The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.


ager of the Patterson opera house at
New York, became i'll and was forced
to go to his home on the banks of the
Passaic river, and by his opportune
arrival he saved his three daughters
from drowning. The girls had gone
out for row on the river and the boat
had upset.
| TWENTY detectives who are well ac-
quainted with the anarchists of BARGE
lena and other places, are watching
| over and protecting the queen regent
learned that the anarchists of London
have resolved to assassinatc her ma jes-
~ to avenge the execution of the muir
dercr of Premier Canovas.
TIE United States fish commission
will soon distribute car load of
youngsters from the Illinois fish sta
ton at Quincy to various points in
Kansas. When this has been attended
TO "A supply will be taken from the sta
waters in Missouri. Each station will
be drawn upon for upwards of 100, 900
fishes, consisting of rainbow trout,
rock bass, black bass and croppic.
At Nashville, Tenn, Carl French, of
indianapolis, Ind, and Miss Helen
Hunter, of Nashville, leapcd from a
precipice at Sunset park, falling 100
feet to instant death. They were low
crs and Miss Hunters parents objected
to their marriage.
TIE &. A. r. encam pment at Buffalo,
y. V, settled down to business on the
eth by finishing up the election of
officers and hearing reports of commit
tees. \ service pension was recon-
mended to all veterans wno had
reached the age of 81 years. The com
mittce on textbooks urged an improve
mcnt in those that relate to the war of
the rebellion and denounced the his
tories used in southern schools. The
encampment of 1897 then adjourned.
AT sale of Poland China hogs at
Springfield, ILL.,, on the 21th boar
named Klever's Model sold for SIS, 100.
HIGHT q MCCoY's elevator at Dalton
City, H., collapsed from overlooking
and about 80, 900 bushels of grain were
scattered. The loss was very large.
TIE power house of the Federal Coal
Co., at Federal, Pa. was destroyed by
fire shortly afIer midnight of the 24th
1t was thought to have been incendi-
airy, as the operator had made himself
unpopular since the miners strike by
threatening to import colored men and
start his mines.
PRESIDENT GoMPERs, of the A. +. of
/ m in 70 h in fn
the Goth, gave it as his opinion that
the coal miners strike would be ter
minated by the end of September and
that the settlement would be in favor
of the strikers.
JOHN +. jacobson, aged 81, was
found murdered on his beat at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the night of the Goth. lie
had arrested couple of burglars in a
carpenter shop and was taking them
to the station, when one of them shot
him. The two burglars escaped.
In connection with the coming
French exposition Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson hopes to develops plan
by which the breeding of horses for
use in the cavalry of European armies
will be encouraged in America, the de-
mand for horses for army use being
very great in Europe.
THE Ladies of the G. A. R., at their
meeting at Buffalo, N. Y, ON the Goth
elected Mrs. Flora Davy, of Duluth,
Mimi, national president. Mrs. NJ. D..
Cummings. of Kingfsher, Ok, was
made chaplain. The members decided
against consolidation with the Wom-
ans Relief corps.
JERRY BROWN, a negro, was legally
hanged for an assault on a woman at
Fayetteville, w. Va, on the Gath. The
governor ordered company of militia
to be present, as 400 negroes were en-
| camped in the woods with the avowed
purpose of preventing the execution.
AT the G. A. r. national encamp-
ment at Buffalo, n. Y, on the cath the
features of the day were the arrival OF
President Mckinley, accompanied by
Secretary Alger and Gov. Black, the
banquet to the president in the even
ing and the parade of the naval veter.
ans and ex-prisoners of war. The Ma.
tional Association of Army Nurses and
the Ladies of the Il. A. r. also held
meetings.
THERE win be novel department in
the new congressional library at Wash
ington when it is completed. 1t will
be a section solely for the blind, and
will have nothing in it but books with
raised letters.
THE wheat crop of Nebraska has
been threshed. The quality is splen.
did and the yield is unprecedented. be-
ing 45,o00,o0o bushels 1t averaged 90
bushels TO the acre. aud there were in
round numbers a.s5o, 600 acres produced
in the state.
A FIRE at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Goth caused the loss of sl65, 600 worth
of property, the death of two firemen
BY falling walls and created panic in
the Seventh Avenue hotel while the
guests We're at supper. Two boys were
also supposed to be buried beneath the
fallen wallis. The fire started in a
furniture factory in the rear Of the
hotel