The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE cele brated
his s7th birthday on the Goth. The
venerable statesman was reported AZ
enjoying excellent health.
THE Italian newspapers have an
nounced the impending elevation OF
Mgr. Corriqan. the Catholic archbishop
of New York, to the ca-dinalate.
The state department at Washing.
ton denied the report that Premier
Canovas, of Spain, had sent Secretary
0lney a communication accepting the
mediation of the United States in the
carrying out of the autonomy for Cuba.
SECRETARY OLNEY, Secretary Carlisle,
and Attorney-General Harmon held a
conference to decide upon a plan to
prevent the departure of filibustering
expeditions to Cuba So vigorous have
been the protests of Spain concerning
the filibustering expeditions that the
United States will take heroic meas
ures to prevent the departure of any
more.
SECRETARY OLNEY is engaged on the
perplexing problem about foreigners
who come to the United States and get
naturalized on purpose to have shield
when they 60 back to their own coun-
try and get into trouble.
Two hundred democrats, populists
and silver republicans met in confer.
ence at Des Moines, Ia, recently and
issued an address to the people of
Iowa announcing that the union of
all silver forces of the state was
permanent and that they will hereaft-
er nominate the same candidates for
all Offices. The resolutions adopted
explain that the three factions will
retain their separate state organiza-
ton, but act together.
SENATOR WoLCoTT, of Colorado,
chairman of the special committee to
arrange for bimetallic conference of
the nations of the world, is going
abroad to confer with European BIZ
metallists on the subject The trip is
approved by his associates on the sena-
torial committee and by President-elect
Mckinley
A DISPATCH from Havana on the 3ist
stated that Gen. Ruis Rivera. who sue
ceeded Antonio Maceo at the head of
the insurgent forces in Pinar del Rio,
was wounded and had subsequently
died of his wounds
JOSEPH Il. MCCULLAGH, editor of the
St Louis Globe Democrat, was found
dead on the pavement in the rear of
his residence at 6: 80 a. m. on the 8lst.
He was attired in his night clothing
and had evidently committed suicide
by jumping from the window Of his
bedroom. He had been confined to his
room for some time with acute asthma,
complicated with nervous depression,
as a result of his ardu Gus labors in the
recent campaign. lie was "a years old.
A REPORT was current in Havana re-
Gently that Maceo, the insurgent chief,
was not killed as previously stated,
but only badly wounded, and is now
slowly recuperating in the Siguena
hospital, whence his followers had
carried him. A representative of the
Cuban junta at New York, however,
stated that he placed no credencs in
the rumor that Maceo is alive.
A SPECIAL from Washington on the
LIST stated that Congressman Nelson
Dingley had accepted the secretaryship
Mrs. HELEN M. COUGAR handed in
her resignation, at the request of the
committee at Chicago, of which she
was a member, and stepped down and
out of the nationalist party. She had
been criticised for speaking for the
cause of bimetallism in the late cam
paign.
FRANK S. BLACK was inaugurated
governor of New York at Albany on
the LIST before a large assem- blage.
Levi p Morton, the retiring governor,
made long address, in which he re-
viewed his administration, and Gov
Black responded briefly.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Mrs
Cleveland, assisted by the cabinet Off
GERS and their wives and notable
corps of ladies, received on New Years
day in the blue parlor of the white
house. The official programme was
carried out with strict formality, the
reception beginning with the diplo-
matte corps at II o'clock. At 1898 the
general public was admitted and at
II IL l.