The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-12-08

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milk from a cow which had eaten
weeds.
REaELA WRIGHT. the six-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Mary f. Wright, OF
St Louis, was fatally burned while
alone at home. The little one saw a
bag of candy on the mantelshelf and
in trying to reach it her dress swung
into the fire and got ablaze.
AN examination of the books of the
water Office at Chicago by an expert
accountant disclosed the fact that the
city had been defrauded out of s454, 1855
in the past two years by unauthorized
rebates.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred the other
night at the Pomeroy and the Opera
House blocks at La Crosse, Wis. On
the third floor the powder and shells
of company of national guards were
kept and when the fire reached them
the explosion was terrific. Six fire.
men were injured, three seriously. The
loss will exceed 5000, 900.
THE plant of the Galesburg Qll.)
Pottery company was almost totally
destroyed by fire the other evening.
The loss was put at 100000, with $751;
900 insurance. Forty men were thrown
out of employment.
GEORGE BLoDGETT, head of the law
department of the General Electric
company at Schenectady, n. Y, was
shot by burglar and mortally
wounded at his home the other night.
THE National Prison congress of the
United States met at Austin, Tex, on
the I'd in four-days' session. There
were about 200 delegates from north
ern, eastern and western states in at
tendance.
THE bank clearings in Kansas City
for the IL months ended November 80
show the tremendous total of S493, 000,-
900, the exact figures being S492, 916,-
i24.S5, and December will certainly
bring the aggregate for the year to
the nprecedented sum of s549, 000, 900.
THE annual reports of Indian schools
shows considerable progress at Car
Isle, Pa, and Hampton, Va, the prin-
cipal institutions. At Carlisle there
was an enrolment of ICE pupils at the
beginning of this fiscal year, includ-
ing representatives of SO different
tribes. At Hampton the allotment was
13s, embracing representatives of Is
tribes.
JUDGE DALE, at Saltwater, Ok, dis
charged Thomas Latin, a negro, on
trial for the murder of j. Z. Morrow
and little daughter, without allowing
the case to go to the jury, as there was
really no evidence against him. Nor
row and the little girl were killed with
an AK while sleeping in their wagon
by the roadside, and at the time Latin
was arrested the excitement was so
great that the officers had hard fight
to keep him from being lynched.
BY the explosion of a donkey engine
on the Titusville pa Traction com
pany, Engineer Miller and his son
were frightfully scalded and will die
and two other men received bad scalp
wounds.
A TRAIN on the Pittsburgh & West
ern railway jumped the track at
Chamblin's cut, Cleveland, o., and be-
fore it could be stopped crashed
through the bridge into the street be-
low. The locomotive and IL cars were
demolished. The engineer and fire.
man jumped.
w. j. BURIAN tried to murder his
wife at Detroit, Mich, on the 30th and
then shot himself dead in fit of jeal-
ousy.
A LARGE portion of the business CEN
ter of the town of Carberry, Man, was
destroyed by fire on the 30th.
Two hundred and fifty patients at
the epileptic hospital at Gallipolis, o.,
were poisoned on the lst. There were
no fatalities, but many of the patients
were said to be in a serious condition.
The physicians thought that the poi
soning was caused by eating some ar
ticle of food.
A SPECIAL from Keokuk, Ia, on the
I'd said that lonely robber. with his
face hidden by a mask and armed with
revolver, attempted to rob the pas
sengers of the st. Louis, keokuk &
Northwestern train, but some of the
men stood their ground and attempted
to diSarm the bandit, who, however,
escaped without securing any booty.
AT the cabinet meeting on the 3Oth
the serious prospect of many of the
gold seekers in Alaska starving for
want of food this winter was discussed
and the best means of atfording them
relief talked over
The churches and schools have been
closed for an indefinite period at st.
Elmo, ILL.,, on account of an epidemic
of black measles, diphtheria, scarlet
fever and chicken-poX. All persons
under l6 years of age have been pro-
hibited from appearing on the street.
FRED HORN, a 17-year-old boy, was
convicted at Ell Reno, Ok, for the muir
years in the penitentiary.
GEORGE DOUGLASS, a negro VITO &C.
killed Albert Grayer IA at
tempting to murder another man with
whom he had quarreled over game of
craps, was hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 30th. He expressed sorrow for
his crime.
THE Hotel Balmoral on Mount Me-
Gregor, near Saratoga, n. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 1st. Loss on
building and contents, S75, 900.
A FIRE-DAMP explosion took place in
the Frankerholz coal mine near HON.
burg, Germany on the 1st. The bodies
of ten men killed and As injured min
ers were got out and more miners were
reported missing.
SEVEN men have died and II others
were not expected to live through
drinking a mixture of wood alcohol
and cheap whisky. The liquor was
bought by two farmers and retailed to
laborers on the Mobile & Ohio extern
sion at Maplesville, Ala. No physi-
clans were at hand.
An engineer and fireman lost their
lives by their engine leaving the track
near Cells station, Va, and rolling
down an embankment. The accident
was caused by spreading rails.
MARTIN THORN was convicted at New
York of numbering William Gulden-
suppe. his predecessor in the affections
of Mrs. Augusta Mack.
NOVELTIES IN THE STORES.