Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-03-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SENATOR Quay has been informed by
his physicians that he has heart dis
ease.
Mrs. KATE CHUTE, of Boston, is claim
ing to be the first travelling saleswoman
for shoe house.
QUEEN LILINoKALAUI, the new mon
arch of Hawaii, is said to contemplate a
home rule of native policy.
Mrs. JOHN ELLIOTT, better known to
the literary world as Maude Howe, is
writing play for Richard Mansfield.
The Duke of Orleans on a recent trip
took 400 photographs which developed
into $50 blank and fifty unacceptable
scenes.
Mrs. MCKEE, the Presidents daugh-
ter, is preparing an article for literary
club in indianapolis on the Pan-Amer-
lean Congress.
Mrs. MARGARET CUSTER CALHOUN, sis
ter of General Custer, and widow of
Lieut.. James Calhoun, is State Libra
rian at Lansing, Mich.
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN, the bank
er poet, makes his summer home in a
quaint stone house on New Castle ISL
and, in Piscataqua Bay.
FENNIMoRE CooPER's two daughters,
now old ladies, live in Cooperstown,
try made famous by the great novel
ist
Miss JANE MEADE WEIGH, the apostle
of Americanism and the Constitution,
is slender, dark-haired woman, with
high forehead and strong masculine
face.
MIR. GLADSTONE does not smoke, and
dislikes tobacco in every form. He has
also profound contempt for smart at
tire, and deep-rooted dislike for new
clothes.
WILLIAM MORRIS, the English poet and
Socialist, is so busy in other pursuits
that he writes the poetry which has CIV
en- him SO much fame only on Saturdays
and Sundays.
GRACE GREENWOOD S name Is now more
closely allied to works of charity than
to literary labors. She still writes a lit
tie, but can usually be found where sor-
row and suffering hold sway.
De LEssEPs is now SO years old. AT 90
he was rugged, enthusiastic and Wig
Orous octogenarian, but since the col
lapse of his great Panama canal
scheme he has aged and broken very
perceptibly.
THEODORE T. WARNER, who died re-
Gently in Kansas City, was the man
VIII SldIlt1 III OusIACSS tlIC
Ben Holiday, Of the great overland
stage system. He was also one of the
projectors of the first packet line on the
Missouri River.
CLAUS SPRECKELs, the California sugar
king, is growing old, and his hair is
quite white. He is just as keen and en-
ergetic as ever, however, and in looking
after his three large refneries on the
Pacific coast and one at Philadelphia
he manages to keep busy.
MRS YE CHA Yum, the wife of the
Corean Charge d'Affaires at Washing
ton is short OF stature and rather slen-
der, with the dark slant eyes of the
Orient. Mrs. Yum wears the dress of
her native country, and her head is COW
cred with trrban, to which a black
tassel is attached.
THE Mikado of Japan is to visit Wies-
baden next summer, partly for the
waters and partly for the spectacle OF
innocent merriment. Six villas have
been engaged for the Emperor and his
suite, which will comprise at least sixty
persons. No Mikado has ever before
left his own dominion.
ROBERT BUCHANAN, the poet, novelist
and reviewer, was poor Scotch village
boy score of years ago, without fame
success he has had in literature has
been won by hard work and merit, but
to-day he is one of the foremost men in
London literature life.
JOHN Barring, the first of the name in
England, was the son of poor minister
in Bremen, Germany. He went into
business in England as a cloth-maker
200 years ago His son Francis became
merchant and member of the East
India Company, and thus laid the foun-
dalton for the fortunes of the house of
Barring Bros.
WILLIAM c. Young, Of Chicago, is the
oldest living graduate of West Point
Military Academy. He was born at
Youngstown, O., a city founded by his
father, November %, 1899, and was ap-
pointed a cadet in 1918, and after COM
plotting his course of study was commits
stoned lieutenant of artillery, serving
until 1926. By virtue of his seniority,
Mr.. Young is President of the West
Point Alumni.