The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT NllllamStOn, Ia miles east or Lam
sing, Mich, Mrs. Albert Hovey, aged
50 years, murdered her aged mother
in-law with an AK. She severed the head
from the body and then poured oil on
the lifeless body and set it on fire.
AT the Methodist church at Craw-
louisville, Ind, the minister, who was
about to marry Henry Humphreys and
Anna Jones, asked, as was customary,
if there was any objection to the mar
rage, when Miss Hattie Chavis leapcd
up with an infant in her arms and de-
clared the groom to be the child's
father, but the clergyman ignored her
and rushed the ceremony through.
Later on Miss Chavis was led off by
the police as she tried to enter the re-
ception armed with a dagger.
No official action will probably fol-
low the lynching of Joseph Mccoy. the
negro who assaulted little girl at
Alexandria, Va, as the citizens who
were arrested during the assault on
the Jail have been released, public
opinion not countenancing their prose-
cution.
FIVE thousand people saw Jimmy
Barry and Jimmy Anthony, bantam
weights, fight 90 rounds before the Ma
tional Athletic club at San Francisco
on the ed. The fight was for 81, 900
purse, rs per cent. to the winner, at
115 pounds. Barry had the best of it
all through and after the Goth round
he was declared the bantam champion
of the world.
THERE was on file with the civil
service commission in Washington on
the esd over 1900 applications for ex-
animation, all of which applicants
will have their fitness to hold office
tested during the coming spring. The
number of applicants is far in excess
Of the needs of the service and will
place upon the eligible lists thousands
of men and women who will have their
hopes raised only to be disappointed.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report
there We're ZIG business failures
throughout the United States for the
week ended the esd, against $40 In the
corresponding week last year.
The man who was hypnotized and
buried in the ground for three days at
Simcoc, Ont, was disinterred when the
time had elapsed and great crowds fol-
lowed the box to the opera house. 1t
required five men to control the sub
ject in his struggles while he was be-
ing brought back to consciousness and
the box was smashed to pieces.
A WRECK occurred nine miles north
of Evergreen, Ala, to a passenger
train on the Louisville q Nashville
railroad. Engineer Adams, his fire.
man and two negroes were fatally in
jured and two other negroes, believed
TO be tramps, were severely hurt. 1t
was thought that four negro tramps,
who were seen in the neighborhood
shortly before the accident occurred,
removed the rails just south of the
trestle. The engine, caboose, baggage
and mail cars were completely wrecked.
A SPECIAL from Nashville, Tenn, on
the 21st said that five lives had been
lost in the flooded lands of Lake county.
A skiff was upset, causing the drown
ing of Joseph Cans and his entire fam
lily, wife, two sons and daughter.
THE agricultural department is being
importuned from all parts of the coun-
try for beet sugar seed. Heretofore
beet sugar growing has been confined
almost exclusively to Nebraska, Kan
sas and California The agricultural
department has sent beet seed lately
to about 80 states and territories.
THE pictures of the recent Corbett-
Fitzsimmons fight, taken for exhibition
with what is called the verascope, were
ready for printing on the 10th. The
picture of the moment in the 1ath
round following the Knockout blow
was said to be excellent, according to
a New York dispatch.
AN appeal for aid was sent to Secre-
tary Alger for destitute people along
the Red river in the vicinity of Penn
bina, N. ID.
THREE men visited fortune teller
at Cincinnati the other afternoon and
bound and gagged her and then re-
moved diamond rings and other jewelry
from her person worth $1,000.
MRS. CHARLES DAVIS. of Mayneld,
Ky, recently gave birth to twins. She
has two other children, one was born
on Christmas day, and the other on
Washington's birthday, making four
babies in four months.
A FIRE which broke out at 1926 Ash
land avenue, Chicago. partially de-
stroyed three dwellings and the flames
spread SO rapidly that many of the oc-
cupants barely escaped with their
lives. As it was, John McCleast and n
boy named John Coyne lost their lives.
The latter was clasped in the arms of
the former, showing that McCleast
had persisted in an attempt to save the