The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE British steamer Cheang Hyo
Tong foundered during a typhoon
while on a voyage from Penang to
Shanghai and 2. of the crew were lost.
A RECENT examination of the 40 ter
ritorial banks in Oklahoma shows
them to be in splendid condition.
FAILURES for the week ended the
10th were 215 in the United States,
against 315 last year; and 81 in Canada,
against A last year.
THIRTEEN fatalities have occurred in
the Joplin (Mo.) mining district the
past summer.
IN the United States court at Mus
kogee, |. T., Cyrus A. Brown, who was
convicted of first degree murder for
killing Daniel Cutbert, was granted
new trial.
AT Anderson, Ind, On the 9th the
Anti-Spiritualist Association of the
United States was formed, with J. IL.
Becker, of Dayton, o., as president.
Organizations will be formed in every
state and an anti-spiritualistic paper
will be started.
OVER 800 delegates from every state
in the union assembled at indianapolis,
Ind, on the 9th to attend the annual
session of the Sons of Veterans. The
annual national convention of the
Ladies' Aid society, auxiliary to the
Sons of Veterans, also convened. Both
organizations show an increase in
mem bership the past year.
AT Denver, Col, on the Sth the Colo
RADIO Midland railroad was sold under
foreclosure to Chairman Olcott, of the
reorganization committee, for S295, 600.
NEAR Los Angeles, Cal, on the night
of the Sth bandits piled ties on the
Southern Pacific track for the purpose
of looting the express train. When
the train slowed up two deputy sher-
ifs began firing and the bandits hQr-
riedly abandoned their plans.
THE situation in the infected yellow
fever districts of the south on the Sth
was decidedly improved. There had
been in all 7lS cases of the fever, nine
deaths and 81 were sick. A further
spread of the plague was deemed i'm
possible.
CHARLES Cross, a mail carrier of
Huntsville, Ala, is a Seventh-day Ad-
ventist and resigned his position rather
than deliver mail on Saturdays.
SIX persons whose names are known,
and others who are unknown were
killed by terrible explosion of nitro
glycerine at Cygnet, O., on the 18th.
ONLY one death had resulted from
yellow fever at New Orleans up to the
Sth. Physicians declared the disease
to be under control in that city and
there was no exodus on account of the
plague. Rigid measures are being
adopted at all southern coast cities to
stamp out the disease. Ocean Springs,
the most infected place, is absolutely
cut off from the world except by wire
and mail
REPORTS from Chelsea, /. t., say
Mexican lions are numerous along the
Illinois river near there and are kill
ing much live stock.
An English syndicate has taken
charge of Depew, the New York Gen.
trial 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 to
make Depew the model town OF the
United States
SIX young men were drowned in
Lake St. Clair, near Detroit, Mich, by
the capsizing of yatch from which
they were fishing. The men were
drunk and rocked the boat over.
THERE is big demand for cotton
seed in Texas. The price is now 50
ana $40 ton and may go higher. Tex
as mills have all the European orders
they can fill.
MRS. RICHARD MILIKES, widow of a
wealthy sugar planter, has nted
the New Orleans charity hospital with
s75, 600 to found children's building,
to include a kindergarten.
HARRY II. LEADLEY, of Rochester,
n. y, who died at Bancroft, Mich,
on the It'll, made an ante norton state
ment in which he confessed to having
murdered Miss Emerson in Roches-
GER and emeezzling from a Rochester