The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-12-06
Personal Gossip.

ton gave reception recently to Bishop
Foster. who made an official tour of the
globe in the past sixteen months. The
| bishop expressed his surprise at the
squalor and ignorance prevailing in In
ola.
DR.. Stockcr who has been severely
snubbed by the Lord Mayor of London
because he is Jew-baiter, is Cha plain
of the German court. His anti-Jewish
sentiments do not meet with any SYM
pathy among Engl shmen. His
lectures have been twice broken up nv
Socialists. who gathered in Me mortal
| hall in sufficient numbers to take pos
session. Recently they hooted the doc.
| tor, I'M urled red flags, and seized the
platform. with cheers for the ''next
revolution"
| Lafayette Cook, an old man living at
South Auburn, Me-, announced to his
friends two weeks ago that he should
die within fortnight, and at later in.
tervals referred to it. He prepared
himself TOR the coffin on Monday, though
apparently in usual health, ba his
friends good bye, stretched himself on
the lounge and passed into slumOer
/ HUN "HiNA lIc uCtcE "dhe:lGu.
Ex-Governor James E. English is the
richest man in New Haven, Conn.,, hav-
ing :6,0o0,O0O which he made himself.
He started on farm at Bethlehem.
learned the carpenters trade, followed
it a couple of years, and went into the
lumber business, IN which he is sill in
tere steG. JOhnC. Anderson comes next
with S5,00O,WHl. His father started poor
in the tobacto business at New York, and
| the son inherited the business and the
fathers earnings. Tread we'll Ketrham
has between $3,0M','.00 and 81 ,00O, OOO
which he made himself.
DR.. James S. Goodwin of Portland
Me-, whose ninetieth birthday occurred
SUNDAY, Nov. II, is the youngest son of
the late Gen. Ichabod Goodw in of South
Berwick. He was graduated at DAFT
mouth az the age of Is. and Is the only
| survivor Of the class Of 1911 and with
the exception Of two members of earlier
classes, is the oldest surviving a.umnus
of that college.
The romantic experience Of Miss
Beach, the Bethel, Conn, young ladv
who wrote her name on the band of a
hat and finally married the New Orleans
gentleman into whose hands it fell, has
had an unexpected sequel, OF course.
the other girls in the hat shop did the
same thing, and now a western firm has
refused consignment of hats sent on
| their order because. so many of them
have young women's names written in
side the bands.
The cable announces the death at
Mecca of Shiek ObeiGullah from an at
tack of cholera. The sheik has played
an imp ,rtant part in Eastern politics for
| several years. AS the head OF the W. r..
like anu predatory Kurds he has harass-
ell Persia, laying waste large tracts OF ter
ritory and striking terror into the hearts
! Ut the shah and his peace-loving people.
! Descended from the daughter of the
prophet and being ofthe purest Bedouin
blood, he was esteemed the third hottest
parsonage in Islam. His followers come
! rom the race of sturdy mountaineers
who harassed the TANKS and rear of
AenOphOn's army in their famous re-
| treat, So ably described in the ''Anaba-
SIS" The Romans also fa,ed badly at
their hands. rs many Latin authors
have related in their histories and de-
scriptions of the Parthians.
Almost all the leading New York
paners are now. managed by Western
editors. Ballard Smith, OF kentucky,
has just been made editor of the Her
aid; Mr.. Bromley, who takes charge If
the Commercial Advertiser next week,
3 an Ohio man; 40 is Mr.. Reid, of the
Tribune; Albert Pulitzer, of the World,
and Carl Schurz. Of the Evening Post,
are from Missouri, AMI Dana, Of the
Sun, comes from Illinois. Nearly all
the Phlladelph'a papers, on the other
hand. are under the management of
fennsy)vanians.