The leader., 1904-08-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS PROM EYERYWHERE.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The Russian battleship Czariwltx,
badly disabled, and the cruiser Novik
together with a torpedo boat, sought
refuge in the German concession port
of Using Chou on the 18th. The Novik
slipped out, on the 18th, at the expira-
ton of the 24-hour limit.
A report was received at Che Foo,
on the 18th, to the effect that Adj
miral Witthoeft, who commanded the
Russian Port Arthur squadron, was
killed in the naval battle on the 10th.
The action of the japanese torpedo
boat destroyers in taking the Russian
destroyer Ryeshitelni out Of Che Foo
harbor appears to have been a mis-
take tue to overzealousness on the
part of the Japanese which may win
for Japan sharp international repri-
mand.
The lew heir to the Russian throne
will be Christened Alexis Mix 1lsuvitch
He has already been named colonel of
the Fourth regiment Of the guards.
Former Capt Eugene N. v. Vissell,
United States army, committed suicide
in his room at the Grand hotel, in San
Francisco, on the 18th, by inhaling IL
Illuminating gas.
Thomas e. Watson, the populist can
didate for president, has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address on La
Dor Gay before the striking packing
house employees at Kansas City, Mo.
Rev. Thomas s. Leland, pastor Of
the Victor (Col) Methodist Episcopal
church, who was warned by masked
men to leave the Cripple Creek dis
trict. declared that he intended to re-
main, and would resist any mob that
attacked him.
On the 18th, at a luncheon given at
the American legation in Stockholm,
Sweden, United States Minister Thomas
presented to Sven Anders Hedin, the
Norwegian explorer and traveller, the
American Geographical society's medal.
Henry r. bosch director of exhibits
of the Lewis and Clark fair, who has
Just returned to Portland from st.
Louis, says that Japan, China, Ger
many, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy
and Hungary ?aye Signified their in
tention to exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark fair which is to be held in Port
land, Ore, next year.
1t is now said that Mrs. Florence
Maybrick left Rouen, France, in good
health, July 25, for America, and that
the stories Of her nervous prostration
were given out merely to distract pub
lie attention from her movements.
On the 18th a son and heir to the
Russian throne was born. The en-
press and child are doing we'll.
Word has been received in st. Louis
that. Prince Henry of Prussia, his wife
and eldest son will leave Germany
shortly for tour of the United States,
and will proceed, after his arrival in
New York, directly to st. Louis, where
he will be the guest of DR.. Lewald, the
German imperial commissioner 20 the
Worlds fair.
On the nth the body of George Ora
ham Vest, former senator and Mis-
so!lri's renowned s.-tesman, was laid
to rest beneath the soil of the state he
loved so well and served so faithfully
during his, lifetime. The remains were
inferred beside those Of his son in
Bellefontaine cemetery.
Judge Seymour D. Thompson, form
er associate justice of the court of APP
peals at ST. Louis, died, on the 18th,
of diabetes at East Orange, n. ].
The Berlin foreign Office has heard
nothing Of the report that Prince Hen
er discredits it.
On the 18th Samuel Gaty, "a years
old, of New York, who has an income
Of $4,000 year, was sentenced to a
term in the Elmira reformatory. He
pleaded guilty to receiving jewelry
stolen from C. NJ Reece, of that city.
On the 18th Justice Blanchard, Of
New York, appointed Gilbert NJ Mon
tegue temporary receiver of the real
and personal property Of Hannah
Elias, in the action brought against
the negress by John r. Platt, the aged
millionaire, to recover property worth
$685., 900.
In his contest over the will Of the
late p s. Bennett, Of New York, de-
cision adverse to ". j. Bryan was
handed down, on the 18th, by the Con-
necticut supreme court Of errors, after
an all-day session The decision vir-
tually denies that Mr.. Bryan is enti-
tied to the $4,000 mentioned in the
sealed letter written by Mr. Bennett.
On Tie 18th the London Daily Chron-
icle published three column interview
with Mrs. Florence Maybrick, mostly
concerned with her experiences during
her life in prison. The interviewer
describes Mrs. Maybrick as clear-wit-
ted, outspoken, mildly robust, and in
no way shattered, either physically or
mentally, though her face is drawn az
with grief and suffering.