The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-01-20

IN Stapieton, Ia, Wnere ne was i1yfne
with another mans wife, and cowhided
him till he begged for mercy and Their
marched him out of town.
ONE man was killed and two injured,
one fatally, by a tail-end collision be
tween two sections of southbound
freight train at Sinking Creek water
tank in Kentucky. The second section
crashed into the first section while II
was taking water at the tank.
THE civil service commission has ID
sued revised schedule of examinations
and instructions to applicants for the
FIRST six months of the year 1891 The
commission cautions all applicants to
file their applications considerable
time IN advance of the examinations in
order to prevent delays.
CRATHER & HAvERmIL's heavy dry
goods warehouses at Montreal, Can,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 900;
insurance, $500, 900.
J. L. McCLEARY met death in horri-
BILE manner at Corning, o., recently.
He was engaged in shooting well
and several quarts of nitroglycerin
which were in a wagon exploded and
tore his body into shreds. The wagon
was wrecked and the horses killed. A
sudden jar caused the explosion.
JIM HALL and Steve O'Donnell have
been matched to box 30 rounds before
the Greater New York Athletic club,
February 1.
WILLIAM NJ. Roe was legally hanged
at Napa, Cal, on the 18th for the muir
der of a woman.
THE boys wing of Buckner's orphans
home, near Dallas, Tex, was destroyed
by fire on the night of the 18th and five
boys persisted in the flames, three of
them being the matron's sons.
FIVE persons were seriously injured
and about 80 others were more or less
cut and bruised on the 18th by street
car in Pittsburgh, Pa, running away
down a steep grade and dashing into
telegraph pole.
ECGENE BERoNsoN and wife entered
police headquarters at Detroit, Mich,
on the 14th and confessed that Boron
son had in 1894 embezzled $1,000 from
the Akron & Canton Stone Co., whose
Chicago manager he then was. The
woman tainted during her husbands
recital.
WILLIAM FERGUSON and James Nc
Kenna were found dead in a room of
New York hotel on the 14th, having
been asphyxiated by Eliminating gas.
INTERNAL revenue officers captured
complete underground distilling plant
on the 14th at Jewish settlement in
Cumberland county, n. j. Two moon
sinners were arrested and the whisky
confiscated.
THE official returns showed that up
to the evening of the 18th there were
1894 cases of the bubonic plague in
Bombay and 1855 deaths from the dis
ease. Many corpses have been found in
the streets and there was often diff
Guilty in burying the dead, through
want of help.
The Tom Boy gold mine of San
Miguel county, Col, has passed into
the hands of the Rothschild syndicate
1t is recognized as one of the richest
gold mines in the United States.
A PARTY of masked men went to the
home of a merchant near Macon. Ga,
and demanded his money. lie at
would-be robbers fired at him and
killed his wife.
TIE president of the Trades and La
Dor union at st. Louis recently esti-
mated that fully 10000 men were out
of work in that city.
A PITTSBURGH, Pa, dispatch stated
that the strike of the coal miners on
the Wheeling lewiston of the b. & o.
railroad had ended, the men agreeing
to accept the 54-cent rate offered.
THE magazine of the Pennsylvania
Torpedo Co. near Shamokin, Pa, wAs
blown up on the 18th and completely
demolished. Two men and two women
were torn to pieces, one OF the men be-
ing the superintendent. The build.
ings in the immediate vicinity were
badly shattered.
AT Rose Hill, near Texarkana, Ark,
John McCabe was murdered in his store
by robbers and the store then set on
fire, hut the fire was discovered and |
put out.
kid" LAvIGNE, the lightweight
champion of the world, bested Owen
Zeigler in the sixth round at Philadel-
phia on the 18th.
Four men were blown to pieces at |
Ward. small mining camp 20 miles
from Boulder, Col. They had been |
drilling some holes and were proceed
ing to fill them with giant powder |
when the explosion happened. 1t was
thought they must have dropped the |
box containing the powder. 1t was
to join the remains of the |
victims, as they were in shreds and I'M
recognizable.
SPIDER" ED GARRETY, of New York,
knocked out Tom White, of Houston,
Tex, in four ROUNDS at the Houston
Athletic club. The fight had been
booked for six rounds "Spider"
weighed in at lis and White at $50