The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-08-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

who represented the First district OF
Maine in the Thirty-eight congress,
died in Portland, Me, aged So Mr..
Sweat, a democrat, was an active sup
porter of the Union in the civil war.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Madrid,
dated the 10th, said: Miss Shatter
(Schley) has been requested to leave
Spain forthwith"
THE steamer Lalime and North Fork
was boo ked to sail from San Francisco
on the 10th, for lIonold lu with $50 men
of the New York volunteer regiment
who will garrison the islands.
SPAIN, on the 26th, sued for peace
formally and directly to President Nc
Kinley, through NJ. Cambon, the French
ambassador.
GEN. SHAFTER's detailed report OF
the American casualties in the battle
of Santiago has been received at the
war department, and shows that the
total number of casualties was | ,59J,
viz: Killed, 23l, and 81 missing, sup
posed to be dead; wounded, 1,2S3.
On the 25th Gen. Miles arrived off
the coast of Porto Rico, and captured
the harbor of Guanlcu, Is miles west
of Ponce, after which he proceeded to
disembarll his forces and munitions.
The postmaster-general requests
that notice be given that all letters
United States in Porto Rico, Cuba OF
Manila will be continued to be sent as
heretofore, at the two-ccnt rate. This
does not apply, however, to the general
service.
A RUMoR that w. b. Thomas, of Bos-
ton, director of the company, was to
be chosen president III place of Henry
o. Havemeyer, was emphatically denied
at the Office of the American Sugar Re-
ining Co. in New York, on the eth.
Mr.. lIavcmeyer, it was said, is now in
good health, and is actively interested
in the affairs of the company.
The little king of Spain has the
measels.
Louis KEMPEE has been designated
by the postmaster-gencral to act as
postmaster, under military supcrvi-
sion, at Santiago, because Maj Stuart,
who had been selected for the place,
desired to remain with the army. hav-
ing commission as ma ior in the Eighth
Illinois.
On the eth the United States cruiser
Philadelphia sailed from San Francisco
for Honolulu, Admiral Miller having
transferred his flag from the Albatros
to the Philadelphia.
On the eth the Anglo American
league, recently formed in London, for
the purpose of securing cordial and
constant cooperation on the part of
the two nations selected Rt. Hon.
James Brice, liberal member of par
Lament for the south division of Aber-
deem, for chairman, and the duke of
ship in the league was made open to
all British and American subjects, and
branches were authorized to be fromed
in all the large cities and towns.
MINISTER HosHI of Japan has been
granted leave of absence and will re-
turn home for time. He is prom-
nently identified with the liberal party
IF japan.
If we are really as near to peace as
many people suppose, 1T is pointed out
that it will become necessary for the
president to issue a call for an extra
session of the senate to act upon the
peace treaty with all the promptness
that the Importance of the subject de-
mandS.
TIE secretary of war has given or
derS for the removal of all of Gen.
Skaters army as soon as the men, in
the discretion of the commanding OIL
Ger, may be safely brought back to
camp on Montauk point, Long Island.
The president, on the 2sth, appointed
Frederick w. Baumhof to be post
master at st. Louis.
On the 2Sth, in his effort to get all
light possible on the Philippine ques-
ton, President Kinley cabled Adj
miral Dewey for a statement of the
conditions, political, military and
material, at Manila. His course will
be governed largely by the information
received from the admiral.
THE French minister of marine has
decided to order fresh inquiry into
the loss of La Bourgogne. If it is
found that any of the crew failed of
their duty, they will be punished.
On the 2Sth the transports St. Louis
and Massachusetts, with Gen. Brooke,
started from Newport News, Va, for
Porto Rico.
On the 2Sth the democrats of the
Twelfth Indiana district held their
convention at Columbus, and NOM
mated Francis NJ. Griffith for congress.
Resolutions reaffirning the Chicago
platform and urging a vigorous prose
cution of the war against Spain were
adopted.
SIR WuFRED LAURIER, Canadian pre-
mier, announced, on the 10Th, that the
international conference to settle the
differences existing between the United
States and Canada will open on August
10.
On the Goth Gen Greedy received in
from Col Allen, of the
signal corps, that arrangements had
been made to reopen the telegraph Of
fee at Ponce, which had been closed by
the Spaniards.
GEN, SHAFTER, in view of the fact
that the war department has been
criticised for faulty management OF
the Santiago campaign, takes upon
himself all responsibility for its con-
dact, and says the department inter
fered in no way with his plans.
THE port OF Ponce, Porto Rico. sur.
rendered to Commander C. II. Davis of
the auxiliary gunboat Dixie on the
eth. There was no resistance, and the
were welcomed with enthu-
siasm. On the 2sth the city of Ponce,
three miles inland, capitulated.
On the goth nearly five hours earnest
discussion by the president and his con-
stitutional advisers of the nature of
the response to be made by the govern
ment TO the Spanish overture for peace,
brought no conclusion, and the inject
necessarily was postponed for futher
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
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