The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17
Personages and People.

Tod Sloan, the famous Jockey, has ap-
pendicitis.
James ]. O'Brien, who. when a hotel
porter in Washington a few years ago,
eloped with a niece of Admiral Porter.
has Just been suspended from the New
York police force pending trial on charges
Of brutality to a prisoner.
Archdeacon Brady, chaplain of the First
Pennsylvania regiment, now at camp
Thomas has in two cases married sol
diers In camp to their sweethearts ieft at
home, by letter. All the questions were
asked and answered by mail ana the
whole thing legally done.
The Rev. William Jones of Richmond,
Va, objects TO an invitation extended 10
President Harper of the University or chi
cago. to lecture to the students OF Rlch-
mond college. because the Chicagoan Is
unsound in the story of Jonah and the
whale. Both DIR. Jones and DR.. Harper
are Baptists.
II is safe to guess tha Lieutenant Adolf
pho Aries, of the First Provisional regi-
ment of Barcelona, exchanged Tor hop-
son. considers himself In hard luck. Cap
tured at Eel Caney, we'll fed and well treat
ed by his captors, he now goes back to be
half starved for a while, only TO be cap
tured all over again.
Perhaps there was something, after an
in the frequently repeated story that Al
exander Gollan. the British consul at Ha-
vana. was altogether pro-Spanish in his
sympathies. for from the blockaded city
comes the news that he left there on the
British ship Talbot on July 2, and is sue
ceeded by Mr.. Jerome. the v~ice-consul.
$50
In the Eighth Alabama congressional
district, General Joe Wheelers seat III
congress has been declared vacant, ano
preparations for the election OF his sue
cessor are being made. but since congress
Is the fudge of the election OF Its MEMBER:
and since II gave a leave OF absence u
the general. and dos not recognize any
vacancy, the declarations of the Eightf
Alabama district will amount to little.
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Manila cor~respondent OF the Bsltimor'
Sun says that Dewey, while maintalhlh'
a most vigorous blockade, Willingly CAV
permission to a delegation of British ant
German merchants TO remove their fam
flies TO Cavite. He ordered that place I
be made sanitary, and placed Consul WI
uams in charge The consequence Is Una
wealthy Manila families, like that OF IN
Cortes. have placed all their houses J
Cayite at Dewey's disposal. He has mad
tllIctti NAftNNAArhF
British shipmasters. His praise is souho
ed in every port in the far east, and VINE
he was in need of coal these shipmsster
readily sold him 5000 tons, so that ne wa
well supplied.
New York newspaper reporters al
greatly pertubred over an escaped new
item. A young woman appeared on VI
sands at Manhattan beach last Wedne
day at,ired in a fashionable oathins su
= and wearing a silken mask. She wa
stared at by the crowds. and even by u
e police. until one Of the latter finally ASK
r her why she wore the mask. She SAID
A wasn't a mask. but the latest device II
keeping the skin unburnt by the sun. ins
she made some cutting remarks about u
rudene-s of those who stared at her al
II went to the dressing room. When 81
emerged she proved to be a very pref
woman OF the brunette type. but enor
10 learn her name are still unrewsroeo'