The leader., 1899-10-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury Nanderlip has issued an order au-
ticipating the November interest with
out discount. The order also provides
for the anticipation of the entire fiscal
years interest at discount of 30 OF
one per cent. a month. If this offer
is taken advantage of il VIII release
about 100000
On the 18th James X. Stratton, the
noted mail robber and forger, escaped
from the penitentiary at Canyon City,
Col, where he was serving sentence
of 81 years. lie escaped from the same
prison in September, 1898. and was re-
captured a year later in Chicago.
On the nth an uncontirmed rumor
prevailed in London that Conyngham
Green, the British diplomatic agent at
Pretoria, had been assassinated. The
report, however, was discredited at
the colonial Office.
United States Minister Hart has m
formed the state department that the
Colombian government is about to
seek a loan of S14.559, 500, in order to
redeem its paper money in silver. The
guarantee offered includes the rentals
of the Emerald mines, the match mo-
nopoly, and certain sums annually due
from the Panama Canal Co. A nation
al bank has also been re-established.
On the 18th VIM. II. Smith, well
known as the man who first refined
petroleum. died at his home in Ever
EFT, Mass, aged ~.
On the 10th Rear-Admiral Henry L.
Howison was placed on the retired list
of the navy, by operation of law, on
account of age He will make his res
idencc in New Yorl, city.
On the 18th PoStmaster-Genera
Charles Emory Smith returned 10
Washington from the west, where he
had been with the presidential party.
Col. A. S. Frost, First South Dakota
volunteers. has been appointed ma ior
of the Thirty-ninth volunteer regi-
ment.
On the 18th Third Assistant Post
master-General Madden announced
that for the quarter ending Septem-
Der 80 last, the increase over the cor
responding quarter last year in the
issue of postage stamps, stamped en-
velopes and postal cards amounted TO
almost IA per cent.
On the 18th Henry IIe1 bert As
quith, former British home secretary,
speaking at Newburgh, on tine Trans
veal situation, and referring to the at
titude abroad, said: THE Americans
have not forgotten, and ! believe they
will not forget, the attitude which this
country, almost alone among the ma
tons, assumed towards them recently
when they were enduring times of
crisis and emergency similar to those
which seem now before MS"
On the 18th information was re-
ctived by the marine hospital service,
OF the death, from yellow fever, of AS
sstant Surgeon w. |. McAdam, in
charge of the marine hospital at Key
West, Fla.
At the session on the 18th Of the So
cialist congress, at Hanover, Herr
Bcbel's resolution. declaring that the
party should remain what it is, name
ly, class party. of which the histori-
cal aim is to acquire political suprem-
acy. and declaring that there is no rea-
son why it should alter its programm"
tactics or name, was adopted by vote
of 21S to %.
On the 18th w. G. Hamilton, a mil
l;onaire lumberman of Fond du Lac,
Wis, died of apopleXy.
Emperor William, it is authoritative
ly announced, will not visit England
this year. He had made Qaeen Vic
toria conditional promise to do so,
but the altered political complexion
has compelled him to abandon his in
tention.