The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-04-21

the 10th. Gov. Leedy, of Kansas, adj
dressed the meeting and said that the
people of his state were in need of re-
duced freight rates and that, IL they
could not get them, they proposed 10
build O state road from Kansas to the
gulf.
CAPT. DANIEL HAYNES. formerly
claim agent of the st. Louis South
western railway, was convicted at Pine
Bluffs, Ark, of embezzling $4,000 of
the company's money.
WILLIAM HARRISON, an employee in
the coal mines, near Harrison, KY, at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
himself through the breast with a
pistol, after trying to kill his wife and
her father-in-law, who escaped and hid
themselves. He was jealous of his
wife.
Four boat riders went over the dam
at Ottumwa, Ia, the other night.
Lizzie Fird, 10 years old, was drowned.
The man rowing lost control of the
boat
By the explosion of an imperfect
blast in the Monarch mine near Mad
isonville, KY, two men, named Robert
Charlton and Theodore Stone, lost
their lives
JOHN RANDALL, a tramp, was run
down on the c., Il. & @. tracks at Rock
Island, ILL.,, and had both legs cut off.
He died from the injuries at the hos
pital.
CASHIER STICKNEY, of the Great Falls
national bank at Somersworth, n. H.,
was brutally murdered by two despera-
does, who robbed the bank and escaped
with nearly all the cash.
THE recent report of the viceroy OF
India on the famine situation showed
that . $50, 900 persons were employed
on the relief works, against 3,l41, 1923
persons so employed month previous.
The condition of the people in the af-
fected districts was pronounced to be
from fair to good.
THE |. o. o. +. grand lodge of the In
dian territory, recently in session at
Muskogee, elected /. X. Mason, of Ard
more, grand master and c. w. Hatfield,
of Wagner, grand secretary.
The st. Louis Dairy Co. was found
guilty in the United States district
court at ST. Louis of having imported
contract labor and will have to pay
81 900, the penalty provided by law.
The complaint in the case charged that
on May IS, 1892, the defendant COM
pany contracted with one Edward Z.
Nulls, then resident of Worcester,
Eng, to come to st. Louis and engage
in it's service as dairyman, and that
the sum of 500 was advanced Nulls to
enable him to pay for his passage.
SYLVESTER SANDERS, a colored tenant
farmer near Helena, Ark, left with his
wife and five children in a boat for
high ground as the flood threatened
his house, and took along bull. The
animal, being famished, tried to eat
some leaves of trees, as the boat was
being propelled and overturned it and
the entire family was drowned.
AT Omaha, Neb., on the 18th piling,
bags of sand, stone, etc, were being
fed to the Missouri river in an effort to
restrain the stream from resuming the
channel it abandoned 20 years ago.
East Omaha and North Omaha were
flooded and the residents had to flee,
leaving their possessions behind.
LoTTIE +. BATES, aged II years, was
found tied in a chair in her home at
Boston with bullet in her heart.
Her clothing had been saturated with
kerosene and set on fire. Two tramps
were arrested for the crime.
MANY points in east Texas recently
reported that hundreds of horses and
mules had been killed by the swarms
of buffalo gnats, caused by the floods,
and it was feared that cows and hogs
would be attacked next by the pests.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, experienced an
exciting time on the night of the 14th,
no less than ten alarms of fire being
turned in within short intervals of
each other The biggest fire was on
Walnut street opposite the fire depart
ment, entailing loss of $75, 900. Love
joys planning mill was also burned.
All the other fires were only small
ones, the total losses amounting to
SIG $50 Some of the fires were I'M
doubtedly incendiary.
Two extra fast freight trains on the
Southern Pacific railway collided near
Langtry, Tex, on the 18th. The fire
man was killed and one or two others
injured.
A DOUBLE hanging occurred at Jer-
sey City, n. j., on the 18th. John
Macllin, Jr., was hanged at 1O:OS a, IN.
for killing his wife and her mother
and Paul GEM was hanged at 11;10 a.
m for numbering Clara Arnim because
she refused to marry him.
A HORRIBLE tragedy was enacted ON
the 14th at the home of Edward Rey-
nolds in Oakland, K. |. Mrs Reynolds,
her husband and adopted daughter
Servilla, were brutally murdered and
the house set on fire, presumably by
Martin Mowery, the hired man, who
is undoubtedly a raving maniac, and
was afterwards found hiding in barn
near Oakland and n1aced under arrast