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Show GIVES ADVICE TO SULTAN. American Diplomat Honored by the Ruler of Turkey. John G. A. Leishman, who has been honored by being called into consultation consulta-tion by the sultan, and whose advice has been sought on the Bulgarian crisis, is the American minister at Constantinople, to which post he was transferred from the mission to Switzerland Swit-zerland in 1901. Mr. Leishman is a very rich citizen of Pittsburg, where he made his vast wealth in the iron and steel industry. Retiring from bust- ' ness a few years ago, he began to devote de-vote himself to philanthropy. He entered en-tered the diplomatic service in 1897. |