The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-01-10
MEST AND SOUTH.

Flames destroyed Tillman & OLE
sons livery stable at Portland, Ind,
and IA horses were cremated.
Mrs. Catherine McVey, 104 years old,
who was pastry cook at Danville no.
tel when Abraham Lincoln stayed
there, died suddenly in Danville, Ill.
Burglars secured $4,000 in cash from
the bank at Kiowa, |. T.
In Sedalia, Mo-, Ann Tyler, blind
negro woman SO years old, and James
Turner a negro S5 years old, were
burned to death.
In the past eight days Minneapolis
mills have booked almost 100000 bar
rels of -four for export to Japan.
Secretary of State Hay will go to
Townsville, Ga, to recuperate his
health as soon as he has recovered suf-
fciently to endure the fatigue of the
journey.
]. f. Grille, of Cincinnati, has been
elected president of the American Base
ball association.
Lyuching of George Williams and
Nicely Zimmerman, negroes accused OF
assault, was attempted at Council
Bluffs, la. The Jail door was broken
in but the militia was called out in
time.
In Chicago Jerome Sykes, star coined
ian of The Billionaire," died of pneu-
monia contracted during Christmas
party given for his company
Mrs. Michael Kondas left her two lit
tie girls locked in the house in Chicago
TO play with their Christmas toys and
they were burned to death.
A trusted employe of Chicago whole
sale house, Frederick Lindstrom, con-
fessed to embezzling $4,000, which he
lost in the poolrooms.
Car barn bandits trial will begin in
Chicago on January g.
In a fire at Ballinger, Tex, J. A. Nc
Beth, his wife and five-year-old daugh-
ter, and his brother-in-law, Bert West,
were burned to death.
In San Francisco Young Corbett" de-
feated Eddie Hanlon in the sixteenth
round in a fight for the featherweight
championship of the world.
Liverymen rejected a proposal 10
arbitrate made by livery drivers in Chi
cago and declared they would fight to the
end
Miss Alice Pitcher, q years old, daugh-
| ter of Louisville (Ky) organ manufac-
>turer, masqueraded as boy for three
years in Montana with her fathers con-
| sent.
| Fireman H. c. Badger and Brakema
| w. j. Long, of Galesburg, were killed
| in a railway wreck near Denrock, ILL.,
| At the age of 66 years Thomas Con-
molly, millionaire carriage manufac-
| turer of national prominence, died sud-
| denly at his home in Dubuque, Ia.
At Guthrie, Okla, railway company
has been formed TO build line from
Port Nelson, on Hudson bay in British
! America, to the Argentine Republic, a
distance of 10000 miles.
The oldest man in Minneapolis, Rob-
ert c. Harper, died at the age of 104
years and six months.
At San Jose, H., safe blowers cracked
and looted the safe in the post office of
81, 900.
In Chicago all the livery establish
lANhNo dIC OptAs INC CLIplOytiS
| to reinstate the striking drivers.
Judge Webster sentenced John Tully.
| soldier, at Missoula. Mont. to hang
February 26 for the murder of Thomas
Kennedy al Fort Missoula.
Five hundred and seventy-five men.
women and children met fearful death
at the new Iroquois theater in Chicago
burned, suffocated or trampled under
| foot-following a fire which was CAUSED
by the explosion OF a calcium light The
gas tanks also exploded and the flames
spread so rapidly that occupants of the
gallery and balcony were cut off from
| escape. This is the most appalling
catastrophe of its character in the his
tory of Chicago. The dead and injure d
were carried to nearby business
houses, which were besieged by thou
sands of frantic persons seeking to frd
among the charred bodies the remains
| Of their loved ones,