The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-02-17
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Personal AND POLITICAL.
On the 10th Charles F. Gould, editor
Of the Evansville Qnd.) Bulletin, fell
dead while sitting at his desk. Death
was due to strangulation by bron-
chial tumor. He was S. years of age.
The case against John M. Glover,
formerly congressman from Missouri,
for having shot at Sergeant Smith, was
dismissed, on the 10th, in the district
court at Cripple Creek, Col, on the
ground that the accused could not be
tried twice for the same offense.
The Danish commissioner-genera
to the St. Louis exposition, William
Arup, arrived at New York, on the
18th.
The president, on the 18th, signed
the proclamation declaring the neu-
trality of this government in the Rus
so-Japanese war.
Mayor McLane, of Baltimore, Md,
in reply to an offer of assistance from
the lord mayor of Manchester, En-
gland, telegraphed, on the 18th, that
no immediate relief was necessary.
On the 18th Senator Daniel, of Vir-
ginia, introduced bill in the senate
appropriating $4,000 for the compile
ton of the Jefferson Memorial object
lesson road from Charlottesville, Va,
to Monticello, the grave of Thomas
Jefferson.
Congressman Howell, of Utah, in
troduced in the house, on the 18th,
bill providing that all that portion of
Arizona territory lying north and west
Of the center of the Colorado river
should be annexed to the state of Utah.
The condition of Senator Hanna, on
the 18th, was very serious, if not pre-
carious. His physicians realized this,
and were watching the case with the
greatest concern. The senator was
considerably weaker, and as a result
his pulse ran up to 104 to the minute.
On the 18th the thirty-sixth annual
convention of the National American
Woman's Suffrage association was
called to order at Washington, D. c.,
by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, national
president of that body. Over thirty
states were represented by delegates.
Jacob Ellen, an ex-alderman of Grand
Rapids, Mich, convicted of accepting
bride in the Lake Michigan water deal,
has decided to perfect an appeal to
the supreme court.
On the 18th Dr. Eduardo Acevedo
Diaz, the recently-appointed minister
to the United States from Uruguay,
presented his credentials to the presi-
dent.
Senator Hanna safely passed
through the climax of his illness, on
the 18th. At one time it was feared
he was dying, but he rallied strongly,
and there was again some hope given
that he might win the fight.
The Marquette club of Chicago OBJ
served Lincolns birthday, on the 18th,
with banquet and public meeting at
the Auditorium hotel. Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw was the principal
speaker of the evening.
"A jury found w E. Slifer guilty of
murder in the first degree at Grundy.
Center, Ia, on the 18th. Slifer was ac-
cused of the murder of his wife. They
were members, of Dunkard commu-
nifty.
The banquet to have been held at
Cleveland, o., on the night Of 18th, as
the concluding feature Of the annual
meeting Of the Ohio Republican league,
was abandoned because OF the serious
illness of Senator Hanna
Assistant Secretary Of State LOOMS.
on the 18th. presented to the president
members Of the executive committee
of the American Medical society. The
president cordially greeted each Of
them.
At the annual Lincoln day banquet
given by the Minneapolis Mimi
Flamheau club, Gov Albert B. Cum
Minis. Of Iowa. was the principal
speaker Five hundred persons list
ened attentively to Gov Cummins'
speech on The Iowa Idea =