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The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28

and things have been charged against the
war department which were untrue and I'M
warranted. | want the facts. and all the
facts, to come out and have nothing to
withhold from the public
The great trouble has been that the
people have not appreciated the immense
problem of forming an army of $780,
COO volunteers without notice and with
out the necessary equipment. The Spanish
war came upon us almost like bolt from a
clear sky, and 1t found every branch of
the var department unprepared for the
task of equpping and handling such vast
number of unframed men.
For a time there was difficulty in fur
nishng supplies and equipment for the
troops, but that had to be expected The
department had only a limited supply of
tents, and it had practically no wagons and
ambulanceS to start with. There were a
thousand and one details 10 look after, and
a fairly disposed public will understand the
disadvantages under which the war depart
ment worked for many weeks. AS fast as
possible equipment and SUPPLIES were sent
to the several camps and If there has been
lack OF medicines and necessaries of life
the fault lies with the commanding officers
OF the camps.
These may have been some incou.pe-
tent officers. generals and colonies in
charge of some of the camps and If such
is found to be the case they will be held
strictly to account for their misdeeos
IF there are any commanding officers
who are now incompetent, or who fail to
put their camps in first-class condition and
keep them that way, promise that they
shall be replaced by men who are compe-
tent, and who will see that perfect sanitary
conditions are established and main
tanned"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
.DOINGS or ANEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review Of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days in This
and ALI Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
WAR NEWS.

There is now entire confidence In
the American government on the part
of the insurgent leaders, as the re-
suit of the meeting of the national
assembly of Filipinos at Malolos.
On the steamer City Of Rome Adj
miral Cervera arrived at Santandef.
Spain, from the United States.
At Santiago nearly 1000 of the
American troops are on the sick list.
Secretary of War Alger says there
is no truth in the report that he has
resigned.
In Havana the American commission
has established headquarters at the
Hotel Trotcha and hoisted the stars
and stripes.
At Manila 10 Spanish steamers and
eight sailing vessels were transferred
to the American flag.
The requirements ordered TO
Manila will be commanded by Gen.
Miller, now in command 1T San Fran
cisco.
The report of Gen. Lawton of the
health condition of the American
troops at Santiago indicates a distinct
improvement.
A report that the last Spanish gar
rison in the island of Luzon had sur
rendered is premature. The Span
iards still hold seven seaports in AL
bay province.
Nicholas Sem, of Chicago, chief sur
geon United States volunteers, has
been honorably discharged from the
service.
On his tour of inspection Secretary
Alger fixes the blame for the sickness
in the different army camps through
out the country on the commanding
officers.
Admiral Cervera said in an inter-
view in Madrid he bad clear con-
science regarding Santiago. Spain. he
said, had lived in dream, and she now
had to face reality.
The plan of Maj. Gen. Miles for the
reorganization of the volunteer forces
into corps, divisions and brigades has
been completed.
From San Juan the Spanish steam
ship San Francisco sailed for Spain
with 500 Spanish soldiers on board.
Instead Of must ering out $4,000 VOL
unteers wholesale within the next two
or three weeks, it will be the aim of
the military authorities to weed out
the sickly, married and unfit volun-
teers gradually.
An appeal has been made by Agui
naldo to the powers for recognition oil
the independency of the Filipinos.
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THEIR AWFUL FATE.
Ten Persons Are Cremsted Alive and
Many InJered I'm an Elevator
Fire at Toledo, q.

Toledo, o., Sept. 21.-Ten persons
cremated, eight more fatally burned
and eight seriously injured is the rec
ord of the most disastrous fire that
ever occurred in Toledo. The spon-
taneous combustion of dust in the
grain elevator owned by Paddock,
Hodge & Co. Tuesday night caused
this terrible destruction of life, and
none of those who were taken out
after the fire started was far enough
from deaths door to tell any of the
horrible details.
DEAD-Samuel Alexander. Fred Garrett,
Bert Wainwright. Harold Parks. John
Smith, Grace Parks, Frank Van Housen,
John Carr, William Parks, and an I'M
known man.
INJURED-David Kemp, Barney WEIGH,
Charles Keller. Fred Pargillis, - Elliott.
Charles Brookseeker. Everett Smith. Ham,
tlton Parks, W. c. Jordan, Peter Haas, Al
Baldi' and three others, names unknown
Mr.. Paddock, member of the firm
owning the plant. said that there was
between SOC, 900 and 100000 bushels of
grain in storage at the time, most of
il being winter wheat. The property
and the grain is an entire loss and will
reach $i5O,O00. The insurance is $685.
900 on the building, and the grain is
covered with S25S.O00.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
A SMALL BOYS SCHEME.
He Had an Idea About Eggs "hich
Promised Splendid Result to
His Mind.

A small boy who is not familiar with rural
ways was taken by his fond mamma Tor a
brief stay in the country.
On farm in a neighboring county he
waxed fat and sunburnt, and picked up
wondrous store of astonishing experiences.
One day the farmer smilingly said to his
mother:
Gust ask your boy what he hid two eggs
in the stable for?'
SO the very first opportunity the mother
said to the six-year.old:
My dear, what did you do with those eggs
you took from the hen house,"
ooh, mamma" replied the boy, 81 didn't
want you to know about it."
why, it's all right, said mamma, Il only
want to know what my boy did with them"
Il hid them in the stable, said the little
fellow.
And what for?'
"'Cause it's my scheme"
"Your scheme? And what is your
scheme
"Why, you see, mamma" said the little
philosopher, when eggs is horned in a
chicken house they is always little chickens,
an fink if they was horned in stable dey
might be little horses"
1t is needless to add that up to the time
of his leaving the farm the miracle was still
unaccompiishcd.- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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REPRESENT THE FILIpINOS.
Emissaries of the Philippine Pro-
visiOnRI Government Arrive
VIII Visit Mckinley.

San Francisco, Sept. 23.-Thc United
States transport China arrived Thurs
day from Manila via Hong Kong, Ma
gasaki and Kobe. She brought with
her as passengers several distinguished
military and naval men, besides sew
cral journalists and two representa-
tives of the, provisional government of
The Philippines who are en- route to
Washington 10 plead with President
Mckinley for the independence of the
island, after which they will probably
proceed to Paris to appear before the
peace commission. The Filipinos are
named Fillipe Agoncilio and Jose Lo-
pei, the former being Aguinaldo's
chief emissary. In an interview he
said the insurgents fully expected to
be allowed to govern themselves and
even limited that some sort of agree
ment had been made with United
States Consul Wildman regarding the
outcome of the war made by the in
surgents against Spain, but what the
terms were Agoncillo would not state
He said that he expected definite in
structions from Aguinaldo by cable,
but automatically refused to give the
slightest hint of any he might have al
ready received. The Filipinos are very
shrewd and spoke English fuently.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
TIE EAST.

In Boston the sovereign grand lodge
of the Independent Order of Odd Eel
! lows met in annual session.
Seven buildings were destroyed by
fire and two men were burned to death
at Elmwood, n. y.
F. =. Myers shot and killed Michael
Kearney and John Lenhart, who were
aiding constable at Carrot, Pa, in
serving a writ of forcible entry on
him, and he was afterwards killed by
mob.
In session in Boston, Alfred S. Pin
kerton, of Worcester, Mass, was unan-
imously elected grand sire of the SOW
ereign lodge, ]. o. o. +.
At the age of 50 years William Eaton,
United States senator from Connecti-
cut from 1875 to 1881, died at Hartford.
Connecticut democrats nominated
for governor ex-United States Treas
urer Daniel n. Morgan, of Bridgeport.
The expedition sent by the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania to study north
ern Alaska was failure as far as new
discoveries went.
While conducting a fireworks display
in Pittsburgh, Pa. Capt. George j.
Adams and Capt. Charles Miller were
instantly killed.
Emma Wilson, 40 years old, widow,
was shot and killed in Brooklyn. n.
Y, by her supposed lover, James O'Neil,
who also killed himself.
The New Jersey republican state
convention at Trenton nomin ated Fos-
ter NJ. Voorhees, for governor.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
EFFECT WAS AWFUL
First Reports of the Recent Hurri-
cane Tn the West Indies Net
Exaggerated.

Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 24.-Mail
advices which reached here Friday
brought melancholy relief 10 the sus-
pense regarding the full extent of the
hurricane disaster at the islands of
St. Vincent, st. Lucia and Barbadoes,
showing that the first accounts were
not exaggerated. At st. Vincent abou.
600 lives have been lost, not counting
the loss of life suffered through the
destruction of shipping. The coast is
strewn with the wrecks of vessels,
many of which were from Barbadoes.
The storm ragged from ten O'Clock in
the morning Sunday, September III
until two o'clock in the afternoon,
completely wrecking the island. At
the capital, Kingston, fully 200 houses
were demolished, while the suburbs,
Coxhcath and Montebello, were OBJ
liberated.
Throughout the island the destruc-
ton was on a wholesale scale, not only
the estates and buildings being razed
and cultivation being obliterated.
The hurricane struck the island Of
Barbados on the night of the 10th,
completely wrecking that fiat, exposed
| island and sweeping away 10000 houses
while damaging thousands more. This
left three-quarters OF the inhabitants
homeless. Over 100 people were killed
SO far as known. The city of Bridge
town was partially destroyed and the
suburbs of st. Michael and Belleviile
were entirely demolished. All the
shipping was wrecked or blown cut
to sea. The total estimated damage
besides the loss from the cane crop
and provisions is about $1,500,00o at
| Barbados.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
WHAT THEY EXPECT.
An Instance of the Unreasonable Ne
pectations of some New d.
Women.

She was a new woman and was rather
proud Of the fact that she had place in the
world Of business that enabled her to regard
herself as being on an equality with man.
But there was one thing that annoyed her.
Il go down on the car early every morn
ing she said, with young man who lives
little farther out than | do, and don't
mind saying that he doesn't know what
courtesy and gentlemanlness is"
"What does he do?" inquired her big
brother, who doesn't think very much of
new women, anyway, and is consequently OPP
posed to his sister being in the world OF bust.
| ness.
at isn't what he does" she replied; cts
what he doesn't do. Time and again he has
it would seem as if the very least he could
have done was to get up and offer me his
seat"
That is wrong, isn't it," returned the
big brother.
Fits contemplate selfshness; that's what
| 1t is,' she answered
"The fact that he is in possession of a
seat" went on the big brother, "of course
does not entitle him to it if fellow clerk OF
the opposite sex happens to want it.. And
| yet men in business will do those things.
Why, know a girl who has twice the griev.
ance you have in that line"
What's happened to her." she asked.
MAN there first and refused to give up
when she came along" he explained.
Give up his seat?"
mo; give up his job She has discovered
that it would just about suit her, but the
| great big brute of a man hasn't chivalry and
courtesy enough to get up from his desk, bow
| politely and say: Madam, permit me to offer
you my. job Actually, he just hangs right
on to it himself and let's her go hunting round
| for something to do. Most ungentemenly,
isn't it? But, do you know, think the old.
| fashioned courtesy is
However, she did not wait to hear about
that. She merely said he was mean thing
and didn't understand what was due to a
lady at all. And he himself admits that con.
| stantly changing conditions make it mighty
hard to find out.-Chicago Post.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
NUse ournriilIe
And make no failures.
Wl Write what you need.
* 81 LOOMS & co. To54aT fo.
PRACTICAL KINDNESS.
One Hundred Thousand Grateful Sol.
diers.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
AOCIoVILLE. Ky. NIw YORV v

These war times have tried mems souls
in many unexpected ways, but like shaft
of sunshine and good cheer out OF the cloud
of privation and endurance has been the
work that The American Tobacco Co. has
done among the U. S. Soldiers and Sailors
ever since the war began-for when they
discovered that the camps and hospitals
were not supplied with tobacco they de.
cded to provide them, free of cost, with
enough for every man, and have already
given outright to our Soldiers and Sailors
over one hundred thousand pounds of BAT.
AK Plug" and Dukes Mixture" Smoking
Tobacco, and have bought and distributed
fifty thousand briar wood pipes, at total
cost OF between fifty and sixty thousand dol
lars.
This work has been done quietly and
thoroughly, by establishing headquarters
in each camp, so that every camp and every
hospital of the United States Army has
been supplied with enough tobacco for
every man and the sailors on thirty
United States Ships in Cuban waters have
shared with the soldiers this most welcome
of all "rations."
Perhaps it will be only fair to remember
when we hear the remark again that
corporations have no souls" that there
is one American corporation whose soul
has been tried and has not been found
wanting in practical kindness"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

The death of Alexander Mcmillan
Cured in Sioux City, Ia, aged 1903
years.
Flames destroyed the Tacoma
(Wash.) exposition building, the loss
being $125,0O0
In New Orleans and in several towns
in Mississippi yellow fever is said to
be gaining Roadway rapidly.
In San Francisco, Gen. Merriam said
the people of Hawaii were jubilant
over annexation, and were interesting
themselves in all efforts to make the
government of the islands similar to
that of the United States.
On the steamer May Flower near
| Creston, Mo-, Mate Bart Davis and
| Night Waterman Charles Davis en-
gagged in duel with knives, and both
men were killed.
The Western league baseball pen
City club.
Colorado prohibitionists met in
Denver and nominated Rev. C. B. Spen-
| Ger for governor. The platform, be-
sides the usual prohibition plank, de-
| clares in favor of the free coinage Of
| silver.
Burglars robbed the Botna Valley
state bank at Hastings, Ia, of $2,075.
In convention in Detroit Michigan
republicans renominated Hazen S. Pin
gree for governor by reclamation.
The platform Endorses the gold stand
ard and the present national admin
istration.
Conductor Thomas Lowry, Engineer
]. L. Popp, Fireman Alex Werner and
Brakeman Patrick Moriarity were
killed in a freight train wreck near
Leipsic, o.
The republicans in convention at
Tacoma, Wash, nominated Francis w.
Cushman and William l.. Jones for
congress, and j. A. Anders and Mark
Fullerton for supreme judges.
William Edwards, prominent
wholesale grocer and honorary presi-
dent of the National Trotting associa.
ton, dropped dead at his home in
Cleveland, o., aged Sc years.
Desperadoes known as the "long
and short man." who for weeks have
robbed Chicago saloon keepers, were
caught by the police and gave their
names as George Rouse and Edward
English
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fin

with DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie. lie coaxed his granddaughter to get
him a box of the pills. After that box had
been used he secured another. In three
weeks he began to feel little life in his arm;
at the end of four he could move his fingers;
at the end of two months he could walk, and
in three months he could shave himself with
the injured hand.
As he told his story in the Herald Office,
he looked the perfect picture of health. He
carries a box OF the pills in his pocket, and
whenever he does not feel just right, he
takes them They cured A.; him n after doctors prs
expected.
A the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves are contained, in a condensed
form, in Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People. They are an unfaiing specific for
such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, st. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neural
gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after
effects of la grippe, palpitation Of the heart,
pale and sallow compilations, all forms of
weakness either in male or female.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
PINGREE RENOMINATED.
Republicans of Michigan UnRnimous
Iy Chose Him to Head Their Tick
et-The Other Nominees.

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 22.-Gov. Pin
gree was unanimously renominated by
reclamation Wednesday afternoon by
the republican state convention. is
reform ideas and efforts toward regu-
lating alleged iniquities of taxation
were heartily commended by the plat
form adopted, and many members of
HRS party who have heretofore not
been in accord with the governor
joined in the cheering when he APP
peared and made a characteristic
speech of acceptance. The rest of the
ticket is as follows: Lieutenant-gov-
ernor, o. W. Robinson, of Houghton;
secretary of state, j. S. Stearns, of
Ludington; auditor-general. Roscoe
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d. Dix, of Berrien Springs; attorney
general, Horace N. Oren, of Sault Ste.
Marie; treasurer, George Steel, of ST.
Johns; commissioner of land office,
William \. French, of Presque Isle;
superintendent of public instruction,
Jason i. Hammond, of IIillsdale; re-
gent of state university, Eli II. Sutton.
of Detroit, and J. Byron Judkns, of
Grand Rapids; members of state board
of education, Prof. f. +. Johnson, Of
Ann Arbor, and L. A. Flatt, of Flint.
The convention unanimously elected
Gen. Arthur f. Marsh, of Allegan Ga
Pingree candidatc), for chairman CT
the state central committee The coIt-
yention completed its work at mid
night.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
WANTS THE FACTS KNOWN.
Secretary AIger Says There Is Moth.
Ing I'm His Department to
withhold.

Chattanooga. Tenn, Sept. 23.-Sec-
rotary Alger, who arrived Wednesday
night, was astir early Thursday morn
ing. About nine o'clock the secretary
and Surgeon General Sternberg, ac-
companied by Brig. Gen. Boynton, left
for Chickamauga park, where they
spent the day in a critical inspection
of the hospitals over which there has
been so much controversy Before
leaving Chattanooga Secretary Alger
said to reporters:
The press has been disposed to exag-
gerate the condition of some of the camps,
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-09-28
Daring Bank Robbery,

San Francisco, Sept. 23.-Australian
papers just received report daring
bank robbery at Penhurst, about 200
miles from Melbourne. An unknown
man entered the local branch of the
Bank of Victoria and, covering the
manager, Mr.. Jameson, with revol-
yer, bound and gagged him and OBJ
tanned possession of the keys of the
strong room. He distracted about
G 600 in notes and gold and
made off. A man named Glen Thomp-
son has been arrested on suspicion
the evidence against him being very
strong.
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/ MINE DISASTER.
Explosion of Gas and Firedamp
s Takes Eight Lives.
IL Occurs Near Brownsville, Pa
seventy Men at work In the
Mine at the Time-Thrce Are
killed at NsntIcoke, Pa.

Brownsville, Pa, Sept. 24.-Seventy
pire mine of Snowden, Gould & Co.,
one-fourth of a mile below town, as
the result of an explosion of gas fol-
lowed by another explosion of fire
lamp. OF the number entombed all
escaped or were taken out by rescu-
ing parties except eight, who were
killed outright and three more or less
hurt. The dead are: John Haiston,
miner, aged IS (colored). wife and two
children; Salem Haiston, miner, his
brother, aged IS, single; Robert David
son. miner, aged IS (yvhite), no family;
John Bennett, driver, aged %, single;
William Pritchard, miner, aged so,
wife and seven children; Henry Hagar,
aged IL; John Cartwright, miner, aged
so, married but no children; James
Hall. miner, aged II, unmarried.
The explosion is sdid to have been
caused by the loosening of large
| block Of coal which opened a pocket of
gas. Immediately following the explo-
sion of gas there was a second explo-
| SiOu VI iIc "CiS ~ N
at work in the mine at the time of the
disaster and at first it seemed an i'm
possibility for the 81 men in entries
cine and ten. where the explosion oc-
CURED, 10 escape. Four men, Jacobs,
Davis, Whetzel ard Walker, who were
near the entrance, managed to crawl
out, and the others with the exception
Of those caught by falling coal es-
capped by traversing a mile and a half
of underground passages coming out
at the entrance near Lynn station.
This point is four miles from the open
ing of the mine on the Monongahela
river.
Disaster in a Nanticoke Mine,
Nanticoke, Pa, Sept. 24.-By a rush
in coal in No. l shaft Friday three me n
were eDtOmbed and nroha bly in ST ant
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ly killed. They were George II. Nor
gan. aged "a years; John Shannon,
aged -, and John A. Jones, aged 2S.
Two other miners, John Woolford and
John Jones, narrowly escaped with
their lives. The men were driving a
rock plane in the shaft and had driven
it about So feet above the adjoining
chamber, which had been worked full
and played out. This chamber was
about $50 feet from the main gangway
and stout box had been built around
the pillars to prevent rush of coal.
II is snpnosed that this box cave WAY.
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Honor the Dead.

Richmond, Va, Sept. 24-The
daughter of the confederacy" lies at
rest. From the time the body of Miss
Winnie Davis arrived in Richmond un.
til it was buried in Hollywood GENE
terry Friday business in the city was
practically suspended. More than 10
600 people either took part in or gath
cred on the streets to look upon the
procession. Men of national fame
came from a dozen states to honor her
memory. All flags were at half mast
the stars and stripes and the confed-
crate flag as well.
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Damage by a CIoudburst.

Charlotte, y. c., Sept .4-Speoials
to the Observer from points in western
North Carlonia tell of serious damage
from cloudburst. The Yadkin and
Catawba rivers are booming. The
river bottom corn crops are covered
with mud and are ruined The hay
crop is also seriously damaged. Some
families have been driven from their
houses to the hills by the freshet
Louis Moser was drowned in the Yad-
kin, near Donnaha, while attempting
to rescue pumpkins that were floating
down the stream.
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FLOODS IN THE ORIENT.
fer from storms of Unusually
Severe Character.

Vancouver, V. c., Sept. 23.-Advices
from the orient by the Empress of In
dia state that China and Japan have
been visited by thunderstorms and
disastrous floods, in which many hun
dreds of people have lost their lives.
The region north of All Shang noun
tains has been inundated for hundreds
of miles by the Yellow river. Several
hundred thousand persons have been
plunged into the deepest distress and
many into absolute penury, which
local authorities are unable to al
leyiate