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NEWS AND VIEWS.
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There is one real daughter of the
revolution in New York, Mrs. Rheua
Miller, who is 100 years old. Her
father was Col. Seth Webb of the rev
olutionary coast guard.
The thoroughness of courts-martial
is shown by the fact that President
W. H. Vaughan of the National Bank
of Cuba is on his way to testify in
the Maj. Fremont case.
No less than ten candidates have
appeared for John C. Spooner’s seat
in the United States Senate, all hop
ing perhaps to secure a job as attor
ney for Uncle Jim Hill, via this route.
Mayor McClellan has appointed a
commission of representatives of six
civic organizations in New York to
help devise better means of cleaning
snow from the streets next winter.
Speaker Cannon is in Washington
with his big black cigar pointed high
er than ever before; he denied in vig
orous language that he has indentified
himself with th® Fairbanks boom.
Secretary Cortelyou gave an assur
ance in New York that he would soon
take up the matter of reform in bag
gage inspection by custom house offi
cials. There’s a chance to make a
great reputation!
Telegraphing from Madrid, the cor
respondent of the Koelinshche Zeitung
says that English money will build
the new Spanish fleet in English yards.
He adds that the Cortes will be asked
to provide $77,200,000 for the navy.
General Benjamin Johanis Viljoen,
the man who captured Dr. Jameson
after the latter’s premature South As-
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rican raid, and later gained fame
while fighting the British, is now post
master of Chamberlain, N. M.
A Los Angeles Daughter of the
Confederacy is the defendant in a
$75,000 libel suit, charged with hav
ing called another Daughter a “damn
ed liar.” She denies the profanity and
says that she used the adjective “in
famous.”
A Minneapolis man spanked his
wife, after she had kicked him out
of the bed, and was sentenced to five
days in the work house. How can wo
men be given more rights when men
have no rights at all?
Ex-Senator Spooner, who could hold
up his end in the strenuosities of
Washington, was floored by the bois
terous Psi Upsilon dinner in New
York, and had to sit down with his
speech unfinished.
James Cooms, of Darien, Conn.,
served in jail in South Norwalk, Conn.,
for thirty days because on St. Pat
rick’s day he painted his two-months
old child green. His wife caused his
arrest for cruelty.
Before he left Connecticut, Mr.
Bryan had to take an automobile ride
in a blinding snow storm, and he real
ized that the coldness which he had
jocularly referred to as marking the
Connecticut elections had also got into
the weather.
Lyman J. Gage, formerly secretary
of the treasury, now of Mrs. Kather
ine Tingley’s community in southern
California, is on a visiting tour which
embraces Chicago, Washington and
New York. He has found Point Loma
“a fair sample of what we may expect
in paradise.”
The condition of Colonel J. H. Es
till, editor and proprietor of The Sa
vannah Morning News, is such as to
cause his relatives and friends the
gravest concern. His physician an
nounces that his condition is critical.
A woman named Schmidt jumped
overboard in New York, says the
Washington Times, and a man named
Schmitz is about to be pushed over
board in San Francisco. This ought
to be warning to the whole family to
stick to the good old spelling.
King Edward has sent sls to a De
vizes artist named Wiltshire, who
painted a picture of His Majesty wear
ing his coronation robes and forwarded
it to Buckingham Palace. Wiltshire
is a cripple and works holding the
pencil or»brush between his toes.
Attorney General Jackson, by se
curing an injuction against nine for
eign brewing companies to prevent
their owning property and operating
saloons and by obtaining an order for
the appointment of receivers for the
brewers’ property, has taken the most
effective measure ever invoked to en
force the prohibitory law in Kansas.
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial As
sociation of the United States has
made public a letter from former Pres
ident Grover Cleveland, “unreservedly
approving” the plan for the reunion
of the descendants of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence at
the Jamestown Exposition July 4.
C. F. Moberly Bell, manager of the
London Times, who knew Lord
Cromer in Egypt, says that, in view
of what he accomplished there, he is
the biggest living Englishman.
Cromer had received many offers of
higher appointment, including a cabi-
net position, but declined them all,
having resolved to devote his life to
the work in Egypt.
Hobson City, the negro town in Cal
houn county, Ala., has lost its only
mayor, George W”. Lindsey, who has
just died. The legislature extended
the lines of Oxford so as to take in
the town and eliminate it because of
objection to its existence on the part
of the whites.
Nathaniel W. Voorhees, father of
Ex-Governor Foster M. Vorhees, of
New Jersey, was a delegate to the
national convention of 1869 which
nominated Lincoln for the presidency.
Mr. Vorhees, who is now nearly eighty
years old, believes that he and United
States Senator Shelby M. Cullom of
Illinois are the only surviving mem
bers of that historical gathering.
The race question has assumed rath
e ra serious aspect in the office of the
auditor for the navy department. The
appointment of Ralph Tyler, the Co
lumbus, 0., negro society editor, as
auditor was the signal for some rather
unusual maneuvers on the part of
some of the employes of the bureau
to get away from or avoid appointment
as secretary to Tyler.
A gift of one million dollars for the
establishment of a fund for rudimenta
ry schools for southern negroes was
announced in Philadelphia last Wed
nesday. The donor is Miss Anna T.
Jeanes, a Quakeress of this city. Book
er T. Washington, head of Tuskegee
Institute, and Hollis Burke Frissel,
president of the Hampton Normal and
Industrial Institute, are named as trus
tees of the fund, but neither of the
institutions they represent will share
in the gift.