The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-04-07
THE LISTENER.

W. N. McKendrick of st. Louis has a
watch charm made from the bell that
sounded the first alarm in the great Chi
cago fire of 1871.
The death of Lord Clonmell recently
was caused by his dropping a little hot
sealing wax on his hand whereupon blood
poisoning rapidly developed.
Walter Ralston, who travels for the
Smithsonian institution has made a spe
cial study of poisonous insects and reptiles
and has been fanged over 200 times
Edward Marsden, student in Lane
Theological seminary, Cincinnati, is the
first native Alaskan to receive legal
theological and business education in
America.
Father Weniger, well known Jesuit
priest of Cincinnati, is said to have been
the model for the picture of Pere Mar
quette which will appear on the Omaha
exposition stamps.
Fong Foo. who is acting as secretary to
General William Booth, is Sacramento
Chinaman who was converted in 1889 and
since then has been Salvation Army
worker among his compatriots in Cali
| fornia.
Professor Otto Bohtlingk, the Sanskrit
scholar and coeditor with Roth of the
great ST. Petersburg Sanskrit dictionary,
| anniversary of his receiving the degree of
doctor of philosophy.
NJ. Delegorgue, who presided over the
| trial of lola, is tall, strongly built man,
with fine carriage His hair is gray, but
| his beard is still blond. His voice is
resonant and well modulated, and he is
said to rank high as an orator.
NJ Bosquet, who has figured as one of
| the lawyers at the lola trial, was formerly
| deputy, having represented Gard in the
| national assembly for 10 years. He retired
! in 1889, declining a reelection. and was
| appointed counselor at the Paris courts.
In a recent interview DIR. Creighton, the
| bishop of London, said: II shall never
| finish the History of the Papacy,' and
| shall write no more. 1t is impossible to
i do one-half the work of the stupendous
diocese, leaving out the question of writ
| ing any book"
| George E. Thornton, who committed
| suicide the other day in Denver, was the
| first chief of police of the Colorado city.
| He was born in Connecticut in 1929. He
/ was at the head of the Denver police from
I 1851 to 1868.
| Ex-senator William Maxwell Evarts,
| who recently celebrated his eightieth birth
day at his home in New York, is now
| quite feeble, and his sight has been slowly
| fading for nearly ten years. For five years
he has practically done no work, though
/ he is still the nominal head of the law firm
/ of Evarts, Choate & Beaman.
| Stephen J. Paul Kruger, president of
the Transvaal republic for the fourth time,
/ was born in Cape Colony in 1895 and &C
companied his father with the emigrant
| farmers across the Vaal in 1889. The office
which he has held continually since 1888
brings with it salary of $4,000 year,
with a house allowance of 81, 800.
General Maximoyitch, who has just been
assigned to the command of the Third
Army corps of Russia, is Sc years old, but
| it still active. General Prince Chtcherbat-
| off, who is to command the Second corps,
| is more than SO years old, and General
/ Dmitroysky, who is to be at the head of
the Twentieth corps, has celebrated his
/ sixty fourth birthday.