The leader., 1897-12-29

woman has never left Norway.
A BOAT containing nine stevedores,
while proceeding to q steamer in the
Thames near London, was capsized
and all the men were drowned
THE Chestnut Street national bank
and the Chestnut Street Trust & Saw
ings Fund company at Philadelphia
suspended on the esd. The state treas
urer had s225, 900 on deposit in the bank.
Mrs. BARNEY PICKERT, an aged widow,
was found dead in a hay loft at Lima,
o., a few days ago. The premises were
searched by the administrator and over
$1,000 in bank notes and silver was
found and $1,000 in personal notes.
The sum of $4,000 was found sewed in
an old bonnet She had lived in pow
erty, and the find was a great surprise.
IMMEDIATELY after the holidays dele
cations in congress from several states
will get together for the purpose of
organizing, if possible, for the passage
of an omnibus public building bill.
There is an urgent demand for public
buildings in many cities and towns
and bills for their construction are
now pending TO the amount of no less
than $50, 600, 600.
SIXTEEN persons were killed by an ex-
plosion of firedamp in the Kaiserstuhl
pit at Dartmund, Prussia, the other
day.
THE possibility that Letter and
Armour will pool their interests to
corner May wheat was stirring traders
on the Chicago change on the Esd.
The Post said that George French,
operating for the Letter crowd, had
piled up at least 1000, 900 bushels of
| Nav wheat and it was we'll known
that Armour had a pyramid of May
wheat bought which was supposed to
come close to the Letter holding. AL
ready that option is regarded as being
dangerous for the public to handle.
THREE boilers at shaft No of the
Choctaw Coal Mining company, at
Gowan, |. T., blew up and a negro
fireman was fatally scalded.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD child of Albert
Wittenmeyer, of Emison, Ind, fell
into tub of boiling water completely
cooking the flesh from the bones.
SECRETARY ALGER intends to send
number of relief expeditions to the
L AC III ~
one will start about February !. Snow
locomotives will be used to beat trail
and 600 reindeer will be purchased to
haul the supplies.
NOTICES have been posted at the
China, Pembroke and Webster cotton
mills at Suncock, N. H., announcing
reduction of about ten per cent Janu
airy /. The cut will affect nearly 800
operatives. 1t is probable that the cut
will be accepted.
| A PRAIRIE fire was reported on the
Goth as raging in Edwards county,
Tex. 1t had burned a strip from the
Nueces river to point few miles
northwest of Rock Springs, about %
to so miles wide.
A MILK trust has been formed in New
York with S15,O00,00 capital. Three
| hundred creameries and 200 retail com
panies and dealers who deliver milk to
consumers will be consolidated in one
| great company.
THE post Office at Chandler, Ok, was
looted by two masked robbers early on
the 22d, the postmaster being covered
with Winchesters and made to open
his safe. Everything of value was
| taken.
THE American Missionary associa-
ton mnde public at New York on the
Goth its 5lst annual report. 1t showed
that hundreds of students had been
turned away from its schools for want
of funds. The receipts from the differ
ent sources for the year We're $4O1,-
| 37l.OS.
THE A. f. of L., at its meeting at
Nashville, Tenn, on the Goth, adopted
resolutions favoring the establishment
Of postal savings banks and denounc-
ing Secretary Cages currency bill. |
The convention decided to increase
the per capita tax to two cents, to go
into effect February l next.
THE post office at Alton, l. T., was
entered by burglars early on the morn
ing of the 21st and about $3.50 in mon
ey and other valuables taken.
MINISTERS in Lincoln, Neb. have be-
gun a crusade against Christian Sci
entists. The crusade takes the form
of castigation from the pulpit, togeth-
err with social ostracism.
THE Indian agents have been warned
by the interior department of the pro-
| pOScu movement W tHlcr Iuc JANUS Vi
the Wichita, kiowa and Apache and
| Comanche Indian reservations in Okla
homa and have been directed to call
on the military to prevent the forcible
occupation of the lands.
A FREIGHT train of 81 cars, travelling
down the mountain near Altoona, Pa,
became manageable, owing to the
slippery tracks, and crashed into
freight train standing at the station.
About so cars were completely broken
up and a passenger train was also
thrown over on its side. Several train
men were seriously hurt.
AN open switch on the Chicago &
Alton road was the cause of a collision
between the st. Louis limited passen-
ger and freight train on the side
track at Pontiac, III. Several persons
were seriously injured. The two en-
gines and two freight cars were total
wrecks.
WHILE plotting heavy freight train
up the Merchants bridge incline at st.
Louis, an engine jumped the track and
| plunged to the ground below. Fire.
man Pensinger was instantly killed;
Engineer Mccullough was dashed head
first through the cab window and bad
| ly injured, and w. H. Cobb, yard
agent, had several ribs broken.
"MOTHER HUMPHREY" the aged wife
of White Bear, once a chief of the Win
nebago Indians, was recently found
frozen to death in hut made of gunny
sacks and rags on the Missouri river at
Sioux City, la.
THE Auditorium theater and hotel
at Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by
fire early on the morning of the 21st
So far as known all the guests escaped
without serious injury. The loss ON
the building was placed at 100000.
THE recent sleet storm in Texas has
been disastrous to cattle in the west
and northwest portions of the state
and the death rate, it was reported,
will be unprecedented.