The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-06-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mrs JOHN CAMERON, prominent
society lady of Pueblo, Col, was
fatally burned by the explosion of Il
can of benzine with which she was
cleaning furniture. Her son was also
badly burned in trying to save her.
JAMES FRENCH was hanged at the
county Jail at Rockford, H., for the
cold-blooded murder of his wife last
July.
WHILE the canvas men were at work
on the big tent of Ringing Bros cir
Gus at Wahpeton n. D., the center pole
was struck by lightning and two of
them were killed and four others
shocked.
A FESTIVAL was in progress in a tenn
pie at Tien Tsin, China, when the in
tlammable materials strung inside
caught fire and terrible panic ensued
Men and women struggled for the
exits and trampled the weaker ones
and the children under foot Over 100
people lost their lives.
TIE American National Association
Of Masters of Dancing, in session at
New York, elected j. w. Hawkins, of
Mansfield, o., president. Three new
dances We're selected, the figures of
which will be kept secret until the
opening of the season.
AN attempt to blow up the residence
of Gov. Smith, of the Leavenworth,
Kan, soldiers home, by dynamite was
made soon after four o'clock on the
morning of the 11th. One entire side
of the rCum in which Mrs. Smith was
| sleeping was blown out and her escape
from death was miraculous Gov
Smith was uninjured. A dishonorably
discharged veteran has been arrested
| for the crime.
GEORGE SHARON and Ben Billings be-
came involved in an alteration in a
saloon at Alta, Cal, and had fight.
sharon struck Billings with his fist
and broke the latter's neck, killing
| him instantly.
| A MOB of 200 men boarded freight
train at Decatur, Ala, on the 10th to
ride to Huntsville to lynch two negroes
who had assaulted a 12-year-old white
| girl at Decatur and had been taken to
| Huntsville for safety. The conductor,
when ten miles out sidetracked the
train and refused to go any farther I'M
til the mob left and walked back to
Decatur The mob swore they would
carry out their purpose some time and
militia have been sent to guard the
prisoners.
MARY ALLEN, aged 50 years, was
found in a heap of straw in her shanty
at st. Louis starved to death.
| THE June government crop report
issued on the 10th makes the general
condition of winter wheat 7S.5; spring
| wheat, 500; acreage of winter wheat in
Kansas, 81; in Missouri, 90; condition
Of winter wheat in Kansas, SS; in Mis-
souri,, As.
THE jury in the case of John Powell,
the member of the Cleveland baseball
club, charged with playing baseball on
Sunday and exhibiting the same, re-
turned a verdict of guilty in both
counts. This settles the fate of sun
day baseball in Cleveland, o.
| WILLIAM ANDREWS, colored, alias
| Cuba, was taken from the officer at
| the door of the courthouse at Princess
Anne, Md, on the 9th and lynched by a
mob. Andrews had been tried, con-
victed and sentenced to death for felo-
niously assaulting Mrs. benjamin L.
| Kelley.
Two women aud one man committed
suicide at Chicago before six a. IN. on
the 9th. Marie Mora, an Italian,
stabbed herself; Charles E. Shaw shot
himself through jealousy of his wife,
and an unknown woman at a boarding
house took poison.
FIRE totally destroyed the Bell grain
elevator at David City, the largest in
Nebraska outside of Omaha, and the
city electric light plant. Loss, s37, 600.
SIXTY cyclists started in a five-mile
road race at Passaic, n. j., and 20 of
them got punched together in going
down a hill and lost control of their
| wheels. They were dashed into a
stone quarry and were all hurt, some
seriously, and their wheels wrecked.
THE annual conference of the Amer
lean Baptist church, otherwise known
as the Dunkards, began at Frederick,
Md, on the 18th, bringing together no
less than 1000 persons from points out
side of Maryland.
THE officers of the steamer Hupeb,
which arrived at Vancouver, B. c., on
the 18th from the Orient, stated that
when in the Philippine islands on their
last trip it was learned that the Span
ish government had captured % Roman
Catholic priests, supposed to be in sym
pathy with the rebels, and had roasted
them.
AT Wellington, KY, jerome Smeath-
ers, his wife and seven children were
poisoned by paris green. The poison
was on shelf and mice got at it and
some of it got into a bucket of water
below. One child was reported dead,
two others dying and it was thought
nsae of the others would recover.