The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-29
ONE man was fatally burned and six

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as have been taken off and the day
service largely curtailed on account o.
the yellow fever scare. Travel ovel
the state was said to be almost para
lyzed.
A REPORT was brought to Port Town
send, Wash, by the tug Pioneer that &
landslide struck the northern part o.
! Sheep camp, Alaska, where all the pack
ers were quartered in tents and asleep
and carried it away. 1t was impossi
BILE to learn the names of the killed, n,
they were known as Jack, Jim, Dicl
and the like. The Skaguay trail wa
literally obliterated.
AN explosion of gas occurred in {
Williamson county, Ill, coal mine anc
one man was killed, three were fatally
injured and two severely burned anC
bruised. One miner was also impris
oned in the shaft and was thought x
have been instantly killed.
NEAR New Boston, Tex, fire de-
stroyed the home of jefferson Common
farmer, and burned his three small
children to death during the absence
of the rest of the family.
THE Pei-Po river in China recently
burst its banks through freshet and
100. 900 people were rendered destitute.
JosEPH NJ. HARDY and Henry e.
Blake, who kidnapped little John Con
way, were convicted at Albany, n. Y,
of the crime and sentenced each to IA
years and four months in the state
prison at Dannemora.
~ 10 a
ings of Chicago has ended, the board
adopting the report of the arbitration
committee inserting the union labor
clause in all building contracts.
THE annual entry of King Ak-Sar-
Ben into Omaha was made in the pres
ence of $1,000 people on the night of
the Esd. The parade was the most pre-
tentious yet given by the knights of
AkSar Ben. 1t contained 20 floats,
depicting scenes in the history of the
| Kingdom OF Quivera.
The sawmill boiler of E. G. Dex,
near Livermore, Ky, blew up and
! three men were killed and ten injured.
Cold water run into the boiler caused
the accident. The mill was totally
wrecked.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Balm
bridge, O., on the 23d. An entire
square-containing the principal bust
ness houses, several handsome resi-
| dences and the Methodist church--was
| destroyed. The fire started in a barn
and when it reached Beardslev's drug
store an explosion took place and the
proprietor and another man lost their
! lives.
PRESIDENT Mckinney has committed
to Imprisonment for life the death SEN
tencc imposed upon c. l.. Addington in
western Texas for murder.
TIE works of the Youngstown TO-
Bridge Co. were destroyed by fire the
other morning. Loss, 500, 900 About
200 men were thrown out Of employ
ment.
THE Clyde line steamer Oneida,
which sank in her slip at New York,
was raised on the ed and her cargo
removed.
A TORPEDO boat capsized and sank off
the Hamburg coast and eight of her
crew were drowned, including her
commander, Duke Frederick William
of Meek len burg Schwerin.
COMPLAINT has been made to the sec
rotary of agriculture, at Washington,
that infected cattle are being shipped
from Tennessee, and he has been asked
to quarantine the entire country
against that state.
Two men held up the cashier of the
Merchants, bank of Wooster, Ind,
while he was working at night over
the books, and took $3.50 in bills and
escaped.
BY the bursting of fywheel at the
Providence Or. H. Rubber Shoe Co.
two men were killed and several
others were injured.
THE executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor met at Wash
ington on the 22d to discuss the mining
situation. Several officers of miners
associations were also present, An adj
dress was issued calling on trades
unions to still contribute money to
help the miners until they were able
to take care of themselves and advis-
ing unions not to send delegates to the
Chicago meeting on the eth, as condi-
tions had changed since the call for it
was made.
NJ. d. RATCHFoRD, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, gave
out a statement at Washington con-
corning the miners strike. He said,
while miners have done the striking,
trades unions and organized bodies
have supplied the necessaries, without
which the miners could not possibly
have succeeded, and so it was victory
| e., Lob e.,
particular trade.
A TORNADO swept over Sava, Oria
and Latiano, Italy, the other day.
Forty persons were killed, - people
were wounded, 20 houses were de-
stroyed and telegraphic communities
ton with the scene was cut Off
THE Austrian steamer Ika collided
with the British steamer Tiria in the
port of Fiume, Austria, and the former
vessel was sunk and most of the pas
sengers we're drowned in full view OF
| thousands who crowded the pier in the
greatest excitement
ANDY SMITH and his wife, colored, liv-
ing in the country near Donalds, S. c.,
locked in the house six children while
they went to church. An hour later
neighbors heard frightful screams com
ing fro.l Smiths house, the interior OF
which was in flames, but it was impos-
sible to reach the children and all per-
ished. 1t is supposed an oil lamp left
| burning was overturned.
AS a result of the carelessness OF
John Morris, coal miner of Cecil, w.
Va, in leaving can OF powder at his
| house, two children were killed, one
was reported dying and fourth SC
badly injured that its recovery is i'm
possible. The children played with the
powder, then struck a match to ex-
anime it and there was an explosion.
The famous PAGERS, John r. Gentry
and Robert j., hitched together on the
I'D lowered the worlds double team
record for a mile to 200 at Philadel
phia The quarters were: :33, 1904 4
1871. 2:09. The previous record was
2:094, held by Mrs. W. Z. ID. Stokes
Miss Rite and Josie Il.