The leader., 1904-06-18

burial.
Senator Francis M. Cockrell, of Mis-
souri,, who was painfully injured, on
the 10th, by being knocked down by a
boy with a bicycle. is considerably bet
ter. The wound in the shoulder is
painful, but it is thought it will yield
readily to treatment.
On the 18th William A. G. Miller, a
prominent lumberman of Detroit, Mich,
committed suicide by shooting. Ill
health is supposed to have been the
cause of his rash act. He was native
a Glasgow, Scotland, and was 81 years
Of age.
On the 18th Frederick W. Wagner,
As years old, musician shot Mary
Wagner, his wife, at their home in New
York, mortally wounding her, and then
committed suicide.
Abner Mckinley, brother of the late
president, William Mckinley, was
found dead, sitting in chair at his
home in Somerset, Pa, on the 11thl
presumably from heart disease He
had been dead two or three hours when
| found
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 18th
says that Admiral Skrydloff moved
with the Vladivostok squadron toward
Port Arthur, but was compelled to re-
turn after receiving some damage from
Japanese warships which he encount-
cred. Ell S4t -
On the 18th Judge Kohlsaat, of the
United States district court, designated
the Equitable Trust Co. as receiver OF
the Emily iron works, at East Chi
cago. Liabilities are said to be $140,
900, and assets 100000.
On the 18th the funeral services over
the remains of Abner Mckinley were
held at Canton, O., at the residence Of
Mrs. Ida S. Mckinley, the home of the
late president. The interment was in
the Mckinley plot at Westlawn GENE
terry.
Miss Alice Roosevelt left Washing
ton, ON the 18TH, for Philadelphia
where she will be bridesmaid at the
wedding of Miss Whelan. She viii
afterwards go to Hyde Park, New York
to be bridesmaid at the wedding of hel
cousin, Miss Helen Roosevelt.
Senator Albert ]. Beverage; of In.
diana, has received official notice that
he is to make the first speech in the
| republican national convention. sec
onding the nomination of Roosevelt
He will follow former Gov. Black, Of
New York, who will place the candi.
date III nomination.
On the 18th Lieut.. Nathaniel T
Bower, engineer corps, at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kas., was killed, near the tar.
get range. The officer was on his way
to the range to shoot, when a bolt Of
| lightning, out of comparatively cleal
sky, struck his rife, which he was car.
rying, passed through the arm into
the right breast and thence out through
the shoes. He was to have been mar.
ried in July.
Joseph Dewickoff, a well-known at
! torney of Havana, Cuba, has entered
into a contract with the Cuban gov
eminent to raise the wreck of thu
United States battleship Maine from
the bottom of Havana harbor.
Nan Patterson, the actress who wa.
in the cab with "Caesar" Young, tht
bookmaker, when he was killed II
New York, recently, has been indicted
for murder In the first degree.
Layton. G. Large, wealthy real es.
tate dealer of Philadelphia, aged 81
years, died suddenly in st. Louis. OF
the night of the 18th, while walking
to his apartments after day spent a
the Worlds fair
Disguised with the inhospitable re
ception. he met with in London, JohI
Alexander Dowie suddenly determined
to leave England, and started, on thu
18th, for Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
with his wife and son.
MISCELLANEOUS.
High wsters in Indian territory and
Oklahoma had caused the deaths of ter