The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-04-28


Brsunschweig, who afterward put the
revolver to his own temple and killed
himself. Raap had got warrant out
for Braunschweig for being short In
his accounts
THE paper mills at Ellsworth, Ind,
were totally destroyed by Are, entail
ing a loss of SIS, 900.
Mrs. PAGAN BoURLAND shot aud
killed Maud Allen at Fort Smith, Ark.
because she had alienated the affec-
lions of Mr.. Rourland.
AT a special meeting of the national
executive committee of the Western
Window Glass Co. and the Pittsburgh
Window Glass Co. at Chicago an ad.
vance of five per cent was declared on
all window glass in all parts of the
country, TO take effect May 3.
AT an amateur bull fight Mt Leon,
Mex, two of the ring men were gored
to death. One of the bulls also broke
over the barricade and played havoc
with the audience, several persons be-
ing wounded.
JOHN NOBLE was crushed to death by
the accidental falling of a safe in East
st. Louis, ILL.,, and Patrick Butler re-
ceived fatal injuries.
WHILE Milton bradbury, living near
CARRIER, Ok, was fighting a prairie fire
on his farm his five-year-old son was
caught in it and was burned to death.
THE Dawes commission reached an
agreement with the Choctaw and
Chiclxasaw Indian commissioners at
Atoka, l. T., on the Esd for division
of their lands.
THE immigration commissioner is in
vestigating a report that japanese are
coming into the United States under
contract, many arriving at San Fran
cisco from Hawaii and British Column
bia to work in California orchards and
fields.
FRANK KLoss was hanged at St.
Quentin, Cal, on the 23d for the muir
der of William Deadly.
THE New York assembly passed the
bill to prevent the wearing of high
hats at theaters.
FIRE broke out on the 22d in the
town of Pottersvillc, near Homestead,
Pa, and SO houses were burned. Pot
tersville Is within the Carnegie yards
and consisted of about 400 frame dwell
ings, which were built at the time of
the strike in 1892. The place is the
home of about 800 or 400 families, and
has a population of about 1000. No
household effects were saved by the
residents
EDITOR HINTON, of the Abba Qa.) De-
fender, was fatally assaulted by John
Jamison, a coal miner, who had taken
offense at an item in Hinton's paper.
A MEMORIAL was on the 22d presented
to the president by the executive coun-
ell of the Federation of Labor. 1t re-
cites the lack of employment, stagnant
trade, and asks for the enactment of
remedial legislation. Amendments to
the eigh.-hour law, restricted immi-
grafton, reform in the national bank
ing system and the issuance of the cur
rency, and liberal appropriations for
public works and the improvement of
rivers and harbors are asked for.
TIE international convention of the
Young Mems Christian association met
at Mobile, Ala, 700 delegates from all
parts of the United States and Canada
being present.
The odd was the eighth anniversary
of the opening of original Oklahoma to
settlement and the day was celebrated
as general holiday all over the terri
tory.
PAPERS were read by recognized cx-
ponents of FroebePs system at the
meeting of the international Kinder
garten union at st. Louis on the Goth.
The morning session on the 21st was
devoted to business and the 1t5th an
niversary of Froebers birth was cele-
brated at the evening session.
r. j. CARSON, of Montezuma, Col. !,
went to New Orleans to recover his
son, who mysteriously disappeared
from Durango in 1885, and was thought
by most people to have been drowned
The boy, it turned out, was kidnapped,
and information as to his wherea bouts
was received through a Catholic priest,
to whom the woman who was instru-
mental in stealing the child made a
deathbed confession.
WORD was sent to Natchez, Miss, on
the Goth from Bayou Videl, asking that
boats be dispatched there at once, as
many people were drowning, the water
from the BlgPS crcVaSSe having caught
the people unawares.
SECRETARY WILSON proposes to make
the department of agriculture sort of
clearing house for the publication of
important state reports. When a real
ly valuable result is achieved by an ex-
perime mt station he intends to publish
an account of the process and send it
out to farmers all over the country.
A WORLDS record in swimming was
made the other night at the Lurline
baths in San Francisco. III. T. Brewer
the Lurline Swimming clubs crack
middle distance swimmer, swan 44O
yards in the official time of 6:2i9. Ca
villa, the Australian champion swim
m or, has hitherto held the record, his
time being G:26.