The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

RECENTLY TWO men entered the nome
of d. Jones near Wymore, Neb., and
frightfully tortured him by burning
him to make him tell where his money
was Jones crawled the next morning
to a neighbours house, where he died in
horrible agony.
THE interior department has rem
dered decision granting to the state
of Kansas 1000 acres of agricultural
college lands in lieu of that number of
acres of double minimum lands, and
the governor of the state will shortly
be authorized to make the selection.
NORTHERN Texas was swept by a
| windstorm on the night of the 18th
which at times developed into the pro
portions of a tornado At Denton over
100 houses were struck by the storm
and all were more or less damaged.
One man was fatally injured in the de-
bris of falling house. The storm also
Worth and Itasca, wrecking many
buildings.
THROUGHOUT Arkansas, Tennessee
and Mississippi many lives were re-
ported lost on the 10Th through the
floods and the railroads were heavy
sufferers. 1t was reported also that
the levee at Hill House, Miss, had
broken, flooding the farms in that To-
cality.
THE failures for the week ended the
10th in the United States were 216,
according to Dun's report, against POL
last year.
A MOB tried to break into the Jail at
Scottsboro, Ala, to lynch a negro min
lister named John Smith, who was con-
fined there for an assault on woman.
All the efforts of the mob to get in,
however, were fruitless, but the negro
was espied fearfully watching them
from his cell window and several men
opened fire on him and killed him.
THREE men were fatally burned at
the Emma blast furnace at Cleveland,
o., by series of explosions of molten
metal.
CHARCOAL, the Indian murderer of a
mounted policeman, was hanged at Nc
Leod, Man. The Indian gave three
whoops as he went up the scaffold
stairs and died game.
THE United States court of appeals
has affirmed the verdict of a lower
court awarding the government 50, SAT
against Francis NJ. Rhodes, of Hanni-
bal, Mo. The government, it is alleged.
had been induced to pay him this sum
as pension for a disease of the eyes
thought to have been contracted in the
army, when he really suffered from
the disease before he entered the serv-
ice. Rhodes was private in company
X, Forty-Second Missouri volunteer in
fantry.
A MEAT train jumped the track and
was ditched at La Grange, ILL.,, and
five men sustained serious injuries, two
probably fatal.
THE big fight between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons came off at Carson, New,
on the 18th. The contest was fierce
and lasted for IA rounds, when Fitz-
simmons got in a blow over the heart
on Corbett and knocked him down.
Corbett was unable to rise on time on
account of the pain and Referee Siler
counted him out and decided that Fitz-
simmons had won the fight.
The interstate commerce committee
had meeting at New York to investi-
gate charges preferred against A rail-
roadr, forming the Joint Traffic asso-
citation, for alleged discrimination
against New York.
A SHOEMAKER named Charles Ro-
dontsky, his wife and baby were ia
tally burned by an explosion of gaso-
line in an emigrant wagon at Omaha,
Neb., on the 10th. They We're about
to start for Kansas.
THE Washington Times on the nth
stated that Judge Lamoreaux may
make reply to the structures passed
upon his action in the Chicago lake
front cases.
GROVE HUNTLEY, convicted of the
murder of Dell Manning, was sentenced
by Judge Dale at Guthrie, Ok, to the
penitentiary for life.
A DISPATCH from Pittsburgh, Pa,
said that the towboat Hawk was re-
Gently capsized by the wind on the
Ohio river near Jacks run and IL men
were thrown into the water and had
70 swim for their lives. The pilot was
unable to get out of the pilot house
and was drowned like a rat in trap.
A PORTION of the tunnel of the ST.
Louis a San Francisco railroad through
the Boston mountain caved in recently
and all traffic was stopped. This is the
longest tunnel in Arkansas,