West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Emperor of AMMAN "a dead.

TnE Emperor OF AMMAN is dead.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has insomnia.
GOVERNOR HILL Is going West In Juno
THE Car of Russia Is AN enormous eater.
THE Emperor OF Germany is an early
riser.
LoRD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL Is forty
years old.
SECRETARY TRACY Is great lover OF
horsehesh.
Henry GEORGE, the agrarian agitator, is
IN London.
FgouDE, the historian, has declared for
Irish Home Rule.
SENATOR EvARTs Is said 30 he ambitious
10 become a Judge.
THE King of HOLLAND, who has been very
sick, is much better.
SECRETARIES NOBLE, Wnnnmaker and
Miller never held Office before
ADGIR Al PORTER aud his wife have Just
celebrated their golden wedding.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is the fourteenth
lawyer TO hold tho Executive chair.
RosERT II. NAY has since iS59 been elected
Mayor Of Augusta, Ca, eleven times
SKNAToR STANFORD paid $500 for windows
from which to view the inaugural parade.
The youngest College President in tho
country Is the Rev. Dc Witt Hyde, OF Bow.
dom.
1Hr oldest member OF tho British Hous>
of Commons is Charles Yiiliers He is nearly
ninety.
MISS PAuNcEporE. daughter Of tho new
british Minister, is twenty give years old and
quite pretty.
COUNT HzGnERT BISMARCK talks OF
making a tour i'm America by way OF sum.
nier vacation.
Q. w. GoDDARp, Consul General 10 Con
stGntiuople from 1861 10 1864, died recently
in Portland, Me.
GROVER CLEVELAND was elected "A mem.
Der OF the iinr Association OF New York nc
It's last annunl meeting held.
MISS ScHULzE, WHO hos just tttsn tho do.
gree Of NJ. j.. in Paris Is particu arlY
pretty woman or twenty one.
THE late Cap ain Ericsson. the inventor OF
the Monitor, left at his death a handso ne
fortune o. not less than SiD,OOJ
THOMAS w PALMEH, OF Michi4 an, Just ap.
pointed Minister to spain, Is familiar with
the spanish psopls and Language.
PosTM4srEu-G GENERAL WANAWAKEn will,
10 Is said, cont nue. as superintendent Of his
great SundsyschoOl st Philadelphia.
Mrs. POLK. widow Of President Polk, now
eighty-dys years old wars block kid gloves
ali day and wnlks with a gold headed cane.
Hgna KRUPP the gunmaksr. Of Ess5n,
Germany has Pn income Of 81 .JJOOOO ye sr,
larger thau TIE income Of the richest H0sh
BentiN.
SIR JrLfav PArNcErorF. British Miais.e .er
ct Washingtoa, Is a fine looking man, SIX
feet two Inches tall, black eyed. heavy
browed and bIld headed. he has q charming
wife ami daughter
SIDNEY GARTLErr. the agod Boston mw-
yer, whose death occurred recently, left an
estate worth fully 1OOj1,OW. His fees, sven
for n few words Of counsel, frequently
amounted 10 so OO.
zf,,f. Nt-4afr ,yifs Of the Tonaneee Ninieter
at Washington, has made 300 social calls
since the season began. Last spring she
could not 8pgnf n word ~ English. She
Is nov gOOj conYorsauonalisJ in our
tongue.
THE new King Of fervia is a lad IN his
thirteenth year Ho Us said 10 be an sxcep
tionaly bright. good boy. but the chances
now ss ,m 20 bs that, by the time he comes to
years OF discretion there will Do no Servio
FOR him tO rule.
GENERAL JERRY RUsE, Of Wisconsin, OF
President Harrison's Cabinet, was tie TOW.
path companion Of Garfield whon ths @latte' @
was p boy, and has teeu o. sthHe-driYor.
Sheriff. Legislator, soldier. Congressman aud
Governor 0f the Badger Stats
CLEVELAND was tho third defeated candi-
date 20 ride with bis successful cOmpsttOr iu
the inaugural procession. One OF the other
two was Van Buren,, who rode with the
grandfather OF rne present PRESIDENT, and ths
other was Andrew Jackson, who rOio with
John Z ncy Adams
TaE frat HMrs President Harrison was
never mistress OF tho White House. She wa1
si1ty-siK years old when her husband was
elected President, and quite inhrrm. She
dared not attempt the Journey % Waqhing
ton from her Ohio home when Oid Ipps
canoe started February ,, 1871, anil was just
preparing for the trip when the news OF her
husbands fatal illness came, month after
bis Inauguration