The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-12-01


advance TO date back to November l.
1t will affect is, 900 employees
A swITcHMAN named William Hunter
slipped off a car at the yards of the
Missouri Pacific railroad at St Louis
while handling brake and a string
of freight cars passed over his neck,
severing his head from his body.
THE British steamer Baron Ardros-
san collided with the Austrian steamer
Toxic off Dungeness. Eng, damaging
the latter vessel so badly that she sank
shortly afterwards. Four of her crew
were drowned, the others being res
cued by pilot cutter.
EIeHTY quarts of nitro-glycerine
which had been placed in an open
field half mile from Chesterfield, Ind.
exploded on the Goth. Every animal
in the vicinity was instantly killed
and the houses in the town were
moved from their foundations and
windows broken. At Dalesville, two
miles away much damage was also
done. The jar of the explosion was
| felt for Is miles in all directions.
] Several men were badly injured.
SECRETARY BLISS has taken prompt
action to avert possible invasion of
the Wichita reservation in Oklahoma
by boomers. The agents have been
notified to prevent any such invasion
and il necessary to call for military as
sistauce, and steps have been taken to
meet any contingency.
A FIRE the other morning at Kittan-
ming, Pa, destroyed the Merchants
national bank, the Armstrong Water
company's building, hardware store.
dry goods store and a house furnish
ing store. A number of persons were
also badly hurt during the fire.
LINN CHAMBERLAIN, of Knoxville,
Tenn, has been arrested by the police
authorities of that city on the charge
of flirting and walking with Miss An
derson, the 15-year-old daughter of one
of knoxville's most prominent citizens.
The young man had been previously
warned to cease his attentions to the
young girl and his refusal to do ST.
caused his arrest for the violation o.
what is known as the Johnny bill"
JERRY JOHNSON, negro, was lynched
the other evening near Screven, Ga.
He was in charge of officers and was
being taken to Jail when crowd of
armed men rode up to the officers and
the negro was made the target for a
plumber of rifles and his body perfo-
rated with leaden balls. The negro had
been arrested for stealing mule.
SECRETARY GAGE has prepared a
table which gives the apportionment
of employees in the treasury depart
ment by states The table shows that
Missouri has IS employees in the de-
partment and is entitled to los; Kan
sas %, entitled to So; Oklahoma 2, en-
titled to 5; Indian territory ., entitled
to /.
A FIRE at Collins, Ia, nearly de-
stroyed the entire town. The losses
aggregated about 5000
THE post office department at Wash
ington has notified Postmaster Van
colt, of New York, that newspapers
and other periodicals ontaining adver-
tisements of schemes offering prizes
by chance will be excluded from the
mails. The order specifies in part
those that have word guessing con-
tests.
A TELEGRAM from Marathon, Tex,
on the 25th said that terrible prairie
fire was raging in Brewster and Pre-
sidio counties. The fire covered an
area larger than the state of Connecti
cut The region was along the Rio
Grande, about 100 miles wide by near
ly 200 miles long. Hundreds of head
of cattle and sheep have been burned
and a large amount of ranch property
destroyed.
THE New York Express published
the following on the 25th: within
ten days Corbett and Fitzsimmons will
sign articles for another battle for the
heavyweight championship of the
world. This positive statement was
made by William J. Connor one of the
most trusted agents of James J. Cor
bett, and William A. Brady, who is
Corbett's manager"
Mrs. MICHAEL BRAZIL. of hebanse,
H., who has been blind two years,
while in a Catholic church praying
that her eyesight might be restored, it
suddenly came back. She had previ-
ously maintained it would be restored
through praying.
ABOUT 300 Indians from the five
tribes held convention on the 23d at
Antlers, l. T., in opposition to the
Dawes commission agreement. A
memorial will be prepared for congress,
setting forth their views and their
wishes, and committee appointed to
go to Mexico to investigate plan of
colonizing the Indians in that country.
i THE pension claim of Gottlieb Eller-
sick, of Missouri, for total blindness
due to disease of the eyes said to have
been contracted during military serv-
ice in 1864, has been rejected by AS
sistant Secretary Davis. The case has
been pending 81 years and carried
back pay to the amount of $25, 900.
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL
MERRITT has issued an order that It is
not permissible to write upon second,
third or fourth-class mail matter in
definite addresses, as to druggist"
or physician" Postmasters have been
instructed that after March l, 1898,
matter so addressed will be held tc be
unavailable.
A LETTER written by Joseph e.
Blanthers, who committed suicide in
Jail at Meridian, Tex, last March, has
just been disclosed, in which he states
that he killed Blanche Lamont and Min
ME Williams and not Theodore Durrant.
The authorities in California place
little credence in the confession.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ROOSEVELT has
submitted to the secretary of the navy
the report of Lieut. Gibbons, who has
charge of naval Dlilitia matters. The
report speaks in high terms of the
operations of the naval militia.
The extensive lumber yard of Aaron
T. Bliss at Carrollton, Mich, was wiped
out by fire the other night, nearly g.
600, 900 feet of hard wood and pine lum-
Der being destroyed. Loss, about $780,
900; fully insured.
THE stables of Cyrille Laurin were
burned at Montreal, Can, the other
day, together with several valuable
horses. Antidote, record 2:l03, valued
a goo 000 WAS amoup the numDer