The leader., 1897-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

| The Empire state express on the
| New York Central broke the worlds
record on the 10th by making the dis
lance between Syracuse and Buffalo,
14S.S miles, in 1871 minutes.
A NEGRO named Terrell was taken
from the court room at Montgomery.
Ala, and lynched by mob for assault
ing woman and then fatally burning
her and her babe.
WITHIN the next 80 days Guthrie,
Oklahoma City and Ell Reno, Ok, will
be connected by long distance tcle-
phone lines. The lines will be extend
ed within the near future to connect
with the Kansas system, centering in
Wichita.
THERE were 247 business failures
throughout the United States reported
by BradStreet's commercial agency for
the week ended the 10th, against 255
for the corresponding week last year.
jim JEFFEIEs, of California, and Gus
Rubin, of Ohio, fought 2O-round bout
at San Francisco on the 18th. Both
men are remarkable for their size and
muscular development. Jetfries is a
man about 2? years old, 619 feet in
height and is in fine condition at 212
pounds. Rubin, the Ohio giant, tops
the Californian just one inch and
weighs in condition 200 pounds. The
pace was terrific for men of their size
and weight from the start. The ref
cree declared the fight a draw.
Mrs. EMMA SYMoNDs, the wife of an
engine filter at London, Eng, cut the
l. g. 8 l., II, 4 L
her own. Mrs. Symonds had been
drinking heavily since the jubilee.
NEAR West Point, Tenn, a few days
ago Miss Rome Williams was found
brutally murdered in the woods near
her home. Anthony Williams, who as
saulted her, was captured near Pruit-
ton, and on the night of the 18th he
expiated his crime in the streets of
West Point in the presence Of 500 peo-
pie. He was riddled with bullets and
his body burned to ashes. Before a
shot was fred the negro was knocked
down and stamped to death.
POSTMASTER GORDON, of Chicago, has
authority from Washington to create
new rank among letter-carriers-
that of sergeant. A three months
trial of the system will be given in
Chicago, and if it proves successful it
will probably be inaugurated in other
cities and become a permanent part of
the carrier system.
THE seventh international conven-
ton of the Baptist Young Peoples
union of America began at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, on the 18th with about 1000
l1I, &c, L
saS.
STORIES of the fabulous riches of the
Clondyke diggings on the Upper Yukon
in Alaska were more than proved true
when 40 miners arrived at San Fran
cisco from that district with $40 pounds
of gold dust. Most of the miners were
at the diggings only this single season,
and nearly all of them were tender
feet.
WORD was received at Griffin, Ga, ,
on the 14th that Oscar Williams, the
negro assailant of the six-year-old
daughter of State Senator Campbell,
west of that place by mob of 1000
men, who had been chasing him since
the 10th.
THE 18th annual convention of the
Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations was
opened at the university of Minnesota
at Minneapolis on the 18th, President
George L. Fairchild, of Kansas, presid-
ing. Nearly every state in the union
sent distinguished delegates.
ANentire addition of 600 lots, known
as Lambeth's addition to Sioux City,
Ia, was sold under execution by the
sheriff to satisfy a Judgment CT 81, 800
in favor OF bank. The Property was
bid in by the plaintiff for the amount
OF the Judgment. The lots were con-
sidered actually to be worth about
500, 900.