The leader., 1904-11-12
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AuuE6W NdIuSElC Ad0 DOCA
mously reelected lord rector of st.
Andrews university at Edinburgh,
Scotland.
On the 4th President Roosevelt is
sued signed letter replying to Judge
Parker's accusations that Chairman
Cortelyou was using knowledge gained
while a cabinet member to secure
funds for the republican campaign.
Ordering her own coffin to be made
out of pine boards, at a lumber fac
tory, Mrs. A. D. Low, of Palmyra, Wis,
rich woman, killed herself, on the
4th, with strychnine, because she had
been threatened with lawsuits.
The dead body of Miss Rosa Butts
was found, on the 4th, in a pasture
near Marshall, Mo-, with evidence that
the girl had been murdered. Her throat
had been cut with sharp stick, her
left ear completely severed, and there
was bullet wound in her head.
Among high officials at the Russian
war Office, where the true conditions
inside the fortress of Port Arthur are
out against the efforts of the Japan
ese concentrated on it during the ten
days preceding the 4th inst, is re-
garded as marvellous, but no confidence
in the ultimate result is entertained.
The inquest at Marshall, Mo-, on the
9Th, failed to solve the mystery of Rosa
Butts murder.
Brig. Gen. Jesse ]. Finley, one of the
few surviving field officers of the con-
federate army, died at Lake City, Fla,
on the 9th, aged 80 years.
Yardmaster ]. F. Johnson and
George A. Richards, division engineer
of the Rock Island railroad, both OF
Chickasha, 1. T., were run down an0
killed near that city on the 9th. They
we're riding on a motor car on the
Mongum branch of the road, when
they were overtaken by freight train.
The Italian elections, on the 9Th,
passed off quietly, the power of the
extreme parties being greatly dimin-
ished.
On the 9Th the Lebaudy airship made
a successful ascension at Moisson,
France, but was prevented from TAX
ing the long flight to Rouen because
Of heavy mist.
The Russian admiralty has issued a
note stating that the Baltic fleet will
consume 70 days making the voyage
from Tangier to Vladivostok.
Germany has formally asked Russia
for an explanation of the firing on the
German fishing vessel Sonntag, by the
Baltic feet.
On the 7th R. H. Thayer, for many
years editor of the Clinton (Ia.) Age,
and widely known as a democratic pol
itician, died, at the age of Y years.
The Hardin county Qa.) grand jury
has indicted Ed. Miller, member of
the firm of o. E. Miller & Son, private
bankers at New Providence, Ia, which
failed last March, on a charge OF
fraudulent banking.
Mack Taylor, president Of the Hoist
ing Engineers Union of Illinois, is
sued an order, on the 7th, declaring
the strike of the hosting engineers off,
in obedience to a referendum vote,
which resulted $50 to 315 in favor OF
returning to work.
At Peoria, ILL.,, on the 7th, counsel
for Richard Higgins, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Thomasson, of Lacon,
ILL.,, filed a petition in habeas corpus
for the release of Higgins on bond.
Admiral George F. Dewey, it is said,
will have the refusal of sitting on the
international board of inquiry which
will take up the Anglo-Russian North
sea incident, in case the United States
is requested to send representative,
in accordance with the agreement that
the United States be invited to furnish
naval representative.
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
the Petit Parisien (Paris) says that,
according to a dispatch from Kiao
Chou, the recent fighting around Port
Arthur was SO fierce that Gen. Stoes-
sci, who was wounded, has only 5000
or 1900 men available. 1t is realized
now in st. Petersburg that the fortress
may fall any day.
The tactical aspect of the campaign
in Manchuria has been altered by the
freezing over of the Hun river, which
is now passable for men and material
on the ice.