The leader., 1897-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

THEODORE DURRANT, under death
sentence for the Emanuel baptist
church murders, through his attorneys,
asked Gov. Budd on the 14th to pardon
him on the ground that the real murder
er of Blanche Lamont had at last con-
fessed his crime. John Rosenberg, a
convict in San Quentin prison, has
made a sworn confession that he killed
Blanche Lamont at San Francisco at
the instigation of a stranger and in
consideration of the payment of S700
for his work.
THE new tipple or ore dump at the
mines at Pinckney, Tenn, 60 feet high,
fell and killed ten white men and boys
outright and seriously wounded sew
eral others. The dump was new one
and had been tested.
THE baseball game between the Mil
waullee and Kansas City clubs, of the
Western league. on the 18th at Kansas
City, Mo-, ended in a small riot, and had
it not been for the police Umpire Graves
would have been roughly handled. The
game was won by the Milwaukee club
at the last minute and a close decision
by the umpire in Milwaukee's favor
was the cause of the trouble. The UNI
pires decision was acknowledged to be
right afterwards by the Kansas City
club.
A TERRIBLE railway disaster befell a
Russian military train on the Nallli
Jurjev line. Sixteen ears were smashed.
Two officers and nearly 100 soldiers
were killed and 60 others were serious
ly injured.
BRADsTREET's agency reported PSI
business failures throughout the United
States for the week ended the l4th,
against 265 in the corresponding week
year ago.
A PITTSBURGH, Pa, dispatch of the
18th stated that manufacturers of wire
nails, wire and rods were about to
form grand combination to control
the market for all three products The
policy outlined will only include a
moderate advance in price of each
product. If the new combination is
go, it will practically drive out all
competition in the manufacture of
wire nails.
In June large party of Kentucky
farmers from Marshall county, Ky,
will emigrate to New Madrid, Stoddard
and Dunlllin counties, Mo.
A DISPATCH from Auxerre, France,
the center of the wine-growing dis
trict, says general frost on the 18th
destroyed crops and vines, fruits and
vegetables to the amount of S4, 900, 000
The inhabitants were in CONSERVATION
THE annual show of pet dogs and
cats, under the auspices of the Woman's
Humane society, opened at st. Louis
on the 18th with several hundred en-
tries, some of them being the choicest
pets owned by prominent society peo-
pie.
AN Omaha dispatch stated that the
Nebraska grand lodge Ancient Order of
preme Master Workman Tate from
charges of malfeasance in office, pre-
ferred by his local lodge.
A CONSTABLE left Jackson, La, for
| Clinton, La, having in custody a negro
named Charles Jackson, charged with
| attempting to wreck train, when he
was surrounded by an armed body OF
men and the prisoner taken away. The
next day the negro was found dangling
| from tree.
EARTHQUAKES occurred recently in
| the Leeward islands, in the West In
dies, killing many colored people by
burying them in the ruins of their
| houses. In a brick church the congre-
CATION was caught by the collapse of
the walls and so were crushed to
death.
The movement to secure the adoption
of a universal postage stamp by the
postal congress at Washington has col
lapsed. There were too many difficult
ties (the chief being that of currency
fiuctuations) in the way of adopting
such a stamp, and the general commit
tee, after considering the subject,
abandoned it as impracticable.
WHILE an ice cream festival was in
progress at a church at Longstrath,
o., drunken man entered and raised
disturbance. Upon being ordered to
leave he pulled his revolver and fatally
shot two men and then escaped. A
posse was after him to lynch him.
THREE more persons died at Pike
vile, KY, on the 18th from drinking
poisoned spring water and three 9TH
ers were reported i'll from the same
cause. No clew has been obtained as
to who put the poison in the spring.
TYPHooS ii. won the Kentucky Derby
at Louisville on the 18th, Ornament,
the fayorite, taking second place, and
Or. catlett finishing third.