The leader., 1904-10-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
Personal AND PoLvrTCAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
Assistant Surgeon-General of the
Marine Hospital Service George r.
Purviance, of Washington, d. c.,
jumped from the fourth-story window
of the Orthopoedic hospital, in Phila-
delphla, on the goth, and was instant
ly killed. He was about SO years old.
The Hague peace convention sigma
tory powers are to be asked to form Q
fund Of 100000 for the maintenance
Of Andrew Carnegie's palace Of peace.
Counselor Durham White Stevens,
of the Japanese legation at Washing
ton, who will be diplomatic adviser
to the Korean government, has been
granted by the emperor of Japan the
decoration of the Grand Cross of the
Sacred Treasure.
Cashier Allen Parker of the First
national bank of Tullahoma, Tenn,
is missing, and is alleged to be short
about $4,000 In his accounts.
On the 21st DR.. William p. Wilson,
chairman of the Philippine exposition
board, rendered his resignation to
Clarence r. Edwards, chief of the bu-
reau of insular affairs at Washington,
for transmission to Luke E. Wright,
civil governor OF the islands.
Unless the Japanese take the initi-
alive soon, the Russians, 1t is expected,
will resume the offensive, and en-
deavor to drive the Japanese back for
the purpose of insuring the safety Of
their winter quarters, which undoubt-
eddy will be north of Mukden, unless a
southwark advance is successful.
Prince Fushimi, special imperial
envoy to the St. Louis exposition,
sailed from Japan, on the 23d, with
his suite, on the Steamer Manchuria
for San Francisco.
On the 22d the Russian Baltic squad
ron, while passing through the North
sea, fired on and sank several British
fishing vessels, causing at least two
deaths and wounding about a score Of
men. Unless prompt reparation is
forthcoming, it is probable that the
incident will be considered by England
as an act of war.
Ten thousand persons, it is estimat-
ed, attended the funeral of two of MUIR
dered St. Louis detectives on the oath.
President Roosevelt, Judge Parker
and perhaps ex-President Grover Cleve-
land are expected to visit the Worlds
fair in St. Louis after the presidential
election.
Great Britain sent an urgent note to
the Russian government, on the oath,
officially detailing the circumstances
of the amazing and unexplained at
tack by the Russian. second Pacific
squadron during the night of October
q on British fishing boats in the North
sea.
The Russian ambassador to Great
Britain, Count Benckendorff, returned
to London, on the oath, from celebrat-
ing his silver wedding with his wife's
relatives in Silesia, and barely escaped
assault from a crowd at the Victoria
station, which followed him almost in
to the embassy.
William B. Morris, the last of the
five men engaged in the duel between
detectives and train robbers, in st.
Louis, on October 81, died on the oath.
Throughout England there is evil
dence of the very positive opinion that
this is no time for the usual diplomatic
dilly-dallying, and that there must be
no delay and no limit set by Russia to
her apology or the extent of compen-
sation for sufferers by what King Ed
ward terms "the unwarrantable &C
ton" of the Baltic squadron COM
manders.
Prof Emil Won Burgess, of Berlin
and VIM. J. Heminway, of New York
in exploring South America, discov-
cred in the Andes mountains, 25C
miles from Arauco, Chilli, city de-
serted for 1000 years, but once inhab-
tied, presumably by Aztecs of much
larger stature than those known to
have lived in Central America. There
were evidences of a high state of civil
ization.
Not England alone, but all Europe
is aghast and appalled, by the difficult
ties produced by the greatest outrage
by Russia. The world is confronted
with a dilemma for which information.
al law provides SO solution.