The leader., 1897-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

WORD was received by Mrs. Johr
Brechtel on the 3D. at Tacoma, Wash.
from her husband at Sandon, b. C..
that the people were fleeing for theil
lives from the town on account o
cholera.
AN English syndicate has taker
charge of Depew, the New York Cen
trail railroad town near Buffalo, n. Y.
under an agreement that they will
build not less than $50 houses during
the coming year. 1t is proposed tc
make Depew the model town of the
United States.
A CLoUDBURsT converted the streets
of Needles, Ariz., into a veritable river
on the Sd, nearly every house in the
town being more or less damaged.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at San Fran
cisco to organize a national league for
the propagation of Christian socialism.
THERE were 1913 business failures re-
ported in the United States by Brad
streets for the week ended the Sd,
against 33G in the same week last
year.
THE amount of money in circulation
in the United States on September
was $1.665, $50 09s, which is Sl26, $40, 4Gl
more than on the same date last wear.
The greatest gain was in gold, which
increased from So, So, 594 to S52! ,S4s,
563.
THE Gulf passenger train was held
up by masked robbers at Twin Noun
tain, Col, on the night of the Sd and
the express car looted. Posses were
organized at Folsom and Trinidad to
pursue the bandits.
SHERIFF BAGLEY, with the regular
police force and eight sworn deputies,
made raid on the tramps and over
400 were driven out of Arcola, III.
They had caused much annoyance in
plurdering gardens and fields of eat
ables.
TIE Madison elevator at Madison,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire the other
night, entailing a loss of about 500. 600
DIsARRANGEMENT of the block signal
system led to a freight train running
head on into passenger train stand,
ing at Floral park, on the Long Island
railroad, and four passengers were
badly injured.
THE New York vestibule train on the
Delaware, Lackawanna Il Western rail
road, which left Syracuse, n. Y, a
nine o'clock on the morning of the I'd
jumped the track at Blodgett's Mill.
and plunged through the station build
ings. The locomotive, baggage cal
and two coaches went entirely through
the structure. Mrs. j. ii. McQuillan
of Philadelphia, was killed and l.
other passengers were more or less in
jured. The accident was caused by {
broken rail.
THE Bank of Durand, ILL.,, failed t
open its doors the other day and Charles
Horton, cashier and general manager
of the institution, has disappeared
after having forged the names of prom
inent farmers to % notes for variou:
amounts.
JIMMY MICHAEL broke the American
hour paced record on the I'd at Detroit
Mich. The broken record was 81 miles
1,020yards and ten inches and was mad,
by Lesna at Boston. Michael covered
80 miles and 1920 yards.
AT Mexia, Tex, on the ed Ton
Clark, charged with attempted assault
on a young girl, was indicted and
sentenced to 80 years in the peniten
tiary 55 hours after the crime wa:
committed.
A REPORT came from the Indian ter
ritory, near Spavinaw creek, that three
men entered the house of a woman
there, robbed and then murdered her
but before they could get away &
neighbor appeared and killed all three
of the robbers.
ROBERT WILSON and H. R. Hall, stock
men living in the western part of Gus
ter county, Ok, quarreled over the
boundaries of their ranges. The lie
was passed and both drew weapons
and fired. Wilson was instantly killed
and Hall was placed under arrest.
FRANK MUELLER was electrocuted in
the Ohio peniten tiary at Columbus or
the I'd for the murder of Mrs. Saluds
Miller, the wife of his employer.
The docket for the next term of the
United States supreme court, which
will begin on October IL, is being pre-
pared. 1t contained up to the LIST 44t
cases, showing an addition of SO cases
since the court adjourned in May.
Two children named Alice Winston
and Harry Arnold, while playing with
matches in an outbuilding at For:
Wingate, N. NJ, set FIRE to can of oil,
causing an explosion. Alice was burned
TO an unacceptable mass and Harry
was so severely burned that he will
probably die.
A DISPATCH from Montreux, Switzer-
land. announced that an asylum for
the insane, which was in course OF
erection there, had collapsed, burying
a number of workmen in the ruins.
Seven dead bodies had been recovered
and seven men seriously wounded had
been removed from the wrecked build
ing.