New-York tribune., 1900-05-10
PERSONAL.

The Washington correspondent Of ''The Chicago
Record" says: President Roca of the Argentine
Republic. President Erazuriz Of Chilli President
Campos- Salles OF Brazil and President Diaz OF
Mexico have all given promises. less def
mite. that they viii attend the Pan-American Ex-
position at Buffalo in 1901. and If the plan can be
carried cut it viii be a great advantage to their
@ as " wei as TO ours s nrs asy m
it would be impossible for the President 10 go 10
Brazil or Chill or the Argentine Republic although
he might without any dificuIty. make short trip
throush Mexico 1t would ne perfectly Iegitl'na az Je
would offer an opportunity for vice-President TO
make himself useful
By the death at Naples of the venerable Prince
Colonna in his nnety-first year Ferdinand Colon
ma. who married the daughter of Mrs. John w.
Mackay, succeeds to the titles of Prince of Stg
Iano Prince of Alamo. Marquis Castelnuova. Lord
Of Of Ilienello Of San Arcanseo of Roceanov2 OF
of Rome. Venice and Naples and succeeds to the
hcadship of the Neapoitan branch OF the Colonna
family.
In the dispatch from Boston announcing the
death of ex-Secretary William c. Endicott, pub
hshed in The Tribune on Monday, 1t was stated
that "in 1853 he married his cousin. Ellen, daugh-
ter of George Peabody. the well known phian-
thropist.' Charles W. Felt. of Worcester, Mass,
corrects this statement, and points out that the
TIE London banker; who was born IN the port OF
ranvers now called Peabody, and who never mar
latter was also a wealthy man. his father having
been an East India merchant.
William Clafin. who recently celebrated his eigh-
ty-second birthday. had. while Governor of Massa-
Ckusetts the unique honor of officially placing his
signature upon the charter of both Wellesley Col
lege and Boston University. He has also been a
trustee of each from the beginning and president
of the corporation of the latter since 1872. AS
alumnus of Brown University, Doctor of Laws OF
Harvard and of Wesleyan. a trustee of Mount
Holyoke College and a benefactor of the Amherst
Agricultural College, he has sustained remarkably
close relation 10 this group of the institutions of
higher education in New England. He is one OF
C,OVarnOrS Massachusetts
born in the same year-1SlS.
The friends of Professor III. c. Mitchell, of Bos
ton University say that Bishop Mallalieu is the
leader of the Methodist bishops in the opposition TO
him because of his liberal views concerning the
Bible AS illustration of the good Bishops at
titude toward Biblical criticism they tell story
about a sermon delivered by him shortly after his
return from visit to the Holy Land The Bishop
had climbed to the top of Mount Zion and de-
Scrbing his sensations : he looked out from the
top of the low hill oTcr the city of Jerusalem and
the surrounding country. ! looked up into the
sky they quote the Bishop saying, and
knew that Moses wrote the Pentateuch.'
Chicago. May 9.-Dr. Franklin ". Fisk whose
resignation after fortyone incumbency OF the
Office OF president of the Chicago Theological Sem
irary takes effect the close of the current year
been elected professor emeritus OF the chair OF
rhetoric of the tnstitU ion The election i
for life. and a token of the esteem in which the
Board of Directors hold President Fisk