The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-06-07
WEST AND so. TIL.

David French lloyd. president OF the
Louisiana state university, died in
Baton Rouge, aged Ga years.
At Guthrie, o. T., Daniel Fox, her
NIT, was murdered and robbed of s., 500.
The South Park line has been opened
and a train has reached Leadvillc, Col,
lasting four months.
In Il railway wreck at Seattle. Wash,
IS persons were injured. two fatally.
Highview, Ia, was practically de
stroycd by wind and a downpour of
rain.
In a railway collision % miles south
of Nashville, Tenn, nine persons were
injured, two fatally.
Hereafter ewspapcrs will be treated
as letters in making up the mail for
Porto Rico from the United States.
An incendiary fire destroyed the bust
ness portion of Curtis. Neb.
Arthur Pratt and William Skinner,
influential young business men of Fond
du Lac, Wis, were drowned in Lake
Winncbago by the upsetting of boat.
At the age of II years Frederick VIII
liam Holiday, governor of Virginia in
1877, died at his home in Winchester.
The death of William Oden IIughart,
for many years president of the Grand
Rapids d Indiana railroad, occurred in
Grand Rapids, Mich, aged II years.
Senator Stanford's widow has willed
the bulk of her property, valued at
$1,000, 600, to Stanford university in
San Francisco.
Rev. Barton O. Aylcsworth has. been
elected president of the Colorado state
agricultural college.
Maud Anderson, aged Il. and Kate
Lee, aged 1G, were drowned in Prairie
lake near Tomahawk, Wis, by the cap
sizing of boat.
BY the upsetting of a boat three men
and three women were drowned in the
Maumee river at Toledo. o.
While drunk George Stalker, aged
23 shot his father and mother at May
vile, Mich, and then killed himself.
The parents may live.
\ hurricane left Il dcsoate waste over
a mile wide across Kcnosha county,
Wis.
In Chicago. John Lind. a coal dealer,
and his four-months-old son were at
tackled by a vicious horse and the child
was killed and Mr.. Lind fatally injured.
In Portsmouth, O., Il tin can contain
ing 100000 in gold was found by work.
men engaged in tearing down the meat
shop belonging to the estate of Philip
Multer.
The reputation of any alliance with
gold democrats and opposition to any
compromise of the financial plank of
the democratic platform of 1896 were
the dominant ideas in speeches at the
sc ssions of the Ohio Valley Timetable
league in Louisville, Ky.
At Lawndale, H., and vicinity a tor
nado did great damage.
In Mills county, Ia, cyclone de-
stroyed property valued at 100000, and
at Minneola Tillie Roherburg, aged Il,
was killed and eight other persons were
injured, two fatally.
Near Kingsley, Ia, farm buildings
were swept away and stock was killed
by cyclone.
Mary McGuan, who celebrated her
one hundred and first birthday Febru-
AIRY ., died in Baraboo, Wis.
Resolutions were adopted at the BIZ
metallic convention in Louisville, KY,
favoring the Chicago platform of 1896
and the nomination of William j. Bry-
an in 1900.
At San Francisco the seyerest shock
of earthquake in 80 years was felt.
In Cleveland Henry Lower, aged 20
years, died from the effects of a cat
bite received three months ago.
The Cuban supreme court was sworn
in at Havana.
At the age of 70 years Elisha Baxter,
tenth governor of Arkansas, died at his
home in Batesville.
In family quarrel Charles Herzog,
a teamster in st. Louis, aged 80, ia
tally shot his young wife and her moth
er, Mrs. Mary Sopp, and then killed
himself.
While insane Alfred Wells, farmer
aged 40. living near Thorntown, Ind.
killed three of his little boys.