The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-13

The schooner Antelope, coal iaden,
In tow of the steamer Hiram w. Sib-
ley, foundered in Lake Superior off
Michigan island. The vessel sprung n
leak and the pumps COULD not keep the
water down. The loss was about
$50, 900.
THE annual report of Surgeon Gen.
eral Sternbern states that the health
of the army has been excellent during
1896. The total number of men e.<-
amined for enlistment during the cal
endar year was 14,G59, OF whom s,654
were accepted, 5,44s were rejected on
primary examination and $50 subse-
quently declined enlistment
THE Chicago Great Western railway
has prepared plan to make its en-
ployes stockholders in the company
and President Stickney has issued a
circular on the subject, inviting the
employees to become joint owners of
the road.
THE Carnival pageant at Kansas City,
Mo-, on the 9TH was a parade of all ma
tions, glimpses of the life and customs
in other countries being shown. Uncle
Sam marched at the front, being seven
feet eight inches tall and dressed in
the traditional costume.
THE bureau of statistics has issued
the table showing the exports and inn
ports for August, the first full mon tn
under the new tariff law. These fig
ures show for that month the largest
export of domestic merchandise of any
August in the history of the govern
ment. The exports were S19, 400, 264,
against 500, $50, 9Sl for August, 1896.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS EVANS
has issued the following order: Here
after no attorney shall be permitted
to examine the reports of examining
surgeons in any pension claim except
upon the personal order of the com
missioner, or one of the deputy COM
missioners of this bureau" The object
of this order is to stop the growing
custom of searching these reports to
find material for working up new
claims, largely on the basis of ratings
| that have not been allowed.
EAST and north ST Niles, Mich,
marsh fires were reported as raging.
The farmers had fought the flames for
a week and were utterly exhausted on
the 9TH. Some had moved their house
| hold goods to places of safety and had
sacrificed their homes. Near Berrien
| Springs hundreds of acres of potatoes
had been roasted in the ground.
FIFTY high-class horses persisted in
| the stables of the Cheshire Improve
ment company at Brooklyn, which was
recently burned. The loss was $50, 900.
THE st. Louis and Chicago express
on the Chicago II Alton railroad was
held up near Kansas City, Mo, on the
night of the 9th by eight masked men.
The bandits made some of the train
men hand over their own money. A
freight train came up soon aftcrward
and frightened the robbers off. Eight
sticks of dynamite were found in the
express car and fuse which had failed
to work. Nothing of much value was
taken in the express car.
THE Priests of Pallas opened the au-
! tumn carnival at Kansas City, Mo-, on
the night of the 5th by grand pag-
cant of 20 floats, representing subjects
| from Andersen's fairy tales The mum
Der of spectators which viewed the
procession was estimated at 800, 900.
Mrs. ELLEN MCGINTY died in great
agony of hydrophobia, at Decatur, Ill,
on the 9Th. Last November she was
treating a pet dog for the mango, when
he bit her on the left forearm, tearing
out piece of flesh about three inches
square.
THE girls college at the state indus.
trial school at Plankinton, 5. d.,
burned at midnight and six girls per-
ished in the flames. Twenty-Five others
escaped only in their night clothes.
The fire was probably caused by a
lamp exploding.
CoMMIsSARY GENERAL SULLIVAN has
made his annual report to the secre-
tary of war The expenditures for the
year amounted to 81, iG5 209, of which
| s. ,972, ZOE was for the subsistence of
! the army and the balance for the set
| Element of claims and other purposes
NEAR Sandy Springs, Md, William
| Timmons shot and killed William Hin
| ton, his father-in-law, inflicted a wound
which will probably prove fatal to his
wife and also shot the wife of John
! Hinton, his wife's brother, causing
serious but not necessarily fatal
| wound. The shooting was the result
of quarrel between Timmons and his
wife.
! THE Flower parade took place at
| Kansas City, Mo-, on the 9th. 1t con-
sisted of handsomely decorated equip
ages filled with beautiful women. The
Priests of Pallas ball took place at
night.
FIVE hundred thousand acres of fine
land along the Big Piney, La Barge
and Fontanelle creeks and Green river,
Wyoming, which have recently been
surveyed, will be thrown open to set
Element under the United States land
laws after November l.
THE &. a. r. of oklahoma is trying
to get the abandoned military reserva-
ton near Oklahoma City for a soldiers
home.
THE police discovered a counterfeit
ers' den at Chicago the other day. Bot
ties of acids, smelling furnace and
small quantities of silver and other
metals were found scattered about the
room, together with a cigar box full of
counterfeit silver dollars, half dollars,
quarters and dimes.
A PORTION of the platform of the
Kansas City & Independence Rapid
Transit railway depot at Kansas City,
Mo-, gave way, on the evening of the
9th, owing to the rotten piling, and
fell 25 feet, carrying so people down.
OF these 81 were known to have been
injured and four deaths at least may
result from the accident.
A SAN FRANCISCO dispatch stated
that Commander Ballington Booth alb
solutely denied the report that nego-
tiations were in progress for union of
the Salvation army and the American
Volunteers.
THE pecan crop in north Texas and
the Indian territory will be the largest
in the memory of the oldest inhabit-
ant. The crop is estimated at 1,oOo,-
900 bushels.