The leader., 1897-09-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

and the appropriation was Sal, 1858, 500
MIGCELLANEOUs.
AT Denver, Col, the mails were said
to be loaded with counterfeit postal
cards and it was stated that the cards
were sold in large quantities to mcr-
chants and others in that city and i'm
mense profits were being realized.
TEE negro postmaster of Iogans-
Vile, Ga, was recently shot by I'M
known men. He was appointed by the
administration over the protests of the
white residents of the section, and the
post Office has since been boycotted.
AS the Universal Postal congress re-
Gently held at Washington had agreed
upon scheme of colors for postal
stamps to be used by all nations in the
postal union the two-cent stamp of the
United States will still be carmine and
the proposed change TO green will not
be made.
THE yellow fever situation at New
Orleans assumed a serious aspect on
The 18th, eight new cases being report
ed. At Vicksburg, Miss, Is cases of
The fever were reported for the day. A
case of death from yellow fever &C.
Cured at Augusta, Miss, and it was
feared that a new focus of the plague
had been started.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report
there were 1863 failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th,
against 315 in the corresponding week
of last year
II !, nl1rr S,f tln.a
last day of the Springfield Qll.) Bicycle
clubs tournament He went half a
mile in Log is, the one-third mile, j..
A. w. championship, in :45 3-5 and the
one mile open professional record race
in 2:05 is. Jimmy Michael broke the
American record for ten miles, his time
being 1927 As. The former record was
1888 is.
FOUR cases of yellow fever were re-
ported at Mobile, Ala, on the 18th.
Business at jackson, Miss, was at a
standstill on account of suspicious
cases of fever being reported at Ed
wards, IS miles distant, and Jackson
was surrounded by an armed guard.
Many new cases of the plague were
also reported at New Orleans and ad.
jacent cities.
The interior department has been
receiving hundreds of letters daily
asking for information about Alaska
and Secretary Bliss will have prepared
a document ON the territory for future
distribution. This document will be
in the form of answers to the questions
which are most frequently propounded
by those seeking information about
the gold country.
NJ. CoRDANG, the Dutch long-distance
champion bicycle racer, performed
"a hours ride at the Crystal palace,
London, recently. From the fourth
hour he had beaten the worlds record
and had completed the 500 miles in
19:17:2s is. Cordang covered 616 miles
and $40 yards in "a hours, or SO miles
over the worlds record.
COMMISSIONER JONES, of the Indian
bureau, has had an investigation made
at the different agencies of the num-
Der of insane Indians at each of them
and the poll shows only 6S insane In
dams in the whole country and some
of these are regasded as idiots rather
than lunatics.
ABOUT one o'clock a m. of the 18th
large body of men on horseback en-
tered Versailles, Ind. and called out
Jailer KEENAN, and demanded the keys
of the Jail. He refused to give them
up and was overpowered and the mob
pushed its way into the cell rooms and
fired on Lyle Levi. Bert Andrews, Cliff
ford Gordon, William Jenkins and
Henry Shuler, under arrest for many
recent robberies, and then dragged
them to tree square from the Jail
door and hanged them.
The Peoples Gaslight & Coke Co, of
Chicago. hes given mortgage on Its
plant OF $40. coo. 900 70 the Farmegs'
Loan 4 Trust Co. Of New York