The leader., 1897-11-24
MISCELLANEOUS

dered over a contest for homestead.
FoR the brutal murder of his para
mour, Venie Bell, George Western,
alias Devil Winston, colored, was
hanged at Paducah, Ky, on the 10th.
He met his death without CULVER,
warning all people, black and white,
to beware of bad company and whisky.
\ MOST disastrous conflagration oc-
Cured in London on the 10th, 80 large
warehouses being Quilted, according to
the official report. The damage was
estimated at So, 900, 600. Nearly all
the British insurance companies were
involved in the fire and fire insurance
shares were practically unstable on
the stock exchange on the 10th.
A COMBINATION of enameled ware
plants has been formed with a capital
of So, 900, 900. +. q. Niedringhaus, of
St. Louis, will be president of the huge
concern.
THE conferences of the general Off
GERS of the national w. c. T. L. held at
Chicago have been closed. The key
note of the work for this year, it was
announced, is "statut Try prohibition
in the states
THE secret service bureau announces
the discovery of Il new counterfeit $40
silver certificate and also a counterfeit
national bank note on the First ma
tional of Joplin, Mo-, series 1882.
THE boiler in Milton Artley's wood
working factory at Carleton, Mich,
exploded TIE other morning, killing
the fireman and injuring three other
men. The explosion wrecked the fac
tory and shook every building in town.
WHILE a travelling doctor named w.
s. HumiSton was heating a mixture of
alcohol, turpentine and rosin on a
stove at Burnt Hills, n. Y, it explod-
ed and Il four-year-old daughter was
burned to death and another daughter
and Mrs. Brown received injuries
from which they cannot recover. Hum
iston was arrested.
MARTIN BARTHoLoMY and George
Roehl were fatally injured and Robert
Loren was severely beaten as the re-
suit of an attack of 20 masked men on
the night shift of six miners at the
kolb coal pit near Mascoutah, Ill
WHILE his wife lay asleep beside him
William Orth, at Burlington, Ia, shot
himself in the head. Death was in
Simultaneous. The reason assigned
for the suicide was dependency due
to inability to obtain work.
A DISPATCH from Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, on the 10th said that 60 students at
Vassar college were seriously i'll, all
having been taken sick two days pre-
viously from eating improperly cooked
veal.
HENRY CLAY JOHNSON, colored, was
hanged at st. Louis on the 18th for the
murder of William Amend, a newsbov.
whom he shot on the night of August
/, 1896 The murder was the result
of a game of craps. Amend was not
playing, but Johnson, for some un
known reason, claimed he was cheat
ing and shot him.
A PASSENGER train on the Kansas
was wrecked near Williford, Ark.
early on the morning of the 18th.
Three cars were derailed and went
over the bank into the Spring river.
j. L. Hoover, of Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
was killed and % others were injured
some seriously.
THE Anchor line steamer Buff City,
which left st. Louis for New Orleans
with 40 passengers and 1000 tons of
freight on board. was burned to the
waters edge at Chester, Ill. All the
passengers and crew escaped to land
without injury, but nothing on board
was saved. The loss will aggregate
500, 900. A number of valuable race
horses were burned on board the boat.
Two brothers, George and Homer
Brewer, aged II and 10, respectively,
were drowned while skating on Big
Stone lake, near Horton, MINI. One
broke through the ice and the other
was dragged under while trying to
save him.
PASSENGERS on the westbound Texas
& Pacific train the other night report
ed a destructive fire in the big pine
forests in Van Zandt and Wood coun-
ties, Tex Vast stretches of fine tim
Der were destroyed, as we'll as much
fencing, live stock and many dwell
ings.
A CONVENTION of horse, sheep and
swine growers and breeders of fine
stock all over the United States has
been called to meet at Denver, Col, on
January 25-27, 1898, for the purpose of
organizing a national stock growers
association and to discuss measures for
the betterment of the stock industry.
julius EGGERT shot and killed his
father, Joachim Eggert, and then shot
himself in the temple at Saginaw.
Mich. The trouble arose over trifling
matter, but the young man had a flu RI
GUS temper
ALL the officials of the state press as
sociations of Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas met in conference at Eureka
Springs, Ark, and adopted a plan to
hold a joint meeting of all three states
at that place May 25, 20 and 81.
BoYDELL's paint factory at Detroit
Mich, was Quilted by fire on the nth.
Loss, 100000 Spontaneous eombus-
ton was supposed to have caused the
fire.
1T was reported that plan is on
foot to secure 20, 900 "boomers" to set
tie in the Wichita country in the In
dian territory before January l and
compel congress to open the country
TO settlement. Men are said TO be now
out making a systematic canvass in
Oklahoma, Kansas and Arkansas for
the boomers" and the movement
promises to surpass Capt. Payne's IA
nous colony expedition into Oklahoma.
THE October postal receipts at ST.
Louis amounted to STAT, o42, being an
increase of 81. S44 over the same month
last year. Kansas city's increase over
last year for the same month was ST.
t65, being gain OF ~ per cent