The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-22

| woods is reported from Curry county
! in the southwestern portion of the stat,
/ Of Oregon Some Of the trees are sais
to be twenty feet in diameter
A German court has decided that
an engagement TO marry can be broker
/ OF If either Of the parties suffers from
T an Illness such as phthisis. but that
! the case must be really serious.
The New York State Commission
/ in Lunaey has appointed DR.. William
I L. Russell Of willard medical inspector
/ OF institutions for the insane, a place
created by the Legislature at the last
session, at a salary of s3,s00. with trav-
! cling expenses.
The International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers. in session in salt
Lake City. declared President Roose-
Welt unfair on account of his action
| IN re-instating Miller in the book
binders department Of the Govern
ment Printing. once. at Washington.
The Society Of the Mayf1ower De-
scendants in the state of Connecticut
held its annual meeting in New Lon
don on Wednesday last, and thirty
two of its members sat down to the
dinner. Charles h Gross of Hartford
and il may be that its headquarters
viii be removed to Hartford
Anderson H. Hopkins, assistant
librarian of the John Crerar Library in
Chicago. has been selected for librarian
of the new Louisville Free Library, his
salary being $500 a year. He is a
graduate of the University of Michigan.
was its assistant librarian for some
time. and during the last year has been
president of the Illinois Librarian As
ISOLATION.
Gen. Fred. D. Grant gave out to
the newspapers the substance of his
annual report as commander of the
department of Texas in advance of its
transmission to the War Department
and has been taken to task by the
Secretary of War. Gen. Grant claims
that he was not aware that he was
violating any rule of the department in
giving out the report.
DR.. Morris Bailey of Titusville, Pa,
lately celebrated his eighty-fifth birth
day, and especially marked the day
by erasing from his books accounts ex-
tending over halt a century and aggre-
eating about s42, OO0. He still has some
$4,000 hard to collect accounts, and
may some day settle these in the same
way. But paying patients have sup
piled him with competency.
Baron Alverstone, lord chief Jus
tice of Great Britain, chairman of the
Alaska commission. is a man Of high
legal attainments. He was Attorney
General almost continuously from 1885
to 1900 and had been a member Of
parliament for Ladnceston. He was
representing an Isle of Wight consti-
tuency when made supreme justice.
He is now in his sixty-second year.
The Rev. DR.. Edmund Dowse, who
has been nearly sixty-fve years in the
pulpit. backing only few days, cele-
brated his ninetieth birthday recently.
He has been pastor of the Pilgrim
church in Sherborn, Mass, since 1898,
and is said to be the oldest Congrega-
ttonalist minister in active service in
the country. He was born in Sherborn
and there has held his only pastorate.
BY the deaht of Rt. Rev. Thomas
Marsh Clarke. bishop of Rhode Is
land, PIT. Rev. Daniel Sylvester futile
of Missouri has become the presiding
elder of the Protestant EPISCOPAL
Church in America. The succession of
Bishop futile to the primacy is by
virtue of his seniority in the hierarchy
or the church. he having been conse-
Grated a bishop thirty-five years ago.
Brooks Storey, the noted express
robber, has returned to the Mississippi
penitentiary after an absence without
leave of several days. Storey took
French leave of the guards on the
Rankin convict farm on the 1st inst. 1t
was his fifth escape during an inter-
mlttent Incarceration covering a period
OF ten years. He gave as his reason
Tor leaving the fact that his wife was
very i'll and he wished to see and com
fort her.
Judge Charles E. Flandrau Of st.
Paul. who died this week, was one of
the early settlers of the Northwest
Reaching st. Paul in 1853, he began the
practice of law. He was a member
of the Territorial Legislature and chief
Justice of the State Supreme Court.
During the Sioux rebellion he organ
lied company of militia and at IT'S
head did efficient service For MANY
years he was one of the most conspic-
uous citizens of the state.
Prince and Princess Rupprecht of
Bavaria were cordially received bv
the Mikado on their recent trip. to ia
F"@At' ~ AlANAICu tlieIil 10 QWell IN the
magnihcently decorated imperial pal
ace at Shiba. The Empress. who de-
votes most of her time to reformatorv
and charitable work, was present at
the reception, and the Bavarian Crown
Prince gave her, in the name of Kaiser
William, the 'Louisnorden," which the
Empress Immediately put on her dress.
"A younS San Franciscan, the own
er OF large and valuable collection of
autographs, once wrote to the late
James Mcneil Whistler, politely re-
questing his signature. The letter
was sent In care of the London ROYAL
Academy. with which the famous
American painter was at outs. After
four months the letter was returned
10 the San Francisco address from the
dead letter Office in Washington. Cow
ering the envelope was the word re-
peated numberless times: Unknown"
Unknown"
Episcopal Bishop Charles S. Ohm
sted of the diocese of Colorado is plan-
ming for the ultimate erection of a ca
thedral of some native stone i'm Denver
It Will be begun in November next. and
his plan is that only small portion
that can be used be now erected and
additions made in subsequent vears
His idea is similar to that of Rishon
Potter of this city and Bishop Doane ~
Albany, to erect a building which ~