The leader., 1904-06-25
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PrRsoNAL AND PoL1rIcAI..

/ Ten. BObrlk0m, governor general OF
| Finland, was shot and MORALLY wound
ed at the entrance to the Finnish Sem
ate, at Helslngfors, on the 10th. The as
sassin, q man named Schaumann, son
of Senator Schaumann, Immediately
committed suicide.
In the New York court of general
sessions the application of counsel for
Mrs. Nan Patterson, who is charged
with the murder of Caesar" Young,
the bookmaker, to inspect the minutes
of the grand jury in connection with
the indictment of Mrs. Patterson, was
denied by Judge Newberger.
On the 18th w. H. Mayes, arrested
ON charge of forgery and false en-
tries in the Elk City national bank of
Elk City, Okla, of which he was presi-
self. He had been arrested on war
rant secured by United States Attorney
Horace Speed of Guthrie. The bank
failed few weeks ago.
On the 18th the will of Senator Quay
was probated at Beaver. Pa Not only
does i! not disclose the amount of the
estate, but provides that the executors
shall rot file an accounting. The will
says Mrs. Quay is provided for. Mat
thew Stanley Quay, the senator's grand
son, was given farm in Chester, Pa
The rest of the estate is to be sold and
divided into five equal parts. -Four of
these go to his children.
One the 18th Ike Copeland, Is years
old, died at Eddyville, Ky. He was
said to have been the only negro con-
federate living in the state. He lived
in a home given him by Gen. H. B.
Lyons.
Robert McElrath, who lived at Den
mark, ILL.,, died, recently, as result OF
milk sickness. Since then all five OF
his children have been taken ill. Two
have died, and the doctors say the 9TH
ers can not live.
each" Mulhall, live stock agent of
the Rock Island system, connected
with Cummins' Indian congress on the
Pike at the Worlds fair, shot and
wounded three men, on the night of the
18th, following an alteration with one
of the attaches.
On the 18th Sheriff G. D. Harris, of
st. Croix county, Mimi, was shot and
killed while attempting to make an
arrest on an Omaha train near Fall
Creek, Wis. The man who did the
shooting, whose name is unknown.
jumped from the moving train and es-
capped.
There is = strong sentiment in Toxic
that Vicc-Admiral Kamimura has not
been as diligent as he should have
been in following the movements Of
the Russian Vladivostok squadron,
which has done so much damage of
late, and his more outspoke1 critics de-
mand that he commit suicide.
President Roosevelt, who, with Mrs.
Roosevelt, spent Sunday, the 19ih, with
Attorney General Knox, ON his farm at
Valley Forge, visited the historic camp
ground of Washington and attended
the patriotic services held in Washing
ton memorial chapel, and addressed the
meeting.
On The 20tE a decision was given by
the Colorado supreme court affirming
the constitutionality of the inheritance
tax law.
James Gentry, who fomerly lived in
Austin, Tex, is fighting in the Japan
csc army against Russia. He first en-
tered the Japanese army as scout,
and now ranks as captain.
On the goth John T. Sullivan, for rs
years one Of the most popular Ameri
can actors, died at his hotel in New
York from rheumatism, which finally
attacked his heart
On the goth Philip Krantz, an en-
gineer, jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge, and escaped unframed Krantz
is under arrest, charged with attempted
suicide, but denies that he had any in
tention of taking his life
Carey Snyder, son of r. M. Snyder,
of Kansas City, Mo, the promoter and
former banker, pleaded guilty in the
criminal court, on the goth, of holding
up and robbing pawnbroker He was
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiaTy, but was paroled
On he goth an order was issued in
the probate court at New Haven, Conn,
directing William J. Bryan, as execu-
tor, to pay over to Mrs. Philo S. Ben
nett $4,000 in lieu of her dover rights.
Under date of June 20, Admiral
Skyrdloff sent the following message
to the emperor: ''The cruiser division
has returned to Vladivostok without
losing any men or sustaining any dam
age"
Rev. Elijah Stone, father of Melville
E. Stone, general manager of the Asso-
ciated Press, and of Ormond Stone
professor of astronomy at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, is dead at Charlottes-
vile, Va, the home of his son, Or
mond.