The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-12-31
BRIEF NOTES OF NOTABLES.

Gen. James F. Wade, who presided
at the cOurt-martial held at Fort Sheri-
dan. has been in the United States cav
airy since he was Is years old. He is
son of the famous Senator Ben Wade Of
Ohio.
Mrs. Carew, sentenced in Japan to
life Imprisonment for the poisoning of her
husband, was in Jail in Hongkong until
November Is, when she was taken
aboard Il steamer and is now being con-
veyed to Holloway Jail, London.
DIR. John Fiske contradicts the story
that he is to succeed Justin Winsor as
librarian of the Harvard University Ii
hrary. with the assurance that lit is
about as true as would be the report that
was going to jump over the MOON
DIR. Gunsaulus, who is still at ,he
Alma tMich.) sanitarium, is said to be
i'll extremely poor health. DR.. HOLSTER,
who lately visited him, says that another
operation upon his disabled leg will soon
be necessary, and that the brilliant pas
tors recovery will be matter of some
months at least.
Charles r. Hosmer of Montreal, gem
eral manager of the Canadian Telegraph
graph company, says that the Canadian
government will construct and equip
telegraph line to Dawson City by the
route surveyed thirty years ago by
George KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller.
Ex-senator Carlisle, when friend
just before the recent elections asked him
If he was going to speak in Kentucky,
answered TINT he would if he could leave
his practice, but he added, II must have
Il living, and, you see, have got through
with that S1O,OOO,OOO l made out of the
bond sales, aud must hustle"
Louis Douglass of Washington has
presented ife-sized portrait of his
father, the late Frederick Douglass, to
the Bowdoin grammar school for girls, in
Boston. and it has been hung up in the
main schoolroom, 1t is said to be the
first portrait of 4 negro American ever
hung in public schoolhouse north of
Mason and Dixon's line.
President Eliot of Harvard univer-
sity, chairman of the committee appoint
ed to bring about the establishment of a
public park adjoining the homestead of
James Russell Lowell, in Cambridge, so
as to include the homestead, and thus
preserve a memorial to the poet, an
nounces that the fund for the purpose
has reached $4,000, little above half
the required amount.
a statement recently made by the
Society of New England Women that
there is to be found no descendant of
Priscilla Alden, of Mayhower fame, is
proved to be incorrect. A little girl
about IL years OF age. named PRISCILLA
Mullens Alden, who lives in the old AL
den homestead, at Duxbury, Mass,
which was built in 1868, is ninth in de-
scent from Priscilla and John Alden.
The statues of Thomas H. Benton
and Frank p. Blair of Missouri have
arrived at the capitol. and they will be
placed in Statuary hall with appropriate
ceremonies when the Missouri delega-
ton decides upon the day and arranges
the programme for the occasion. The
statue of Benton will stand between
those of Jefferson and Washington, while
that of Blair will be located between
Baker and Jefferson.
Virginia newspapers are urging Sen
ators Daniel and Martin to secure pen
sion for Mrs. Semple, the only surviving
daughter of President Tyler. 1t is quot
ed as Il precedent that ten years or so
ago pension was granted Mrs. William
cambridge. also Il daughter of President
Tyler, which pension was twice increased
in the last five years. Mrs. Semple, it is
stated, is now an inmate of the Louise
home The daughter of a President. she
is also allied by ties of blood to three
ether Presidents of the United States,
being IL cousin to President Monroe and
of Benjamin and William Henry Harri-
son. She is gradually growing blind.