The leader., 1905-03-18

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An address BY President Roosevelt
was the feature Of the National Com
gress Of Mothers. III Washingt on
the evening Of the 18th inst. There
was an immense crowd present.
w. J. Clark, formerly q lumber salea-
man Of Ia Grange, III. discouraged
over the failure to secure contract
he was figuring on, committed suicide
by asphyxiation In rooming house
at San Francisco
United States Ambassador Meyer
transferred from Italy to Russia, has
leased the famous KleinlnicheI palace
in st. Petersburg for his otiicial resi-
dence
The remains Of Senator William B.
Bate were laid in state beneath the
flag Of his old regiment, the Second
Tennessee, which he led at Shiloh, III
the Tennessee state capitol at Nash
vile preceding their interment, and
thousands viewed them
Sixteen prisoners made a desperate
dash for freedom from the Hat
Springs (Ars.) jail. One OF them,
Silas Love, was shot dead, ONE escaped
and all the rest were captured.
Bishop A. G. A. Hall of the Episco-
pal diocese of Vermont is critically i'll
at Burlington, Vt, following an opera
tion for appendicitis.
George Schistler, enraged at being
beaten in lawsuit, at Denver, COL, by
K. Fill, went cunning for the latter
and killed him and Fills wife, set fire
to their house, burning up young
child In resisting arrest he wounded
three men and was finally shot to
death in his house, where he had bar
ricaded himself.
Fire completely destroyed the plant
Of the Connellsville (Pa.l Car. & Ma
chine Co., causing a loss of $3.50, 600.
Night Watchman Martin Mullen is be-
lieved to have been burned to death.
The famous hospice of st. Gothard,
in Switzerland, has been destroyed by
fire.
The Hamburg American Steamship
Co. is said to be remaining and coal
| ing the IA steamers recently chartered
to the Russian government.
Russia is said to be steadily rein
forcing her military strength, both in
men and guns. on the India frontier of
Russian Turkestan.
Twenty or thirty lives were lost as
the result Of a terrific explosion in
the Cambrian colliery in the Rhondda
valley i'll Wales.
i TS74,.r Allo,{ 1ry;fo - oVy
Luther Allen Ostrander, died at Lyons,
N. Y, following an operation for ap-
pendicitis.
Vice President Fairbanks has ap-
pointed his son. Fred G. Fairbanks,
| who graduated from Princeton in the
class of 1903. as his private secretary.
The four senators expelled from the
California senate after being accused
of accepting bribes, will seek reinstate-
ment through mandamus proceedings.
The worst food since 1888 has been
creating havoc in the Monongahela
river valley in West Virginia. The
railroads have suffered severely.
Eight Syrians are under arrest,
pending expulsion, at Port-Au-Prince,
| Hayti, having presented false Ameri-
can naturalization papers.
"Bill' Rudolph, the Union (Mo.)
bank robber and murderer. will not
be hanged on ST. Patrick's day Gov.
Folk has granted him respite till
| April IL.
Miss Rose Marie Schaller, student
| in the University of Minnesota, win
christen the battleship Minnesotaa
when she is launched. using water
from Minnehaha falls instead of wine.
Judge Morgan, in San Francisco, has
ordered the arrest of several students
of the Hopkins Art institute who, in
November last, participated in hazing
Albert de Rome lSr student,
rendering him helpless s.ipple.
J. G. Casey, head OF the Casey
Wholesale Mercantile Co., Of Wichita,
Kas., was shot and Instantly killed by
James Oliver, who lost $4,000 by the
failure of a former company with
which Casey was connected.
William Roth, vice-president of Roth
Bros. & Co., electric motor manufac-
turers, in Chicago, despondent over
continued illness and business rev
! verses, committed suicide by shooting.
If decision just rendered by Judge
Wheeler in the United States circuit
court in New York holds the United
States will have to refund $5,0O0.O00 to
the American Sugar Refining Co. for
duties paid on raw sugars imported
from Cuba
A report from Calcutta says that the
plague has spread to Burmah. where
1T is making rapid strides. The deaths
are said to be 80 per cent. of those
stricken.
The news of the Russian defeat at
Mulxden was received in Warsaw with
/ lill-concealed pleasure. The newspapers
were not allowed to publish it, but il
was quickly circulated.
/ John r. Lucas, who killed Clyde Les
ter. his employe, following dispute
lover wages, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree at Holdredge, Neb.,
and sentenced tolife imprisonment.
A society of young men mas been
formed in Berlin called the Active
sE1iends of Animals. They warn the
women of Berlin that il they wear
biris in their hats they will be re-
moved, and the members will stand all
legal consequences.
The Standard Oil Co. s latest blow al
the Kansas oil men is to refuse to
purchase oil testing below 80 degrees
gravity. This shuts out nearly two
thirds of the Kansas product
James Upton Medlock, aiias ]. G. Mel
| lier, who is wanted in st. Joseph, Mo-.
for burglary, is under arrest in New
Il York. He is said to be an expert
druggist, with penchant for stealing