The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-26
WEST AND SOUTH,

At the age of As years James l.. On
derdonk, resident of Evanston, H.,
and former lieutenant governor of
Idaho died in the Klondike.
The municipal ownership of Detroit's
street railways was given a final
quietus by the common council.
Engineer George Sloan, Fireman
George Egbert and Flagman reringcr
were killed and several passengers
were injured in a railway collision at
Haverhill, O.
Fire destroyed the Ramsey street car
barns of the Twin City Electric railway
in st. Paul, the loss being $125.O00.
At his summer house near South
Salem, o., Thomas McDougal, a famous
Cincinnati lawyer, was found dead in
his bed.
While en- route to Minnesota in an
emigrant wagon \. w. Blades and his
wife and eight children were drowned
in northwestern Iowa by a cloudburst.
Fire destroyed the casting plant at
the Addyston pipe and steel foundry in
Cincinnati, the loss being 100000.
The Grace hotel in Milwaukee was
| buIAth anu = HItliltn we're lBJuIcu,
of whom four may die.
In Alaska u members of the steamer
| Elk expedition TO Kotzebue sound died
on the way.
\ party of scientists left Omaha for
Laramie on 40-days' exploration of
the fossil fields of Wyoming.
William \. s. Graham, secretary of
| tho hoard Of oil. in, 4 'hia1,-N 10,
a self-confessed defaultcr to the extent
of $4,000 and fugitive from justice.
The United Christian party will hold
national convention in Chicago De
cember "a, 1859, to nominate a presi-
Dental candidate.
The death of Rev. Thomas c. War
ncr, once national chaplain of the q. \.
r., and leading minister of the NJ.
| f. church, occurred at knoxville, Tenn.
In Il balloon ascension at Cleveland,
| o., S. ii. Hawkins, an aeronaut, was
killed by falling 800 feet.
Since May severe drought has
| greatly damaged growing crops in Ten
nessee and Kentucky.
In drilling for oil near Conover's
pond, north of Terre Haute, Ind, W. II.
Palmer struck a rich deposit of lsIre
rock salt of a very high quality.
In Chicago the western tennis cham
! pionship in singles was won by Carr b.
Neel, of that city, his opponent being
kreigh Collins, the champion of 1898.
At Freelandsville. Ind. Lon French,
desperate, was shot TO death by q
crowd of angry citizens.
After a calm extending over several
| years the volcano of Manau Loa, at
Hilo, Hawaii, is again in eruption.
| The Epworth league opened its fourth
| international convention in lndianap-
oils with large attendance.
Judge Morrill, imposed fine in Salt
Lake city of 500 upon Angus NJ. Can
non, who pleaded guilty to the charge
of polygamy.
Near Dillsboro, Ind, Joseph Krugar,
farmer, mistook his son for bur-
| glar and shot him fatally.
Negroes of Lake Village, Ark, have
arisen in an armed force against the
white people of that vicinity.
The death of John Allen occurred at
Warrens, Wis, aged 1o7 years.
Lightning killed Thomas Nelson and
wife near Kountz, Tex.
| In Chicago the national democratic
committee met for conference. The Of
| fee of: vice chairman was created and
ex-Gov. Stone, of Missouri. was elected
| to il. In the evening William j.
Bryan and others spoke at meeting in
the Auditorium.
By eating crawfish George Geddes.
managing editor of the Republican Of
Springfield. No. was fatally poisoned.
Efforts are being made TO unite the
brewers ot Wisconsin IN trust,