The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-09
Paragraphs About People.

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David II. King. a builder of New York.
has rendered his summer residence at
Jekyl island. off South Carolina, to the
Red Cross relief committee, to be used
as a soldiers hospital.
80
Wonder at the sudden and complete
downfall of Hooley. the London promoter
and millionaire, dwindles on the strength
of the report that one of its chief causes
was an attempt to float a big loan for
Spain.
The first work done by ]. T. Hatfield,
late professor of German at the North
west university, after becoming a COM
mon seaman on the United States steam
ship Yale at $19 per month, was scrubbing
the decks.
Miss Annie S. Swan stands second I'm a
list-with Barrie first-of the six greatest
living British authors, as compiled from
the votes of the readers of the two most
widely circulated weeklies in Scotland.
Miss Swan proves after industrious inves-
tigation to be a prolific writer of religious
stories.
w. r. Hearst has chartered a vessel to
take to Santiago the outfit for a newspa-
per which he intends 20 publish in En-
glish at that point. The color of the new
journal has not been announced, but from
the character of its readers after our
troops reach Santiago It may be inferred
that its tone will be warlike.
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A. f. Standen. described as a Convert
ed" travelling salesman. has given up his
work and raised about $50. 900 for the Uni
versal Text Display association. with
headquarters at Chicago. which proposes
to display and illustrate certain Bible
texts on she bill boards of the larger cities
in the hope of converting people.
80
The Hawaiian flag hanging from the
window of Consul Wilder's office at Sar
Francisco was blown down by a gust OF
wind last Wednesday. As the consul was
going to the window to see what had be
come of il he was stopped by a call TO the
telephone. where he was informed thai
the house bill I'm favor of annexation had
been passed by a vote of 209 TO 81.
80
Lieutenant Colonel Robert w. Hunting.
ton. commanding the marines at Guanta
namo, has been in the service since 1861
when he was commissioned second lieu
tenant in the marine barracks at Wash
ington. He was recently given his pres
ent rank. after 81 years service on lanc
and on sea. Colonel Huntington was borr
in Hartford, Conn. He led a company o.
marines at the battle of Bull Run anC
served IN the marine battalion co-opeEdt
ing with the South Atlantic squadron il
1S6l-62.
A Miss Chamberlain of Montreal, VIII
seems TO be a rather strange mixture o
righteousness and sophistication. say
she was introduced to a pleasant Spanish
gentleman not long since. who secured he
promise to go to the United States AM
transact some important business for him
which for obvious reasons he could no
attend to himself. lie promised plenty o
money for travelling expenses, very ligh
and pleasant work and handsome remu
neration. and even when he explained tina
her principal duty would be to go Il
Washington and ingratiate herself wit
certain high government officials ther
she suspected nothing. Later when sh
received a handsome travelling dress from
her new friend and told her old friend
about it they discovered he was a Spanisl
spy.