Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-05-12

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project as author. sailor and engineer
-Abdurrahman Khan. the Anne.
Afghanistan. who is now irving ~ %
more money by playing the Russian -
against the English. is already rece;v;,.Il.
from the latter people S1,00O.00 a yas-
The Sultan Of Turkey rises eys-..
morning al q O'Clock and after dnvs.
ing the hrst half Of the day to wort
breakfasts at nOoI After that he raka,
a drive or a boatride in his park M
dimes at :.
Miss Kitty Wilkins of Idaho. wb..
has gained much fame as the owner -
thousands of horses. is TO be marria..
She Is the most extensive breeder g..
horses III that state. and sells them i.
lots of 5000 or more.
Tile Miss Winter who has been ~.
Gently appointed goyevntsS to the yo,,..
children Of the Grown Prince and Grow,
Princess of Roumania is the same En-
fish lady who had charge Of the clucatiIr
of the young Queen of Holland.
Sir Charles Gavin Duffy. vino bs.
been speaking his mind on the rpunin,
of the Irish Nationalist, is the Np>to,
of Hibernian politics, the senior political
prisoner of our time, and an ex-premicr
of the Australian colony of Victoria.
Mrs Caroline Stannard Tilton. wild.
ow of Frederick W. Tilton of New
Orleans. has given $4,000 to the Tulanr
university of Louisiana for the purpose
of erecting library building to be known
as the f. W. Tilton Memorial library.
Maj. Frederick A. Mahan corps of
engineers, has been placed on the retired
list on his own application, after thirty
years service. He is brother of Capt.
Mahan of the navy, and was formerly
engineer secretary of the Lighthouse
board.
OF the British generals in South Al
sica Lord Roberts. Lord Kitchener. Lord
DundOnald. French and Macdonald
never passed the final examinations at
the Staff college. as Il critical NJ. r. re
Gently pointed out to the House of Com
mons
Lord Strathcona. the richest man in
Canada. and the man who equipped a
body of rough riders for South Africa.
left England at the age of 20 rs Il Hud-
son Bay company clerk He now owns
n controlling block of the famous com.
pany's stock.
Queen Victoria is so inspired by the
conduct of her troops in South Africa
that it is more than likely a new order
the Star of South Africa-will soon be-
created. The star would be fvepo!nted
and the Prince of Wales the grand-mas-
ter of the order.
DR.. John Guiteras, graduate of
and former professor in the University
of Pennsylvania. has been appointed 10
the chair of intertropical pathology.
which has just been created i'll the Uni
versity of Havana. He is at present
studying in Europe.
-Montenegro's crown prince and his
bride, Princess Jutta of Mecklenburs-
Strelitz. are having Il lOng-drawn-out
honeymoon. They have visited all their
relatives and are doing Paris thoroughly.
but neither seems anxious to get down
to housekeeping in CettfHie.
-Murat Halstead. who has for the
last three years, occupied the post of
United States consul ar Birmingham. is
in this country for short visit. He has
made many friends in England, and likes
his duties, but says that Ire has not lost
his old love for newspaper work.
Efforts are being made in st, Paul
and Minneapolis, supplemented by
friends in California. to raise Il fund 10
pay off Il mortgage on the home of the
widow of Maj. NJ. G. Wilkinson Mai.
Wilkinson was killed in the Indian out
break of Lecch Lake. Mimi, in Octobeg
1898.
The president of Harvard college
who served longest was Edward Hol-
yoke, whose term extended from 1877 to
1T6S, or thirty-one and half years
President Eliot's term began in 1859, and
if he lives TIL next October he will have
L
yoke.
Charles L. Knowlton of Quincy. who
has been appointed engineer of surveys
and construction in Porto Rico. was ST.
pcr;ntendcnt Of sewer construction in
Duluth in 1890 engineer Of the Everett
(Wash.) Land company in 1891 and Mas
sachuSettS state engineer IN charge OF
roads in 1898.
1t was through Falguiere, the scll,2-
t,,r .h,, in, u
ode MClode. the dancer, gained her
chance fer fame. She was n model f0g.
the artists figure of The Dancer" eX-
hibited i'll plaster in the Salon and I'M
til that work created Il furore she had
never been heard Of
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson states
that she has no intention of allowing her
husbands grave in Samoa to be dis
turbed He lies among those who loved
him, and we who loved him may reflect
that his lofty tomb receives, no less than
ii it were on Il ragged Scottish moor, the
Incompatible pOmp of eve"
The Duke of Neragua. whose impe-
curiosity while in Chicago during Worlds
fair times will be remembere, ny many
residents of that city. is still in deep
financial trouble. having been connected
with the collapse of a company formed
some years ago for the purpose of accl-
matizing bullhghts in Paris.
DR.. William Ashmore is n fifty-ycar
veteran of the American Baptist Mis-
Sonary union at Swallow, China. He
was born in GAINESVILLE. O.. in 1924 In
1850 he sailed as a missionary to thu
Chinese. China was not then open -
foreigners. and Dr. Ashmcre was Obliged
to begin his lahors in Bangkok Siam
Prof. w T.. d. Scott. curator of tn
ornith0logical department of Princeton
university, has gone to England to study
the birds collected in the British mu-
scum and compare them with the speci-
mems recently procured from Patagonia,
The result of his research will be en-
bodied in Il monograph on the birds Of
Patagonia.
Senators Platt OF Connecticut AID
rich and Teller would have it distinctly
understood that their trip in the dispatch
boat Dolphin to Cuba is strictly for bu~i-
ness, and i'll no sense Il iunket. They
will take their wives and the son ami
daughter of Senator Aldrich. but deny
that John -. Rockefeller or anybody
else not mentioned will be of the party.
Senator Depew. in Directing to the
'MillicnaireS' club" as descriptive title
for the body of which he is member,