Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-10-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

General De Wet, who is resting at The
Hague, has been informed of the death
of his 1S-year- old son in South Africa.
The Rev T. j. Bassctt of Thornton, Ind,
has just been unanimously elected presi-
dent of Upper Iowa University at Fay
cite, Iowa.
Mr. Paul Kruger and the Boer delegates
who will accompany him have leased three
villas at Mentone. France, where they will
spend the winter.
O. w. Stewart manager of the Boston
Festival Orchestra. has been appointed
manager of the bureau of music for the
louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Dr. Roberts Coltman. Jr.. who sent the
first message that the Americans were
safe in the city of Picking is at present
visiting Denver with his family.
Lady Battersea has consented to preside
at the conference of the National Union Of
Women Workers. which is to he held at
Edinburg on the last four days of October.
Prof. Friedrich Hrth of the University
of Munich. arrived in New York yester
day to take charge of the Dean Lung
chair of Chinese. at Columbia University.
Tho Rev r. G. A. Cole of Lowell Mass.
will this week celebrate the twenty-ffth
tn'll"' rSdry OF MS rounding OF tne nrSt
French Protestant church in New Eng
land.
Mrs. O. II. p. Belmont has presented
her daughter, the Duchess Of Marlbor-
ouCh, with an automobile, which is being
prepared for shipment to Blenheim Cas-
tie.
Miss puchemin of Boston has in her
! possession some china more than 200
| old u-Ii erft. h.r Il
mother by the daughter of a maid of
honor to Queen Anne.
II. c. Washburn of Boston has been
training a chorus of 800 voices for the
all New England convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor societies to be held in Ire
mont Temple October 14-17.
The Hon. n. j. Bachelor republican
candidate for governor of New Hampshire
resides on the farm at Andovcr, that State
which was cleared by his great, Grand
father in 1852.
The Rev D. ]. O'Mahoney, who has
been ordered to go to the Philippines as
one of the Americans who will take the
| place Of the Spanish friars, has been pas
! tor of st. Augustine's Church, Andover
Mass for the past four years.
Miss Jane Scherzer of Franklin. Ohio,
has Just passed the doctors examination
/ at the University of Berlin in English
| pathology with a dissertation on medic
val poem. She is the third American
woman to pass this examination.
captain Charles y. Sigsbee has Just is
! sued a book. Notes on Naval Progress
dealing with work accomplished by foreign
naves during the last fiscal year. 1t /:
the largest volume of its kind ever ISSUED
by the Washington bureau.
The Rev. DR.. Granville Lowther, who a
few months ago was dismissed from q
Methodist church in Kansas because he
denied the truth of the creation, delivered
the address at Ruskn college, the socialis
institution at Trenton, Mo. at its recent
opening.
William Tyler Page of Baltimore, re
publican candidate for Congress. has beer
presented by the German-American Lin
coin League of his city with a bronze
/ media lion of President Lincoln, which al
one time formed 4 part of the old chande
lier in the Capitol building at Washington
Dr. Selor, professor of the Americanis
chair, in the University of Berlin, endow
ed by Duke Laubat of New York, accom-
! panied by DR.. Won der Steinen, professor
of ethnooSy at the University of Berlin
have left Berlin for New York to attenc
the Amercanist Societys annual meet
ing.