The leader., 1899-05-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Personal AND POLITICAL

tions. Mahoney admitted being book
maker, but declined to answer the
question as to whether he was con-
Quoting pool rooms.
Director Rathbone, in charge of the
postal service in Cuba; Assistant At
torney-General Tyner and Law Clerk
barrett. of the post Office department,
have drafted preliminary code of
criminal laws for the postal service in
Cuba. 1t comprises TIE statutes in
force in the United States with minor
changes TO meet local conditions.
On the 18th official notice was re-
ccived from Lieut.. J. ID. Carter, of
Prescott. Ariz., secretary of the So
ciety of Rough Riders. to the effect
that the first annual reunion will be
held in Las Vegas, y. NJ. June "a. Gov.
Roosevelt and staff will he present.
Free entertainment will be given all
Rough Riders.
Owing to attendance of the cars
peace conference, which opened. on
the 18th. at The Hague. of Prof. Mar
tens. professor of international law at
the University of st. Petersburg. and
final arbitration of the Venezuelan ar
bitrator commission. the meeting of
the Venezuelan commission has been
postponed for the present.
Women of Boston. headed by Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, issued call, on the
18th, for meeting to be held in that
city on the Goth. to protest against
1.-THE barbarism of lynching." Beside
Mrs. Howe. the call for the meeting was
signed by many women we'll known in
connection with the reform movements
of the day.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler will deliver a
memorial address before the Edward
w. Kingsley Post 113, G. A. r., on Me
mortal day, in Boston theater, Boston.
1t will be Gen. Wheelers first visit to
that city.
\ cablegram from Miss Agnes Slack
ia London, to the officers of the Ma
tonal W. {. T. t.. received in Chicago.
on the 18th. announced the re election
Of Lady Henry Somerset to the prcsi-
Gency of the British Woman's Temper
ance association.
W. {. Hunt, w. \. King and w. F.
Wilcox, chief statisticians in the CEN
sus office, has been appointed com
Inission to make practical tests of eI,,c.
1ric counting or tabulatin" machines,
which may be presented for consedcra-
ton by the directors of the census.
The competition will begin at the cen
s,:s Office June :.
NJ. Deschanel, president of the
French chamber of deputies, mas been
elected a member of the French aCad-
envy, in succession to the late \imc
Marie Eduard Herve, editor of the
Soleil, who died on January last.
On the 18th, in New York city. IAN
Scully, actor and theatrical manager
filed a petition in bankruptcy. Li4hiU
ties. S30,7lS; assets. $23. including the
copyrights of six plays valued at 81
each.
On the 18th Mai John 4. Logan, as
scstant adiutant general of volunt ,,rs,
rendered his resignation, ana was hon
orGbly discharged.
On the 18th w. w. Rockhill, United
States minister to Athens, arrived in
Washington, and called to pay his re-
spects to Secretary Hay. After set
ting up some private business, Nj
Rock hill will assume the duties of di-
rector of the bureau of American re-
publics. to which he has been elected
by the executive committee.
On the 18th (the cars birthGav)
Tie peace congress assembled at the
House in the Woods in the suburbs
IF Va No
ambassador to Great britain, was
II ade president to the conference.
Pl esident Mckinley sent a cable from
the ear congratulating him on The
suspicious event.
Maj. John A. Logan, who resigned
from the army, has returned home
and will leave shortly for Cuba, where
he will represent large party of CAPT
talists in developing the sugar and
mineral holdings of the island.
On the 10Th Mrs. Martha r. Baker.
of Galva, Henry county. H., was found
dead in a berth of sleeping car on
the Nickel Plate road at Buffalo, n. Y.
She was II years old, and was on her
way to New York. Heart failure was
the cause of death.
Lieut.-Col. Edward j. McClearnand
assistant adjutant generaD has been
order to Matanzas, Cuba, as adjutant
general of that department.
EX-United States Senator Charles r.
Buckalew died at his home in blooms
burg, Pa, on the 10th, after an illness
of less than week.
An eminent member of the Peace
conference at The Hague says it is
simply an act of politeness to the ear
and will yield no practical result, sim
ply because it can not. The powers,
he asserts, are too disun;ted and watch
each other too closely TO arrive at any
understanding in their programmes.
His prediction is that there will be
long discussion and then "first-cIass
burial of the cars peace proposals."
Aguinaldo's peace commissioners,
who arrived at Manila. on the 18th,
only offered the tvice-rcjected propo-
sition for an armistice. This Gen.
Otis again promptly rejected.