Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Countess Annie Leary is entertaining
Mrs. Hctty Green ut her home Park
Gate, Newport.
Admiral and Mrs Dewey have returned
to their country place, just outside of
Washington, after IA visit Of several
months in Saratoga.
Il. Ray Stevens. Judge of the Ninth Jul
dicial Court of Wisconsin, and Edwin s.
Mack of Milwaukee have been added to
tho law school Of the University of Wis
cousin.
Cen. Daniel Il. Sickles will represent
the Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac at the unveiling of the Sherman
statute in Washington the middle Of Oc
tober
DR.. Facundo Duran Nuts, former gov
ernor of Panama. left Panama last Tues
day for New York. He had an enthusiast
tic farewell from Isthmans and foreign
residents.
Jose Carlos Rodriguez, chief editor of
the journal de Commerce. gave a ban
quet this week at Rio Janeiro to William
l. Buchanan, former United States min
lister to Argentina.
l.. /. Whitman and T.. I. Hammond
finished, on September % at Portland,
Me- transcontinental automobile trip.
having left san Francisco forty-eight days
and a half ago.
The Rev. pr. Alvah 1fovey, one of the
best known Baptist clergymen in the
country, and for many years president
of the Newton Theological seminary,
died at Newton on Sunday.
Salem, Mass. has honored Secretary
/ ! mil ff har uni, liz.
squares after him, in spite of the fact
| that the name of General Miles was first
proposed for the new square.
Col NJ. NJ. Parker Of Washington has
just made an auto trip of $50 miles
through the New England States. cover
ing the distance in ten days without an
accident of any character.
On October 30 and 81 the Northwestern
University will celebrate the Goth ami
versary of the coming of Principal Her
bert f. Fisk to Evanston as principal Of
the academy of the university.
Leo ]. Kadeski of Quincy. Ill, has been
/ elected by the line officers of the Uniform
Rank, Catholic Knights of America, as
commander-in-chcf, with the rank of
ma or-general. for a term of four years.
Mrs Sarah Rumley, mother of tho late
Walter c. Greshmar, secretary of State
! uiucI iItSlbtul ltEtIdIIt, ItSl Sal ur-
| day celebrated the l0lst anniversary of
her birth at her home in New Albany,
Ind
Mabel Mckinley Baer, niece of the late
President Mckinley, has offered 50, 900
towards establishing a free conservatory
OF music in New York city and will give
her own services entirely free of charge
as one of the instructors.
DR., William Oswald professor of
chemisterY in the University of Leipsic
has made the discovery that light is NOT
needed for the printing of photographs
He produces the required changes in the
sensitive paper by the use of silver on
negatives treated with Il solution OF
peroxide of hydrogen.
When The Most Rev. j. ]. Hartv.
archbishop of Manila, returns to St
Louis the middle of next month, he will
receive the hcarticst welcome the Cath
olics OF the city are able to give EN-
tensiVe preparations are being made
| for the event,
Jane Anna I.onGland. who as a ahiid
danced with the Duke of Wellington.
saw the coronation Of Queen Victoria
and was friendly with the children of
/ Dor Carlos has just died in BROOKLYN.
| Her father was a Interpreter in the royal
| navy and Il tutor of the children Of Don
! Carlos.
Most Rev. ]. j. Harry. archbishop of
Manila, is making rapid progress in the
study Of Spanish. which language he be-
gan to master the very day of his APP
pointment.
Dr, Frank Alpine Hin, secretary of
the Massachusetts board Of education
and one of the foremost promoters OF
educational thought in this country, has
Just died in Brooklnc Mass.
General G. D. Joubert. nephew Of the
famous Transvaal hero. has just re-
turned to St Louis from Mexico. where
he negotiated the purchase of 10000 acres
of land, to he colonized by the Dutch
from South Africa.
Litchheld. in staffordshlrc England. the
birthplace of Or. Samuel Johnson, will
commemorate the anniversary on Sep
tender Is In httug way. with Il proces-
sion, memorial exercises and a formal
public dinner.
John j, McGrano, leader of a party
of American pilgrims to Rome, will con-
tribute to the Catholic exhibit at the
worlds fair an interesting souvenir II
is the first zuchetto, or s,uil cap, worn
by Pope Plus x and was given to the
Pontif on the day Of his election.
President Roosevelt has sent t. tho
Smithsonian Institution a small stuffed
mouse which the President captured on
his last Western trip and stuffed and
mounted himself. The mouse is Of an
uncommon species and is regarded as Il
valuable addition to the institutions cx-
hibits.
In an effort to organize IN Paris a cluf
for American girls and women, Miss Nina
Esta brook, publisher of the Paris World
and a former Chicago girl, has been il
Chicago for the past few days 1t i.
her plan to establish in the French cap
ital club similar to the Empress cuF
in London, If it is formed Miss Esta
brook intends it shall become the head
quarters for American women travelling
in France.