The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-11-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PrRsONAL AND POLrr1CAx..


ON the 18th, at his home in Denver,
COL, where he had resided for 40 years.
He was the trumpeter who sounded the
bugle call for the memorable charge
immortalized in verse by TennysOn.
Up to the morning OF the 18th no
confirmation had reached London OF
the rumors current of the capitulatfOn
Of Port Arthur, or that Gen. Stoessel
was asking for an armistice, prepare
tory to surrendering.
At the initiative of the italian min
lister of foreign affairs, King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy has decided to send
to ]. P. Morgan, of New York, the in
sigma of Knight of the Crown of Italy,
as q testimonial of the gratitude of
the Italian nation for the return of the
Ascoli cope to the Italian government.
Col. D. R. Anthony, the noted editor
of the Leavenworth (Kas.) Times, and
brother of Miss Susan B. Anthony, the
woman suffragist, died at his home in
Leavenworth, on the morning of the
18th, of heart disease, aged 80.
Adolph Weber, of Auburn, CAL, is
under arrest, charged with the murder
of his parents, sister and brother, on
November 10, and with having set the
family residence on fire atterward to
conceal the crime.
liver Johnson and William Balfour,
both of Omaha, Neb., were drowned in
Goose lake, or the 18th, while hunt
ing ducks. The men were in boat
which was too heavily loaded, aad
when it tipped slightly they were over
balanced and thrown into the water.
On the 18th Capt. A. Leonard Hay,
brother OF Secretary of State Hay, and
of former Mayor Charles E. Hay, OF
Springfield, ILL.,, died at his home In
Warsaw, Ill.
Judge Alton B. Parker, according to
his intimate friends, has practically de-
cided to join the law firm of Sheehan
& Collins. Since the election, Mr.. Par
ker has received invitations to become
a member of several other law firms IN
New York city.
A Charlottesville (Ind.) dispatch says
that Gen. Lew Wallace is slowly dying
at his home in that place, as the re-
suit of a surgical operation performed
some time ago to relieve chronic
stomach ailment. The general is spend
ing his closing days completing his
memoirs.
The annual report of Gen. Gree
ly, chief signal officer of the Unit
ed States army, reveals the great work
that has recently been accomplished in
Alaska and the Philippines by his
department. 1t shows that the army
maintains a longer wireless service
than any commercial company in the
world.
Hon. Eugene Ware, pension commits
sioner, rendered his resignation to the
president, on the 14th, to take effect
January 1.
On the 14th Cardinal Mecenni, who
was administrator of the apostolic
palace under Pope Leo XIII, died at
the vatican in Rome, of paralysis
while the consistory was in progress.
The pope has granted authority 70
the Mexican prelates and priests tax
ing part in the great pilgrimage from
that country to Lourdes, Rome and the
Holy Land, to say mass on the ocean.
The former New York labor leader
Philip Weinsheimer, convicted OF ex-
rortion, was, on the 14th, sentenced to
the penitentiary for not less than one
year and eight months, nor more than
two years and eight months.
While bathing in the surf near San
Diego, Cal, Miss Isidore Rush, the
actress, leading lady of the 'Glitterine
Gloria" company, died of heart fail
ure, on the 14th, due to the shock
caused when an immense wave caught
her and carried her into deep water.
On the 14th the congressional COM
mittee, headed by Congressman w. B
Hepburn, as chairman, which was ap
pointed to inspect the location of the
Panama canal, sailed on the United
States transport Sumner for Colon.
On the advice of his physician, Sec.
rotary of State Hay decided not tt
make the journey from Washington tc
Warsaw, ILL.,, to attend the funeral Of
his brother, MAJ. A. Leonard Hay
While not actually ill, Secretary Hay
is not strong, having suffered recently
from severe colds.