The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-05-03
WEST AND SOUTH.

A snow blockade which has prevented
trains entering Breckenridge, Col, foI
rs days has been broken.
Fire destroyed the warehouse of the
Kingman Implement company at
Omaha, Neb., the loss being $4,000.
james Caldwell killed his brother
Joseph in a quarrel near Williamsport,
n. d., and then took poison and died.
In the city Jail in Galena, Kan,
Charles Williams (colored) was shot to
death by mob of negroes. Williams
was charged with killing Laura Cana
fraX, negress.
Six returning Klondikers, one of
whom is said to have been bringing out
! considerable treasure, were drowned
near Fifty Mile, Alaska.
The governor has appointed Lieut.
Col. Cation to be colonel of the First Ne
braska in place of Col. Stotsenberg
killed in battle near Manila.
At Annapolis, Kan, an Italian killed
man and woman and while endeavor-
ing to escape plunged headlong into a
shaft at the salt works, 1000 feet
w. c. Jackson, acting commander in
chief of the G. A. r., has issued general
order directing commanders of posts
to have President Lincoln's Gettysburg
address made feature of Memorial day
exercises.
A rise of the Missouri river at Omaha
has resulted in driving 600 people from
their homes and nearly the total sub.
mergence of bottom land territory six
miles long and two miles wide.
Reuben Frantz, a young farmer OF
Worth township, o.. shot himself rather
than stand trial on the charge of in
cendiarism.
In Springfield. o.. Mother Stewart, a
famous Christian temperance leader.
celebrated her eighty-third birthday.
In Atlanta, Ga, the ninth information
al fourteenth nationaD Sunday school
convention is in session.
Jane Tettaton, widow, and her four
children, two boys and two girls. rang
ing in age from G. to ~ years. were
found murdered in their home near
Maiden, Mo-, and j. II. Tettaton.
stepson, was charged with the crime.
The supreme court of Michigan has
declared invalid the principal portion
of the equal taxation bill passed by
the present session of the Legislature.
In Washington. Ind. Fred Limp, aged
IA. who in. fit of anger killed play
mate, has been sent to a reformatory
until of age.
The Badger with the Samoan COM
mi hoo t.I O.
Francisco for Apia.
+ Discovery was made that counterfeit
silver dollars were being made in the
state penitentiary at Canon City. Col.
Near Mitchell, s. d., prairie fire
burned over $4,000 acres of land and
Frank Howard and Allie Smith persisted
in the flames.
In the fields at Cambridge. O.. there
is big oil strike and spectators are
rushing in from all over the country.
At st. Joseph high water in the Mis-
souri, river washed out the tracks of
the Rock Island and the Burlington, and
bottom lands opposite Leavenworth.
Kan, were inundated.
Throughout the south confederate
DSSciobou uay was oosclNcu ScDcFdily.
At his old home in Galena. ILL.,. the
seventy-seventb birthday of Gen. Grant
was fittingIy celebrated.
At San Pedro, Cal. work on the bar
Dor commenced when President Nc
kinley, In his library at the white house,
pressed an electric button.
In the vicinity of Onawa. Ia. a tor
nado did great damage and five per-
sons we're killed and several other per-
sons were injured.
At Kirksville. No.. a cyclone swept
away 400 buildings and from the ruins
rs dead bodies were recovered and 9TH
er persons were missing, while over
1000 were injured.
At Newtown. No.. IS persons were
killed and great damage done to prop
erty by cyclone.