The leader., 1904-12-31
Personal AND POLITICAL.

m0rclleSS GTOSS-cAdAAAaCioA "a
cutor Rand, Nan Patterson, the former
show girl, went to her cell in the
Tombs prison, in New York city, on
the goth, tired, but happy. For sew
-eral hours she sat under the CALLING
cross-fire of the assistant district at
torney, but the accused actress proved
a marvel of self-control, and the pros
ecution failed to confuse her.
The negro football and baseball play
er, w. G. Matthews, has been elected
one of Harvard's senior class day Of
ficers, one of the highest honors in the
gift of crimson undergraduates.
The Netherlands minister to the
United States, Jonkheer Rene De
Merees Van Swindern, and Miss Eliza
home, on the 21st, providing that here
beth Lindsay Glover were married, on
the 21st, at Washington, D. c.
On the 21st F. Pierce Mays, a promi-
nent lawyer of Portland, Ore, was in
dicted in connection with the land
fraud investigations now being con-
Quoted by the federal grand jury.
Congressman Livingston, of Georgia,
introduced a joint resolution in the
house, on the 21st, providing that here
after electors for president and vice
president and representatives shall be
voted for in each state on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in Sep
tember.
On the 22d former Crown Princess
Louise, the divorced wife of the king
of Saxony, made desperate attempt
to see her children at Dresden, but
failed. She was repulsed at the pal
ace gates hy guards after a painful
scene, and escorted to the Saxon
frontier by the police.
Advices from Alcazar, Morocco,
about sixteen miles northeast OF
Tangier on the 22d, stated that tribes
men had surrounded Alcazar and
threatened to sack the town unless the
French consul and one British SUBJ
iect were handed over to them.
The car of Russia has decided
against granting the zemstvos' petit
ton for constitution or a national
assembly.
A marriage license was issued in
Washington, D. c., on the 22d to Hen
ry Molyneux Padgett Howard, earl OF
Suffolk and Berkshire, England, and
Marguerite Hyde Letter, of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The wedding was
set for Tuesday, December q.
Some of the sophomores of Colum-
bia university, who attempted to haze
young Kingdom Gould, have been sus-
pended for their alleged infraction OF
the rules.
According to the official canvass
Roosevelt's popular majority for pres
ident of the United States is 1,746,-
76S. He received 2,547, 7,578 more votes
than did Parker and 4O9, ,S22 more than
were cast for Mckinley in 1900 in a
total vote that fell short 460,07S of the
1900 vote.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, is urging
the farmers of the south to diversity
their crops, and points out the dam
ger of a general holding of cotton back
from market for higher prices, telling
them that while they might possibly
get more money for part of their
crop they would be the losers in the
end
Herbert l. Newton, of Boston.
it is said, will meet DR.. Leroy s. Chad
wick ON his. return to this country
with civil suit for the recovery on
a paper given by Dr.. Chadwick having
a face value of $4,000.
Louis Hartung, an old music teacher,
and who had lived as recluse for
several years, was found dead in his
room, at st. Louis, on the 22d, having
committed suicide by the use of chlor-
oform. He had reached the ends OF
his means and concluded 1t was time
to depart
The faculty of Columbia college,
New York city, has suspended four
members of the sophomore class who
were engaged in an attempt to haze
young Kingdom Gould.
The death is announced, in Boston,
of Henry O'Meara, for many years a
Boston newspaper man and writer of
poetry. He was born in Newfoundland
54-years ago.