The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-05-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND PoLITIoAL.

Kansas City within a year.
On the 10Th Prince Pu Lun of China
was rendered a banquet by the city
of indianapolis There were 500 plates
at the Claypool. Among tho speakers
were Senator'S Fairbanks and Bev-
eridge
Vice-Admiral Togo, in report re-
ceive1 at Toxic, on the 18th, told of
the loss of the Japanese battleship
Hatsuse through contact with mine,
on the 18th, to the southeast of Port
Arthur. On the same day, during a
dense fog, the Japanese cruiser Kasuga
rammed the cruiser Yoshino and sent
her to the bottom. About 600 lives were
lost with the two vessels.
The next annual convention Of the
National Editorial association will be
held in Guthrie, Okla. Maj. w. w.
Screws, of Alabama, was elected presi-
dent of the association at the closing
meeting in st. Louis.
Former President David Rothschild.
Of the Federal bank Of New York, has
been found guilty of grand larceny in
the first degree. He was accused of in
ducing persons to deposit money in the
bank after he knew it was insolvent
Tyee Hecum, Nisqually reservation
Indian, after gambling all OF his per-
sonal effects, staked his klootchman
and lost her The authorities learning
of the affair, forced the victor to re-
turn the wife to the husband.
On the 22d Alfred Morgan. of
Vineland. N. j., aged rs years, said to
he a relative of ]. P. Morgan, was
burned to death at his home. His house
was discovered ON fire, and an attempt
was made to rescue him, but the flames
spread SO rapidly that this was impos-
sible. Mr.. Morgan was a graduate of
the University Of Pennsylvania. Ga
Superintendent of Police Sylvester, of
Washington, D. c., has announced
that he has destroyed all the films of
the, moving pictures taken a few days
ago by theatrical parties on the east
front of the capitol building, when
President Roosevelt was impersonated
in the act of raising fictitious negro
into his carriage. The police authori-
ties say that this closes the incident.
President Castro of Venezuela has
issued a decree expelling from Mara
caibo ten Spanish Capuchln monks,
who preached in favor of the re-estab
lishment of clerical power over civil
society.
Harry r. Geer, one of the best-known
bicyclists in St. Louis, and holder of
many motorcycle records. died on the
22d. His death followed a sudden at
tack of illness which originated few
days before.
Hester Jackson, a negro woman of
Washington, D. c.. who claimed to be
10S years of age, is dead in that city.
She was the widow of negro preach
er, Rev. Noah Jackson, and the date
of her birth is given as March 4, 1896.
On the 23d, Jesse L. Jewell, state
senator, went to trial in the criminal
court at Kansas City, upon a charge of
soliciting bride for his vote and tho
votes of other senator's upon certain
baking powder legislation pending in
the Missouri legislature of 1908.
The president has issued an order d.
1ecting the heads of executive depart
ments to comply with the law in the
District of Columbia against permit
, ting dense smoke to issue from CHM
reys, and wherever necessary to in
stall smoke consumers, or make other
necessary change IN the machinery of
public buildings.
Mrs. Anna Clifton Springer, wife of
John W. Springer, former president of
the National Live Stock association,
died at her home in Denver, Col, on
the 22d. She was a daughter of Col.
N. E. Hughes, and lived the greater
part of her life in st. Louis.
Mrs. Floyd Walton, Mississippi's Of
fetal hostess of "Beauvoir," that
states building at the Worlds fair, has
been thus far unable to occupy the
residence portion of the building, it
i having been taken possession of by the
family of Mr.. R. H. Henry, the state
executive commissioner.
Secretary of the Navy Moody and his
confidential clerk. Henry C. Jones,
went home from the navy department
in Washington, on the 23d, suffering
from an attack of german measles,
, contracted, supposedly, from sailor
on board the dispatch boat Dolphin.
WI Chao-Chow, son of WI Ting
fang, former Chinese minister to the
United States, has taken the highest
honors. in the graduating class of the
Atlantic City IN. j. high school, and
will be yaledictorian.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An unconfrmed report from New
Chwang, on the 10Th, said that the
Japanese army from the Yalu had been
driven back to Feng-Wang- Cheng. An
other report said that the Russians
had lost 1000 men during an engage
ment at Hsin- Yea-Cheng.
On the Goth the post Office at Rob-
erts, ILL.,, was entered by robbers, the
safe dynamited and $275 in cash taken.
! The thieves stole railway velocipede
and made their escape.
On the 21st Fred Williams, colored,
was sentenced by Judge Mcdonald, OF
ST, ouis TO be hanged on June 27