The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

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sions from being given to widows of
soldiers of the last war who married
the soldiers in the future.
MICHEL ANGIoLIILo, the anarchist
who shot and killed Premier Canovas
del Castillo at the baths of Santa Ague-
da, Spain, August 8, was put to death
by the garrote on the goth.
THE body of q man on whose coat
was tag on which was the name "E.
w. Kirton, Wisner, Neb.," has been
found near the summit of Pixies peak,
Col, with a bullet hole in the back of
his head. All his valuables were gone
and il was thought he was murdered
for his money.
| A CALL has been issued by the ma
tional executive board of the United
Mine Workers for a conference of the
representatives of organized labor to
meet in St Louis on August 80. At
\ the meeting all labor organizations will
be asked to join issues with the miners
and stop work, so as to effectively cut
off TIE supply of coal and bring the
mining strike to a crisis.
THE coal operators, at meeting
held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the Goth,
| issued statement to the public in
which they accused President Ratch-
ford, of the miners union, of trying
to dodge the issue and of being insin-
cere in his efforts to settle the miners
strike.
A TERRIBLE collision occurred at
Lima, o., on the Goth between heav-
ily-loaded excursion train and a
freight, badly injuring q large num-
Der of passengers.
A CARRIAGE containing II. C. Claugh-
ton, well known attorney of Wash
ington. and Miss Villa Curtis, was run
down by train on the Il. & p. rail
road, a short distance from Washing
ton, and both the occupants were in
jured so badly that they soon died.
An unknown tramp entered the
house of Mrs Pauline Fenske, wife of a
German farmer in Schiller park, sub
urb of Chicago. and seeing only her
and the children round, struck her
over the head with revolver and at
tempted to assault her. The children
ran screaming out of the house and
gave an alarm and a posse, with Mr.
Fenske, chased the rascal through
cornfelds and woods, both sides ex-
changing shots. Finally the man fell
and his pursuers then literally riddled
him with bullets.
DR.. J. NJ. BLEYER, a New York ply
stefan, announced that he had discov-
cred a new cure for consumption by
electricity.
A New YORK telegram said Steinway
& Sons, piano manufacturers, had sold
their business to an English syndicate
for $1,000, 600.
THE coal operators of the Pittsburgh,
Pa, district formed an organization on
the 10Th for the special purpose OF
breaking up the strike of the miners.
, They proposed to operate their mines
even if they had to employ force to do it.
ALBERT VOTERS, under sentence to be
: hanged at Fayetteville, w. Va, on the
GATH broke Jail just before daylight
on the 9th. A posse went after him.
AT the second days session of the
American bankers convention at De-
troit Mich, the principal address was
made by Comptroller of the Currency
, Eckels. He declared that in the end
we would be possessed of banking
and currency system so strong as to
make impregnable the country's credit,
but its coming might be attained az a
terrible loss to capital and injury to
labor.
POLICE raided the pool rooms at ST.
Louis on the 18th and arrested about
200 men and boys.
THE report of the United States
commissioner of education for the year
ended July /, 1896, has just been com
pleted. 1t shows total enrolment in
that year in the schools and colleges,
both public and private, of Is, 1897, 1917
pupils The number in public institu-
tions was IA, 465, 81 and in private in
situations 1881, S26 In addition to
these there were AS, 900 pupils in va
rious special schools, making the
grand total enrolment for the whole
country 16,415, 1877.
In the Indian creek oil region near
Parkersburg, w. Va, boiler exploded
and killed five men and wounded six
others.
NEAR Barton, Ark, negro made
an assault on colored woman, and
afterwards on a colored girl. AS soon
as the news was known a posse got
after him, overlook him and, on his re-
fusal to surrender, another negro shot
and killed him The negro who did
the shooting surrendered to magis-
, trate. was examined and acquitted.
THE Italians recently celebrated st.
r Rocco's day at Newark, n. j., with d
l pyrotechnic display. The next day
e Pasquale Parmiere, aged three years,
D while playing in the street, picked up
t a bomb and began biting it, when it
exploded and the little fellows head
: was blown to pieces
THE department OF agriculture,
: through its bureau of animal industry,
: has prepared vaccine for the cattle
disease known as "blackleg" and has
| issued a circular containing directions
| for using it.
, On account of the low price of silver
many operators will stop mining for
I silver in Colorado and will turn their
r attention to the working of gold-bear-
| ing lodeS.
The Utica mine at Angels camp, the
largest gold-producing property in
California, was on fire on the 18th, sup
posed to be from spontaneous combus'
. ton. 1t produced 100000 worth OF
gold a month.
THE excitement over the Klondike
gold discoveries, which for time
, ragged at Memphis, Tenn, has been al
together eclipsed and superseded there
abouts by the remarkable finds OF
pearls in apparently inexhaustible
, numbers in the lakes and bayous OF
western Arkansas. The extent OF
these pearl deposits cannot be esti-
mated.
REV. III. Ii. BURGERINE, aged 60, a
highly-respected Methodist minister OF
} Hulings, w. Va, was stoned to death
because he was unable to pay bill
due to Coleman Pitzer, a day laborer,
Pitzer and his brother Lewis were
Jailed, charged with the crime.
WITH THE STAGE FOLKS.