The Washington times., 1901-07-15
PERSONAL.

William Rollins, of Dogue, King George
County, Va. who died recently. was wide
ly known as the ferryman who carried
John Wilkes Booth across the Rappahan-
mock when the latter was making his es-
cape from his pursuers after the assassi-
nation of President Lincoln.
Hon. Paris Gibson, Montana's newly
elected Senator, is a grandson of Capt.
Timothy Gibson. one of the early settlers
Of Henniker, n. H., residing there until
lbs, when he removed to Brownfield,
Me. One of the sons born there was Abel
father of Senator Gibson. The Senator
graduated from Bowdoin College, Maine.
and has just participated in the reunion
of his class at that college, it being his
first visit to Maine for thirty five years.
Before his departure from Persia. Her
bert V. Bowen, the retiring Minister to
that country, was decorated by the Shah
with the Grand Gordon of the Lion and
Sun, the most ancient and honorable or
der of Persia. The Shah also presented
Mr.. Bowen with a massive gold snuff
box. studded with fifty diamonds and dec
These will be deposited in the vaults of
the State Department until Congress au-
thorizes the recipient to accept them.
c. w. Marx, professor of mechanical
engineering in the University of Missouri,
has declined the appointment to the chair
of engineering in the University of Gin
cinnati. ~ ~
Dr. the Hon. Ella Scarlet is on her way
from London to Cape Town. and finally to
the Orange River Colony, where she has
received a medical appointment under the
camp and look after the health and we'll
being OF the refugees She is well fitted
for the task, having s..ill. knowledge
health, strength, energy. and sympathy.
Lord Charles Beresford. who is about
to resign his naval position to lead one
branch of the opposition in English poll
tics, has been in the navy since he was
thirteen and has worked himself UP
through sheer merit.
Hezekiah Earl. of Auburndale. Mass,
has just closed voluntarily term of
sixty-one years in the employ OF the
Boston and Albany Railroad. He was a
clerk in the freight office. He was born
in Eari's coffee house, Boston. August Is,
1877, and was sailor in his youth. He
is strong and well and greatly enjoys his
weil-earned leisure.
John G. A. Leishman, United States
Minister to Turkey. who collected the
long outstanding debt OF the Sublime
Porte to the American Government was
recently transferred from his post of Min
lister to Switzerland to the mission at
Constantinople He is a native of Penn
wealth, which is very great. was accumu-
lated in the iron and steel industry, from
which he retired few years ago.
The Archbishop of Canterbury recently
dedicated an open-air pulpit at Spital=
fields parish church. The pulpit was
erected to the memory of the former
rector of the church, DIR. Billings, after
ward Bishop of Bedford. and cost $1,000.
NJ Doumer, the Governor of French
&c. of l,a -friLY fnpr
figures in French public life. He will
return to France as soon as he has put
things to rights in Tonquin, and 1t is
probable that seat Will be found for
him in the next Cabinet. He is but little
over forty, and his friends assert that
some day he will be President of France.
Murray Frame, of Wooster, Ohio, has
accepted a professorship In the Mission
College at Lahore, India, for term of
three years. Though but nineteen years
old he graduated this year from Wooster
University.
Genera, Palmer, commander r-in-chief in
India, is a physical giant, with iron-grey
hair and mustache, eloquent eyes, and a
CHEEKY smile.
A most exciting career has been that of
Sir Rudolf Slatin, better known as Slatin
Pasha He left Vienna, his birthplace. when
a lad of seventeen, TO become clerk in a
house in Cairo, and six years
later came under the notice of Gordon.
who appointed him Governor of Darfu.
In this position he became known as The
Hammer of the Arabs, owing to his
many victories over the turbulent tribes.
but In 1888 he had to surrender to the
Mahdi Then began an Imprisonment
that lasted until 1895, when. by secret aid
from the authorities at Cairo. Slatin man
aged to escape The late Queen of Eng
land had Sir Rudolf at Windsor several
times to hear him relate his adventures.
At a recent meeting in London of the
League for the purpose of
presenting to the Rev. ]. Stratton a tes-
timonal for his work in abolish.ng the |
Royal Buckhounds letters from George |
Meredith, Thomas Hardy, and Frederic |
Harrison were read ali favoring the |
abolition OF sports that were attended |
with cruelty to animals.
Repeated denials and contradictions of |
ienials seem to leave 1t in doubt as to |
whether Mascagni is really coming tod
his country but that negotiations with |
hat end in view have been under way |
s established. A recent Rome despatch |
that the composer is to be paid |
30 600 "A week for "a tour OF eight weeks |
bringing with him AN orchestra OF ninety |
musicians. Mascagni Is evidently a con- |
;eryatve man. for he stipulated that the |
.ntire $4,000 should be deposited in a bank |
n Italy before he starts for this country
He also expressed The hope that the |
American managers would mot work |
liIn" as did one irnpresario In 1899 when |
Mascagpi was nearly killed fby forty-two |
concerts in forty days.