The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-24
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

n. R. freeman, of Winamo, Ind. ),
the Oldest justice of the peace In Indiana,
has united 1897 couples in matrimony.
United States Senator Mallory of Flori-
da has returned to Washington with
health almost restored since his Illness Of
last summer.
Edwin Deakin, one of the best known
artists of the West, has decided to devote
the next few years to painting the old
missions of California.
General Benjamin Harrison pays taxes
in Indianapolis on s15. 900 worth of prop
erty, about ss5, 900 less thansex-President.
Cleveland's valuation.
Miss Columbia Rivera who has been
licensed as q practicing physician, and
appointed to the woman's ward of st.
Andre s Hospital, in the City of Mxeico.
Is the first woman in Mexico to be APP
pointed to- such position. yo1 daa
Fernand Xau, who has been the editor
in-chief Of the Paris Journals has accept
ed the management also of Gii ELIAS and
will conduct both journals. 1. The bust
ness management of both these news
papers will also be the same in future.
Baron Grunau, formerly German mill
tary attache in Pekin, has just returned
via Corea, Siberia and Russia, partly on
horseback His life was in danger sever
al times. The most important circum-
stance in connection with his journey is
that he has explored the unknown parts
of Corea with some tnoroughness.
1t is stated that 70 Cinnamon in San
Francisco have professed conversion to
the Salvation Army.
Don 1.-TWO Borghese, second son of the
Roman Prince Borghese, is about to mar
ry Mile. Porges, daughter of the rich jew
banker of Paris.
The William Cramp G Sons Ship and
Engine Building Company Of Philadel-
phia is going to construct ship building
plant at Seattle to compete with the
Union Iron Works at San Francisco. The
establishment Of the State Steamship
| Line by the Cramps is but the prelimi-
nary step in an enterprise which contem-
plates an expenditure of more than So
100000. The new plant will be as large.
if not larger, than the one now being
operated by the Cramps.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
Joined the Princeton University Cottage
Club. This club is exclusive and is open
only to members of the senior and junior
classes of the university and honorary
members. 1t corresponds to q fraternity
in other colleges.
Whittaker's Protestant Episcopal AL
manac" for 1898, which is out, is care
full digest of Episcopal Church statistics
and growth. There are at present in that
Church 4776 clergymen, an increase of SO
over the previous year; $3.50 churches, an
increase of 46; 664, 0S3 communicates, an
increase of 20, 93S, and 493 600 Sunday
school scholars, an increase of IL, OFT. Its
contributions for all purposes during
the last year were $l2, 696, Sl3 o6, being an
increase of $40, .05 over the previous
year.
Mr.. Ernest Waterlow, A. R. A, the
landscape painter, whose father is q
former lord mayor of London, has been
elected president of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water Colors, in succession
to the late. Sir John Gilbert. Two ballots
were needed sas the first resulted in a tie
between Mr.. Waterlow and Hubert Herki-
mer.
Some people are hard to satisfy. A
New York woman went to hospital to
seek relief from the morphine habit. As
soon as she was cured she ended her life
by taking strychnine.