The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-15
MEN AND AFFAIRS

The Duke of Aosta, a cousin of the
King of Italy, has sent to the CARBON
Hill, Ill. italian Society a handsomely
framed picture of himself, in view OF
the organization having selected his
name for their society and voted him
it's honorary president.
Henry Jackson, whose possessions
are valued at 100000, is the richest In
dian on the klamath reservation. Ev-
cry fall, for Is years, he has sent to
market $1,000 to $1,000 worth of cattle
Gen. A. w. Greedy, chief signal Off
Ger Of the United States army, has
just returned from the Philippines, by
the way of Europe. Gen. Greedy
stopped in London long enough to
persuade the officers of the telegraph
and cable companies to reduce the ca
.ble rates on government messages to
and from Manila by fully one-third.
DR.. julius Caesar Hautzsche, whose
death in his seventy eighth year is re-
ported from Dresden, was formerly
physician to the Russian embassy in
Persia. He there made himself so
great an expert in the Oriental tongues
that he was subsequently invited every
year to Berlin to take part in the eX-
animation at the Oriental Seminary.
! Charles H. Hackley, Of Muskegon,
Mich, has decided to give to that city
a statue of the late President McKin-
| ley, to be unveiled on Memorial Day
next year. This will be the sixth
statue that Mr.. Hackley has presented
! to Muskegon, the others being those of
Grant, Lincoln, Sheridan, Farragut
and General Phil" Kearny
The house in Portland Palace, Lon
don, which Earle Roberts has pur-
chased for his own town residence was
| for a long time the centre of society
and fashion. From 1920 to 1860 it was
! occupied by he dowager Duchess of
Richmond and was famed for the bril-
| liancy of its entertainments during the
London season.
Lord Penrhyn's son and heir, who is
soon to visit the United States, will in
| herit nearly 1000 acres of land lin
! Wales, including the most extensive.
slate quarries in the United Kingdom,
and possibly in the world. The gross
| income Of Lord Penrhyn from the
quarries is about s3,50O,00O annually.
Some idea of the immense amount of
work done in the offices of a railway
with mileage of 10 400 miles may be
gathered from the fact that the printed
matter issued by one company detail
ing the changes made in the passenger
service for the summer months
amounted to over five tons in weight.
Mrs. Carrie F. Cole. editor and pub
Usher of the st. Croix Falls (Minn.)
standard besides running a hand
press, printing an edition of 500 to 600
copies, herself, attends to all the office
business as well as her household
work, caring for four small children.
Lord Rosebery possesses the cost
liest collection of snuffboxes in the
world. Many of them are of solid gold
and some are set with brilliants. AL
though the collection only comprises
% boxes altogether, its estimated val
ue is $175,000.
The Rev. DIR. P. S. Henson, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Chicago
for twenty years. announced to LIS
congregation Sunday morning his res-
ignation, to accept the pastorage of the
Hanson Place Baptist Church in
Brooklyn.
Adolph Won Gross, the Bayreutb
banker, has for years borne the re-
sponsibility of the general and finan-
cial management of the Wagner festi-
NILS. He is a son-in-law of Frederick
Wenstel, the great friend of the COM
poser.