Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-27
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The monument over the grave of Miss
Winnie Davis In Hollywood cemetery Rich
mond, Va, is to be unveiled November O.
Hon. r. B. Munford OF Richmond will de-
liver a eulogy.
Opinion is divided in Indiana as to the
choice of famous son for the second statue
in the capitol at Washington. The names
thus far canvassed are those OF George W
Julian, Thomas A. Hendricks and Daniel
w. Voorhees,.
A bust of oliver p. Morton, Indiana's war
governor, was presented to the indianapolis
High school by Miss Ethel Blake OF Detroit.
Mrs Morton, who present at the exer-
cises, also presented the school with several
volumes from her late husbands library.
1t is expected that in the next session Of
| congress Senator Clark of Montana will be
among those to urge that territorial gov
| ernment be granted to Hawaii. The western
multimllionaire has made large investments
in the islands and intends to build a sum-
mer home there.
Admiral Dewey, who is a member OF St..
Johns Episcopal church in Washington,
! handed around the collection plate last Sun
day. He has had a seat in the church for
years and will probably be elected a vestry-
man to fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation Of Henry Pellew.
The United Confederate Veterans of New
Orleans are planning to purchase Beauvor,
jefferson Davis Mississippi home, for an in
dustrlal farm for ex-confederate soldiers
who are still able to do light work. They
have received intimatons that Mrs Davis
desires to sell the property, that she may
invest in real estate in New Orleans and
make that city her home.
| AS a train drew into Boston during that
citys recent Dewey celebration the news
boy passed the word along that General
Shafter was in the rear car. In moment
this car was crowded by cheering mob and
Colonel Wellington of Worcester, Mass, who
really bears a striking likeness to the gem
eral, had hard time convincing the crowd
that he was not the man who took
Santiago.
The board of managers OF the BENJAMIN
Franklin fund of Boston, which now amounts
to s366,424 has definitely decided to use it
to build public baths in each OF seven
wards of the city and building on Washing
ton street for branch OF the public library.
reading room, lecture rooms, public hall and
rooms for the use of Grand Army posts. The
lapse of the apprentice system has long
made it impossible to carry out literally
Benjamin Franklin's plans.
board of Manhattan borough, New York.
who created a diversion some time ago by
his unsuccessful attempt to punish for libel
the proprietors Of a periodical which referred
to him as fine old educational mastodon, 4"
appears TO have had his revenge at last
The publishers OF the offending periodical
were Henry Holt Co., and in a list OF
school books TO be used, as authorized by
the board, all those of I'enry Holt G. Co.
have been stricken off.
One OF Senator Proctor's lieutenants in
the plan to nominate Dewey for president
| is credited with saying that Of the fifty -one
members OF the national committee sixteen
are set down being positively unfriendly
to the present administration and hoping
to see the president defeated for re election
seven are suspected of entertaining the
same opinions. but are likely to keep their
views TO themselves until the movement as
sumes a more definite shape. and five are for
| the winner, whoever he may bs.