The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-22
PERSONALITIES.

Edward L. Whinton. the new copper
King, began life as a silver miner IN
Colorado.
Rochester, N. Y. the native city Of
Brigadier General Hale, is to erect a
statue to that soldier.
CoXey, who led a tramp army to Wash
ington in 1926 is now the head of a min
ing company, which has just made n
strike of lead ore that Will make CoXey
| magnate
The unusual sight of a bishop address
ing q congregation of bicyclsts was wit
| messed at Dover, England last week,
when the bishop Of that see preached to
cyclists from all the country round.
The terrible scar on the check of Gen
eral Guy V. Henry was received in the
| Sioux uprising of 1873. when | was
| lighting the Indians" he explains, 81
was Wounded and fell from my horse.
| The savages didn't seem to think much
of my scalp, and SO they took my check"
The Daily Mails Berlin correspondent
says that Prince Henry of Prussia,
| brother of Emperor William, who is now
in command Of the German squadron in
Asiatic waters will visit San Francisco
and perhaps, other American ports af
| ter leaving China, He will perhaps pay
a visit to President Mckinley at Wash
| ington.
De Witt Talmage says that the worst
wound he ever suffered from the mistake
of compositor was in the printing of n
sermon of his on the Pentential Psalms
| He had said: THE name of God does not
| once appear in this verse. Isn't that sig
nihcant?' The printed version read:
| THE name of God does not once appear
in this verse. Isn't that magnificent"
When Senator George l.. Turner, of
| Washington, lost his fortune few years
| ago there came to his law office some
miners from british Columbia, who
wanted some papers drawn up AS they
| seemed poor, Mr.. Turner refused to ac-
cept fee, whereupon they insisted that
| he accept stock in their claims. The
| claims turned out WELL and made them
all, including Mr.. Turner, millionaires.
A Blairstown. N. j., dispatch says:
''Thirty-two of the business men of this
place have agreed to close their stores
| all day on Tuesday today) in honor of
| their most distinguished tOwnsman the
| Hon. John |. Blair. Mr. Blair is enjoying
| excellent health, but seldom leaves his
residence though he takes an active in
| terest in his extensive railway interests
and in politics, especially in connection
with the foreign policy of the admins
| tration. He has always been a Repub-
| lican and is heartily in sympathy with
the expansion policy Of President Nc
Kinley."
Word has been received in Chicago
from the committee of representative citl-
| zens that went to Mexico to invite Presl-
| dent Diaz to attend the laying of the
| corner stone of the new postOtfiCe on Oc-
tober g. that he had assured them he
would come While the invitation was
not fully accepted, President Diaz said
he would ask the Mexican congress,
| which meets in September, for permis-
| sion to visit the United States, and that
| such permission would undoubtedly be
| granted. Elaborate preparations have
been made for his reception. The gov
| ernors of all the states through which
President Diaz will pass will meet and
escort him.
United States Senator Carter of Mon
| tana, who was among several distin-
gushed Americans who arrived last Sun
day in the fog-belated American liner
New York said he never felt so proud
of returning to his own country. "Travs
elers may talk as they like" he said "of
| the advantages of life abroad: as for
| me, | come back a more ferVent Ameri-
can than ever. All you have to do to be-
come fascinated with this land Is to go
over and take a look at the foreign
places, ! gathered while | was abroad
that there would be a sort of compromise
verdict in the Dreyfus case. | believe
that a failure to acquit may lead to a
| revolution in France"