The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-28
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WASHINGTON. July ls.-In the
ulassscres of the Foreign Ministers IN
Peking. the world has lost some OF its
sblest diplomats
Representative Hit chairman of the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
tonight described Minister Conger a.
an exceptionally able nan-4rIes. uucs-
tentatio1s. but determined ersd force
full Minister ConSer was transferred
from Brazil To China that the President
might have IN Peking trained di-
plornat upon whom b. could rely.
The State Department has not a
complete list Of the persons with Mr..
conger ID PeEing His staff comprised
Mr.. Herbert G. Sauires. of New York
secretary OF legation; Mr. William Z
Bainbridse. second secretary Of lesz-
tion, and Mr. Fleming ID. Cheshire,
Interpreter
Mrs Conger. their daughter. Miss
Laura Conger, aud Mr.. Conger's niece,
Miss Mary Pierce. were with the Minis
ter. and they had several guests who
are still believed tobe there. including
Mrs " s Woodward and Miss lone
Woodward, of Chicago, her daughter
and Miss Cecil z. Payne Ia addition
to the family of Mr.. Conger. there are
said to have been eight children IN the
American Legation. four of whom are
believed to be the children OF MIR
Squires.
Mr.. Conger was born in Knox county,
III on March I. 1913. He was educated
at Lombard University. being gradu
ated in the class of 1862. He enlisted
in that year as private in Company /,
I02d Illinois Volunteer infantry, in
which he served until the close of the
war, attaining the rank of captain and
receiving the brevet of major for
gallant and meritorious service on the
field He studied law after the war,
graduating at the Albany Law School
in 1866. was admitted TO the Bar and
commenced practice at Galesburg, III
He removed to Dallas county, Iowa, IN
lS6S, and has since been engaged in
farming. stock growing and banking.
He was elected Treasurer of Dallas
county in 1877 and reelected in 1879.
He was elected State Treasurer of Iowa
in 1880 and reelected in 1882. de
was elected to the Forty-niuth and
Fiftieth Congresses, iand subsequently
received appointment as Minister to
Brazil, from which post he way trans
ferred to Feking.
The Navy Department has received
the following cable despatch from
Admiral kemptf:-
-CHEFOO.-Myers of the Oregon.
commands force at Peking. Captain
Hall and DIR. Lippitt. also there"
Captain John I. Myers was born in
Germany and was appointed from the
State of Georgia, entering the Marine
Corps in September,i 1887. He Is the
reputed author of the famous satirich
poem. .hoch der Kaiser" which in
volved Captain Joseph b. Cogblan in
snch difficulty. He was attaced to the
flagship Baltimore, and was aftersard
assigned to duty with the marines
aboard the Oregon.
Captain Newt H. Hall, c 5. NJ. c., was
born in and appointed from Texas. He
graduated at the Naval Academy in
1895, with Ensign Worth Bagley and
Lieutenant Breckenridge, both of
whom lost their lives in the war with
Spain. He was stationed at the naval
station at Cavite, PHILIPPINE Islands, be-
fore being detailed for duty with the
first marine detachment that went into
China.
DIR. Thomas NJ Lippitt. assistant
surgeon, was born in Berryville, Va,
in 1873. He was commissioned an ass
sistant surgeon in the navy, June q,
1898. and served on the hospital ship
Solace during the Spanish war After
the war he was attached to the flagship
Baltimore on the Asiatic station and
has since served on the Oregon and
then on the Newark, going to Taku with
the marine detachment aboard her
Sir Claude Mcdonald was sent out
by Lord Salisbury to Picking early in
1896. he was promoted from post on
the West African coast, where he was
sent to establish the Niger Coast Pro-
tectorate, a task which he accomplished
with great success. He was originally
in the British army, which he entered
in 1872, in his twentieth year, so that
he is now forty eight years of age. He
saw much service in Egypt, and be-
came military attache at Cairo, passing
thence to Zanziber as acting agent and
Consul General.
NJ Stephen Pech on's appointment
to Peking, as the representative of
France, dates from the end of 1897 He
had previously been Minister Plenipo-
tentiary at Port au Prince. Like his
British confrere he was not dipio-
matist by early training. but previously
to embarking ON his recent career was
a journalist and politician. He was
member of NJ. Clemenceau's staff on
La Justice, and entered public life as
Paris Municipal Councillor. He was
afterward elected a Deputy for one of
the Paris districts, but lost his seat in
1893.
The Baroness Won ketteler was Miss /
Maud Ledyard. daughter of Mr.. Henry
Henry ID. Ledyard, president of the
Michigan Central Railroad, and sister
of Mr.. Lewis Cass Ledyard, commodore |
of the New York Yacht Club
Baron Nissi, the Japanese represents |
tive. was formerly member of the |
Privy Council, and accepted the post |
at Peking simply because he felt ii his /
duty TO do so, in view of the critical !
condition of affairs in China
At the Japanese Legation it is said
that nearly ali the members of the /
Legation were married and had their