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

wagon loads of campers were reported
rs arriving there hourly.
THE strike of the progressive tailors
at New York has been declared off, the
increase of - per cent in wages de.
manded having been conceded by the
employers.
The experiments conducted at Fort
Worth, Tex, under the direction of
DIR. Victor A. Norgaard, chief of the di-
vision of animal pathology in the ma.
tional bureau of animal industry, with
view of Kidding Texas cattle of the
fever-producing ticks, have eliminated
in success. DIR. Norgaard will in a
few days make official announcement
of the experiments.
HARRY FLETCHER and his grandson,
while driving across the railroad track
at Seatonville, ILL.,, were struck by
a passenger train and both instantly
killed.
FIREBUGs burned q large barn and
all its contents belonging to Van Ad-
ans, well-to-do farmer living near
Princeton, Ind. They also attempted
to burn the Adams house.
ii. c. BUNKER, who boarded at Ar
thur Storey's at Chicago, took Storey's
wife to the theater the other night.
When they came home there was a
violent quarrel and bunker fl red two
shots, fatally wounding both Storey
and his wife.
A DISPATCH from Shreveport, La, on
the 27th stated that a general strike
was threatened on the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad on account
of reductions in wages.
JOE WoLCoTT knocked out George
Green in the 18th round the other
night after one of the fastest fights
ever seen in San francisco. 1t was
rather one-sided, Wolcott leading in
every round.
TIE young negro named Bonner, who
was arrested for criminal assault upon
an aged white woman, near Wilhelm,
Tex, was taken from Jail by mob of
200 men early the other morning and
lynched in the woods. The negro con-
fessed the crime.
THE body of Thompson Rhodes was
found within the doors of Mason Bros
planning mill at Marietta, Ind, where
he had been killed by load of slugs
from a spring gun, fixed By the pro-
prietor to prevent burglars.
Ar the national encampment of the
&. A. II. at buffalo, n. Y, on the Goth
j. p. 5. Goblin, of Lebanon, Pa, was
elected commander-in-chief and Gin
cinnati was chosen as the place for the
next meeting.
JOSEPH FIFE, negro youth, convict
| ,l e OF 10, tod uSSat1lt Mrs MarlxS
! widow, and who subsequently con-
fesscd to two other like crimes, was
hanged in the yard of the Jail at Rich
mond, Va, on the 10Th.
WILEY JOHNSON, a negro, was hanged
by an Infatuated mob at Mooreville,
Tex, for an attempted assault on a
white woman.
A COMMITTEE of the Society of Friends
of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana were re-
Gently looking at the valley below Ell
Paso, Tex, with view of securing
location for large colony of Quakers.
WHAT looks like systematic plot to
defraud the soldiers home of funds has
been unearthed ard exposed at Wash
ington. Balances of pension money
due to deceased inmates are payable
to his legal heirs if claimed within
three years. Otherwise the money
cscheats to the home. 1t was noticed
that a firm of attorneys in Washington
were building up quite business in
pressing such claims and it was dis
covered that information of the names
of deceased soldiers and amounts due
them We're being rcptitiously afford
ed by some of the clerical force at the
home.
FoRTY-FIvE thousand veterans
marched in the grand parade at the G.
A. r. encampment a buffalo, n. v, on
the 18th, President Mckinley being first
at their head and then taking posi-
ton on the reviewing stand to watch
the veterans march by. The closing
event in the evening was reception
to the president.
AT the convention OF the ForeSters
of America at Denver, Col. on the 25th
Joshua 4. Shaw. of New York, was
elected Supreme chief ranger; +. NJ.
McMurtry, of Lowell, Mass. supreme
financial secretary, and A. Hogan, of
Lowell, Mass, supreme recording sec
rotary.
TIE coal opera tors in the Pitts
burgh, Pa, district decided on the 25th
to wait for week or ten days before
resuming, some of the operators frank
ly admitting that the situation was
critical in all branches of labor and
they had no desire to make move
that might cast odir.n on them. The
operators adjourned sine die after
naming a committee vested with dis
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THE tobogganing of wheat has
started rumors at Chicago of a possible
corner in the September option and it
was the opinion that all the September
wheat in sight was being bought with
a view to selling it in Sl.15 market.
THE bureau of American republics
in Washington has just published
handbook of Alaska, which contains
valuable information concerning the
new gold mining regions.
TEE reports of the federal mine in
spectors for the Indian territory show
that the coal output was 1,302,3 1S tons
for the last fiscal year for that place.
THERE was no agreement between
the operators and the leaders of the
striking miners at the conference at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the cath, both sides
remaining firm. The operators after
wards announced that they would
open their mines anyhow, even if they
had to import men to work.
TIE American Window Glass asso-
citation is the outcome of the meeting
held by glass manufacturers at Chica-
go on the cath. There.are 1900 pots in
the country and the new association
| .x,ah 4 g
of glass will be raised.
THREE girls attempted to commit
suicide the other night at st. Louis.
Lilly Joyce took Paris green because
her lover failed to keep an engage
ment. She may die. Dora Wrencke
jumped into the river because she had
sweetheart who does not love her.
She was rescued. Ethel Wilson took
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