The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-09-10
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Senator Fairbanks, Of Indiana, form
ally opened the republican cam
paign in Missouri at Kansas City. on
the I'd. The ceremony took place in
Convention hall, and the immense
building was flled in honor Of the oc-
casion.
Commissioner of labor Carroll D.
Wright said, on the I'd, that he would
resign from ONCE at the end of the
present year. He win devote his at,
tention to his duties in connection
with the presidency of Clarke col
lege.
Investigation in behalf Of the
former guardians of Princess Louise
OF Saxe-Coburg, who escaped from
her hotel at Bad Elstre, Saxony, on
August 80, show that after securing
her personal liberty she intends
seeking a divorce, with the purpose
of marrying Lieutenant Count Mat
assich-Keglevitch.
The car has received a telegram
from Gen. Kuropatkin asking for the
immediate dispatch to the far east Of
the Sixth army corps.
On the 4th, during a dinner which
Emperor William and the Empress Au.
gusta Victoria gave at the kaiserhof.
the emperor announced the betrothal
of Crown Prince Frederick William to
the Duchess Cecilia, sister OF the reign
ing grand duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg Of
the 4th says that by a daringly-con-
ceived coup on the part Of his friends.
Sassoneff, the murderer of NJ. Won
Plehve, succeeded is escaping from
prison.
On the 4th, while trying to have the
life of Eugene Reid, friend, Edward
Wiendantz, of st. Louis, was drowned
at Grafton, IA miles above Alton, Ill.
Gen. Kuropatkin reported, on the
4th, that the greater portion of his
army was then south Of Yanti, about
ten miles northeast of Lao Yang
and that the remainder was crossing
the Taitse river and taking up posi-.
ton on the right. bank Gen. Orloff's
corps sustained severe losses in the
retrograde movement.
A dispatch from Saigon, French
Cochin, China, says the commander
of the Russian cruiser Diana, which
took refuge in that port after Admiral
1ogo's defeat of the Port Arthur
squadron, has received orders from
the Russian admiralty to disarm his
vessel.
President Roosevelt, on the 9Th, tele-
graphed his congratulations to Kaiser
William upon the engagement of the
crown prince.
The governor of Missouri may oust
Sheriff Hencken of st. Louis county
for allowing bull fight 10 take placs
against his express orders.
The republican convention at Homo
lulu, on the 5th, renominated Jonah *
KalanianaoIe for delegate to congress
from Hawaii The platform indorses
Gov. Carter and the national ticket.
1t is now said there is no truth In
the statement sent from London thai
Sassoneff, the murderer of Interior
Minister Won Plehve Of Russia, had
succeeded in escaping from prison.
A confidential legal adviser of Lieut..
Count Mattasisch-Kegelvich, who
has returned to Vienna from visiting
the Princess Louis of SAKE Coburg. de-
clines to reveal the whereabouts Of the
princess.
The car has appointed Senator Pla-
tonoff, member of the council Of the
Russian empire, minister of the In.
terror and chief of the Russian police,
in succession to the late NJ. Plehve.
The state election in Arkansas re-
suited in the reelection of Gov. Jeffer-
son Davis, the present democratic in
cumbent, over Hon. Harry Myers, re.
publican, by the usual large democratic
majority.
A report is current that the emperor
Of Russia will go to the front, and
seems to have foundation. II is known
that. the imperial train has been fitted
out for long journey.
General Agent H. B. segur, Of the
Burlington road at Atchison, Kas.. died
suddenly at the Union station, in St
Louis, on the 9Th.
A London Daily Telegraph CORE
spondent at Che Foo cables that the
japanese besieging Port Arthur have
received heavy achievements under
Lieut.. Gen. Tatema, the eminent STRAIT
| Agist.