The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-09-29
NEWS BRIEFLY REPORTED,

The time system has replaced piece
Work In the government printing Office.
The Altoona Manufacturing com.
pany, high grade engine builders. have
assigned.
Queen Victoria has appointed Lord
Edward Phelan Clinton to be master of
the household.
- American rancher named Hol-
maN living near. Victoria. Mex, not
full on Mexican booze and killed his
wife and two children.
Howgate, arrested i'm New York for
~embezzling several hundred thousand
dollars from the government. has been
taken to Washington for trial.
Two men were burned to death, two
othher men and q little girl were badly
injured and 500, 900 worth of property
destroyed by fire at Nanaimo, B. G.
The net earnings Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul for the month
of August were 1924, 922, an increase of
$lS5,0OO over the same month Of last
year.
By the decision Of the United States
court of private land claims all the min
eral bearing portion of the rich Cochir
district was declared to be public do.
main. iii gt e.
The clerks of the Bank of England
are holding angry meetings of protest
against the recent admission into the
service Of the bank Of two patches of
lady clerks.
Judge Hanecy of Chicago has granted
Edith q. Marshall a decree of divorce
from Daniel Marshal. The defendant
is the SON OF one Of Colorado's largest
ranch owners
F. w. Whitredge, counsel for the
Olcott-Earle committee on reorganiza-
ton OF the Reading, has sailed for Eu-
rope to present the plan to foreign
security holders.
Mrs. Sterling formerly of the Lyceum
theatre. London, whose husband died q
few months ago, is now married to Sir
Charles Hutton Gregory, X. G. nj. Sir
Charles is 70 years of age.
The Carnegie company has proposed
a readjustment Of the scale of wages of
its employees at the Edgar Thompson
works TO meet recent reductions made
by the Amalgamated association.
The rifle competition of the d,part-
ments on California aMl the Columbia
has terminated, comparatively poor
scores being made, owing TO the unfa-
vorable condition Of the weather.
During the first two months Of the
present fiscal year the receipts from the
internal revenue amounted to $50. 84O,-
S7S. The total receipts for August last
were $l6.lS3, 69I in excess of August,
1893.
United States Commissioner Shields
has discharged Lee How, Lee Jack and
Chu Puan, charged with smuggling
Cinnamon from Canada through YER
mont, on the ground that the evidence
against them was not sufficient.
A statement prepared at the internal
revenue bureau shows thut during the
frst Two months OF the present fiscal
year ne receipts from internal revenue
amounted TO CSC, SAC, $40, an increase
over the receipts In 1898 of $40. $50. 574.
Temple Made From . single Stone.
Mayalipmam, India. has seven of the
most remarkable temples In the world.
each OF these unique places of worship
having been fashioned from solid granite
powders Some idea of their size and
the task of chiseling out the interior
may be Cleaned from the fact that the
smallest OF the seven is "a feet high, II
feet long and ~ feet wide Travellers
who have carefully examined them are
Of the opinion that il took centuries of
work 10 carve these graceful edifces
from native rock. --St. Louis Republic
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