The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-11-17
Mere Mention of Noted Persons

Col. John A. Cockerill the weil-known
journalist, is said to be engaged to Miss
Millicent Puterbaugh, daughter of a
| wealthy pork-packer Of Cincinnati. The
] two met during the June season OF the
| st. Louis coaching club, of which Col.
Cockerill is the president, and the ac-
auaintance speedily ripened into love.
| The union of the couple will be solemn
led, it is said, during the Christmas hol-
idays.
Mr.. Walker, the colored lawyer, whom
Gov. Butler has nominated for justice OF
the Charleston District Court, is said to
be- very popular among the :Trish-Amer-
leans at Charlestown. he is a Roman
| Catholic, and a member Of the choir at
the church of SIS. Vincent and Paul. Mrs.
Walker is q white woman, and her
friends say a very estimable one.
Joe Jefferson believes in ~spiritualism.
Mgr. Capel thinks the Boston people
would be very nice we're it not for their
devotion to beans and Sullivan.
A sensible American, who has seen
Miss Chamberlain, whose beauty has
turned the heads of the L~ondoners, says
she would not be regarded as particular
ly handsome in this country, where
beautiful women are plenty, but in Eng
land the article is so scarce that it is
not strange people are upset by her
good looks. Ten to n he is exactly
right.
The eldest son Of the late Congress
man Orth, of Indiana who was left out
in the cold by his fathers will, intends
to contest for a share in the estate.
Rev. DR.. Stephen H. Tying is disin-
clined to return to the pulpit, and will
probably 90 ioto mercantile life.
1t looks bad for Mr.. William Lewis,
the lover Of the late Rose Amber, who
was murdered near Stratford, Conn. The
| detectives have some clues, and they
are working hard FOR the 8 5000 reward.
Lord Otto Russell, while calling upon
| Prince Bismarck a short time ago,
asked him how he managed to rid him
self of that class Of unfortunate visitors
whom he could not we'll refuse to see,
but whose room he found preferable to
their company. "Oh," replied the
| Chancellor, 81 have a very simple
method. Ny wife knows them pretty
| we'll, and when she sees they are with
| me she generally contrives to come in
and call nue. away upon some pretext or
another" He had scarcely finished
speaking when the Princess put her
head in at the door and said: lotto,
YOU must come and take your medicine.
You ought to have had it ten minutes
ago"
And now the Jersey Lily's lawyer
comes out and says that she last sum
mer pIanked down $8l 900 for invest
ment in New York city real estate oil at
once, although Mr.. Freddy Gebhard
knew nothing about it. For a stone
mansion on Fifty-third street she gave
$45, 900; for another an Eighth avenue,
500, 900, and for one on the same high
way, further up town." $4,000. She
had the deeds made in the name OF
Emile Charlotte Langtry, Island Of
Jersey"
Hannibal Haml:n to present
the town of Paris, Me-, his native place
with a clock, to be placed in the tower
| Of the Baptist church.
The widow of the Rev. Elkanah Walk.
er is probably the sole survivor of the
women who rode across the plains to
Oregon on horseback in the early days,
| She resides at Forest Grove, In that
state, and is still in good health. The
saddle on which she rode across tho
plains forty-ive years ago is still in her
possession. Her son, G. III. Walker, the
| oldest white person bora in Oregon, vas
with her in Portland on the day of tie
recent railroad parade.
General Crook il now living at Fort
| Whipple, near Prescott, Ariz. His home
10 a pleasant, roomy house oftwo stories,
surrounded by piazzas, and commanding
q fine view of hill and valley.