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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
The Cornice Fell.

Ratesville, July This evening a
portion Of the cornice from the top Of a
brick wall, new building now being
erected here, fell killing instantly Ale
Leland, an aged negro, painfully but
not seriously hurting Richard Leland,
a colored man R, D. Bruce, one Of the
masons on the building, was also pain
fully but not seriously cut about the
face by the falling brick. These mon
were taking refuge from the hot sun by
sitting under the shadow of the wall,
when the accident occurred The
builders had not quite finished backing
up the cornice work,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
Meadows are nearly burned up.
Money From the River Commission.

Tho apportionment has been made by
the Mississippi river commission 90 the
various leyce districts. The lower or
Mississippi levee district was allotted
1913, 925, while the upper or Yazoo-Mis-
sissippi delta levee district was given
only SIS, s25 In explanation Of this
the Greenville Democrat says: That
the Groenv.IIe district received the
lions share OF the funds apportioned is
due to the fact that for several years
past the opposite side of the river has
received especial attention, while this
strict has received but little from
the Federal government These facts
we're brought out before the commission
0y our representatives., Walter Slilcrs
Gov. MaLaurin, W G. Yerger William
Startling, J. NJ. Jayne and others, in the
strongest possible light. The work done
by our local levee board was brought to
the attention Of the commission, while
the heavy burden Of local taxation was
also impressed upon the minds OF tho
members OF the commission. Our rep.
resentatiyes adopted the proper policy
thoy spoke truth-and placed the help
less condition Of our people before the
commission"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July THE first
new fast mail train over the Santa Ec
railway between Kansas City and
Newton, Kan, left the Union depot at
three o'clock yesterday. 1t carried
alarge quantity of mail matter. The
midnight collection of mail for the
new train began in the business dis
trict last night The run to Newton
was made in five hours.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

WINFIELD, Kan, July 3.-Dr. F.
Hoyt Pitcher was appointed superin-
tendent of the imbecile and idjotic
asylum in this city at the meeting of
the state board of charities last night
Representative Ed Jaquins appeared
before the board and told of rumors
charging Pitcher with a vile crime,
but the rumors were unsubstantiated
by afiidavits.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

A SPECIAL feature in this years Ger
man grand maneuvers, French mill
tary journal says, will be supplied by
war dogs, which have been most ad-
mirably trained for seeking the wound
ed and carrying dispatches.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

CLEVELAND, O., July 3.-Allen Thur
man has declared open war against tho
candidacy of John r, Mclean for the
senate. He says Mclean left the state
under a miserable cloud and now
comes back to drag the democratic
party in the mire again, and that UNI
relenting war viii be waged against
him until he is driven from Ohio poll
ties.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

The sad fact that suicide and educa-
ton increase at the same rate, Apple
toms Popular Science Monthly says, is
generally admitted. Civilization does
not free humanity from grief, disgrace
and disappointment; but wherever
civilization is highest the struggle for
existence is fercest There was a
time in Roman history when suicide
was almost epidemic. 1t was when
the great republic had reached its
acme OF civilization. 1t is proba Die
that the proportion Of suicides due to
mental arrangements is increasing,
but how rapidly can never be exactly
determined.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

Mr.. LIPToN, the man who was able
TO give SIPS, 900 to the princess of Wales
fund for providing substantial meals
for the poor in commemoration of the
queens jubilee, is an Irishman and
was born in Glasgow. He has also an
interest in Chicago packing house.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
Term. Of the ss5. 600 Loan.

Gov. McLaurin has stated the terms
on which he borrowed the S25,O from
the First State Bank OF Columbus. He
borrowed the money at the rate of per
cent per annum. The act under which
he negotiated the loan authorizes the
governor to borrow 5000, 600 till January
10, 1890, at a rate Of interest not to ex-
coed per cent.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

Mrs. MARGARET OLIPHANT, the au-
thoress. aged 20. died of cancer a short
time ago Few writer's of the day had
put their names on so many title
pages. Besides fiction she wrote books
on Florence, Venice, Edinburgh, Jeru-
salem and Rome.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

MANHATrAN, Kan, July 3.-The
board of regents of the state agricul-
tural college announced the following
appointments in the faculty: Prof E.
E. Faviyle, of Nova Scotia, TO be pro-
fessor Of horticulture; Miss Mary f.
Winston of St, Joseph, to fill the chair
Of mathematics Frederick a Metcalf,
of the Emerson school of oratory, Bos-
ton. TO be professor Of oratorv.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

ST. LOUIS, July S.--A number of BOYS
were swimming in the river at the foot
Of Ferry street this afternoon. One
boy sank and man plunged after him.
lie got hold of the boy. but before
they could reach the shore both were
drowned
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

A RECENT development of the agri-
cultural department at Washington is a
division OF vegetable pathology where
plant diseases are as carefully investi-
gated and definitely classified as ami
NAL ailments, to which indeed they
bear close resemblance.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

A COMPANY has been organized at
Boston TO build bicycle railroad con-
Meeting Boston with Fall River. The
estimated cost of the road is s., 600, 600.
Work on the railroad, which is to be
an elevated affair, will begin in An
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
Bon Worms and Drouth.

Boil worms have made their appear
ance on cotton throughout Lowndes
county, and disastrous results are
feared. Portions OF the county have
had no rain for nearly seven weeks and
the crops are suffering very much from
the druutb
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

In Kennebunk, Me, the custom
house receipts for the last ifs
cal year were s.. 50, and the amount
paid out for maintaining the district
was 5000. In other words, it cost $40
TO collect ST.. In Rock Island, Ill, il
also cost last year s22s to collect 81 in
revenue
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

OK President Gardes aud ext asher
Gerault to eight years in the peniten-
tiary for wrecking the American ma
tional bank at that place.
AT Colorado Springs. Col. on the I'd
McBevnolds and Carruthers the tam
dem pair, broke the worlds tandem
records They did the third Of mile
in "a As; half - 3-5; two-thirds, 1l7
%. The previous records for these
distances were: Third, 81; half, 81 40;
two-thirds, ,.2l A..
JUnGE CLAYTON has handed down an
opinion at South McAlcstcr, !. r., in
the Indian citizenship cases. He says
all white persons married to Choctaws
in accordance with their laws are en-
titled 20 he enrolled.
SWEEPING reduction has been
made in the wages Of the employees in
the shops Of the Santa Fe-PacifiC rail
road from Albuquerque, \. NJ, to Los
Angeles. Cal The reductions were
accepted by the men.
THERE were 1.Og4 business failures
reported by Bradstreet's on the I'd
throughout the United States durin g
the past six months, a falling off Of
55S from the like total last year, with
which exception it is the largest ag-
gregatc Of failures in a like period.
JONAS WILDER. an emigrant, and his
wife and two little girls were burned
to death i'm cabin near Rochester,
Ky. They had stopped in the cabin
for few days rest. They were sup
,..,a.A q, b., from, IyDr, tor,
The coinage executed at the minis Of
the United States in the month Of June
amounted to q,G53. 500 pieces, of the
value of S4,l52.S5&27. The gold coin
aye was S2,i0o,5 47. Silver dollars to
the number of i,415, f0l were struck.
The total silver coinage was 81, 500, 554.
LAKE BEATTsCH, near Galatz, Rou-
mania, became swollen by rains and
burst its embankment and 90 soldiers
and many women and children We're
carried away by the torrent and
drowned
BY the explosion of the engine of a
suburban train on the Chicago q
Northern Pacific railway. while leav-
ing Chicago the other morning. the
engineer and fireman were probably
fatally injured and several passengers
badly bruised. The cause of the ex-
plosion was not known.
SECRETARY ALGER has appointed a
board to pass on all applications by
veterans for medals of honor and no
medal will be awarded unless the
heroic act was done outside the line of
duty.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07


y '"i''ANig eruption occurred SIN
mics from cambridge .. oh the "a.
tlrstcame rumh1tugs like di,tantthun-
der and the earth began t" tremhIe
and crack in inHumerable places and a
number Of small trees We're swallowed
mp IN the assures and large volumes Of
smoke issued from them. The resi-
dents OF the neigh borhood were badly
frightened.
JOIN Cox was sentenced by Judge
Lunt at Colorado Springs. Col, to
hang for killing James Daley. Cox
will probably be the last man to re-
ccive death sentence in Colorado, as
capital punishment has been abolished
in that state since the commission Of
his crime.
A NUMBER Of boys were swimming in
the river at the foot of Ferry street,
st. Louis, on the ID one boy sank
and a man plunged after him He got
hold Of the how but bpfor. tbe,,. coIlId
reach the shore both were drowned
E,,,,, 0cusvrp q +.,,-,.ea,.-o14 ,,;rl
threw her hand acros, an electric 1fght
- li':i. -. -
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

NEW YORK, July 3.-Pawnbroking
is profitable, even when conducted as
a charity. The Provident Loan so
ciety, organized by New York million
aires to assist the worthy poor of the
city, yesterday declared a semi-annual
dividend of three per cent
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

CAIRO, ILL.,, July 3.-Jacob Levi. an
Italian resident here for several years,
made his bed under a freight car on
the Mobile s. Ohio track last night
During the night the cars We're being
moved by the switch engine when they
ran over him, crushing him fearfullv.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

CHICAGO, July 3.-The government
thermometer to-day at noon registered
50 and private thermometers were from
two to five degrees higher. James
Williams, a sailor, was found dead
from the heat in his bunk on the
steamer Sioux City.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

sTATIsrIcTAH CoNNoR, of Indianapo.
lis, has determined to secure a cen
sus Of the number of tramps in In.
diana He VIII correspond with the
chiefs of other state bureaus with
a view of having the census taken IN
all the states at the same time His
plan is TO have the data gathered by
police officers, town marshals and other
officials on a certain day or night and
returns made to him and tabulated by
cities and towns in his Office, giving
the summaries in his report. He be.
lieves the total number of idle men il
the United States could. be arrived al
In that way and no other
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
Worlds Tandem Records Broken.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, July 3-Mc-
Reynolds and Carruthers, the celebrat-
ed tandem pair, have again broken
worlds tandem records. They did the
third of a mile in "a As; half in % 80,
and two-thirds in III rs. This per
Torrance was on a third mile track
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
Death of Ii Hatcher.

Col. }. l. Fletcher, Of Batesville, Pa
nola county, died recently at the age
of n. He was one of the pioneers OF
North Mississippi and was respected
and honored by all who knew him for
his probity and kind-heartedness.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

WASHINGTON, July 3.-United States
Consul. General Lee reports to the state
department by cable from Havana that
the Spanish authorities have released
Augustin C.. Betancourt, an American
citizen. on condition that he leaves
Cuba a once
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

A REPRESENTATIVE of a secret anti.
trust organization was in Clinton,
la, the other day, interesting citi-
zens in the movement, the principal
force of which is to be aimed first at
the proposed union of the wire and
nail manufacturers. The organization
is already of huge dimensions, embrac.
ing Is states and taking in merchants,
farmers and builders. The claim is
made that the best legal talent of the
country has been secured to fight tho
trust.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
KANSAS SCHOOLGIRLS.
Text Book Commission Issues Schedule
of Pmrchase and EHehange Rates.

of Purchase and Exchange Rates.
TOPEKA, Kan, July 3.-The state
textbook commission has issued rules
governing the sales and exchange Of
textbooks adopted by it. The figures
In the first column below are the sell
ing prices for dealers and agents,
while those in the second column are
the exchange prices, or the prices at
which old books viii be accepted in
exchange as part payment for new
pyps.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

TIE estimate of Chicago's population
by the publishers of the directory just
printed is !, s2s, 900, an increase of TO-
GOO over last year.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

RACINE, Wis, July 3.-Iu the ma
Jional circuit races, under the auspices
of the l. A. W. here yesterday, Tom
Cooper won the half mile open pro-
fessional, Eddie Bald being but foot
behind, Arthur Gardner coming in
third The time was 100 40
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

ACCORDING to the Rome correspond
ent of the London Lancet, the most
murderous place in the world is the
founding hospital at Naples. in which,
out of s56 infants taken within two
years, all but three died. This is stated
by commission of inquiry appointed
by the Italian chamber of deputies.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
Eel overboard and Drowned.

Edgar jenkins, boy 10 years of age,
while in a skif with two other boys last
week in the Mississippi river opposite
Greenville, fell overheard aud was
drowned.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
LABOR AND WAGES.
Statistics showing the Average Earnings Of
Kansas worktnEmen.


TOPEKA, Kan, July 3. commissioned
johnson, Of the bureau Of labor sta
tistics, has tabulated data for 1896,
gathered by his predecessor, w. g..
Bird. and issued the condensed infor-
nation to-day. The following is the
average yearly wages paid to the
classes Of breadwinucrs named:
Brakemen, s'3t Go; printers. S37L5o; BARRIERS.
shSs so. locomotive engineers. ts17s cigar
makers, 'SaJ. city dremen s65sei; laborers,
S22959 policemen S626 ~. locomotive nrrmen,
fii2i2 hotel walters s2jl6}, butchers S5i952,
carpenters, f3s2of railroad conductors, sH33 60,
machiniStS i53H 81; coal miners 500 30, paint
ers &2LI9 coopers s245 -; retail clerks,
sfst motormcu. 1910, street railway conductors.
S+5oet, stationary hrcmcn S3a1
The following additional facts rela-
tive TO the men who toll will be of in
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

Thomas Caldwell was Instantly killed
and his son Thomas seriously crushed
by caving bank at Vicksburg last
week while excavating for a water main.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

The city council of Jackson last week
awarded to G. c. Wedgworth Of Meridian
contract TO build the new brick school
house in West Jackson, the price agreed
upon being 1913, the work to begin at
once
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

SOUTHERN papers are Boosting of the
great tide of immigration which is
flowing to their region from different
parts of the north.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

A negro fortune-teller, who had been
defrauding credulous negro women at
Liberty, Mo, was taken a mile from
town by negroes and severely whipped.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

The recent announcement at New
York that there was slump of 25 per
cent in the price Of BICYCLES, led by the
Pope Manufacturing Co, created a SEN
sation in the trade. While some main
tanned that the cut came too late in
ance, it was generally conceded by man
ufacturers and agents that the price
in 1898 models of the first class would
not exceed SIS, and tits quite proba Bile
a further reduction win be made as a
result of the upheaval in the industry.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

COLUMBIA county, Ark, recently had
an epidemic of flies, and many of the
citizens of the county had to fee to
other parts of the state to escape the
plague The editor of the Magnolia
Banner, the oldest paper published in
southeast Arkansas, hau to suspend
publication and take his family to
Saline county. The epidemic was de
scribed as being terrible. The pests
literally covered the face of the earth
and hourly increased in number, No
particular complaint about flies has
come from any of the adjoining terri
tory.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

INVENTOR WILLIAM STEWART, of St
Louis, has a plan for establishing a
trolley airship freight and passenger
route from s. Louis 10 Chicago A
cigar-shaped balloon is inflated with
gas sufficient 70 barely lift it and ths
passengers or freight car from tn
ground
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

While trying to ford a creek near
Richmond, Mo, yesterday, Farmer Al
len Ballinger was drowned
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

The Railway Age reports that only
622 miles Of track have been laid in
the United States during the first half
of 1897. This is less than the CORE
spending period of any year since 1910
with the exception of 1894, when only
525 miles of track had been laid up to
July I. In 26 of the states and terri.
tories no track has been laid this year,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

THE London Times printed long
review of the work of the university
of Pennsylvania expedition, which, I'M
der Prof Haynes, has now spent five
years in Babylonia, excavating the
great mounds of Nutfar, the city Of
Nippur or the older Del of the Semics.
They form, it says, the greatest dis
coveries of modern times, carrying the
history of civilization back to an an
tiquity never thought of, namely, b.
Z z son
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07

some "omen's idea Of wifeIy devo-
ton is 70 tell how they impaired their
Es"'lh HF waiting ON their husbands
en- ,heif Washington la)
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-07-07
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.


Nicksturg, July during the week
ended June Is, there was an excess Of
temperature and a deficiency Of rainfall
in nearly all sections Of the State.
Some improvement is reported in cot
ton. and blooms are becoming more gen
eraL Corn needs rain badly, also gar
dens and vegetation generally. Local
showers havo benefited crops over lin
itod areas. but general rain is noces-
sary In order TO improve the outlook.
The cuJwOrm has injured cotton and
corn seriously in many sections, and
the plants are late and small.
Oats and wheat in the northern Por-
ton OF the State are turning out we'll,
also fruit; but gardens are suffering tor
moisture.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-15

WANTED--A position TO cultivate stasl
farm or truck garden by a mon and
wiic; no chldrcn thoroughly compe-
tent. y. L.. tails office. 10
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-15
Add-Rnn COLLEGE Notes.

Thursday afternoon at O'Clock at the
Central Christian church. this city. +. n.
Calv.n the pastor. united in marriage
Mr.. Sam NJ Hamilton and MISS EDNA
Weinon, both of THIS city. Mr.. Hamilton
is one of the best known and most hon
orahss young men in Waco, where he
has lived for some years. occupying pc.
sl.4oh as stanoSrapher In the firm OF
the Rotan Grocery company. He IS
pr, uginent Sunday schcpl and CHRISTIAN
Endeavor worker. and IS known all over
the State in connection with this work
He has fer four years been superintena-
ent of the Epdeayor sccieties in the
CHRISTIAN churches of Texas. The bride
Is a charming young lady and well III 10
be the wife of so deserving young man
as MIR. Hamilton.
Miss Mineola Atklsson of Italy and Mss
Maud Reed of Bertram, Texas, visited
friends at Add Ran university this week;
They are cd students Of she college. and
thei, friends were glad TO welcome them
back once more.
The chry sAuthemum show Is 10 run
blast. and Is proving a great success.
Tile rate Of ona fare for the rouald trip
has brought mary visitors, and the show
is being well patronizcd Is lovers OF fha
belud;f ui in nature.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-15
md NJ. CnlIere MITES.

Station, Texas, November A.
PITY has granted permission for
rs to give hop on the 18th in
|Etary companies have elected
TO serve the ensuing year, as fol-
Pnpany a, Mss Mary Btttte. COM
Miss Ethel Cavitt; company C,
Fsie Ross; company ID, Miss Rita
ral members of the Texas Acad-
Science met this week and ex-
Y invitation to that body to hold
regular session at this place dur
CHRISTMAS holidays, which win
he accepted.
'ner t, Wiissn Is anriounced to
lnere November 10. on True Man
rs ls the second entertainment
season OF the Y. NJ. c. A. course
s9n gave universal. satisfaction
occurred here last year. his sub
Z Americas Uncrowuled Queen.n
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-15
GREENvILLE GOSSIP.
The Rifles Commended by the Adju-
TINT Geuerul for Pm nth

tant General for Promptncss.
Caltain j. F.. Nichols and hts excel
lent company are much elated over tina
receipt OF very complimentary letter
from Adiutant General Mabry corune nd
ding the promptness with which the com
pany responded to the order TO go TO
Emory and protect the prisoner Moss.
They are officially commended in general
order No III. and also informed that they
will shortly receive forty Spring field
rifles all new and first-class. Not only
the company but all Greenville, VIII APP
prec,ate this recognition OF their services
at 81 critical moment
Mr. ID. b. Chaplin of Sherman filed suit
in the county court yesterday against Z.
V. Graham for debt in the sum of $500, 20.
and had an attachment levied on his
looks papers. desks and other office be-
lorgirgs. The levy, of course, only COW
ers the part belonging to Graham, and In
no wise affects the other member CT the
firm
Al a party near Quinlan Friday night
n Young man by the nam1 of Tanner was
accidentally shot by young man VINO
was exhibiting a new pistol TO the COM
pany. The wounded man Is In DANGER
Gus condition.
Messrs. ]. p. Germany. j. A.. Stone and
Joe Hurst have been appointed by Judge
Howard Tempeton as jury commis s4nn-
erg To select the grand and petit jurors
foe the next term of district court
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-15
To build a New Jail.

Texas, November 1.-THE com
rs court yesterday took preiinm-
'Rs Tor the building of a new jail
Ees county An order was made
issuance of $4,000 Jail bonds OF
stnsnation of $1,000 each. to ma
iorty years. A sinking fund was
Tor the payment of said bonds
EST by setting aside per cent OF
here'ofore made for a court
,nus sinking fund, thereby provid-
'ne,r payment without increasing
riue. The question of building
VIII be decided at called meet
,ecember. but the above prel,u,;-
fps we've taken at this time for
on that an order for the ISSUANCE
can only be made at a regular
the court.