The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

Maflettl, Inu.. were destroyed by nfe
the other night and AZ horses in his
care for training and eight of his own
horses were cremated.
THE drought around Dubuque, Ia,
was reported serious ON the sth. The
pastures were all dried up and farmers
feeding hay to their cattle.
THE plant of the Zimmerman Pack
ing company at Portland, Ore, was
burned the other day. Besides the de-
struction of the meat in the building
some sheep were also cremated. Loss,
$4,000.
PAT PAINE, wife murderer, was
hanged at Monroe, La. on the Sth.
He coolly smoked a cigar and drank
egg-nog on the scaffold.
FAILURES for the week ended the Sth
were Pig in the United States accord
ing to Dun's report, against 296 for the
corresponding week last year.
FRED GILBERT, of Spirit Lake, Ia. =,
defeated J. A. r. Elliott, of Kansas
City. Mo, by the narrow margin of
one bird in the pigeon shooting match
at Kansas City on the Sth Gilbert
killed IS birds out of possible 100 to
Mr. Elliott's "a. The contest was for a
purse of $500 and the Kansas City Star
cup.
HENRY SMITH, aged four, was left to
take care of his baby brother while his
parents went to the fields to pick cot
ton near Opelika, Ala, but he wearied
of his task and killed the baby with "a
stone.
THE application for a hearing of the
Kansas City stock yards case was ar
gued ON the 18th before Judge Sanborn,
of the United States circuit court at
st. Paul, Mimi, and the lawyers
agreed upon a stipulation for hear
ing about October Is before Judges
Foster and Thayer and the motion for
a hearing before Judge Sanborn was
withdrawn.
GEORGE MORGAN was hanged at
Omaha Neb., on the Sth for the murder
of Ida Gaskill. He died protesting his
innocence.
AT a country dance at Greenville.
Ala, William Ekof shot man dead
for dancing with his sister and also
killed another man who attempted to
arrest him. He then escaped, but was
thought to be badly wounded, as sew
eral dancers fired at him while getting
on his horse.
A sEvEN-FOoT vein of exceedingly
rich gold ore has been struck in the
Red River mine at Acton, Cal. The
vein is sprinkled thicllly with free
gold. The report said that there APP
peared to be tens of thousands of tons
of the richest ore ever struck in that
part of the state.
THE post office department at Wash
ington has adopted a policy of general
extension of the money order system.
Complaints have been constantly filed
by business houses that their CORE
spondents at villages are unable to
send money orders because their post
offices have no such facilities.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul-
tural department, is making arrange
ments to organize the work of pur-
chasing foreign seed for distribution
by the department.
THE barn of the Kansas City (Mo.)
Transfer company caught fire about
2:30 on the morning of the Sth. There
were about so head of horses burned
and the loss was between $50, 900 and
S25, 900.
THE comptroller of the currency has
called for the condition of the national
banks at the close of business Octo-
Der ).
The first party of 70 of a number of
Mennonite colonists from Kansas were
stoppad in Rohartcop conptu Tav +ba
other day by armed men, who threat
ened them with death and destruction
of property unless they turned back,
which they did. They will try to set
tie in some other portion of Texas.
THE October term of the United
States supreme court will begin on the
18th. There are 466 cases on the
docket, as against GIG at the beginning
of the October term last year, of which
1888 came over from the last term and
SO have been added during the courts
vacation.
A FIRE broke out in the rear of Rob-
ings hardware store at Medora, Ill,
early the other morning and in two
hours had destroyed that building and
II Others adjoining, practically wiping
out the business portion of the town.
Several persons We're seriously burned
in trying to rescue goods from the
stores.
By the explosion of gasoline stove
at Chicago two women were probably
fatally burned and another one serious
ly injured.
Two men were killed and ten injured
by the blowing down of big new ho-
tel at Lindsay park, Charlevoix, Mich.
The men were at work on the structure
when a storm caused it to collapse,
through not being properly braeed.
SoILY SMITH, of Los Angeles, Cal,
was given the decision over George
Dixon, of Boston. in a 20-round fight
the other night at San Francisco. The
match was virtually for the champion
ship of the feather-weight class, and
Smith is now at the top.