The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-01-16

The coal miners, at their convention
in Indianapolis, are expected to take
steps to place the organization on a
war footing for another struggle in
1906.
The cruiser St. Louis. now under
construction on the Delaware river,
will be. ready to go into action when
she is launched. This is a new de-
parture in warship building.
Hon. Elmer j. Burkett will be the
youngest man in the United States SEN
ate when he takes his seat as one of
Nebraska's senators. He was born in
Iowa in 1867.
Miss Courteuey Thomas, a Missouri
girl, will sing in operate roles at
Monte Carlo for the remainder of the
season, going thence to Brussels in the
spring.
E. K. Brown. of Ell Reno, Okla, was
found unconscious on the street at
Kansas City, Mo-, evidently suffering
from poison, and died at the police
station. He was a freshman in the
art department of the Kansas univer-
sity.
The National Live Stock association
has been disrupted, the cattlemen,
horse and swine growers, who were
opposed to affiliation with the railroad
and packing interests drawing out and
forming an Independent organization.
Chief Wilkie of the United States
secret service announces the appear
ance of new and very deceptive coun-
terfeit two-dollar silver certificate, OF
series 1899, Lyons register, Roberts
treasurer.
Witnesses for the defense in the
Smoot case, at Washington, testified
that polygamy is dying out in Utah SO
rapidly that there is no need of pros
ecutions.
Fire destroyed the new theater and
several ether buildings at Neepawar
Manitoba, causing loss of $4,000.
The ecclesiastical court of inquiry at
Reading, Pa, called to consider
charges against Bishop Talbot, has
adjourned slime die, the members de-
Gliding that the body was uncanonical-
ly constituted.
A we'll defined movement has been
inaugurated by the Order of Red Men
in Petersburg, Va, for the erection OF
a monument to Chief Powhattan and
his daughter, Pocahontas.
The county treasurer's vault in the
Fulton county court house in Wauseon
O.. was blown open by four craftsmen.
who secured from $1,000 to $4,000.
Count Pueckler, Germany's most
noted Jew batter, has been sentenced
in Berlin, to six months in Jail fol
public Indictment to disobedience OF
the laws and violence of one class
against another.
Silas CARRIER, who served as govern
or of Nebraska from 1874 to 1878, died
at Omaha. He was native Of Ohio
settling in Nebraska in 1879.
Former Gov. Morgan G. Buckley
of Connecticut, was chosen by the re-
public caucus, at Hartford, as candi-
date for United States senator to sue
ceeed Joseph r. Hawley, who will re-
tire on account of impaired health.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, has been renominated to
succeed himself, and Senator w. Muir
ry Crane, to fill the unexpired term OF
Mr.. Hoar, which he holds by appoint
ment
Cablegrams received in st. Louis an
nounce the death of August Anheuser
Sr., at Krueznach, Germany, from
heart trouble. He was first cousin
of Mrs. Adolphus Busch, of st. Louis
Rev. ]. C. Hartzel, Methodist Episco-
pal bishop of Africa, has sailed fol
Liverpool, en- route to his field of Ia
Dor.
The German mine owners, at 8
meeting in Essen, resolved under nc
circumstances to yield to the demands
of the miners and to suppress the
strike by every possible means, even
at the cost of hundreds of millions Of
marks.
Habeas corpus proceedings have
been instituted in the cases of the
children taken to Arizona by repre-
sentatives of the New York founding
asylum and taken from the persons
with whom they were placed and
adopted by other families.
A commission has been appointed
to summon a jury and take testimony
concerning the sanity of Brodie l.
Duke, now confined in a sanitarium al
Flushing, Long Island. 1t is claimed
that Duke is deprived of his liberty
without due process of law.
Official records of Ellis Island, N. Y.
show that for the first month of the
new year immigration to this country
is likely to exceed all records.
The Chicago Press club celebrated
the twenty-ffth anniversary of its
founding with banquet. Col. George
Harvey, of New York, and Gov. Cum
minis of Iowa were among the prin'
cipal speakers.
Three persons were killed, two IA
tally and about a score more or less
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Santa Fe, three miles south of Ration
N. NJ, between the east-bound Califor
MIA limited and freight train. Tit
wreck was one Of the worst that ha:
happened on the Las Vegas division.
Senator Albert J. Beveridge and
Congressman James A. Hemmenway
were chosen by the republican join
caucus of the Indiana legislature a!
candidates for United States senators
the latter to succeed Weep President
elect Fairbanks. The democrats nom
mated Ben F. Shivley.
Two hundred thousand Russian
Quakers (Molokanys) are coming e
this country, under the leadership o
p. A. Deamens, to establish perma
nent colony near Los Angeles, Cal.
Mr.. John H. Seager, secretary t.
Chief Engineer Wallace of the Pana
ma canal zone, who brought the bod,
Of his wife, who died of yellow fevel
there January 2, to New York, Is him
self i'll and under observation at Hof
man island.
The wife If Augustus Thomas. tht