The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-10-06
MISCELLANEOUS,

900 people at the Illinois state fair
grounds at Springfield Star Pointer
not only beat Joe Patchen, but he also
lowered the worlds pacing record pre-
viously made by himself by half sec
end, making a mile in 2:001l.
IT was reported from San Francisco
that the Chinese had found means to
successfully evade the Chinese restric-
ton act by landing in the United States
on certificates issued in Macao, Por-
tuguese possession. The certificates
entitle them to land, according to an
opinion of the United States attorney
general delivered in 1896.
TIE failures in the United States for
the week ended the LIST were 1874, ac-
cordiug to Dun's report, against 299 for
the corresponding week last year.
THERE is larger demand for male
stenographers and typewriters in the
departments at Washington than the
civil service commission has been able
to meet. The salaries range from 5000
to S! 900 per annum.
TIE monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
during September, 1897, shows the re-
ceipts to have been SCI, 1913, 09S and the
expenditures $25, 36S. SIS, an excess of
expenditures over receipts of SIS, 435, SIT.
A sOUTHBOUND Rock Island passen-
ger train was held up at 1880 a. m. on
the 1st near Chickasha l. t., by five
masked men, They tried to blow
open the safe in the express car but
failed. The car, however, was blown
to atoms. The mail bags We're rihed
and all registered packages taken.
The robbers then lined up the passen-
gers outside and took all their valua-
bles. Posses were put on the trail OF
the bandits.
A TRAIN on the Boston & Maine rail-
road met with an accident near Med
ford, Mass, and about 80 passengers
were more or less injured.
FIRE broke out early on the LIST al
Willow Springs, 1G miles from Chicago
and destroyed nearly half the town
and made about 50 families homeless
Two masked highwaymen held VI
three stages travelling from Angels
Camp to Milton, Cal, one after the
other, and robbed the passengers anC
decamped with the express box.
The United States mint in Philadel
phia completed the greatest coinage
in one month in its history. The coun
ter statement for September is as fol
lows: Gold, 1922, 375; silver, SS46, 092.
80; five cents, SlS4,5lO; cents, SAT, 472
The total number of pieces turned out
was 1000, 600.
IN a ten-round bout before the Amer,
lean Sporting club at Scranton, Pa.
Tommy Ryan, of Philadelphia, was
awarded the decision over Jack Me
Aulifre. of Brooklyn, the retired world:
lightweight champion.
SIXTEEN persons were killed and sew
eral injured by the explosion of boiler
in sugar factory in Hungary.
POSTMASTER. GENERAL GARY has au.
thorized the announcement that all
mails leaving New Orleans, where vel
low fever is raging, are thoroughly
fumigated.
FIRE broke out in vacant store al
Livingston, Mont, on the 27th and
threatened the business portion or
Main street, but the firemen confined
the flames to cigar store and a row
of frame buildings. The fire was saiC
to have been incendiary and the thiro
attempt in a week to burn the town.
AT Kilbuck, o., Frederick Penhar
wood, the railway station agent, wa
shot and killed while en- route home
The murderer was supposed to be 4
tramp, whom Penharwood had ordered
away during the day.
The fourth annual convention O
mothers took place at Chicago on the
2sth. Mrs. j. n. Grouse called tn,
meeting to order. The subject of dis
cussion was mature study"
A TRUST among the retail grocers o
Des Moines, Ia, was said to be in pro
cess of formation. The plan is to buy
90 or 80 of the best concerns in the city
by a syndicate and then kill the res
by ruinous cut in prices.
The National Irrigation congress
opened at Lincoln, Neb., on the 2sth
Judge Emery, of Lawrence, Kan, re
sponded to the address of welcome in
happy speech and made an exposition
of the question which called the con
gress together. Chairman Moses, OF
the national executive committee. gave
resume of the irrigation work for the
year.
J. Fl. IRWIN, owner of the Belchel
silver mine at Boulder, Col, shot and
dangerously wounded his wife and then
put bullet through his own heart.
The couple had been living apart and
the shooting.