The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-03-20
PERSONALITIES.


rests on the features of Secretary Root.
who has never been known to ever at
tempt a Joke.
Alfred 1agarheim. Sweden and Nor
ways new minister of foreign affairs.
has been In the diplomatic service ever
since he was IL years old.
Tho Maharajah of Benares, while re-
Gently entertaining Lord Curzon. pre-
sented him for Lady Curzon with a STU
perb coronet of pearls worth a fabulous
sum.
Former Secretary of War Alger mas
written to the Mayor of Detroit offering
all the help in his power for the bringing
home of the bodies of Michigan soldiers
who died In cuba and Porto Rico.
Governor LOngino. the chief executive
OF Mississippi. who opposes lynching. is
not Al years old. lie Is self-made
man. and worked by nights to pay his
way at Mississippi college, clinton, Miss.
j. ID. Rockefeller. jr.. inherits his
fathers industry and frugaity. That
he Is a born Hnancier was early shown
by his management Of the financial af-
fairs of Brown university's athletic
teams.
The Rev. W. j. Gillespie. pastor of the
Union Presbyterian church at Aspinwall
Pa, Mas resigned his charge because he
objects to receiving pay for his services.
He will seek q church unable to pay Il
salary.
Col. william J.. Prather. the new presi-
dent of the University of Texas, Is
greatly opposed to lynching. and In a
recent address to the students of that
university he said 1t was the greatest
| curse of the south.
The Rev. Dr. Matbe ID. Babcock sue
cessor to Henry Van Dyke. in New York
Brick church. does not wear the conven-
tional black in the pulpit, his neck scarf
usually being of figured material. and
sometimes deco rcd.
The Rev. DR.. John 4. Purves. the sue
cessor of DIR. John Hall at the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church. New York.
Will receive the largest emoument Of
| any clergyman in that denomination. his
salary being $4,000 year and the use Of
a fine residence.
Nestor Ponce de Leon a lineal de-
scendant of the man who discovered Flo
rlda while searching for the tabled foun-
| tain of youth, has just died at Havana,
aged 81 years. lie was a native of cuba.
but had been a lawyer i'm New York for
| twenty-five years.
Miss Clara Bett Martins recent sue
cess in winning two important cases OPP
posed by the abest lawyers in Canada,
is rebuke for the lawyers who held
out against her admission to the bar. un-
Ill the women, headed by Lady Aberdeen,
forced them to yield.
Frank Gould. the youngest son of Jay
Gould. has bought splendid giant st.
Bernard dog for $1,000 of u Partisan
dealer, lie has not yet seen his pur-
| chase however, having made 1t on the
Recommendation of the Countess Castel-
lapt, formerly Miss Anna Gould
oliver w. Stewart. the new chairman
OF the national committee of the Prohibi-
ton party. was born i'm Illinois on May
%. 1861. and was graduated from Eure-
| ka college in 1887. For years he has been
| active in Good Templar work. and dur
| ing his college course he identified him
| self with the Prohibition party.
| DR.. John McCracken Pearce, ID. d.. has
had plans drawn for a church edice
| which Is to be shortly erected in Manila,
=. L., and which will be the first Protest
[ ant church in that city. The cost. which
| will be personally betrayed By DIR. Pearce
| is estimated at S1jO.O0O. The church will
he undenomlnational and unsectarian
| G. II. Hills. the weathiest and one of
| the oldest and most prominent Masons in
! Musekegon, Mich. is to build handsome
| Masonic Temple of brick, with stone
| trimmings, in that town for the use of
| the order. 1t is to resemble castle, and
| be 1872 feet long. sc feet wide and three
stories in height. The building is to be
| dedicated next spring.
| While Hlanch Walsh was playing in
| Montreal recently she was presented by
! the Mayor Of that city with wreath OF
| silver leaves. They We're from the silver
| tree, which Is said to grow in but one
locality in the world-on Table Mountain,
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The
| slender, pointed leaves of this tree are
covered thickly with a silvery down.
| Probably the most battle-scarred hero
| of the Transvaal war up to date is Lieu
| tenant MeiklejOhn. of the Gordon High
| landers. At Elandslaagte he received
| three bullets through his upper right
| arm, one through the right forearm, one
through the left thigh, two through his
helmet, snick in the neck. one OF his
| fingers was blown away and his sword
| and scabbard shot to pieces.