The leader., 1905-02-04


many soldiers wounded. Other dyna,
mite outrages are reported to have oc.
CURED in the neighborhood of Lodz
a gendarme being killed IN one In.
stance.
The transsiberian railroad is reported
blockaded by snow east Of Lake Baik.
al, thus holding up SUPPLIES for the Rus.
sian army and completely isolatine
Vladivostok.
DR.. Edward Lindsey Cunningham
the oldest surviving graduate Of Har-
ward medical school, died at Newport,
r. i, at the age Of 96 years. He was
graduated in 1929.
Father Gopon. the Russian priest
who led the strikers to their slaughter
in St Petersburg, is said to have es.
capped through Finland into Sweden
and to be now In Stockholm.
President Roosevelt delivered an
address at the rededication of the Luth-
er Place Memorial Church in Wash
ington on the anniversary Of its par.
tial destruction by fire.
At the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Y. NJ. G. A. in Phila.
delphia, ex-President Cleveland was
one of the principal speakers.
Fire at Omaha, Neb., in the whole
sale district, destroyed property to the
extent of over $500, 900; well insured.
Sir Francis Jeune, the well-known
Judge of the English high court, has re-
signed his judgeship on account OF
Ill health He will be elevated to the
reerage.
The beginning of the impeachment
trial of Judge Swayne, in the United
State senate; has been set for February
13.
Fire at Havana, Cuba. gutted the
Gomez building, containing 80 shops
and cafes.
Health Officer Doty of the port Of
New York, found that the death of ten
immigrants on board the Vaderland
were due to pneumonia. The vessel
was therefore released from quaran-
tine.
A bill has been introduced in the Me-
braska senate abolishing the death
penalty, substituting life imprison-
ment.
Ferd. Walters, gambler, shot and
killed three men. wounded a fourth
and then sent bullet through his own
brain in the saloon of NJ. M. Conn. at
Nogales, Ariz. Conn was one of the
victims.
A report comes from Pretoria. South
Africa, of the finding, near there, of a
white diamond, the largest of its kind
ever mined 1t weighs 3,032 carats and
is valued at $4,000, 900. The find caused
great excitement.
Two rioters were killed and seven
wounded in collision with troops on
the streets of Warsaw.
At an anti-Russian demonstration in
Wonderland, in the east end of Lon
don, one of the speakers suggested to
the audience that they "rid themselves
of all emperors, thieves and other loaf
ers.
The grand jury at Riverside, Cal,
has returned ten indictments. six
against P. T. Hayes, former cashier of
the Orange Growers national bank,
and four against Col. J. w. F. Diss,
formerly connected with the Salt Lake
railway. The indictments cover en-
bezzlement and false pretenses.
Ev-Gov. Peabody, of Colorado, denies
published report that he intended to
withdraw from the gubernatoria1 con-
test. He says: "You couldn't drive me
out of this contest with pack of
bloodhounds.
There are grave fears of trouble at
Ivanovo-V Voznesnsk, the foremost cot
ton goods manufacturing town in the
Russian empire. Predictions are made
that the ending of the strike will result
in increased activity on the part of the
revolutionists.
Samuel H. Piles. of Seattle, was
elected United States senator by the
Washington legislature on the thir-
teenth joint ballot.
An unprecedented snowfall is report
ed in the Klondike region, with bitter
ly cold weather. All the trails are i'm
passable, the snow being drifted in
some places 20 feet deep. Some loss
of life is feared.
Many improbable stories continue to
appear in the st. Petersburg dispatches
of some of the London papers. All the
more trustworthy journals, however,
have begun to recognize that, for the
time being, at least. the revolt has
failed
Through the efforts of Ambassador
Powell Clayton, the bodies of the four
! Americans who were killed by Yaqui
Indians near Cohachi, Sonora, have
been sent to their relatives in the Unit
ed States
The department store of Bannon &
Co., at St. Paul, Mimi, was gutted by
fire; loss, $3.50, 1000.
Eighteen persons, all Mexicans but
four, are reported to have been killed
by Indians in the Yaqui country in
Mexico within one week.
Seven hundred immigrants on the
steamship Vaderland are held at Quar-
antine, New York, pending investiga-
ton of the cause of the death Of ten
during the passage across the Atlantic.
Miss Eugene Uhlrich. of Sioux City.
Ia, who was recently placed under ar
rest at Limoges, France, on the charge
of being a Russian spy, is reported
] dead in that city.
Miss Helen Frances Warren. daugh-
ter of Senator Warren. of Wyoming
and Capt John j. Pershing, u. S. A..
were married in Washington. Presi-
dant and Mrs Ro0sevaIf attended the
wedding. The couple will be ''ai
home" in Toxic, Japan, after March 4
where Capt. Pershing has been as
signed to duty.
Mrs. Ida Perdue and her half broth
er, Hannibal Connors, charged with the
killing of the husband of the former
at Richmond. Mo-, have been taken tc
Kansas City and placed in jail there In
order to avoid possible attempt 81
| lynching.
Charles L. BIandon, clerk in the audit
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