE jackson Hill coal mine in Sulli-
van county, Ind, was destroyed by
fire early the other morning, causing
a loss of $50, 900 and preventing 800 men
from working. There was suspicion
of incendiarism about the matter.
THE acknowledgement has decided
to change the color of the current two
cent postage stamps from carmine to
green and the ten-cent postage stamps,
now printed in green, will be changed
to some other color.
FIRE at Youngstown, O., destroyed
the stock barn of young John A. Lo
gan. Eight finely-bred horses and
many handsome equipages were burned
up. The loss was estimated at S75, 1000.
EDWARD c. FLANAGAN, who killed
three people little over a year age
under horrible circumstances and who
was tried, convicted and sentenced to
be hanged, escaped from the DeKalb
county Jail at Decatur. Ga, at an early
hour on the morning of the 18th. He
was afterwards recaptured.
Two electric cars at Chicago collided
early on the morning of the 18th when
they were full of passengers and many
persons were seriously injured. The
and another man will die of
their injuries. One car had left the
double track and got on to the single
track and it was not noticed on account
of mist.
A FIRE at Iron Mountain, Is miles
of Redding, Cal, destroyed
belonging to the Mountain
Copper Co., valued at 100000. Two
men were also believed to have lost
their lives
DIR. L. b. CARTER and Charles p.
Russell quarreled over land transac.
tion and met at the depot at Abbott,
Tex, and exchanged number OF
shots. Both men fell and died within
a few minutes of each other.
The supreme lodge of Knights and
Ladies of Honor recently convened in
18th annual session at Detroit, Mich.
with about 100 delegates present, a
large number being ladies'
FASHIONS NOVELTIES.