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

Fifty thousand bushels of barley were
burned.
BESSrE BAYER, aged IL, was racing
ON his wheel with another boy ON q
street in indianapolis, Ind. and had
his head down, when he ran into a
wagon andwas killed almost instantly.
AT Como. ILL.,, Ferdinand Stutzlxe, o
farmer, while drunk, slashed Mr.. and
Mrs. $. j. Wilkins with n knife. Mr..
wilkins cannot live, but his wife may
recover.
Louis CRARr and Eugene Raistop
were blown to pieces by,an explosion
of nitro-glycerine near Pittsburgh, Pa.
The stuff had just been shipped and
they approached it to put IL in a ware.
house when it went off. Surrounding
houses were damaged by the concus
sion.
A YOUNG negro named Charlie Brown
attempted to assault farmers daugh.
ter at Soddi, Tenn, and when a posse
attempted to arrest him he fatally
shot a deputy. The mob then strung
up the negro and riddled his body with
bullets.
WILL IDEAS, colored, convicted OF
criminal assault, was hanged in the
Jail yard at Louisville, Ca, on the
Goth.
TUE Nebraska house has passed a
! bill providing for the issue of non-in-
terest bearing state warrants, which
are to be receivable in payment OF
taxes and debts due the state. 1t is
known as the state scrip or fiat money
| bill, and is patterned after similar
law existing in Mississippi.
THE strike of the tannery hands at
Chicago was thought to be over, as
they agreed on the Goth to return tc
work and leave their grievances in the
hands of the state board of arbitra.
ton.
JOHN HANLoN, an engineer on the b.
& o. Southern road, was cut in twain
above the hips by his engine near
Olney, Ill. He had crawled under il
to do something and did not set the
air brakes and it started up.
JOHN NICHOLS shot and fatally
wounded Joseph Lewis at Plain City,
Utah, and then turned the gun on him
self with fatal results. Lewis had
charged Nichols with stealing a watch.
THE plant of the b. P. Clapp Ammo
mia Co. at Cincinnati was destroyed by
fire on the 25th. The place was sur
rounded by the flood from the river
and the fremen had to ride out in
skiffs to get the hose near enough to
play on the flames. The fire was caused
by the high water coming in contact
with lot of unslaked lime, which set
fire to some chemicals.
SMALLPOX is spreading in Cuba, there
being 1000 to 1900 cases in Havana
alone, according to dispatch on the
22d.
AT Little Rock, Ark, on the 18th
Robert Cox, convicted of rape, and a
negro known as Crazy JIM" convicted
of murder, were hanged.
THE cornerstone of the Theosophical
temple, or ''school for the revival of
the lost mysteries of antiquity was
laid at Point Lomax, Cal, with impos-
ing ceremonies, under the charge of
Mrs. Katherine Tingley, the leader of
the movement, and prominent theoso-
phists from all parts of the world.
Col. J. NJ. BAKER was endeavoring to
arrest negro near Helena, Ark, on
warrant, when the negro felled him
with fence rail and beat him to
death. Feeling ran high against the
negro.
! EDWARD BAILEY was driving in
buggy at Williamsport, Pa, and had
rope around his body tied to two
horses behind when he was jerked out
of the buggy and dragged over preci
pice and the man and two horses were
| found dead on the railroad tracks be-
| low the roadway.
A NoRTHBoUND train on the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois road and the Column
bia Heights race train on the same
road collided with a Calumet electric
car at a street crossing at Chicago on
the 25th. The motorman and two pas
sengers were instantly killed, two
other passengers probably fatally in
jured and the car smashed into kind
ling wood.
THE capitol at Wheeling, w. Va, on
| the 25th was entirely surrounded by
| water and accessible only by boat.
The Legislature was in session three
hours with the temperature at 40 de-
grees, the members keeping their hats
on and overcoats buttoned.
THE Park Gate hotel at Chicago was
| damaged by fire at seven o'clock on the
morning of the Gath to the extent of
So, 900. The blaze started in the boiler
room and ran up the elevator shaft.
Many of the guests who were in bed
narrowly escaped suffocation.
DEPUTY United States marshals on
the 25th raided large gambling tent
at Hayden, l. T., the place of payment
of the Cherokee freedmen, and captured
80 men. The tent contained nearly 100
| men.
AN incendiary fire at Palmer, Tex,
destroyed IA frame business houses oc-
cupied by % firms. The business dis
| trict was practically wiped out