The leader., 1897-09-08

| within a few feet of the gallows-
CLARENCE RErTH, the 15-year-old son
of Edward b. Reith, cashier of the
| Adam Roth Grocery Co. at st. Louis,
fell from the third floor of the build
| ing down the elevator shaft and was
instantly killed.
SECRETARY BLISS is taking great in
terest in the forestry problem, and is
watching the developments in the sys-
tenn of employing agents with assigned
districts for the complete supervision
of the segregated tracts. The results
so far attained are regarded with sat
isfaction.
JOHN d. ROCKEFELLER has sent to the
American Baptist Missionary union
and the American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary society, at Boston, his check for
the balance of the $3.50, 900 promised
by him on condition that the two so
cieties would raise S236,O0
On the Sd the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers
agreed to recommend to the striking
miners proposition from the Pitts
burgh operators for a straight price of
IS cents a ton, to continue in force
until the end of the year, and a circu-
lar has been issued to that effect, call
ing for a delegate convention of all
miners who have suspended work to
meet at Columbus, o., September 8.
This proposition. it was thought, will
end the coal strike.
A CALL for a convention of all labor
organizations has been issued to meet
at Chicago on September 81. This was
made in pursuance of the action of the
recent labor conference at st. Louis.
AN explosion of coal dust in the Sun
shine mine near Glenwood, Col, caused
the death of at least IL men, their
bodies being recovered in a horribly
mangled condition.
HERMAN MACK. who is charged at
New York with the murder of William
Guldensuppe, has made statement in
which he SAYS that his wife has been
making living for years through IL
legal operations involving the murder
OF children. He said that she was a
so-called midwife, but that she never
had a diploma.
THE last Minnesota legislature
passed law allowing taxpayers until
the middle of next year to pay their
taxes for the current year, and as re-
suit there is such stringency at Duluth
that one-third of the police force has
been dismissed, park and other i'm
provements are stopped five fire en-
CINE houses will be boarded up and
those municipal employees who retain
their places will be paid in orders for
many pay days.
THE principal point brought out Il,
the trial on the I'd of Luetgert, the
Chicago sausage-maker accused of
making away with his wife in one of
, his watts, was his indifference at her
disappearance and his not having re-
ported anything to the police or as
sisted them in any way in clearing up
the mystery.
FRANK HALL, a brakeman, was killed
at st. Louis by being crushed between
two cars.
TIE surface of the Mississinewa
river at Somerset, Ind, was reported
to be covered with dead fish, the
stencil from which was almost unen-
durable. The mortality among the
fish was supposed to be due to paper
mill refuse dumped into the stream
above.
DIEHI.E & LORDS wholesale beer,
cider and soda works at Nashville.
Tenn, were almost totally destroyed
by fire the other night. An explosion
of several soda founts carbonic acid
and gas drums occurred, injuring
several persons. The loss was about
$40, 900.
THE cash and cashier of the state
Z g lid n,.tA oil
missing. The amount taken out was
not known. but it was thought to be
between $40, 900 and $4,000.
The dead body of negro was found
hanging to trot line in the Arkansas
river near Robrov, Ark. He had evil
IDENTIFY been lynched and thrown into
the river.
THE st. Louis conference of the Ger
man NJ. Z. church was in session at St
Louis on the 1st, Bishop John ii. Vim
cent presiding. The conference in
cludes four districts, viz: st. Louis,
Burlington, Ia, Quincy, Ill, and
Belleville, Ill.
THE family of Henry Miller, farm
er near Metropolis, H., was recently
poisoned at breakfast by rough on
rats being administered in the scram-
bled eggs. The baby died, the father
and mother were not expected to live,
and four other children and servant
girl were dangerously sick. Nora, a
daughter by former wife, was the
only one not taken sick, and she was
suspected of the crime, as she did not
get along well with her step-motheA
BAR silver made g new low record in
the New York market on the lst, the
quoted price being 81 4 cents an ounce,
making the value of the silver in the
standard silver dollar 39.62 cents.
The statement of the federal treas
ury showed a deficit of S14, SOL ,794.Ol
for the month of August. The total
receipts for the month were but SIS,
943, POS. 90; while the expenditures were
$50, 295, 900.
JAMES BoGGs and James Ray were
hunting near Nandalia, ILL.,, recently
and Boggs laid down in a clump OF
weeds and was brushing away mosqzi.
toes when Ray mistook him ffor tur-
key and fired, infiicting a probably
fatal wound.
THE negroes of Elwood, Ind, have
been warned to leave the place and Sc.
rious trouble was feared if the warn
ing was not needed.
LIGHTNING struck Mrs. Guthrie, OF
Walnut Grove, Ga, while she had one
of her children in her arms, killing
her instantly and badly burning the
child.
JACOB PENNER and Cornelius Rich
arts have been jailed at Cloud Chief,
Ok, on a charge of arson, having, it is
alleged, burned out settlers whose
claims they were contesting.
THREE of the most notorious crimi.
mails in the west managed to escape
from the st. Louis Jail ON the evening
of the 30th. They were ''Skippy'
Rowan, charged with murder; Buck"
O'Maly, horse and buggy thief, and
sport" Hefferman, daylight crook.