The leader., 1904-07-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The grand jury has voted an indict-
ment against Edward Butler, the mill
ionaire horseshoer and politician of st.
Louis, on a charge of compromising q
felony. Buffers Indictment is based
on the confession of Charles F. Kelly,
who says that Butler gave him $4,000
to silence him until the statute Of linn
itations would go into effect in the
bribery scandal.
On the 1sr the Minnesota republicans,
in convention at st. Paul, named COM
plete state ticket, and adjourned In
good-nature6 harmony.
The coroner's jury which investigat-
ed the death of Roscoe MCGEE and
John Davis, who came to their deaths
during the riots at Victor, Col, on
June s, charges President Charles III.
Meyer and w. d. Haywood. secretary
treasure1. of the Western Federation Of
Miners, with murder and melting riot.
The president has directed the APP
pointment of Col. Theodore A. Bing-
ham as a brigadier- general. The APP
pointment is to take effect on July G.,
when Gen. Bingham will retire.
Friends off Santos-Dumont. in Paris
maintain that the destruction of the
envelops of his airship, at St. Louis,
was due to the jealousy and envy of
French. aeronauts rather than to the
wanton instincts of an American ma
rauder. -
On the list Daniel Decatur Emmett,
author of Dixie" who died June %,
was buried in Mount View cemetery, at
Mount Vernon, o. The funeral was in
charge of Elks Lodge No 14o, A. G..
Fields, marshal,
Former Secretary of the Republican
National Committee. Perry S. Heath
has severed his connection with the
Salt Lake City CUtah) Tribune, of
which he has been the publisher for
the past three years, and has returned
to the east.
The Russian government, it is said,
on the authority of prominent dip
lomat, is now convinced that the Rus
sian army and navy must be completely
reorganized on modern lines before
they can hope to cope with the Japan
csc. Such reorganization will take
Russia ten years.
Capt. Alexander H. Walker, a visitor
to st. Louis from Auckland, New Zea-
land, died suddenly on the night OF
the LIST, as the result of hemorrhage,
brought on by excitement attending a
Hrn hn he "A
guest. He was accompanied by two
sons.
John Hays, of Muscoda. Wis, aged
" years, who was coxswain on board
the Kearsarge when she sunk the Ala
bama, of Cherbourg, France, in 1854.
has just received medal for personal
bravery" which was awarded him De-
cember 81, 1864 An honorarium OF
800 goes with it.
The czar of Russia, has personally
donated $4,000 for the lelief of the
sufferers by tornado at Moscow.
The new secretary of the navy, Paul
Morton, has appointed John Nordhaus,
Of Nebraska, as his private secretary.
Lieut.. Guilfcrd S. CARRIER, of the
United States signal corps, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
mouth at Honolulu on the Sd. No cause
is assigned.
Friends Of William Pickens, one Of
the brightest negroes ever graduated
from Yale university, and one of the
high stand men in the class of '04, be-
lieye that the color line was drawn
against him, and prevented his election
to the Phi Beta Kappa society.
On tho 4th, when the populist ma
tional convention was called to order
at Springfield, ILL.,, there. were fewer
than 200 delegates in the hall, some
800 delegates failing to appear. The
citizens of Springfield took no inter-
est in the convention, and there were
not moro thar seventy-fiye persons
present besides the delegates.
On the Atm the funeral of Senior Du-
puy de LONE, the Spanish ambassador
to Italy, formerly minister of Spain at
Washington, who died July /, took
place at the Church of the Madeline in
Madrid.