The leader., 1903-10-17
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERsONAL AND poLITICAI.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Glovemakers, employed in four fac
tories, in Chicago, went on strike, On
the 7th, because the employers refused
to grant demands for increased wages
and to renew an agreement that ex-
pired September Fl.
Fire destroyed the Updike Grain
Co.'S elevator, in Missouri Valley, Ia,
together with 100000 bushels of grain.
on the Sth. Loss, $2O0,O00;e fully, in
sured.
+ The Uruguayan gunboat, General Ri
vera (of 800 tons), was sunk off Santa
Barbara, Uruguay, on the 9Th, as the
result of an explosion. Her COM
mander was burned to death and many
of her crew were killed.
With the view of devising means for
preventing the recurrence of foods,
which did many millions of damage
in the Kansas river valley last sum-
mer, a congress composed of several
hundred representatives interested in
Missouri and Kansas towns convened,
on the 8th, at Kansas City, Mo.
On the 9Th, the mines north of Color
ado Springs, Col, were successfully
opened with non-union miners, about
one hundred men reporting for work,
which was about one-third the usual
number. The operators believed that
they would soon. have full quota uf
miners. Union miners made no re-
sistance.
After a determined effort to break
the Franklin union of press feeders,
the Typothetae and the Printing
Pressmen's union, of Chicago, on the
Sth, gave up the fight. A truce was
arranged pending the settlement of
the disputed points by a cancellation
board, and the press feeders returned
to work.
On the 9th two three-masted schoon-
ers were blown ashore off Oceanview,
Va, in the lower Chesapeake bay.
Some of the Chicago glove factories
that were closed by the strike of the
employees, on the 18th, resumed opera
tons, on the 9th, with non-union help.
Under the very eyes of the police
force of Alton, H., Arthur Taylor, who
was convicted, on the 7th, on charge
of larceny and given IN indeterminate
sentence in the penitentiary, escaped,
in broad daylight, on the 9th, from the
Alton city Jail:
On the 9th Sir Thomas Upton sailed
for England on the White Star liner
Cedric.
Frank o. Lowden has formally an
nounced his candidacy for the repub
lican nomination for governor of Illi-
nois.
On the 9th the funeral of Wilson S.
Bissell, former postmaster-general,
took place at Buffalo, N. Y. All the
courts in the city adjourned as mark
of respect The body was crernated.
Gen. John A Legatt, aged II, at
one time mayor of Grand Haven, Mich,
and territorial governor of Montana,
under President Grant, died, on the
9th, at Hunter Hot Springs, Mont.
A handsome monument commenora-
tive of the life and works of Eugene
Field, the child's poet, will be erected
by the school children of st. Joseph,
Mo-
Officer James Ciscle, who was in
iured, on the 5th, in Washington, in
the battle with Peter Elliott, the armed
crank who tried to reach the president,
was reported, on the 9th, to be-suffer-
ing from blood-poisoning.
Official announcement of the resig-
nation of H. A. Castle, auditor FOR the
post Office department, was r1ade on
the 9th. The resignation was dated Oc-
tober Z, and was directed to the secre-
tary of the treasury, who has indicated
his acceptance.
At the cabinet meeting, in Washing
ton, ON the 9th, all the members ex-
cept Secretaries Root and Hitchcock
were present. The principal topic of
discussion was the post Office investi-
length, especially with fererence to the
trial of cases now pending before the
courts.
On the 9th Postmaster General Payne
announced that he had accepted the
resignation of George A. Christiancy,
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the post office department and who had
been under suspension, pending inves-
tigation of his conduct, for several
months.
Richard Crane, the septuagenarian
head of the Crane Elevator Co., of
Chicago, and ten times millionaire, who
will shortly take as his third wife Miss
Emily Hutchinson, aged 80, has made
an ante-nuptial settlement of 81 600, 900
on his bride-to-be, which she will ac-
cept in lieu of her dover rights.
The. terms of the general treaty Of
arbitration between France and Great
Britain have been concluded. There re-
mains only minor questions of detail
to be settled. The treaty follows the
general lines of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
The octogenarian marquis of Done
gal who, ON December %, 1902, mar
ried Miss Violet Twining, aged %, has
been presented with a son and heir, of
which the ancient marquis is said to
be intensely proud. Should the child
live, Lord Henry Fitzwarren Chiches-
ter's aspirations will vanish.
M1SCELLANEOUs.
The failure of Albert Nudge & Sons,
printers, of Boston, Mass, was an
nounced, on the 9Th. Assets, 100000;
liabilities, $4,000. insufficient capital
was said to be the cause of the failure.
On the 9Th, President Roosevelt
summoned to the White. House sew
eral members of his cabinet. They
were Secretaries Hay, Moody and Cor
telyou, and Acknowledgement Knox.
It was the desire of the president
merely to discuss with them matters
of personal concern.
On the 9th, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Ian Ham