The leader., 1897-08-18

oners escaped death by hiding behind
the bedding in their cell and the mob,
supposing they had killed them, left
PETER MoSoHAs, aged so years, was
legally hanged ut Baltimore, Nd. on
the 18th for the murder of his wife.
In the fight at Waterbury, Conn.,,
between Dan Murphy, of that city,
and ALI Hanlon, of England, the for
mer knocked the latter out in the 18th
round by left-handcd hook on the
jaw. The match was for Is rounds.
ALL the prisoners in the Jail ut
Olney, ILL.,, recently made their escape
by cutting the bars with files.
COMMISSIONER PowDERLY has sent in
structions to immigration officials at
United States ports to make a careful
inspection of arriving passengers, as
several noted anarchists were believed
to be on their way to this country
from Europe.
kid" Mccoy knocked out Dan Bay
lift, of Lima, o., in the third round at
Dayton. o., on the 18th. Bayliff was
no equal to Mccoy as a scientific
fighter.
THE civil service commission has
issued a circular to the examining
boards of 63 internal revenue districts.
announcing that examinations for
deputy collectors, clerks, storekeepers.
gaugers and messengers will he held
in each district on September Is.
A BIG gold strike has been made in
the Moon Anchor mine near Colorado
Springs, Col, the ore running in the
neighborhood of SIS, 900 to the ton.
LEWIS DEERwEsTER, who was sus-
pected of being implicated in the
DERRICK double murder at Bellefon-
taine, o., was found unconscious on
his wife's grave with his throat cut.
Slight hopes were entertained for his
recovery.
| HAROLD MORLEY, the 15-year-old son
of w. w. Morley, division superin-
tendent of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf, with headquarters at Kansas
City, was found hanged to tree near
his fathers ranch, near Chamberino,
n. NJ. The murder was supposed to
have been committed by Mexican
neighbors of the Morleys. with whom
they have had trouble over their ranch
boundaries.
THE report having been published
that the general land Office would soon
issue maps of Alaska, showing the lat
est surveys and explorations of the
gold regions, that Office has been
flooded with letters requesting copies
of the maps. AS it will be impossible
to prepare the maps for several
months, the requests cannot be
granted.
A SWEEPING and far reaching injunc
ton was issued on the 18th in the coal
miners strike in the Pittsburgh, Pa,
district which tended to make the sit
nation a strained one. Judge Collier
granted preliminary injunction re-
straining the defendants from encamp-
ing in proximity to the mines and
houses of the miners for the purpose, by
intimation and opprobrious words, of
preventing the miners of the plaintiff
from working 1t further restrained
the defendants from inducing or com
pelling any miner to quit work.
MANY eastern "tenderfeet" who
started for the Klondike region were
reported as being stranded at Tacoma,
Wash, and elsewhere on the coast.
FRANK c. CONWAY, who murdered his
wife at Ogdensburg. n. Y, was cleo
trocuted at the Clinton prison on the
| 10th.
NOTICES were posted about Clayton,
n. NJ, warning all negroes to leave
the town before August Is and nearly
all of them made preparations to get
away by the time.
AT Barnum, Tex, fire destroyed the
planning mill, lumber yard, number
of houses belonging to w. T. Carter &
Bro, a number of cars and three small
bridges belonging to the Kansas &
Texas railroad. The losses were $780,
900, with small insurance.
CHARLES NJ. CLIFFORD, a baker at
Chicago, murdered his wife by cutting
her throat with a razor and then COM
mitted suicide. Jealousy was supposed
to have been the cause.
Two more cases of men afflicted with
anthrax have come to the attention of
Sioux City, Ia, physicians The men,
butcher and a dairyman, were infect
ed through skinning diseased cattle.
| BURGLARS entered the post Office at
|
secured nearly $500. Postmaster Mel
Der was securely bound in his room be-
fore an entrance was effected to the
| office.
AT Forest Home Tex, difficulty
occurred between 10 Hicks, on the one
side, and J. Fl. Meadows and Maj. Wat
son, on the other, in which Meadows
was shot and instantly killed and Wat
son mortally wounded.
j. Nj. TRAUT was murdered at his
home in Ryan, l. T., by some unknown
one who stole upon him while he lay
upon the floor asleep and fired two
shots into his brain. Traut was des-
pcrate character and had many enc
mics.
WHILE Clifford Chissum was being
lowered into we'll at Altus, Ok, the
rope broke and he fell to the bottom
and was fatally injured.
THE post Office department is watch
ing the effect of letter boxes on street
cars in Des Moines, Ia, and if the ex-
pertinent is successful it will be tried
in other cities where the same condi-
tions prevail.
ROBBERS entered the house of Philip
and John Devo, aged brothers, in Cam
bria county, Pa, bound and gagged
them and a 3o-year-old nephew and
ransacked the house. Failing to find
any money they burned the feet of the
three with lighted sticks and knocked
out most of the young mans teeth
with a revolver.
| CAPT. MoRTENsEN, of the bark
Ansgar, on his arrival at Omega, Rus
STA, stated that he passed, about two
days journey east of North Cape, a
balloon which had collapsed from loss
of gas. 1t was feared the balloon
belonged to Andree, the arctic ex
plorer.
GREEN.ROOM GOSSIP.
1t is said that Corinne received SIS,