The leader., 1897-02-10

The ship yards of the Fairfield Ship
building Co. at 0ovan, near Glasgow,
were destroyed by FIRE. The damage
done is estimated at s250,00o -Four
thousand persons were thrown out Of
employment
T. J. LEvAS, of Dubuque, Ls., has
discovered lead-bearing crevasse in
the cellar of his house. IL is six-inch
vein and promises big yield of mineral.
NICHOLAS SHAFFER, of Burlington,
n. j., shot his wife and then turned
the weapon on himself in the street on
the 5th. Mrs. Shaffer it was Thought
would recover, while the husba nd's
wounds will prove fatal.
ANDERSON PARKER, a farmer Of Rock
castle county, KY, in a drunken rnge
fractured his wife's skull with a clnb,
shot his son through the wrist and in
fiicted a scalp wound and killed his
father with a revolver. The rest OF
the family escaped during the fight.
EXPERT accountants have found a
shortage of nearly $4,000 in the ac-
counts of Cashier c. f. BREEDER, of the
First national bank of Bethlehem, Pa.
BREEDER has absconded. He had been
cashier for 30 years.
A RELIEF committee which has just
inspected some parishes near Shreve-
port La, reported that 80, 600 people
| were starving to death and would have
to be sustained during the unfruitful
season. The state has already ex-
pended sos, 900 for provisions for the
sufferers
The number of failures in the United
States for the week ended the 5th were
3O5, according to Bradstreet's report,
as compared with 326 the previous
week and 33s in the corresponding
week of last year.
CHARGES have been preferred against
Agent Pearson. who has charge of the
Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas 1t
is said that he has been remarkably
derelict and that the law has been fire.
quently violated on the reservation un-
der his charge,
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of the town of Pleasureville, in Henry
county, Ky.
THE British steamer Jason, which
arrived at New York from Jamaica,
picked up the crew of ten men of the
sinking schooner Mary Sprague near
Crooked island passage and brought
them to New York.
The First national bank, of Griswold,
Ia, has failed. Assets, S147 900; liabil-
tiles, $50, 900.
The recent wreck of the Great
Northern passenger train near We
NJ tnh hainn
of the most disastrous of railroad cas-
ualties. A tourist car containing 32
persons, including II babes, caught
fire. The car was hurled into an en-
bankment of snow. 1t was only after
the greatest eXertions that the in
mates liberated themselves by break
ing the windows.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved
the act relative to mortgages in the In
dian territory.
JOHN LANE. of Grand Rapids, Mich,
in consideration of S25 has, under writ
ten agreement, sold and released his
wife to James Ii. Hurst. All con-
cerned were celebrating the event on
the 4th.
A WRECK occurred on the Northwest
ern railway at Arlington, S. D., in
which four persons We're killed and
large number of others were in jured.
One train could not get on to a switch
on account of ice and the other ran in
to it.
THE strike at the factory of Norton
Bros. at haywood, ILL.,, was settled by
compromise reducing the cut in
wages to five per cent. and the 900 en-
ployes returned to work.
JOHNSON HARRIS and William Lit
Ting, white men, fought duel near
Arbeka, Ok, over the affections of
half-breed Indian girl, and both were
killed.
THE Brussels court has granted a de-
cree of absolute divorce to the prince
of Chimay from the princess, who eloped
from Paris with a Hungarian gypsy
fiddler.
LITTLE Addie Louck died at Bur.
lington, Ia, the victim of actual star
vation in the midst of Burlington's
plenty. The pitiful case was not
brought to the notice of the charity
society until too late to save the child.
THE house of Seeley Wakely, near
and two children were burned to death
They were in the house alone at the
time of the fire and it's origin is un-
known.
SHERIFF LEWIS, of Carrollton, Mo-,
has telegraphed to the California Off
GERS to release the man they suspected
of being George Taylor, the escaped
murderer of the Meeks family, as the
photograph received of the man looks
as much like Taylor as any quarter
breed Indian would look.
THE bureau of labor at Washington
has sent out blanks to state officers to
ascertain the extent to which munich
pal ownership of gas, electric light,
water works and other enterprises
have been carried in this country and
the information will be tabulated and
embodied in a special report to con-
gress.