The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-11-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Secretary Gresham is confined to
his house by illness His condition is
not serious and he will probably be
out again in a day or two.
Hon. Gilchrist Porter, eX-mem Der
of congress and brother in law of j.
o. Broadhead, minister to Switzerland,
died at Hannibal. Mo, of heart dis
ease, aged -.
Reports TO the director of the mint
show coinage for the month of Octo.
Der, as follows: Gold, S2.91l, 500; sill
ver.S1, 2l7, 600, of which 100000 was
standard dollars: minor coin, S24, 900.
Total coinage, 81, 152,700
The Democratic caucus at Atlanta.
Ca, has nominated Ho~ Patrick
Walsh for the senate TO se4yc- the re-
mainder of the term to which .te late
Senator Colquitt was elected, and A.
o. Bacon of Macon, for the long term,
beginning March 1, 1898.
Gallus Mueller, chief clerk of the
Joliet prison, committed suicide, He
was known all over the country, and
introduced the Bertillon system in
the United States. lie was highly
educated, and spoke dozen or more
languages. The cause of the suicide
is unknown.
The American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions in Bos ton
has received a cable message from
Turkey reporting great fire at
Hadjin, by which 1000 people are
rendered homeless lladiin is IL town
situated in the Taurus mountains
north of the plain of Galicia.
The rock drilling contests at Lead
Vile, Col, for the championship Of
the world and purse of 1925 was won
by Mckee and Demycr, the former
champions of that city. They made a
score of thirty-five and five cigh tbs
inches in fifteen minutes, the rock
being Gunnison granite. Eleven
teams contested.
A sensation has been created bv the
announcement Of the board of health
that several cases of child-murder at
Chattanooga, Tenn, have grown out
of the insurance OF the lives OF in
fants, which is being pushed among
! colored people by certain insurance
| companies The work of these com
panies is denounced and the board
urges legislation to prevent such
/ traffic.
BY the breaking OF a scaffold at the
| eighth story of building in course
! of construction at Twelfth and Lo-
Gust streets in St Louis, samuel
| Moore and Jacob Werner were killed
aud Jacob Enz fatally injured. The
| first two men fell to the pavement
outside OF the building. Enz in fall
| ing whirled around AMI fell into a
| third story window in the same
/ building, but received fatal injuries
Moore and Werner were frightfully y
| mangled.
At indianapolis Ind, Judge Win
/ tiers decided that the matured GER
/ tifcates of members of the Iron Hall,
/ which had not been paid when the
| rece eivership was created. were mat
! ters of contract fulfilled and that
/ they should be allowed. in full, less
! the amounts received in sick benefits
| The decision however, did not make
| them preferred claims OYER the claims
of members holding unmatured GER
! tifcates, and the holders OF them can
| only receive the usual dividends upon
the face value.
The New York Evening Post says it
has indisputable evidence that dur
ing the course of the present investi-
CATION Mr.. Goff was waited on by a
person who offered him $4,000 as a
fee for examination of the title to a
piece of real estate which was worth
less than IS, 0O), ON condition that he
(Goff) would not call as a witness a
certain captain of police, or mention
the name of said captain. Mr.. Goii
declined the offer and called the
name of that captain the next day.