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

htk COiOfeu, were burned 10 uedtn.
THREE negroes, who had been ar.
rested for a double murder for the pur.
pose of robbery. were taken from the
sheriff at Tallahassee, Fla. on the 18th
and strung mp to trees by mob and
their bodies riddled with bullets.
THE large Touring mill of Bamble &
McKinnett,, at Lafontaine. Ind, was
burned recently and n carload of -four,
5000 bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels of
corn and 200 bushels of chop werc de-
stroyed.
DAVE PENNINGTON, at Odebolt, la.
started out to kill number of persons
who had incurred his enmity. He
killed Luther Traver and dangerously
shot Mrs johnson and Mrs. Stolt and
after daring policeman who had cor
nered him to shoot he committed sui
eide by blowing the top of his head off.
THOMAS J. SHARKEY issued a def at
San Francisco on the 10th. The sailor
pugilist claimed that he was the
champion of the world and he intended
to hold the championship until his
colors were lowered. lie said he had
deposited forfeit for bet of $4,000
and would fight Fitzsinmons, Maher,
Goddard or any one else. Sharkey said
that he had whipped Corbett and had
got the decision over Fitzsimmons and
nobody had any better right to the
worlds championship than he had.
JESSE GARRETT, the wealthiest young
man at Dycusburg, KY, shot himself
in the abdomen with small revolver
because his sweetheart refused to kiss
him good night. He was reported
dying and the girl was Frustrated.
A SEVERE windstorm struck Jackson,
Miss, on the 10th. Heavy trees were
uprooted, outbuildings destroyed and
much other damage done.
THE flood situation on the 10th in
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota was
reported as being very threatening.
Many cities were submerged and an
immense number of bridges had been
washed away, all the streams being
out of their banks.
TELEGRAMs from all points in the
northwest on the 18th indicated that
all the rivers had turned to raging tor
rents. In South Dakota along the
Missouri and other rivers the settlers
were fleeing. An Omaha, Neb., dis
patch said that the Platte river was
rushing into the Missouri, carrying
with it the debris of wrecked bridges
and farm yards in it's valley. From
Iowa came stories of ice gorges on the
Des Moines river at Fort Dodge and
Madrid, flooding miles of the bottoms
and doing great damage.
NEAR Marion, Ark, Eta Liz and her
four children were trying to make
their way to Marion for shelter, and
while attempting to cross a railroad
trestle the strong current caused by
the great flood overwhelmed the party
and all persisted. The oldest child was
a girl aged 10 and the youngest an in
FAINT of eight months.
A COLLISION between two engines on
the Denver & Gulf took place at Den
ver Col, on the 18th. One of them
was completely wrecked. The collision
caused an escape of steam and two
men, Hugh Mcbride and Patrick Casey.
were caught in the escaping steam and
found literally parboiled when their
dead bodies were taken out few min
utes later.
HEART disease caused the death of
John Parshall, of indianapolis, Ind,
on the 18th. He was one of the six
men deputed and sworn to dispose of
the remains of John Wilkes Booth, the
murderer of Abraham Lincoln, in such
a manner that the secret of their rest
ing place should never be known.
FIVE more tollgates were destroyed
in Garrard county, Ky, on the night
of the 10th by mob of masked riders.
AN explosion of natural gas blew
out the front of a house at Muncie,
Ind, and Mrs. Null had her lower
limbs burned to a crisp. She pleaded
with the firemen to kill her.
A MOB got hold of another negro
who was implicated in the murder of
Postmaster Barfield and his clerk at
Juliette, Fla, and it was said they had
drowned him. Three other negroes
had been hanged by the mob for the
same crime few days before.
BARBARY NEWMAN was burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
home of her uncle, William Spier, at
Chicago. Several others sustained in
juries by jumping or being burned.
REPORTS from Wyoming stated that
the recent cold weather had been very
disastrous to stock and that wolves
were very troublesome and killed even
full-grown steers. Reports from Mon
tana also stated that stock were hav-
ing hard time and heavy losses to
cattlemen were certain.
DETECTIVES killed Walter Hughes as
he was in the act of entering the house
of Frank Dunn, wealthy resident of
Houston, Tex. The police received in
formation that scheme was on foot to
kidnap Dunn's little daughter, keep
the little girl in captivity and then de-
mand $4,000 for restoring her to her
parents.