The leader., 1902-01-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

On the 30th Representative Loud.
chairman of the house committee on
post offices and post roads, had tall
with the president about postal legis
iation. Mr.. Loud says that one cen
postage is out of the question. "Un
der present conditions" said b,
penny postage would result in a d,
felt of 35,OO0,o00 annually"
Advices from Havana, on the Isl
said: THE indications are that til,
entire Palma ticket will be elected
and that Tomas Estrada Palma, the
nationalist candidate for the presi-
dency of Cuba, will receive the unani.
nous vote of the electoral college,"
On the LIST the Porto Rican legisla-
ture was convened and organized al
San Juan at noon. Gov. Hunt gave
grand reception and ball at the
palace, at night, in honor of the leg
islators. The governor personally
read his message to the legislature
on the I'd.
President Roosevelt rounded out q
very busy New Years day by visiting
the new National theater, at night, to
witness Francis Wilson in ".The To-
reader" 1t was strictly a family
party, the president being accom-.
panied by. Mrs. Roosevelt and the
children. The capacious theater was
crowded to the walls.
On the LIST Hon. James w. Newman,
former secretary of state, died at
Portsmouth, o., of apoplexy. Mr..
Newman was for many years prom
inent in Ohio politics as democrat
ic editor and member of the legisla-
ture. He was elected secretary OF
state, in 1884, serving one term.
On the I'd the secretary of war re-
ceived brief telegram from Cow
Gen. Wood, at Havana, saying the
elections had passed off smoothly,
but giving no details.
Stephen d. Fessenden, of Mississip-
pi, has been appointed statistician Of
the department of agriculture.
On the I'd man 80 years old, be.
lieved to be j. w. Cheek, formerly a
practicing physician in Bryan, Tex,
St. Clair county, Missouri, and Coun-
ell Grove, Kas., committed suicide at
Kansas City, by taking morphine.
John ID. Rockefeller, some time ago
offered to give dollar for dollar to the
Rochester On. " theological semi
nary for all funds that the institu.
ton might raise from other sources
up to the amount of S150,0o0. This
time limit on Mr.. Rockefeller's offer
expired on the 1st. Rev. DR.. ]. w. A.
Stewart, chairman of the seminary's
executive committee, says that more
than 100000 has been raised for the
seminary. Mr.. Rockefeller's gift will
therefore double this sum.
A Central News Uondon) dispatch
from Vienna, on the I'd, said the re-
port had been received there, via So
fla, to the effect that Miss Helen NJ
Stone, the captive American mission
airy, had been released. The report
lacked confirmation.
On the I'd George Housman, the
Cincinnati policeman who was public
ly degraded and dismissed, last fall
for having spoken disrespectfully OF
President Mckinley, when he was
shot, was declared insane and sent to
an asylum. The testimony showed
that some years ago he suffered from
sunstroke and later received an cleo.
trio shock and had been insane fol
years.
On the Sd Lord Strathcona and
Mount Royal, the Canadian high com
missioner, in England, sent a check
for 925,000 to the authorities of Alb
erdeen university. The money Is to
go toward completing the extension
of the university.
On the Sd Lord Kitchener cabled
the governor general of Canada &C.
cepting the offer of five Canadian
nurses for South Africa. Lord Kitch-
ener asked that some scouts be sent
along with the contingent which is
now being organized.
On the Sd the circuit court at To
ledo, O., handed down a decision at
firming a decision of the lower courts
giving Mrs. Adelaide Smith, of FIRE.
mont, judgment of S5,4oo against
the estate of sheAte President R. b.
Hayes. Mrs. Smith was bitten by a
dog belonging to the late president
and this was the cause Of action.
On the Sd Gen. Bruce Hamilton
captured another Boer' lager and 22
prisoners on the Swaziland border.
Gen. Louis Botha has sent note to
all Boer commanders requesting
them to keep on fighting. asserting
that the British parliament is to be
asked for another vote which will in
duce the British nation to demand
that the war in South Africa be
stopped.