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16 NEWS AND VIEWS. (Continued from page 5.) 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- THE y 2 Meridian Life &. Trust Co. > OF INDIANAPOLIS / ARTHUR JORDAN, President W 1 OUR POLICIES ARE PREFERRED TO ALL OTHERS: WHY? 1 Because every one of them is protected with a deposit of securities with the State of Indiana just as the National Bank note in your pocket is protected by a deposit with the United States Government. 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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.