The leader., 1904-01-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
personal AND POLITICAL.

NO. WHO was pdluOuCu ny AASoiuSAt
Roosevelt, left the penitentiary at
Jefferson City, on the 25th, upon the
arrival of his wife from Washington,
D. c., with the pardon.
Ex-Premier Giuseppe Zanardelli died,
on the 26th, at Maderno, Italy. He was
II years old His death caused pro-
found impression throughout the city
Of Rome.
On the 26th Benjamin Garraway, of
Sardis, Miss, one of the injured in the
Frisco wreck, died at Fort Scott, Kas.,
making the total number of dead IL.
Herbert w. Bowen, United States
minister to Venezuela, after nearly
years absence from his post at Carac-
as, sailed on the Goth, for the Vene-
zuelan capital.
Maj Malcolm Mcdowell, an old and
well-known resident of Chicago, died
suddenly, on the Goth. He was rs years
old.
The fugitive st. Louis councilman,
Charles Kratz, was ordered turned over
to the agent of the United States gov
eminent, on the 26th, by the depart
ment of foreign relations, acting under
the instruction of President Diaz of
Mexico
George ]. Langsdale, father-in-law OF
Senator Albert J. Beveridge, died at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 9th. He
was until recently auditor of the In
dianopils post office For 20 years he
edited a republican paper at Greencas-
tie, Ind.
J. d. Stuart, of Houston, Tex, has
been appointed assistant freight audi
tor of the Santa Fee. This is a new po-
sition. The appointment took effect
January 1.
Maj.-Gen. Arthur Macarthur arrived
at San Francisco, on the 9th, on the
steamer Siberia, from the Hawaiian
islands, where he had been making a
military inspection. The general was
in good health, enjoyed his trip and
was greatly pleased with the islands,
which he termed "a most valuable ac-
QUESTION to the United States"
Postmaster-General Payne was suf-
fering, on the 28th, with a severe cold,
and did not leave his apartments.
On the 26th John H. Middlekamp,
former county treasurer, and promi-
nent hardware merchant at Warrenton,
Mo-, died, aged GO years. He was a
member of Wright City (Mo.) Masonic
lodge
On the 18th Gurdon Trumbull, an
artist of distinction. died at Hartford,
Conn, at the age of 81. 1t was in
studies of fish that Mr.. Trumbull
achieved his reputation.
Aunt Ann" Tyler, blind negro
woman, SO years old, and James Turn
err, a negro IS years old, were burned
to death at Sedalia, Mo-, on the 28th, in
the destruction of the house in which
they lived.
On the 2Sth Sir William Allen, the
well-known marine engineer, shipown-
er and member of parliament for Gates
Head since 1898, died in London. He
was born November 20, 1887. Death
was due to heart disease.
Gov. Cummins of Iowa has ap-
pointed William E. Miller, of Bedford,
Ia, as judge of the Third judicial dis
trict, to succeed Robert L. Parrish,
who resigned to resums law practice
in Des Moines.
Prof Fred S. Jewell, holding the
chair of history and philosophy at
Grafton Hall, Fond du Lac, Wis, died
on the 2Sth He was 50 years of age,
and was widely known in educational
circles throughout the eastern and cen
trail states.
Catherine McVey, who was pastry
cook at a Danvil!e 1ll) hotel when
Abraham Lincoln stayed there, died
suddenly, at Danville, ILL.,, on the 18th,
aged 104 years. Her husband died 25
years ago, and after his death she
never went to bed, but always slept in
a chair.
Col j. N. Andrews, U. S. A., retired,
died, on the 28th, at Orange, Va. He
was graduated from West Point in
1860. He came out of the civil war in
1866 as major of the Twenty-frst In
fantry In October, 1895, he was pro-
NOTED to the rank of colonel.
Dr. Seymour T. Jarecki, county ply
sician of Arrapahoe county, Col, vas
found in his Office at the courthouse, at
Denver, on the 18th, unconscious, his
skull fractured by blow on the head.
There were evidences that he had been
assaulted by two men and his head
crushed with boulder. Robbery was
apparently the object.
Senator Hale, of Maine, chairman of
the committee on naval affairs, said, on
the 28th, that it is the intention to
make provision for another liberal ad-
dition to the navy during the present
session of congress. He said that when
the additions already authorized were
completed the United States would
have a more powerful navy than any
other nation except Great Britain.