The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1901-09-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important EventA
-,sox.L AND POLITICAL

s.iicitor Edwin p. Hanna, of the
department, has been detailed to
na .;,t Judge Advocate Lemly in the
sssIsv inquiry. Mr.. Hanna combines
-. cualities Of a good civil lawyer
'.Itb a knowledge of maritime and
naval law.
Nm the 18th the Schley court of in
.,irv began its sessions at the Wash
,raton navy yard, Admiral Dewey pre-
.;dinp. Rear-Admiral Howison's quail
,sao,ions as a member of the court
ma. formally challenged by Rear-Ad-
riral schley, and the challenge sus-
..insd The court then adjourned
Sandinp the selection of another
,nember by the navy department.
IN the 18th Johann Most, the an
.rcbist was arrested in New York,
md locked up at police headquarters.
Ths arrest was made by Central Office
natsctiye Ferneison. Herr Most was
:, his headquarters in Gold street,
,,ben the arrest was made.
prince Chun, through the Chinese
minister in Berlin, King Chang, begged
n.rmission of the mother of the late
poron Won Ketteler to express, per-
sonallv, his coincidence with her on
,be death of her son at Pekin. Frau
Won Ketteler, however, refused to re-
ceive the prince.
On the 18th Princess Victoria Lou
lac. only daughter of Emperor Will
lam. celebrated her ninth birthday an
adversary, with her mother and
her Youngest brother, Prince Joa-
chin, at Kadinen.
On the 18th it was stated, at the
navy department, that an application
had been made and granted for two
reeks' extension of Admiral Samp-
sons sick leave.
On the 18th Antonio Maggie, the
anarchist, was taken from Silver
CITY, y. NJ, to Albuquerque. He was
cross-examined and sweated, but re-
fused to divulge anything upon the
subject of the presidents assassina-
ton, although testimony was pre-
sented to prove he had repeatedly
nredicted that the president would be
assassinated before October 1. He was
hound over for court on the charge
of conspiracy to murder.
On the 18th, when it became known
in Indianapolis, that President Nc
Kinley was dying, Gov. Durbin or
dered the abandonment of the ar
rangements for celebrating Indiana
day at the Pan-American exposition,
and the special train ready to convey
his party to Buffalo was released.
On the 18th ex-President Grover
Cleveland, when told of President Nc
Kinley's serious sinking spell, said:
This is very sorrowful news" When
asked if he would say something re-
garding the president, he replied that
he thought it would be out of place
to say anything at present.
On the 18th Prince Chun, head of
the Chinese mission of expiation, WIS.,
tied Hamburg, and was entertained at
dinner by Herr Albert Balm, presi-
utHl VI the Ildl1DuI -AIucIitdH itilc.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary has conferred upon Count
Won Waldersee the grand cross of the
Order of Ste. Stephen.
President William Mckinley, who
was shot twice at the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo, N. Y, by the
ayowed anarchist, Czolgosz, on the
9th, and who, under the skillful treat
ment of his eminent surgeons and
physicians, had made such apparent
rapid progress toward recovery, be-
gan, unaccountably, to sink on the
afternoon of the 18th. The alarm
spread rapidly throughout the coun-
try and constantly grew in intensity
until 2:15 a. m. of the 14th, when he
died. His last conscious words, spok-
en- to his beloved wife, after chanting
part of the words of the hymn,
Nearer, My God to Thse," were:
"Good-by. All good-by. 1t is Gods
way. His will be DONE"