The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-10-22
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND PoIITTCAL.


while experimenting with patent fire
escape, swung from the eighth story of
the Germania building, fell from the
third story to the stone sidewalk. Mrs.
Scannon was killed and her husband
fatally injured.
1t has developed that pouch con-
tanning mail for the United States
cruiser Cincinnati, then at Nagasaki,
Japan, which was aboard the British
steamer Calchas, when that vessel was
seized by the Russian Vladivostok
squadron, had been opened while in
the possession of the Russian officials,
subsequently resealed and sent on to
its destination.
Gen. Stoessel, in command of the
Port Arthur garrison, reports that the
Japanese have mounted heavy NOR
tar battery for Smelling the interior Of
the fortress.
Brig.-Gen William Scott Worth, U.
S. "A, retired, died at the home of his
nephew. DIR. John T. Spragne, of Gin
ton, Staten Island, on the 10th.
DR.. Wiley, of the bureau Of chem
istry, asserts that IS per cent. of the
whisky sold in this country is adulter-
ated, not even the clubs and hotel
bars being free from low-grade goods.
Following an attack of measles, Miss
nora>-Meek, of Centralia, ILL.,, whose
long sleep of six months puzzled the
medical world, died, on the 18th.
Don Jaime, son of the prtender to
the Spanish throne, is reported to have
been thrown from his horse and in
jured at the Russian headquarters in
Manchuria. -"
The socialist deputies meeting called
at Rome to consider the proposition of
resigning in a body, as protest to
the government, broke up in disorder
without any definite action being
taken.
The president has given orders for
thorough reorganization of the
steamboat inspection service of New
York following recc mmendations made
In the report of the government COM
mission appointed to investigate the
Slocum disaster.
Miss Helen Keller, the worlds most
famous blind and deaf scholar, who is
the only living person honored by q
special day at the Worlds fair, ar
rived in st. Louis on the morning of
the 18th, accompanied by her teacher,
Miss Annie Sullivan. Helen Keller
day" was observed at the fair ON the
18th.
A Mukden dispatch of the 18th says:
What fighting the Russians are now
doing is as matter of pride; Man
churia is forgotten. They feel that
they can not stop, that they must win
one battle"
A Toxic dispatch of the 18th says:
"There is strong appeal for peace in
the appalling tragedy which is now
under enactment in Manchuria. The
preliminary reports indicate that
about $4,000 men of both sides have
been either killed or wounded, the
larger portion of them being Russians.
Even the Japanese, to whom the great
victory is of paramount Importance,
seem to be shocked by the slaughter Of
their enemies, and there are heard
many expressions of opinion that no
demonstration of any kind should be
held"
On the 18th Herman Weibel, a re-
tired farmer, 70 years old, committed
suicide in the woods near West Plains,
NO. by hanging himself. He is be-
lieved to have been insane.
The federal court of appeals, at st.
Paul, Mimi, on the 18th, affirmed the
finding of the lower court, which in
November, 1903, in st. Louis, convicted
John P. Dolan, Frank Garrett and
Thomas E. Barrett of naturalization
frauds.
The president, on the 18th, removed
from Office Robert S. Rode, supervis-
ing inspector of the steamboat inspec-
ton service, second district, located at
New York, on account of the disclos-
ures in the report of the national COM
mission appointed to investigate the
Gen. Slocum disaster.
On the request of the king of the
Belgians, Col. Henry |. Kowalsky, of
the San Francisco bar, and personal
friend of King Leopold, called at the
White House, on the 18th, and pre-
sented the reply of the federation for
the defense of Belgian interests abroad
to attacks made on the government of
the Congo Free State.
Judge Parker has consented to make
a speech each week to visiting demo-
cratic clubs at his home, Rosemount,
Esopus, N. Y.
The administration at Washington
has been impressed by certain press
dispatches from St. Petersburg and
Toxic indicating that both belligerents
were feeling the strain and might ia
vorably regard a move for peace among
the other powers. President Roosevelt
will seize the opportune moment to
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