The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-16
PERSONALITIES.

Tho fun name of the Sultan Of Sulu is
Hadzi Mohammed WOmaloi ltiram.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt makes
every visitor to his country place plant
tree before leaving.
August Brassart. who made the first
silver plate used in photography by the
Daguerre is living I'm Chicago.
Secretary Of War Elihu Root is said to
protest vigorously against the middle ini.
tial "B.," which some newspapers have
incorrectly added to his name
John r. Dos Passos, the New York
millionaire, has been buying land from
time to time in Wcstmorcand County.
Maryland, until he now owns G,O0O acres,
the largest and finest tract in the county.
Mrs. Mary 5. Wilson, who recently
celebrated her ninety-iirst birthday at
oyster Bay, l.. l., is living in house
which is nearly 800 years old. and on the
porch Of which George Washington shook
hands with the people of the town.
Captain Hank Half, the sailing mas
ter of some of the famous Americas
cup defenders, is living at Islip l.. |.
Advancing years caused him to be re-
tired from the list of possible captains
of the Columbia.
Negotiations between Augustus St Gau-
dons, the distinguished American sculp-
tor and the ministry of public instruction
in Paris have resulted in an arrange
ment which will place several of the
works of the former i'm the Museum Of
| the Luxembourg.
Ira ID. Sankey the evangelist, has been
making complaints to the board of
| health against the duck farms near his
| home in Eastport, l.. |. The complaints
| were investigated the other day and the
| board came to the decision to stand by
| the ducks and voted against Mr.. Sankey.
| Y. J. Smith, who is now one of the
I
| Kan, started out to acquire his fortune
in 1879, at which time his possessions con-
| sisted of a wife, six small children, a
horse and wagon and cents in cash. lie
| bought a farm without paying a cent
| down, and made his fortune by the cult
! walton Of the soil.
| Twenty-seven years ago Booker T.
| Washington left Charleston, w. Va, a
I pennless COlored boy and walked to
Hampton to try to get an education
Last week he returned to Charleston as
| the guest of the city, was received by
the mayor and officials and was greeted
| at the opera house by 1000 enthusiastic
| admirers.
Mrs. b. X. Bruce, of Mississippi, who
| has accepted the position of assistant
| principal of the Tuskegee Normal and In.
dustrial Institute is the widow of the late
| United States Senator Bruce. The latter
was the only negro who served a fu'
| term in the senate, and was the first ne
gro register of the United States treasury
| Mrs. Bruce is deeply interested in the
cause of industrial education.
If Prince Hohenlohe retires from the
| double post of German Chancellor ant
| Prussian Premier it is rumored that hC
! will be succeeded by Count Waldersee
who succeeded Moltke as chief of the
| Grand General Staff and now com
mands the Ninth (Schleswig- Holstein
Army Corps, with the certain prospec
as the emperor publicly promised hin
on going to AltoEa-of commanding
whole army in the event OF war. 1t wa:
well known at the time that Count Wal
dersee left the general staff that III
cherished the ambition to succeed Bis
marck, and his interference in politics
was one of the causes which then made
for his removal from Berlin lie mar
ried a Miss Lee, Of New York. and ha
marked Anglo-SaXon sympathes.