The leader., 1903-11-14
Personal AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLtVlCALs
An expert examination of the books
of the Bank of the Chickasaw nation,
at Tishomingo, |. T., which failed re-
Gently, showed liabilities of 100000,
of which nearly $4,000 was due to de-
positors. All efforts to locate Kirby
Purdom, the missing president of the
bank, have failed
Gov Peabody of Colorado issued or
ders, on the 9Th, to Companies A and
K, First regiment, to proceed from
Cripple Creek to Telluride, Col, as
guards at the mines which the oper-
ators will reopen with non-union
forces.
On the 7th Sir James Richie was
sworn in as lord-mayor of London,
with the usual quaint ceremonies, sue
ceeding Sir Marcus Samuel.
Former Treasurer Charles L. Conine
of the harness makers union of Kan
sas City, Mo-, who embezzled $4,000 of
It's funds, was sentenced, on the 7th,
to two years in the penitentiary.
On the 7th Col. C. NJ Watson, c. B.,
c. H. G., commissioner for Great Brit
ain at the St. Louis Worlds fair, sailed
from Boston for Liverpool on the
Ivernia.
The republican members of the house
of representatives, in caucus, on the
7th, unanimously chose Joseph G. Can
non, of Illinois, as the candidate of
the majority for speaker of the house.
On the 9Th Frank Hickox, veteran
of the Mexican war, died at his home
in Farina, ILL.,, aged 80. He was pres
ent at the capture of Gen. Santa Ana.
He was a personal friend of President
Lincoln.
Capt" George Wellington Streeter,
of district of Lake Michigan fame, who
is under penitentiary sentence for
manslaughter, was, on the 7th, at Chi
cago, granted a petition for appeal to
the United States supreme court.
Gov. Yates of Illinois honored a
requisition from the governor of Kan
sas for the extradition of Bert March,
who was under arrest in Chicago and
Of grand larceny.
Former General Superintendent E. p
Broughton of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad, fell dead in the cafe
of the Alta Vista hotel, in Colorado
Springs, Col, on the 7th. Heart disease
was the cause of death. He was 60
years of age.
On the 7th H. M. Bacon, chief clerk
to the third assistant postmaster-gen-
eral, was appointed temporary chief of
the classification division of the post
office department, succeeding William
H. Landvoight, whose resignation was
recently asked by the postmaster-gen-
eral.
President Frank W. Tracey of the
First national bank of Springfield, ILL.,,
and member of the committee on
uniform laws of the Bankers associa-
ton, died at his home in that city, ON
the Sth, of complication of diseases,
aged SO years.
President Roosevelt, on the 7th. en-
tertained at luncheon John A. Sleicher,
editor of Leslie's Weekly, and Victor
Gillian, the cartoonist. Fully a dozen
senators were received by the presi-
dent and twice that number of repre-
sentatives. Consul-G General Gudger,
who sailed for Panama, on the Sth,
said good-by to- the president.
On the 9th John Alexander ,Dowie
called at the executive office in Wash
ington and was received by President
Roosevelt.
Lord Rowton, the famous philanthro-
pist and founder of the Rowton Houses
of London, which provide respectable
lodgings for the poor, died on the 9Th
President Roosevelt, on the 9th, par
donode ]. r. MILKY, convicted in Ken
lucky of using the mails to defraud.
and sentenced on October %, 1901, to
Imprisonment for Is months in the
United States penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga.
On the 9th a daughter was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
in New York city. Mrs. Rockefeller
is the daughter of United States SEN
ator Aldrich, of Rhode Island. 1t was
their first child.
The name of Col. Clarence Edwards,
chief of the bureau of insular affairs,
lis under consideration for promotion
to the rank of brigadier- general, to fill
a vacancy which will be created by the
retirement of Gen. Young, in January.
King Edward VII. of Great Britain,
who was born November 9, 1841, cele-
brated his sixty-second birthday at
Sandringham, where there was the
usual dinner to the tenants of the es-
tate, at which the king and queen. and
other members of the royal family
handed round the dessert.
MIsCELLANEOCG.
Severe hail, rain and wind prevailed
at Bryan, Tex, on the 9Th, doing much
damage. The hail broke windows and
beat crops into the ground. The hail
was from two to six inches deep in
places and banked against fences a
foot deep. The damage in cotton was
heavy.
On the 9th Justice Pritchard, of the
supreme court of the District of CO.
1umbia, issued four alias" bench war
rants for the arrest of State Senator
George g. Green, of New York, who is
under indictment by the grand jury
OF the District of Columbia for COM
plicity in the postal frauds.
A sonth-bound Chicago Cincinnati
Monon train, which left Chicago, on
the 9Th, passed through a severe snow
storm so miles out of Chicago.
Supplemental warrants were issued,
on the It'll, for President Bacon and
Cashier Butler. Of the Lockport lIll.)
bank, and new bonds were required
Survivors of the union forces who