The leader., 1904-09-17
WEST AND SOUTH.

While under Indictment for the muir
der last winter of Assistant Common.
wealth Attorney James X. Spreader
William E. Neal shot and killed his
wife, Nellie Robinson Neal, at Louis
vile. Ky, and, then ended his own life
Former President Dunning, of the &c
funct Citizens bank at Mount Ayr, Ia.
was indicted for fraudulent banking
The failure of his bank last spring was
sensational, involved about 5000, 900 loss
and seriously crippled Mount Ayr bust.
ness interests.
At Saginaw the Michigan republican
judicial convention nominated the fol-
lowing three candidates for justices of
the supreme court: Judge A. " Nc
Alvey, of Manistee; R. c. Ostrander, of
Lansing, and Attorney General Charles
A. Blair, of Jackson.
Apparently in good health, ]. d. I'm
derwood, general manager of the Rogers
Wheel company, dropped dead in Leb-
anon, Ky.
Until the close Of the worlds fair
school children will be admitted for ten
cents each.
Mayor j. Samuel McCue, of Char
lottesyille. Va, has been arrested for
the alleged murder of his wife.
Work was resumed by 200 packing
house strikers at Omaha, Neb., as a re-
suit of the vote taken on the question
of discontinuing the strike.
The nominee for congress of the Sixth
Wisconsin district republican conven-
ton is Roy L. Morse, of Fond Gu Lac.
The safe of County Treasurer j. A.
Logan, at Ladkinsville, Yadkin coun-
ty, n c., was blown open by burglars.
who secured between $4,000 and 10000.
The safe in the post Office was also
blown open and over $40 was stolen.
In Irving Park, a Chicago suburb, Jo-
seph Regnet killed his wife and COM
mitted suicide while their three terri
fed children looked on.
On the Chagrin Falls branch of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie road train col
lided with a two-horse wagon on grade
crossing near Chagrin Falls, o., result
ng in the death of two persons and the
serious injury of several others.
The packing house strike cannot be
declared off because the negative vote
in Chicago outnumbered the affirmative
in other cities.
Three persons were killed and prob
ably 25 injured in the wreck of Rock
Island fast train at Tiskilawa, III.
An infuriated and determined mob
1t Huntsville. Ala. defied the militia,
set fire to the Jail and lynched a negro
prisoner who had killed white man.
In the drill contest at San Francisco
Louisville -commandery. Knights Tenn
plar. was first. and St. Bernard com
mandery, Of Chicago. was second.
On the first ballot James Fl. Moyle, of
Salt Lake, was nominated for governor
of Utah by the democratic state conyen-
ton.
With imposing ceremonies the Cath
olic cathedral of the Epiphany was ded-
icated at Sioux City, Ia.
Seventh Michigan district demo-
erats nominated Charles Wellman, Of
Port Huron. for congressman.
In st. Paul. Mimi. Mrs. Sara Stevens
4 member Of the Way Down East COM
Dany, died suddenly of uraemia Mrs
Stevens was about 70 years of age, and
Ter stage career dated from October IN
1856, when she was the widow OF John
G. HeeEan. the noted English pugilist
Hon. John e. Osborne. Of Rawlins, ez
governor. was nominated for governor
of Wyoming BY reclamation BY tho
democratic state convention.
The Knights Templar conclave elect
ID Col George u Moulton, Of Illinois
wand master. Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
vas chosen as the meeting place Of ths
2ext conclave ii Jaly. 1909.