The leader., 1904-06-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL,

hear-Aumlral GnduWlCks COuL1dAu-
ing the South Atlantic squadron now
at Tangier, Morocco, has reported to
Washington that conditions remain
unchanged in the case of the kidnap-
ping of the American citizen, Ion Per-
dicaris, and his stepson, Cromwell
Marley, a British subject.
On the Sd Frank A. Rantze was
appointed agent at the Usage Indian
agency in Oklahoma. He is resi-
dent of Enid, Okla, and was captain
of company OF rough riders during
the Spanish war. His selection was
made by the president.
On the Bird Patrick J. King, alleged
head. of the policy ring in Chicago,
was indicted for violation of the lot.
terry laws. Indictments were voted
also against dozen other alleged
prominent gamblers.
On the Sd Gov. Mickey of Ne
braska honored the requisition issued
by Gov. Cummins of Iowa TO the
arrest of tom" Dennison of Omaha,
accused of completely in diamond
robbery in that state.
On the 9Th George M. Phillips, who
won renown as, engineer on the col
lier Merrimac, sunk by Hobson at the
mouth of Santiago harbor, died at his
home in Cambridge, Mass.
On the 4th DR.. J. w. Simpson, mar
ried, was shot and killed, at Weston,
Mo-, by Julius Rumpel, saloonkeeper.
Rumpel gave himself up, claiming that
Simpson was too friendly toward Mrs.
Rumpel.
Mrs. Nan Patterson, who was arrest
ed by the police of New York city in
connection with the shooting, in cab,
of Caesar" Young, the turfman, is a
Washington ID. CO. girl. Her father,
John B. Patterson, is we'll known in
real estate circles of that city.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, after ten
days visit to ST. Louis, every day OF
which she visited the Worlds fair, left
for home, on the 9Th, declaring she
never had a better time in her life.
The young lady was the recipient OF
many polite attentions, and some that
were not SO polite as they ought to
have been, but which she took good
naturally.
On the 5th Mrs Samuel M. Clemens,
the wife of MARK Twain" the Ameri-
can author and lecturer, died of syn
cope at Florence, Italy. Half an hour
before her death she had conversed
cheerfully with her husband.
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Riean student at Dickson seminary,
Williamsport, Pa, was drowned in the
Susquehanna river while bathing. His
parents had just landed at New York,
en- route to witness their sons gradua-
ton.
Senator Joseph Bailey, of Texas, 1t Is
said, has been selected by the demo-
cratic national committee to act as
temporary chairman of the st. Louis
convention
The United States department OF
agriculture has been advised that DR..
Cook, who has discovered, in Guata-
mala, an ant that is fierce enemy of
the boil weevil, has started by the
overland route for the cotton fields,
carrying colonies of. ants, with which
experiments will be made in the wee
vil-ravaged sections.
On the 9Th J. E. Marsell, whose for
geries of 100000 wrecked the High
land bank, at Highland, Kas., and
who was sentenced to 35 years in pris-
on, FIVE years on each of the seven
counts, began serving time in the peni-
Tertiary. He was placed as an ap-
prentice under Emmett Dalton, the
former outlaw and bank robber.
After spending ten strenuous days
at the Worlds fair in st. Louis, Miss
Alice Roosevelt had narrow escape
from injury in a jam which caught
her carriage at the corner of Fifteenth
and Pennsylvania avenue, Washington
on her return home on the evening of
the 9Th.
The famous old Apache Indian chief
Geronimo, was among the distin-
guished arrivals at the Worlds fair on
the 9th. He will remain throughout
the exposition period.