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The leader., 1897-12-15
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

A FIRE at Philadelphia, Pa, on the
18th, did damage approximating $780,
900.
An attempt was made to burn the
Southwestern Baptist University at
jackson, Tenn, on the 18th.
A STATEMENT prepared at the post
Office department shows that the gross
postal receipts at fifty of the largest
offices for November amounted to So
1921, SOS. an increase of 1882, 533, or II 9-10
per cent over the corresponding month
of last year
MRS NANCY ALLISON MCKINLEY,
mother of President Mckinley, died at
Canton, O., on the 18th. Deceased was
in her eighty ninth year.
In an attempt to hold up the west
bound Southern Pacific passenger train
at STEMS Pass, ninety miles west of
Deming. n. NJ, on the 10th, SANDY"
Collins was shot and killed by the ex-
press guard.
FAILURES for the week have been 312
in the United States, against $50 last
year, and 20 in Canada, against 43 last
year.
CHARLES FLEIsCHMAN, inventor, dis
tiller, publisher, race horse owner and
State senator, died at Cincinnati, o., on
the 10th.
REPRESENTATIVE of the steel wire
and nail manufacturing firms of the
United States, who for months have
been negotiating to form a steel and
wire nail pool, are nearing conclusion
of their work. 1t is said that the capt.
tai involved will exceed S60,000,000.
HACKED to pieces with an AK, the
body of Roy Erickson, maker of wicker
baskets, was found on the Sth in an old
shanty at Sioux Falls, S. d.
SENATOR PRIrCHARD on the sth intro
duced bill reducing the tax on dis
titled spirits in bond to 20 cents per gal
Ion.
THE claim of the heirs of Don Filhoil
to part of Hot Springs, Ark, has been
refused by the United States supreme
court.
CATTLE IN the vicinity of Pine Bluff,
Ark, are dying of disease similar to
Idiphtheria.
BRITISH stockholders are protesting
against phases of the recent sale of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
THE secretary of the treasury on the
nth took the first step to qualify on be-
half of the government as bidder at
the sale of the Kansas Pacific Railroad,
m Decor her H.
The leader., 1897-12-15
DOINGS OF WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days In This
and ALI Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
HFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Proceedings of First Regular se..io

Proceedings of First Regular session.
The Fifty-fifth congress convened on
the 9th in Washington. Vice President
Hobart called the senate to order at
room aud II senators responded TO
their names- The presidents message
was read, after which an adjournment
was taken for the day. Speaker Reed
called the house TO order, sol members
being present. After listening TO the
message of the president bills were in
troduccd to define trusts; 10 relieve the
president from the appointment OF
third-class postmasters; to grant ser
vice pensions TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
officers and enlisted men in the United
States army or navy during the rebel
lion; to establish q uniform system
of bankruptcy; to establish n postal
savings bank SYSTEM; TO admit New
Mexico to statehood; to modify the
civil service act by having il apply only
TO department clerks in Washington
and those in public offices Throughout
the country whose salaries are from
5000 to $500 per annum, letter car
riers and railway mail clerks, and to
silver dollar unless it contain sufficient
standard silver to make II intrinsically
worth par in gold.
In the United States senate on the
18th los bills were introduced, many of
which were private pension measures.
and one in favor of postal savings banks.
In the house there was Il lively skirmish
over the question of distributing the
presidents message to the various com
mittees clothed with jurisdiction over
the subjects dealt with. Mr.. Grosvenor
spoke against the present civil service
law.
Senator Allen (Neb.) introduced
resolution in the United States senate
on the sth for the recognition of Cuba
and made a speech in its favor. The
foreign relations committee reported
favorably a bill to stop pelagic sealing
Senator Gallinger On. H. introduced
bill prohibiting the granting of pen
sions to widows of soldiers whose mar
rage occurred subsequent to the pas
sage of the bill under which she makes
claim. In the house Mr.. Stone (Pa.)
reported the pension appropriation bill
The committees on election and on
banking and currency were given leave
to sit during the sessions of the house.
A petition was presented in the
United States senate on the 9th signed
by 21.269 native Hawaiians protesting
against the annexation of Hawaii, and
a favorable report was made on the
bill to provide for the twelfth census.
Forty-five private pension bills were
passed. The house entered upon the
consideration of the pension appropria-
tion bill ($141, 121, S3O), and stirred up
debate that promises to continue for
several DAYS
The leader., 1897-12-15
FOREIGN INTEILIGENCE.

The presidents message to congress
is praised by Premier Sagasta, OF
Spain.
Starvation must have come to Daw'
son, for 5000 men were coming out
over the trails from the Klondike.
Premier Sagasta said at cabinet
council in Madrid that in the event OF
the United States interfering in Cuba
1t would find the government prepared
to defend the rights and honor OF
Spain.
In Russian Asia there Is general I'M
rest among the Moslems and an upris-
ing is feared.
II Cuba Monday, the 18th inst, is
unt rstood to be the day set for the in
stitution of the provisional government
under the autonomy DEGREES.
In a proclamation signed by the
Cuban military and civil leaders in
Havana province the autonomy offered
by Spain is spurned.
The leader., 1897-12-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

Secretary of the Treasury Gage in his
annual report shows that the total re-
ceipts for the year ended June 30, 1897,
were $43O, 37S. 167, and the expenditures
$44s, ABS, 622, leaving a deficit of $751;
O52, 454. He recommends the estab-
lishment of a treasury division Of issue
and redemption to protect national
credit; that places of 1000 inhabitants
be permitted to maintain national
banks with a minimum capital of $685.
900; that the tax rate on circulation
be reduced to one-half of one per cent,
and that the government guarantee all
national bank notes and tax unsecured
circulation two per cent. per annum.
At the mint and assay offices the
value of gold deposited during the
fiscal year 1897 was $129 1O5.50053.
In Massachusetts, II of the 80 cities
held their municipal elections and in
the majority of cases the republicans
were successful.
Secretary Gage says in a report to
the department of state that the United
States has stopped 2s flibustering ex-
petitions to Cuba, and he also says that
if Spain had done half as well not a
cartridge would have reached the is
land.
In Washington the American For
estry association held its siXtieth an
nual meeting.
Typhoid fever caused the death Of
Osborne Mem. Kavanagh, third secre-
tary of the British embassy in Wash
ington.
The leader., 1897-12-15
you CAN'T STOP ,EY.

News comes from Attica, Ind. Of ,b0 4.
struction, by fire, of the big laborator, ue
Office building of the Sterling Remedy C anu
pany, makers of Cascarets Candy a. I'm. IN
and No-To-Bac, the original guaTar feed tn'
bacco habit cure. The fire broke out IN ON ~.
of the packing rooms on the third floor dnu
ing the noon hour, and had made considsr.
able Roadway before it was discovered
As soon. as it became apparent tina. III.
fire department would have difficulty IN
combating the flames, the work of sav;n.
the thousands of valuable documents cnr
tracts, files, millions of booklets and ,oa.
of advertising matter was begun with tbs
utmost energy. The Sterling Remedy CON-
pany is the principal industry of the beant;
full little city of Attica, employing several
hundred people, besides being affiliated with
the Indiana Mineral Springs, the famoT.
Magno-Mud Cure. Hundreds of men. wor'
en- and children We'd with each other in car.
rying the contents Of the burning buJld;n,
to places of safety.
Meanwhile the proverbial energy and
and presence-of- mind of General Manages
Kramer, of the Sterling Remedy COMPANY
was displayed. He quietly walked away'
and secured big show room near by, ana
had all the Office furniture, charred and Al.
lapidated as it was, taken there. Before the
boxes had ceased burning, in which the fire
originated, orders were being dictated in
the make-shift Office for new supplies. and
car loads of material were ordered by wire
while the streams were still playing on the
ruins. Several shipments were made the
same evening from goods saved, and on Fri.
day morning, all departments were at work
in various rooms about town, while gang
of men were cleaning away the Wreckace
preliminary to rebuilding.
The leader., 1897-12-15
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS.
Land Commissioner.

Since the present land commission .er,
Col. Simonton, went into Office, January
30, 1896, he has paid into the trea'u
fees amounting to the sum of 81, 969.5l.
His report will show all the lands
claimed by the State in each county
each piece accurately described. ii
will also show that there are now on
the forfeited tax rolls 266, 1861 acres,
much of which is improperly listed. In
many cases the owners have the tax
receipts showing all taxes paid; in
other cases the land is property sold
and reported by one sheriff, and his
successor receives the tax FROM the
owner the following year, or pei haps
two or more years thereafter, and the
owner actually forgets that his land
was forfeited to the State for taxes. In
addition to this. swamp lands, Chicka-
saw school lands and every other class
of lands have been enormously placed
on the assessment roll and reported as
forfeited for taxes. The report will
naturally be of great assistance to tax
assessors. tax collectors and boards of
supervisors. We are indebted to Col.
Powers letter to the Magnolia Gazette
for the above interesting figures.
The leader., 1897-12-15

Flames ut Port Townsend, WASH,
destroyed the full data of all the ship
ping Of Puget sound and British Co
lumbia waters since the year 1863.
The death of Chief Justice Conway,
of the Wyoming supreme court oc-
Cured in Cheyenne.
Ii was decided by the board of educa-
tion to close the schools in Minneapo-
lis because of lack of money.
In Texas Gen. Paul Vandervoort, a:
one time commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic. has secured land
for a colony of 1000 veterans.
A negro murdered the wife and five
children OF Brown Smith. farmer In
Simpson county. Miss, during Mr..
Smiths absence.
Because she could not stop smoking
cigarettes, Miss Lille Arnold, of Jones'
vile, Mich. aged %, committed suicide.
John Hassett and Frank Weber,
miners. were killed in a snowslide near
Glendale, Mont.
A piece of quartz with veins Of gold
will convey CALIFORNIA; invitation to
President Mckinley to attend the gold
en- jubilee Of the discovery of gold.
On the Chicago board of trade De-
cember wheat was carried up to S1.O9,
the highest figure since the famous
corner of 1891.
In Ohio the Ohio federation of labor
adopted n resolution recommending
the exclusion of foreign labor for pc
riod of ten years.
The leader., 1897-12-15
WEST AND SOUTH.

The governor of Georgia vetoed the
anti-football bill.
In ST. Louis the Fair Shoe and Cloth
ing company, large department store,
failed for $150.000.
At Sioux Falls, s. d., a state bar asso-
citation has been formed with Bart
lett Trip as president.
In Chicago a company has been or
ganized to maintain permanent ex-
hibition of the products of the western
and northwestern states and terri
tories.
A mob took Adam Uber, who killed
Hans Anderson at Gardneryllle, New,
from Jail and hanged him.
The steamer Algonquin, which was
built for the revenue cutter service on
the lakes, was launched at Cleveland.
At Clinton, Tenn. Mynatt Leach was
hanged for the murder of j. d. Heck
ON February Is last.
Horton, Gilmore, McWilliams & Co..
one of the largest wholesale hardware
firms in Chicago. failed for $4,000.
Because of illness Elmer w. Rose,
editor of the Preston Qa.) Times.
killed himself
Burglars entered the post Office at
Louisville. H., and stole 1854 in stamps
and money.
b. p. Reynolds. one of Chicago's old
est and best-known physicians. died at
the age Of 65 years
In Chicago the Schaeffer Piano com
pany made an assignment
The leader., 1897-12-15
TAE EASI-

The death of Rev. John W. Atkinson
pastor of the NJ. f. church at Haver-
straw, n. Y, occurred at the age of g.
years. He was author of the hymn
eve Shall Meet Beyond the River"
At Jersey City, n. j., gold trust has
been incorporated under the name OF
the Menlo Trading company.
The first of the year the New York
Typographical union will begin its
fight for a nine-hour day.
AT Portsmouth, n. H.. James Wood
celebrated his 101st birthday anniver-
sary in company with his wife, who is
so, two sisters who are over so, and two
sons and one daughter.
The death of Rear Admiral Joseph F.
Green, U. S. n. (retired). occurred al
his home in Brookline, Mass.
At Myerstown, Pa, Luther L. Miller,
a prominent business man, commit
ted suicide rather than submit to arrest
on a charge of forgery.
The leader., 1897-12-15
COWARDlY JURYM EN-.
Judge r. }. BroadduS Dwelis on the senti-
mcnt That Iets Criminals Escape.

Judge f. }. Broaddus Dwelis on the Senti-
ment That Let's Criminals Escape.
LIBERTY, Mo-, Dec. 1l.-Judge Il. j.
Broaddus has referred to the moral
cowardice of petit jurymen" few
times recently, but the strongest lam
guage he has used on the subject was
at Kingston, when he said:
1t is sympathy and moral cOwardice on the
part OF jurors that intervenes and clears guilty
men. The defendants attorney tells the jury
that 1t is better that 50 guilty men escape than
one innocent man be unJustly punished. There
are too many OF the 90 guilty ones escape. The
reasonable doubt is used too much as u
pretext to clear those guilty of crime Every
term of court there are guilty men turned
loose to prey upon society because of the moral
cowardice of jurors 1t is no trouble to secure
an Indictment but the difficulty lies in secur-
ing a verdict of guilty. Our moderniZed courts
have become refugees for criminals This was
not so under the carly common law courts OF
this country and OF Great Britain. / make
these suggestions for your benefit 1t is the
first time in the history of the state of Missouri
that judge on the bench has done so, but be
lieve my remarks are proper and opportune
for the occasion, the times and the conditions.
The leader., 1897-12-15
INDUSTRIAL MOTIFS,

There are 10000 women and girls in
Michigan engaged in gainful oocupa-
tions.
AT the new beet sugar factory at
Rome. n. Y, about ten tons of white
granulated sugar are being turned out
every day.
Only 40,296 immigrants entered the
United States during the first quarter
of the present fiscal year, which was
II, 800 less than for the same period
last year.
The eight7hour day is making prog
ress in England, Sam Moss QiberaD has
just been elected to parliament over an
Iaristocratic opponent because he stood
for an eight-hour law.
The British cooperative societies
transact an annual business of about
5000, 100000 They favor political action,
and are going to endeavor TO send their
own members to parliament.
After six years of wrangling and lit
rgation the city of Duluth has pur-
chased the water and gas plants of the
English syndicate that owned them.
The syndicate at first demanded So, 1OO,-
900, but finally accepted $1,20O,0OOO.
Labor Commissioner Powderly has
arrested and returned to Austria so
stave mill hands who had been imported
under contract by Mississippi mill men.
They went back at the expense of the
steamship company that brought them.
The board of managers of New York
state prisons claims to have solved the
convict labor problem. The prisoners
now make almost every article they
need, and outside labor is only invaded
TO the extent of paying for raw material
in prison goods.
Those who are fond of comparing the
condition of the people in England and
in the United States will be interested
in the statistics recently published,
which show that in London one person
in As is maintained by public charity,
while in New York the proportion is
one in 200.
During the past three months the
maintenance of way department of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company
has been very busy laying the new s5-
pound steel ordered last summer by the
receivers. Eight thousand tons have
been put in the east-bound track on the
third and second divisions, and but
four miles remain to be laid ON the lat
ter division. On the Parkersburg
branch 1000 tons have been placed in
the track.
~-t r r.
The leader., 1897-12-15
WEEKLY. TRADE REVIEW.
Active Basiaet In Holiday Goods Prices
Are Al EressiveIy strong.
New YORK, Dec H. Bradstreets
AL


Are Al Eressively strong.
New YORK, Dec H. Bradstreets
commercial report says:
Mid weather throughout most OF the country
has interfered 10 some extent with the distrihu-
tion OF winter weight clothing and other sea-
sonable goods and trade from first hands IL
quieter even than last week Jobbsrs and re-
tailers. however. report a steadily increasing
demand and In some regions very active bust
ness In holiday goods. groceries and kindred
products Reports from the south continue as
whole very good with especially favorable
accounts from New Orleans. Atlanta, Nashville
and the central south. Collections are as
rule generally very satisfactory in spite Of the
low price OF cotton.
The price situation Is one OF sustained
and even aggressive strength Wheat Is
higher, partly on improved statistical position,
but largely In sympathy with the Chicago
squeeze. which had advanced prices IS cents
per bushel within n week In that market All
cereals have sympathized with wheat and
coffee, copper, cotton, dairy products leaf to-
baceo and raw sugar are also among the prom
inent staples which have been enhanced in
value. The decreases have been few. and
slight shading at Pittsburgh and sympathetic
weaknesses at other points on an immense pro-
duction.
There are 2o2 business failures reported
throughout the United States this week, as OPP
posed to 250 last week, 3sl in the week q year
ago, 3l3 in 1895. and 1888 in 1894
The leader., 1897-12-15
To Huild N.tiona, I,ibrar,es.

PALo ALTO, CAL, Dec 1l.-H. G.
Nash, librarian of Leland Stamford
university, and j. c. Kovell, librarian
of the university of California, are at
work on a scheme to materially change
the copyright laws of the country and
at the same time build up large ma
cities. The plan is to require authors
obtaining the protection of copy
right to supply copies of their work to
several repositories located in different
sections of the country. Senator Per-
kins will introduce the bill. 1t will
direct the establishment of deposito-
ries in the cities of Chicago, Denver
San Francisco and New Orleans
The leader., 1897-12-15
The Kansas Pacific Sale.

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - Attorney
General McKenna has taken steps
looking to the postponement of the
sale of the Kansas Pacific road. AS
soon as.he received copy of the sen.
ate's resolution he telegraphed its sub
stance to Special Counsel ex-Gov.
Hoadley at New York, with a request
that he prepare at once a motion ask
ing for postponement for go days, OF
until about February Is.
The leader., 1897-12-15
sulclpEs mi KANSAS CITY
A Pistol. CarboIic Acid and Lsudanum
Furnt.h the Means.


Furnish the Means.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 1f.-Julius
G. Kneule, a porter in Charles Muel-
ler's saloon at 1918 Grand avenue, shot
himself through the head last night
Temporary insanity is given as the
cause.
Myrtle Switzer, 10 years old, daugh-
ter of John Switzer, laborer living
at 6l1I{ Southwest boulevard, killed
herself by drinking laudanum. Aquar-
rel with her father about the atten-
tions paid her by Charles Uhlin, a
blacksmith, is given as the cause of
the suicide.
Homer f. Basket, aged 25, for two
years night clerk at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, 305 west Fifth street, committed
suicide with carbolic acid because he
could not quit drinking whisky. A
note on the dresser by the side of a
whisky bottle in his room at the hotel
read: Boys, this is what did it,"
This makes five suicides here within a
week
The leader., 1897-12-15
HIS SINISTER INrsNr,ou
A Landlord who Wa. No, m.
With

Oklahoma Landlord-If thar is a .ho..,-,
star or two along towards midnight TN Son.
no danger yourself. oe IN
Eastern Tourist-Certainly mott L
seen such sights before; but | was no, nave haEe
that there was to be a meteoric disn iIHa ts
this time. Hpiay at
wal, | don't know for certain tbs, Al.
is goin' TO be any, but I've got il 6gro onas
out that them three members of f ,s,e11
Uncle Toms Cabin company thar pJhs seea1
been boardin' on me for the last two w psts
home are goin' TO try to vamous To- nh. rom
leave me holdin' the bag, and am ,sos. an y
say that they hain't goin to Git away ~, ,r;.S .
out settlin' in full, not il nv old rcv I'm
works with its usual neatness an disn.t''te,,
That's the kind of a-by gosh-IsndIoos,IJh /
AMIN. Y. World Otu
The leader., 1897-12-15

1t appears that there is not single
state nor territory in the union in which
there is not trial for murder pending.
While it Is a mooted point whether
legal punishment has any deterrent eff
feet upon crime, there is ample evil
dence of too much professional cour-
tesy at the expense of justice. There
is feeling among the people, how
ever, that in the near future crime must
be punished more, and more effective
measures for the preservation of So
ciety's peace are go be made.
The leader., 1897-12-15
He Thirsted for Revenge,

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. IL. Frank Rob,
bins, a 14-year-old schoolboy, with
some few schoolmates, tried to
lynch Ward Fisher for slandering his
sister Fisher was called out of school
and Robbins mounted his pony and
threw a lariat rope at Fisher, who
lodged it, but was caught by the arm
and dragged 100 feet. Fishers flesh
was badly lacerated and he was left
on the ground for dead
The leader., 1897-12-15

According to the government report,
the number of money order Offices in
the country is 10000, as against 9,382 re-
ported in 1890, and this does not include
the 1851 limited offices where orders
are limited to sums not over five dollars.
The amount of orders issued last year
was S175,000,000. In this branch of
Uncle Sans business there was a profit
last fiscal year of $790,23 which is do
ing very well. Steps will be taken to
greatly increase the number of offices
and the business.
The leader., 1897-12-15
A Horrible Murder.

WEssoN, Dec. Gone of the most
atrocious and inhuman murders ever
heard of was committed last night in
the edge of Simpson county, some TWEEN
ty miles from here. Brown Smith, a
farmer, left his family at his home in
the country to go to town for shopping
purposes, thinking of no possible dan
ger for them. This morning when he
returned he found his wife and five
children weltering in their blood, and
apparently all dead.
One of the little girls, supposed this
morning to have been dead, has revived
enough to tell what She knew of the
occurrence. She said she knows the
man who committed the deed; that it
was a negro, and described him.
1t is greatly feared that a wholesale
lynching may take place in that neigh
borhood, as the country is excited to
the highest pitch.
The leader., 1897-12-15
FEAST WITHOUT THE BRIDE.
Groom-to-B he Cancels the Engagement, but
Gives His Dinner.


BELoIT, Wis, Dec. 1.-THE strange
actions of young woman just prior
to her intended marriage to Lands
Haugen caused disappointment to 200
guests who assembled last night to wit
ness the ceremony. Miss Clara Christ
ensen, a trained nurse, whose name APP
peared ON the wedding invitations, had
practiced strange bit of deception on
her expected husband. He discovered
her trick cancelled the engagement, but
gave the feast prepared for the we'd
ding, to the amusement of the public.
A few hours before the wedding Miss
Christensen lied to Haugen about a
trivial matter and he was SO chagrined
and disappointed that he Immediately
declared the wedding off.