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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
WHEAT pLUNolNe skywAao.
A Sensational Advance In Every Market but
Paris-Kansas Wheat at 81.


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 2i.-Another
such sensational bulge in the wheat
market as that of yesterday will bring
dollar wheat out of the possibilities
and into the actualities. No. red
sold at Kansas City yesterday Of 9s
cents; No. 2 hard at 90 cents. The mar
ket advanced five TO six cents The
primary receipts and shipments were a
significant feature of the day. Wheat
receipts ut the leading markets were
$50, 900 bushels, and shipments from
the same markets, e31, 311 bushels, or
81, 81 more bushels than were received.
Everything was sensational at ycster-
days opening except the Paris market.
Hungary's crop was reported to be the
worst in decade. 1t was said to
amount to only about 40, 900, 900 bushels,
against i45, 10000 bushels last year.
The Hungarian and Minnesota re-
ports were the bullish features
of yesterdays opening. The Liver
pool market closed with net advance
of nearly five cents. At st. Louis cash
wheat sold for 81 bushel on sample
Yesterday. The only car load sold at
that price came from Sedgwick coun-
ty, Kan. 1t was choice grade and
bought for seeding purposes. Dollar
When. cut figure in the trading a
second time on the call, when 5000
bushels of May sold at that price. 1t
was the first trade made at the price
in six years.
These figures, if true, mean that
Hungary, instead of being self-sup-
porting, will have to join the other
European countries in rivalry for
American wheat. The sixth annual
report of ii. V. Jones, commercial
editor of the Minneapolis Journal,
made after threeweeks' trip through
the wheat belt, placed the total crop
of Minnesota and the two Dakotas at
l19, 900, 900 bushels, which is 80, 600, 900
bushels less than had been claimed,
and the wheat is of very inferior
September wheat in the New York
market reached the long-tall<ed of
goal of 81 per bushel. Naturally
enough the incident created a tremen-
dous sensation on the floor of the ex-
change, and was greeted with pro-
longed cheers from half a thousand
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
ceoRo,A CONVICT CAMPS.
Special Commissioner Byrd Issues star
Ting Report on the Abuses which Pre-

speeisi Commissioner BYRD Issues star
Ting Report on the Abuses which Pre-
vail.
ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 21.-Special Com
missioner Phil c, Byrd, who was APP
pointed by Gov. Atkinson last spring
to investigate the condition of the
county misdemeanor convict camps of
the state, yesterday filed his report at
the governors office. The report
names the following abuses which
prevail:
Robbing convicts OF their time allowance for
good behavior.
Forcing convicts to work from IA to 20 hour
q day
Providing them no clothes, no shoes, no bed.
no heat in winter, no ventilation In single
rooms in summer, In which three score OF con-
victs sleep in chains.
Giving them rotten food
allowing them to die when sick for lack Of
medical attendance
Outraging the women
Beating to death old men too feeble to work.
Cheating the state.
The report gives names and dates
and places, and is the truthful account
of his trip to the camps. Twenty-Five
camps inspected contain /, 167 convicts,
of which three are white women, 1O1
are white males, IS are colored females
and 0SS are colored males
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
HiIImsn College Changes HANDS.

Hillman College, located at Clinton,
Kinds county, and one of tho oldest, If
not the oldest, female college in Missis-
sippi, will DO under new management
beginning with the opening of tho next
session on September IA. At that time
Rev. George Washington, of Waynes-
vile, n. c., who for eight years was
professor of Greek and Latin in the
Mississippi College, will take charge.
lie is an experienced educator, and will
be assisted by his wife, who is the
daughter Of the late Prof. Menger. She
is a graduate of the institution, and for
The college was organized forty-fve
wears ago.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned BY Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


DAVID G. SWAIN, retired Judge advo-
cate-general of the United States army,
died in Washington on the 18th of
Brights disease, aged 6s.
THE American Bankers association
convened at Detroit, Mich, on the
nth. Gov. Pingree made a brief speech
and suggested that to increase the
worlds coined gold tax might be put
on manufactured gold in the shape OF
jewelry, etc. President Lowry after
wards gave his annual address.
THE civil service commission is over.
whelmed with papers of examinations
for government offices. Over IA, zoo
papers are now ON file pending action,
covering all kinds of examinations.
In addition to these examinations
have just been held in IS of the largest
post offices in the country which are
expected to increase the numbSs =.
cases by no less than 5000.
A CRISIS was reported on the 18th in,
the government affairs of Portugal
and it was thought that Dom Carlos,
the king, would be obliged to abdicate
and leave the country.
THE republicans of Iowa nominated
l.. M. Shaw. of Crawford county, for
governor at the state convention at
Cedar Rapids on the 18th. j. c. MILL
man, of Harrison county, was selected
for acknowledgements Judge Water
man, of Sioux county, for supreme
judge; c. l.. Davidson, of Sioux county,
for railroad comptroller, and III. III.
Barrett for superintendent of instruc-
ton.
Ii was stated at Washington that
one of the first bills to be laid before
congress at the regular session will be
one to improve the present government
of Alaska.
OFFICIALS of the treasury depart
ment believe that, despite the enor-
nous importations of all kinds of
goods just previous to the enacting of
the Dingley tariff law, the measure
will result in a comfortable surplus
the first year.
The middle-of-the-road populists
held state convention Mt Des Moines
Ia, on the 10th and nominated a com
plete state ticket, headed by Charlie:
A. Lloyd, of Muscatine, for governor.
REV. PERRY HOPKINS, q, bishop in the
A. NJ. f. church, died in New York OF
the Goth, aged IS. lie was a slave be
fore the war, but purch ased his free
dom.
| JAMES JEFFREYs, of Camden, Tenn.
and Ross Gutfin, of Kansas City, Mo.
have been appointed commissioners t.
allot lands in severalty to the Indians
of the Uncompaghre reservation il
Utah.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN will run as an in
dependent candidate foc mayor of Bos
ton in the fall, with the avowed inten
ton, if not elected, of defeating Mayo
Josiah Quincy, who will be the regula
democratic candidate for reelection.
THE State Farmers alliance of Texa:
which was in session at Dallas fo
three days, seeded from the nationa
organization by an overwhelming ms
iority. The State alliance also adopte
the proposition to establish co-opera
tive branches among the members.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
REVENUE COLLECTIONS.
July Statement Shows Big Increase Owe
Same Month In 800.

Same Month In 500.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The monthly
statement of collections of internal
revenue show the total collections dur
ing July to have been $l9, Az, 65s, an in
crease, as compared with July, 1896, of
S5,21S,976. The receipts from the sew
eral sources of revenue during July,
and the increase or decrease, as COM
pared with the same month last year,
are given as follows: Spirits, S., 49,
594; increase, $685., $50. Tobacco, ST.
445, SIS; decrease, S12,9 Fermented
liquors, IS, 75S, 795; increase, s., 4G4, 45l.
Oleomargarine, $i0o,S decrease,
Sos, 4Ol. Miscellaneous, $4,000; de-
grease, $9,039. The exceptional in
crease in the receipts from fermented
liquors was due to the large purchases
of beer stamps in anticipation of the
increased tax from s219 cents to 81 a
barrel.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

John Curphey's heard of deer, which
was such a popular attraction at the
fair last November, now numbers seven,
two fawns having been born within the
past few days. These deer are quite
tame, although at least one of them was
full-grown when captured. Mr.. Curphey
for years, and from his experience is
inclined to tho opinion that deer might
be, in fact, could unquestionably be,
proftably raised Tor market, as cattle
are. 1t costs little to raise them, he
says, scarcely more than would suffice
to feed a sheep, and they might DO
raised by hundreds on the hills of old
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
Heavy Hog Killings Mt Kansas City,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. a1.--Pcrls
packing operations for the present
summer packing season in Kansas City
will be heavier than in any previous
summer season since the packing in
dustry was established here. From
the opening of the season, March l to
date, the killing was approximately
!, 1890, 900 hogs as against 1,Oa5, 900 for
the corresponding period in the sum-
mer season of 1896. The increased
killing to date is 1865, 900 hogs.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
Political Histories Demanded.

WASHINGTON, Aug 81. The secretary
of the treasury has ordered that in ad-
dition to the census to be taken of the
number of old soldiers, sailors, sol.
diers' widows and army nurses in the
treasury department throughout the
country, compilation be made Of the
departmental history of every employee.
Blanks will be sent out to every en-
ploye, with request to fill In state
ment of how he or she came in the
classified service, together with a gen.
eral history of promotions, reductions.
salary, etc. The questions will be full
and searching.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

IT was reported that the Chicago,
Milwaukee ~ st. Paul, the Chicago
& Northwestern and the Illinois
Central would each soon build trans
continental lines to the Pacific coast
]. p. Morgan & Co, who represent the
Rothschild and Standard Oil interests,
are said to be working together TO
build up gigantic railroad monopoly.
Railroad interests which are not identi-
fed withthe Morgan plans are said to
be preparing for life and death con-
test with the trust which is expected
to follow the methods of competition
that has made the Standard Oil Co.
famous.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
GOLD PREMIUM IN MEXICO.
1t Is Said to BE shutting Out Imported
Goods and Stint iating Home Products.

New YORK, Aug. 21.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Mexico City says:
Exchange on New Yorl: has reached AS pre-
MUM. In other words, it takes e.. 45 Mexican
money to buy an American dollar This enor-
nous depreciation of the Mexican dollar is
running merchants They are cancelling
all orders for imports, and many will
close their stores, as they cannot sell the
stock on hand at rate high enough to
replenish them They believe that the price
is unnaturally depressed, and is due to conspir-
acy abroad. Meanwhile home manufactures
are booming as the depreciation OF silver
makes O high tariff wall Coffee. sugar. to-
bacco and sisal hemp planters are prosperous,
as they sell abroad for gold and pay Their labor
ers in silver. The Mexican dollar buys as much
goods as it ever did, except Of the imported
variety. Bankers here say handful OF men
in London are manipulating the money of the
world. which means that they are controlling
the prices of the world and that it is the old
fight of monarch against society.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
IN A COLLISION.
avily-Loaded Excursion Train Smash
into a Freight.

LIMA, o., Aug. 21.-A terrible smash
up occurred here last night about 1890
o'clock at the junction of the Lima
Northern and Lake Erie & Western
railways, in the eastern portion of the
city. A Lake Erie freight crashed into
Lima Northern passenger train, car
rying a large number of excursionists
on their return from Toledo. The
Lake Erie engine was knocked off the
track and badly demolished and two
coaches of the Lima Northern over
turned, badly injuring large number
of Lima's prominent citizens. Relief
trains hurried in the injured, all ply
sicians being pressed into service.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
To Feed a Half Million sheen.

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. Ell. w. Rob-
ison, of Butler county, says Swift Sc
Co., of Kansas City, will feed 500, 900
sheep in Kansas this fall. He says
that company is now gathering up the
sheep from Colorado, Oregon, Wyoming
and New Mexico and driving them
Kansasward. Over 80, 600 of the sheep
will be fed in Butler county.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
TO kLONDIKE BY RAIL.
Surveying Party Already in the Fiel,
Locating a Line.

surveying THrty HIrPHuy III t1fe Tietu
Locating a Line.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2i.-A special
correspondent, writing from Juneau,
Alaska, says that railroad communica-
ton between Juneau and Dawson will
be one of the things of the near future.
Next spring 8, : 30 men will be at work
and the road will probably be complet-
ed before next fall. The proposed
road is from the head of steamboat
navigation in Taku river to Lake Tes-
lin. Light draught steamboats, will
be operated from each end of the new
road, and it will take four days to
make the journey from Juneau to Daw-
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
TO KEEP OTHERS AWAY.
Returning PROJECTORS from Alaska Mini
milling Their Fabulous Discoveries.


CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-C. NJ. Nettleton,
of the Seattle Post-Intelligncer, who
is visiting in Chicago, says: 1.-THE con-
ditions on the Pacific coast remind the
old settlers of the palmy days of Cali
fornia in 1S49 | believe that without
question 100000 of the yellow
metal will be taken from Alaska
next year, and it is confidently
believed that the steamer Portland,
which is due to arrive in Seattle
August 25, will bring So, 900, 900 in mug
gets and dust. One peculiar thing is
that the miners upon landing seldom
are willing to tell the truth in refer
ence to their success. Nearly all of
them expect to return, and for this
reason do not give the facts as to the
amount of gold they have in their pos
session"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
Terrible Thrashing Machine Accident.

HASTINGS, Neb., Aug. 21.-Will Lipps,
of this city, James Mccullough and a
ten-year-old boy were fatally injured
by the explosion of a thrashing engine
boiler Thursday afternoon. An at
tempt was made to run the engine
without water gauge and the explo-
sion followed. All three of the vic
Tins were frightfully scalded and died
yesterday. The accident occurred on
the Spring Creek ranch.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
A supposed Misaourlan Killed.

LONG PINE, Neb., Aug. 21.-A youn G
man about % years old, stylishly
dressed, was thrown from an express
train here as it rounded a curve. He
was instantly killed. The only posi-.
BILE clew to his identity was two re-
ceipts for registered letters directed to
A. r. Hillerman, Ardmore, Macon
county, Mo.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

T. J. Wheatley presented us with six
large yellow freestone peaches last
Tuesday. The six weighed two pounds
and ten ounces, an average of seven
ounces to the peach. Mr.. Wheatley is
the right kind of farmer; not only
does he look after the regular crops of
corn and cotton, etc, but he believes in
having orchards of we'll selected fruit
and he thus enjoys the luxury OF eating
his own grapes, peaches and apples
Prentiss County News.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
MAKING RAPID STRIDES
Revised Estimate. show Many Change ,
the Formulation of Americas Cities

the Population of America's cities.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2i.-The rapid
growth of American cities has caused
the marine hospital service to secure
revised estimates of population in or
der that the percentage OF mortality
might not appear abnormally large by
comparison shown by the 1890 census.
Replies have been received from !, ssS
cities and towns, and those revised
figures arc now used by the govern
ment. OF the $50 leading cities in the
order of the last census Pittsburgh.
the 18th. failed to make any reply, but
the others with the latest estimated
population and their increase in six
years are given as follows.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

CHIEF MOORE, of the weather bureau,
says: "A recent investigation shows
crime to be more frequent in the warm
months than in the cold months of The
year. Taking in the whole country,
during January, February and March
there we're 1900 suicides reported,
while in July, August and September
there were 1000. In the same period
there were 1,700 murders in the cold
term, as compared with $500 in the
three hot months. As if in sympathy,
there were 50 persons hanged or
lynched in the three cold months and
1lS hanged or lynched in the three hot
months.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
Catholics Against Sabbath Dissertation.

SCRANTON, Pa, Aug. 21.-Father
Cleary, of Minneapolis, president of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America, in convention here, made
ringing speech yesterday against
Sabbath Dissertation. One of the
first laws and precepts of the Catho-
lie church since the days of pa
ganism, he said, was the honor of
Gods day, but he regretted to know
that Catholic saloonkeepers and their
patrons were careless of one of the
church's most widely misunderstood
laws
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

The Tippah county camp Of Confed-
crate Veterans held their fourth annual
session at Blue Mountain last week. A
large crowd was in attendancei Tho
memorial hall for the northern division
Of the State has been located at Blue
Mountain, in which is to BIO kept col
lection of Confederate relics.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

THE unions in the building trades
at New York have received word from
the Building Trades union of Louis
vile, Ky, that an effort was being
made in that city to adopt label for
buildings put up by organized labor.
If it can be put in practical shape the
unions believe landlord with a non
union house or a union man living in
a non-union house will have a hard
time of it.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
A Typ,rsl Delta Pioneer.

Railroad men tell Of a young West
ern immigrant who bought him eighty
acres OF land in Coahoma county last
spring, just above Bobo, and has settled
down TO his task of hewing him home
out of the wilderness. lie arrived late
in the season, making the trip in a
covered wagon, which contained all his
goods and chattels, and having no time
to build, has occupied the vehicle ever
since. At present he is building a
house, but all summer long he has been
clearing his land. all of which is in the
woods, in which he has made good prog
ress. His application and industry
have enlisted much interest and the
railroad men aforesaid are banking
heavily OH his making a great success
in the delta.-Vicksburg Herald.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
Big Watermelon Crop.

This State has probably raised the
largest watermelon crop this year ever
before in her history. The melons are
unusually large, and the quality tho
finest In many sections so great has
been the supply that they can be bough
for song, and at various interior towns
cannot be sold for any price. Water
melons weighing as much as sixty
pounds are found in nearly every com
munity, and fifty-pound melon excites
little attention.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
A Cave Discovered Near Meridian.

While out hunting last week two
young men discovered an underground
apartment or cave about four miles
southeast of Meridian, which shows I'M
mistakable evidences Of having been
occupied long years ago, either by some
of the pioneers, or it was the rendez-
vous of some of the bands OF marauders
that operated in that section.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

The Vicksburg furniture factory,
while only about two months old, now
employs ninety-six hands, of whom all
but two arc whites. The company can
not begin to keep up with its orders
sent in by three travelling statesmen, and
has consequently ordered dynamo for
an electric light service and will here.
after work night and day.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

LENA CoILINswoRTH, of Claiborne
county, Tenn, died the other morning
from the effects of a 5S-day fast. She
had been starving herself to death un-
der VOW. She quarreled with her hus-
band, they separated, and she vowed
that she would fast until he returned
to- her. The efforts of friends and
relatives to force her to eat were of no
ovail
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
Cable Road Over ChiIcoot Pass,

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Aug. All.
p Mccormick, of New York, has taken
an outfit for the construction of a
cable road from Dyea over the pass to
Lake Lindemann. He says the cable
road will be in operation 25 days after
his arrival at Dyea, reducing the cost
of transportation 60 per cent.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

WASHINGTON, Aug. PA carriage
containing II. C. Claughton, well
known attorney of the city, and Miss
Villa Curtis, daughter of Dr. w. G..
II. Curtis, was run down by a train on
the Baltimore & Potomac railroad at
Deanwood, a short distance from the
city, about seven o'clock last night.
Both persons were injured SO seriously
that they died while being brought to
the city. Claughton was a widower
and leaves four children.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

SINCE Prof. Nogel, of Berlin. Ger
many. suggested the idea that it was
possible to reproduce colors with the
camera photographers and chemists
have sought to find successful pro-
cess, and, it was said, that Albert
Seheckner, of st. Louis, had achieved
this and can reproduce any object
in it's natural colors.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25
After an Escaped Convict.

Tom Tolbert, a notorious outlaw and
convict who escaped some time ago from
the State penitentiary, where he was
serving a life sentence, has been seen
recently in Kemper county, his old
home and the scene of his crimes. His
presence there, in view of his reported
threats against certain prominent citi-
zens, has caused some little excitement,
and strong efforts will be made to effect
his capture
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

THE little country of Holland to-day
owns $4,000, 900, par value, of the Sc.
curities of the Atchison, Topeka e,
Santa Fe system. Kansas, which con-
tains about one-third of the total mile
age of the system, probably does not
own, all told, $40, 200, par value, of the
same securities
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

QUrscY, Ill, Aug. a1.-Porter Parks,
aged ID years, committed suicide yes.
terd.y morning at the family residence.
His mother says he was naughty, and
to punish him she sent him to his bed.
room shortly before noon. About noon
younger brother entered the room
and found his brothers body hanging
to the closet door.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

IT is asserted that Frenchman has
discovered method of making silk of
a fine quality from the webs of ordi-
nary spiders. His name is NJ. Cachot,
and it is probable he will claim the re-
ward of $4,000 offered by British
manufacturers to any one who would
accomplish this feat.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-08-25

SANTA FE, N. NJ, is the first city in
the world to place its interest in the
hands of board of trade composed ex
clusively of women. They attend to
all matters of business relating to the
good order of the city and its sanitary
condition, receive and welcome stran-
gers and entertain all celebrities, show
you the best residence and business
portions of that ancient pueblo and
drive You about its suburbs in the ele-
giant victoria, and if they cannot per.
suade you to locate there and spend
your days and all your wealth in Santa
he, then you are hardened against the
smiles and wiles of women.