Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-02
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

| The coroner's inquest on the Windsor hotel
fire just missed calling it "a mysterious
dispensation of Providence
Admiral Sampson called at San Juan,
Porto Rico, the other day but left a different
card from that of year ago.
In days gone by. when Edison's time was
not monopolized by Inventions he was an
industrious but most trying performer on
the violin. At one time he roomed with
two friends on Eleventh street, New York
and nearly sawed them crazy
John X. Cowen, president of the Baltimore
& Ohio road, left congress some years ago to
| take the management of that road which
was then in financial difficulties. He sue
ceeded well that those most deeply inter-
ested have twice elected him to the presi-
dency, the second time a few days ago.
The historical painting of the signing of
the Spanish American peace protocol, by the
noted French artist Chartran, for which
President Mckinley, ex-Secretary Day and
Ambassador Cambon have recently been
sitting, has been sold to Mr.. Frick, head
of the Carnegie Iron works, for 500, ,0O0
And now the United States consul at
Amsterdam George j. Corey has made an
indlscreet speech, which may result in his
recall and loss of job. He is reported to
have said, in speech, that Bismarck had
been scheming to seize Holland ever since
1868. This is construed into an insult to
friendly power.
The retention on the list of general officers
of the army of Generals Wheeler and Fred
Grant means, doubtless, that both OF these
gentlemen are in the army to stay, and 1t
may be taken for granted that General
Wheeler will not now try to take seat in
! the next congress. General Grants transfer
to the Philippines may afford him an op-
portunity for actual fighting which has so
far been denied him.
Omaha is not the only city having trouble
in collecting overdue bills from railroad
corporations. New York City has bill of
over 100000 against railroads which it can
not collect. Some of these roads enforce
a rule discharging employees who fail to pay
their bills, but it does not apply to the
corporations themselves. They follow the
principle expounded by an Omaha elder:
Never mind what l do do as l tell
you"
The wife of the great Hungarian painter,
Munkacsy visits him often in the madhouse
and takes him out for a drive. Sometimes
he recognizes her. In the grounds of the
asylum he can be seen leaning on two at
tendants as he walks about, his once impos-
ing figure bent and emaciated his snow
white hair and beard unkempt-a mere wreck
of the man who a few years ago was con-
sidered one of the handsomest public char
acters in Paris
Richard r. Marcy, now sweeper In New
Yorlt's street cleaning department, Is half
breed Apache Indian and was formerly
scout In the government service. He was IN
an Illinois regiment in 1861, then under Buff
falo Bill, and finished the war in regiment
of sharpshooters under Grant. lie entered
the camp of Sitting Bull as a spy during
the campaign against that worthy, who sub
sequenty offered $4,000 for his scalp Mar
cys present wife is his fifth and all OF his
twenty-five children are alive Three of
them are in the navy and one in the army.
Captain Coghran of the Raleigh may have
learned new songs and how to sing them
while at Manila but it seems he has al
ways been something of an orator and some
what outspoken. Thus, in 1890, he bluntly
criticised the administration of the Navy
department generally and of the Mare Island
navy yard in particular, For this he was
tried by court martial and acquitted. In
1892 in a letter he quoted Senator Voor-
hees' remark that Mr.. Cleveland was great
man because he wore a twenty-one-inch
collar" For this though he was about to
be appointed a captain the president with
held his name, causing him a loss of six
numbers.
Those eastern newspapers which denounce
the lax divorce laws of certain western
states might proftably turn their editorial
guns on the divorce evils right at home
For instance, the Sloane Belmont case The
decree diyorcing Henry T. Sloane from his
wife, Jessie A. Sloane, was filed In a New
York court at 3:20 p. m. last Thursday
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Perry Belmont at Greenwich, Conn. The
divorce decree prohibited her from marry
ing during the life of Henry T. Sloane, but
the prohibition does not go outside of New
York state, though both are residents of
New York City and circulate among the
four hundred.