The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-11-28
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New Holland, O., was taken to the
penitentiary at Columbus, O., on the
18th, by Sheriff Hoover, to serve seven
years. He was given clerical work
On the 10Th Dexter A. Knowlton
died at Freeport, ILL.,, aged so. He was
well known in banking and religious
circles throughout the west.
On the 18th Gov. Dockery of Mis-
souri, appointed Frank Hayman, of
Hustonia, Mo-, member of the state
board of agriculture, to succeed N. H.
Gentry, of Sedalia, resigned.
Henry Seton Merriman CHigh Stow
ell Scott, the novelist died, on the
18th, in London, from appendicitis.
Ex-Gov. F. M. Drake, founder of
Drake university, at Des. Moines, Ia,
was reported, on the 18TH to be seri-
onsly i'll of diabetes at his home at
Centerville, Ia.
On the 18th, the senate, in executive
session, decided that the investigation
of the military committee into charges
against Gen. Wood be made behind
closed doors.
A jury declared Lawrence Daven-
port guilty of murder, in the circuit
court at Belleville, ILL.,, on the 18th,
after an hours elaboration. He killed
his brother-in-law, Hugh Wilkerson, at
their home in East st. Louis in Sep
TENDER.
For the second time in his brief,
reign, King Edward has been robbed
by clerk in the Office of the pay
master of the household, by checks
amounting to $4,000 illegally drawn
and cashed by Frank Lanham, who
confessed and was committed for trial
Charles Edmond Ross, well-known
insurance man, while preparing for
his wedding, which was to have. taken
place in Chicago, on the 18th, was
stricken with acute mania, and he
sanitarium in Cincinnati.
me remains of Mrs. James Monroe,
the widow of the fifth president of the
United States, which were disinterred
from their resting place, near Lees
burg, Va, arrived in Richmond, Va,
on the 10Th, and were reinforced in
Haywood cemetery, where rests the
remains of Monroe.
Senator Charles Dietrich, of Nebras-
ka, started from Washington, for
Omaha, on the 21st, to surrender to the
authorities because of his indictment
on charge of conspiracy in connec-
ton with post Office patronage.
t~t
in the house of representatives allow
ing free transportation of pension
vouchers through the mails. One was
introduced by Representative Marshall
and the other by Representative Dick
In dispatch to the state depart
ment, on the goth, Consul General Nc
Wade, at Canton, announced the death,
at Talking, of Ella Terrence Robb, a
missionary of Denison, Kas.
Caroline Maxwell Estabrook, relict
Of Experience -4stabrook, of Nebraska,
died at Long Branch, N. j., on the goth,
in her eighty-irst year, at the resi-
dence of her son-in-law, Robert G.
Clowry, president of the Western Union
Telegraph Co.
The governor of Colorado, on the
both, ordered detachment of the state
national guard to proceed to Telluride,
Col, for the purpose of affording pro-
lection to men who were willing to
work in the mines and mills. Maj.
zeph T. Hill was in command.
At Cincinnati, on the Goth, D. v.
Miller, of Terre Haute, Ind, and Jo-
seph M. Johns, of Rockville, Ind, were
acquitted of the charge of conspiracy
to extort bride from John ]. Ryan,
made by the post Office department.
On the Goth Judge Halsey, of the SUI
oerior court of Milwaukee, decided that
newspaper had the right to criticise
the work of an artist so long as it did
not personally attack the artist him
self. The decision was in case In
which sculptor sued newspaper for
heavy damages because of a critical ar
ticle published in reference to model
prepared in the competition for the
making of monument.