The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-08-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

Inc cOndltlOn OF united states sell
ator Hayward, of Nebraska, who suf.
fered stroke of apoplexy as he was
about to begin an address at a Modern
Woodmen picnic at Brownsville, Neb.,
is precarious.
A plant for the manufacture of eel
lulose, to cost $4,000, will be erected
at Peoria, H., by the Marsden company
of Philadelphia.
Rev. David Stanton Tappan, d. d.,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church at Portsmouth, o.. has been
chosen to succeed DR.. Thompson as
president of the Miami university at
Oxford, O.
Mrs. John NJ. Russell, Mrs. Earl Will
son and Mrs. S. \. Wilson were driving
at Flint, Mich, when the horse ran
away, throwing them out. Mrs. Earl
Wilson died in Is minutes and Mrs. Rus
sell is in precarious condition.
The next meeting of the Intcrnation-
al Typographical union will be held il
Milwaukee. Wis.
1t is announced that the first national
convention of the Young Peoples Chris
tian Temperance union is called to meet
in Chicago September 81 and %. This
claims to be the first temperance organ
izatiOn to Systematically unite the
ability of women and the voting power
of men. Rates of fare and third have
been granted from nearly all parts OF
the country.
In convention at Lexington, Ky, the
anti-Goebel faction of the Kentucky
democracy placed full state ticket in
the field, headed by John Young
Brown for governor. Resolutions
adopted declare the Louisville nominees
not the nominees of the democratic
party. They indorse the principles and
platform of the Chicago convention in
1896 and Bryan for president in 1900.
The Iowa democrats held their state
convention in Des Moines and NOM
mated the following ticket: For gov
ernor, Fred +. White, of Keokuk; lieu
tenant governor, NJ. l.. Bevis, Mont
gomery county; judge of supreme
court. A. Van Wagenen, Woodbury.
county; railway commissioner, W. II.
Calhoun, Marshall county: superin-
tendent of public instruction, b. p.
Hoist, Boone county. The populist
state convention also met and Endorsed
the above ticket. The platform in
dorses the Chicago platform in its en-
tirety, denounces the Philippine war
and opposes trusts.
Near Washington. Ind, six persons
were drowned in White river. They
were Mrs. Albert Hemsel, her four
children, Able, aged 16; Andy, aged IA;
Thomas, aged ten, and Nellie, aged one,
and Miss Amy Dillon, aged IS. The
wagon in which they were seated was
being driven onto ferryboat. but over
turned and all were thrown into the
water.
The sudden death from heart disease
is announced of F. NJ. Towar, chief of
the corps of government engineers
making the survey for the ship canal
through the Desplaines and Illinois
valleys. He died in the camp of the
surveyors near Joliet. Ill.
AT an elevator in Beatrice. Neb.,
Frank Bangs fell into corn shelter
and was torn to pieces.
John Davis and Stezer Toney were
killed by an explosion of dynamite in
storeroom of the Cumberland Electric
Light and Power company at Nash
vile. Tenn.
The governors of Iowa and Missouri
have issued proclamations calling
upon the people of their states to con-
tribute money and clothing TO the suf
fering people in Porto Rico from the
recent hurricanes.
In Chicago Richard Prendergast.
former Judge Of the county court. ex-
trustee of the sanitary district and an
eminent member of the bar, died at the
Chicago hospital.