The leader., 1897-11-24
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

This years orange crop of Califor-
MIA is estimated at from 5000 to 1900
carloads.
For the brutal murder of his par
amour, Nlnie Bell, George Westo, alias
Devil Winston, colored was hanged
at Paducah, Ky, yesterday.
Albert Frantz the murderer of
pretty Bessie Little, expiated his
crime in the electrical chair at Column
bus. o., l2:95 a. IN, yesterday.
Cabinet day at the White House
caused dearth of visitors yesterday,
and those who say the president were
those who had appointments.
The acknowledgement of the army
is informed of the death of Lieut.. A.
Il. jackson, ninth cavalry, at Lincoln,
Ncb., following an operation for APP
pendicitis.
The fire in the Smuggler mine at
Aspen, Col, remains unconquered, and
it is now conceded that it will require
weeks, and perhaps months, before it
can be subdued
Foreign laborers arrested several
days ago and jailed in Memphis, Tenn,
through their attorneys, yesterday APP
piled for release on Il writ of habeas
corpus. The writ was made returnable
Monday.
Three new cases and no deaths
from yellow fever were reported to the
New Orleans board of health yester-
day. The weather was warmer than
Thursday, but the fever has about run
its course.
-Germany's contingent of the in
ternational army of occupation in Ca
nea embarked, yesterday, on the
Kaiserin Augusta. The German flag
had previously been hauled down from
the international redoubt.
The boiler in Milton Artley's large
Mich, exploded yesterday, killing the
fireman, Edward Grant, and injuring
Fred Artley, son of the owner; Otis
Baker and Cyrus Burrows.
Sheriff Mattox and deputy AL.
Hatchett, of Van Buren,, Ark, cap
tured Il. l.. Skidmore, one of the moon
sinners charged with the murder of
Capt. Taylor and posse of deputy mar
shals in Pope county, on August 20
last
The jury in the trial of Alderman
Durham. of Minneapolis, Mimi,
charged with soliciting bride of $1O,-
900 from a contracting firm, found
verdict of guilty. This is the first
conviction in the Minneapolis alder
manic boodling cases.
The Cole county grand jury of JEFF
ferson City, Mo, has begun the inves-
tgation of the charges of bribery
made by the St Louis Republic against
lobbyists of the last legislature, last
winter. The investigation was begun
under instructions of Judge Shackle-
ford.
The government is actively en-
gagged in the preparation of it's case
against the Genital Pacific Railway
Co., in anticipation of the company's
default i'll its payments due January 1,
1895 What action will be taken, in
case of default, has not yet been de-
cided upon.
Twenty brawny Indians from
the government school at Carlisle, Pa,
1 of them the football team which is
to meet the University of Illinois kick
ers at the Coliseum tonight, arrived
in Chicago yesterday accompanied by
Coach Bull, and were quartered at the
Palmer house.
The British privy council has re
jected the appeal of Gangadhar Tilak
the native member of the legislative
court of India, for a retrial of the case
against him, which resulted in his be-
ing sentenced on September IA last, tc
IS months rigorous Imprisonment,
after having been convicted of melting
the natives of Bombay and its vicinity
to disaffection.