The leader., 1897-11-17


of the five tribes on the 18th that the
| Creek Indians, who refused to allow
the Dawes commission to enroll their
names en- the new citizenship rolls,
were flocking to the towns to NEE the
commission.
AT the meeting of the general assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor at Louis.
| vile, Ky, on the 18th James Il. Sover-
eign was retired as general master
workman and Henry A. Hicks, of New
York, was chosen to fill his place. /.
| ID. Chamberlain, of Pueblo, Col, was
selected as general master foreman.
Mr. Sovereign made his annual ad
dress, taking for his theme the great
miners strike and the court injunc.
tions against strikers.
SEVEN persons persisted in fire
which broke out among the wood
work of a mine near Antonienhuette,
Germany.
A SPECIAL from birmingham, Ala,
said that the rapist. Bud Beard, was
| lvnched at Carrollton, Ala. The mob
succeeded in breaking into the Jail and
| getting Beard out before the arrival of
the state troops from Tuscaloosa.
ALBERT VOTERS was hanged at Fay
etteville, w. Va, on the 18th in the
presence of over 10, 900 people. He was
| the last of the Lewis gang of outlaws.
PRACTICALLY all of the lines between
| Chicago. St Louis and the Utah state
| line have entered into an agreement
not to carry passengers on freight
| trains. This new rule was adopted al
| the recent meeting in st. Louis The
| Kansas City Transportation bureau
| has taken up the matter in behalf OF
the merchants and will make a hard
| fight to induce the railroads to rescind
or modify their order.
| EDWARD IIANKINs. white, was hanged
at Danville, Va, on the IL til for murder.
| A PASSENGER train on the Louisville,
| Henderson & st. Louis road struck a
| freight car which had been blown on
| to the main track at Lewisport, Ky,
and the engine, tender and combina-
| tiOn car were overturned. The stove
in the combination car set fire to the
inflammablc matter around it and be-
fore the trainmen could remove the
| ears the other coaches were destroyed.
The passengers escaped.
THREE hundred cloakmakerS in
| Freedman Bros shops at New York
went on a strike on the nth by order
of the union Fifteen hundred opera
| tives in outside shops supplying Freed
man Bros. also struck.
a MAN named Ingles quarreled with
James Singleton in Leslie county, Ky,
and fired his gun at him, shooting him
dead and fatally wounding his daugh-
ter, Marie lngles, from the same bull
let, which passed through Singieton's
body and then struck Miss Ingles.
ALFRED y. PHILLIPS, an inmate of
| the Iowa insane asylum, threw himself
in front of train at Dubuque.
TIE Middlesboro tKy.) foundry, one
of the largest plants in the south, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th. The
plant employed go men. The loss will
| reach 500, 600.
SAM WRIGHT, colored, was hanged in
the Jail yard at Goldsboro n. c., on
| the 10th for murder.
c. p. JOHNSON, president of the In
| terstate Association of Live Stock San
itary boards, has called q conference
of live stock sanitary boards and state
veterinarians of Kansas, Nebraska,
Missouri, Iowa and other states at st.
Louis December . for the purpose of
agreeing upon a quarantine line with
reference to Arkansas and Tennessee.
CHARLES GELBARTH, a cigarmaker at
Philadelphia, the other day shot and
fatally wounded his fatherin-law
Frederick Fritz, ST., and his son, Fred
erick Fritz, Jr., and then shot himself
in the head. 1T was thought all three
would die. The shooting was the re-
suit of a family quarrel.
a LARGE stock barn near Lebanon,
Ind, belonging to Albert Coleman
was consumed by fire the other night
and six head of thoroughb bred horses
among them the celebrated PAGER Min
ME Blackfoot, persisted in the flames
THE general assembly of the knights
of Labor was called to order at Louis
vile. Ky, on the 9th by General Mas,
ter Workman Sovereign.
THE National Grange, Patrons Of
lIusbandry, convened at Harrisburg.
Pa, on the 10th with a good attend
aEce. The report of the treasurer
showed the finances to be in a salts
factory state and Worthy Master
Brigham made an address.
A CONFERENCE of managers of smelt-
ers, from Texas to British Columbia,
WIS held at Denver, Col, recently with
view of devising some means to get
better market price for their
products.
THE commissioner of Indian affairs
has made his annual report. The en-
rollment in the government schools
the past year was 1S,603 an increase
of Sl4 over last year The enrolment
in contract schools was 3,15S, de-
crease OF 1,2Sl. There were in opera
ton during the past fiscal year 2SS In
dian schools, of which pa were under
the exclusive control of the govern
ment.
THE gas generator in the factory of
the Piqua (O.) Hosiery company eX-
ploded the other morning, causing a
panic among the 100 girls on the floor
The building was wrecked and two
girls were terribly injured.
JOHN ii. MOONEY, his wife and his
brother-in-law were found dead in
their beds at San Francisco, having
been asphyxiated by gas. 1t was be-
lieved the gas jet had been left open
accidentally.
THE session of the general assembly
of the Knights OF Labor at Louisville,
KY, on the 10th was taken up with
hearing contested delegations and re-
ports of committees.
DON'T DO THESE.