The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-19

besides having his ministerial work to
attend to, has been elected president Of
a national bank.
Alexander Gregg Belleville of st.
Louis who recently buried his seventh
wife has married again, this time a girl
of Is. He is 81 years old.
Charles C. stifel of St. Louis is to
present to that city bronze statue of
the German poet Schiller. now being
cast at Stuttgart. It will be set up near
the home of the donor.
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New York state lost the best author
fty on her history in the recent death of
George S. COnover, at Geneva His
original researches resulted in the ac-
emulation of much valuable material
The first work done by J. T. Hatfield,
late professor of German at the North
western university after becoming
common seaman on the United States
steamship Yale at SIG a month was
scrubbing the decks.
Ben Jordan, the prize fighter who re-
Gently whipped George Dixon, Amer
ica's champion feather weight, is a son
of a London clergyman and has been
disowned by his family because of his
taking up with pugilisn-
Mr.. DeIcasse, the new French min
lister of foreign affairs, has had par
Hamentary experience of less than ten
years, during which time, however, he
has been under secretary for the colo
MES in two different MINISTRIES. He is
a journalist by profession.
Lieutenant HobsOn gave an order to
a press clipping bureau last November
for clippings of all newspaper mention
of him. and from that time until he
sailed with SIMPSONS fleet only forty
such clippings were collected. Now
they are being gathered at the rate OF
about 400 a day.
Through the munifcence of Justice G.
Strawbridge a fine statue of Benjamin
Franklin is about to be erected IN Phil
adelphia-
s.Abe" Hummeu. the noted New
York lawyer, is Lillian RusselPs legal
adviser. In speaking of the opera
singer the other day he said: I am en-
gagged to look after her matrimonial and
other legal matters by the year. Which
moved one of his hearers to say: THAT
looks like a wholesale trade, doesn't
it?''
Chancellor Henry NJ. McCracken an
nounced at the monthly meeting OF the
corporation of the New York university
that an anonymous donation of 10000
had been received for the productive
endowment fund of the institution. He
is requested to maintain silence as to
the name of the donor, but Miss Helen
Gould is strongly suspected.
The German emperor intends during
his autumn pilgrimage to the east to
indulge his love of the picturesque. In
stead of landing at Jaffa, an open road
stead ,necessitating the use of boats,
the party will touch the soil of the holy
land in Acre bay, near Haifa- From
that point to Jerusalem the journey Is
to be made in true oriental fashion.
DR.. B. Tomatsuri of the Japanese
navy, who is at Key West to study the
methods of United States army sur
geons, is surprised and enthusiastic
over the completeness of our prepara-
lions against diseases in the army and
navy and at the preliminary precau-
lions and state of readiness for any
emergency. He says it is uneQualed by
any of the European nations.
Some injustice has been done num-
Der of people named Hartman by reason
of the idiosyncrasies and nOtOriety of
two people with that name. NJ. Har-
man and Lillian Harman- alker are
the only persons of the name who are
radical in their denunciation of al
legged or real marital wrongs. There are
large families of young women and
young men of the same name-Harman
about a dozen are editing newspapers
in various states. Nearly a score are
ministers and many scores teachers. OF
the Valley Falls relatives nearly all are
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