The leader., 1903-07-08

were killed.
Mrs. Emil Gronle, wife of a
farmer living near New Braunfels,
Tex, was assaulted and brutally
murdered by an unknown negro.
The United States packing COM
pany, organized in opposition to
the supposed beef trust, proposes
to erect million dollar plant at
Kansas City. The president of
| the company says the stock has been
subscribed principally by western
cattlemen, small dealers and con-
sumers in the east represented IN
labor organizations.
| The worst coal mine disaster in
the history of Wyoming occurred in
a mine of the Union Pacific Coal
Company near the town of Hanna.
The explosion was caused by a mi
ner entering condemned section
of the mine, where gas had accu-
INFLATED. About $50 men were in
the mine when the explosion occur
red, over half of whom were killed
outright.
Miguel Escobedo and his wife of
Cholulu, Mex, fought duel which
resulted in the death of both par
ties. After a bitter quarrel the
couple decided to fight duel with
out seconds or witnesses. Armed
with revolvers, the husband and
wife took positions in a room in
their home and fired Simultaneous
ly. The woman was shot through the
head and died instantly. The man
was shot through the head and NOR
tally wounded. He lived long
enough to tell about the duel, but
refused to divulge the cause of the
trouble.
R. NJ. Love, comptroller of the
state of Texas, was assassinated in
his office at the state capitol in
Austin by W. G.. Hill, a former
clerk. Hill entered Loves Office,
and, while conversing pleasantly,
suddenly pulled revolver and fired
two bullets into his body, death re-
sulting instantly. Hill searted to
leave the office, when clerk Crap
Piled with him. In the scuffie Hills
revolver was discharged, the bullet
fatally wounding the assassin. Hill
had been clerk is the comptrollers
office for several years, but was dis
missed when Love took charge. 1t
is believed the man had brooded
over his discharge until his mind
became deranged.
A dispatch from Lexington, KY,
says that Gen. Cassius M. Clay and
his former child-wife, Dora Rich
ardson, will be reunited, living I'M
der the same roof, at least, if not
remarked. When the girl, then in
her fourteenth year, was married to
Gen. Clay she had been courted by
Riley Brock, a neighborhood boy,
who was running barefoot about the
little village of Valley View, and
she could not forget him. When
her childhood sweetheart signifed
his wish to make her his wife she
became Indifferent to her aged hus-
band, and told him she wanted her
young sweetheart. The. Sage of
Whitehall did not wish to give up
his young wife, but when she cried
and begged, he consented to divorce
her. Brock had joined the army,
and, returning, and, in the eyes of
his sweetheart, although she was
the wife of the former minister to
Russia, the famous abolitionist and
duelist, he was a hero. Gen. Clay
gave her a home in Woodford coun-
ty and furnished it for her, even to
having hung on her walls the costly
bric-a-brac and beautiful paintings
he had secured while in the land of
the czar, as the representative of
the United States. Brock soon tired
of the place, and sold out every
thing. Gen. Clay sought to get the
girl to come back to him, and she
did go back to Whitehall, but took
her husband with her. Gen. Clay
ran him off with shotgun, and
soon the girl followed. Brock was
killed few days ago by railroad
train at Longview, ILL.,, and upon
learning of his death Gen. Clay sent
for the widow to return to his home.
A Washington dispatch says
President Roosevelt has asked
Senator Hanna to remain as chair
man of the national republican
committee and manage the 1904
campaign.
The governor of Illinois declares
the parties who took part in the
lynching of a negro named Wyatt
at Belleville June 6, must be pun
ished, and that the state will aid
in their nrosncufion No arracfc