Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-09-26
Personal Notes.


1t is reported in St. Petersburg that
Prince Skiatopolovisky will succeed tht
late NJ. de Plehve as Minister of the
Interior.
| Lord Dundonald, formerly the general
in command Of the Canadian militia
will return to Canada this fall for deer
hunting.
John Barrett the American Minister
to Panama, gave a reception on
| Wednesday last at Panama in honor ol
President AmadOr and Mrs. Am&dOr
| DR.. Ernest Lyon, the colored United
| States Minister to Liberia was given
4 reception by prominent colorcd peo-
| pie il Baltimore on Thursday evening.
| Prof. Samuel L. Boothroyd, of the
Colorado State Agricultural College,
has been appointed instructor Of de-
scriptive geometry at Cornell Univer-
| sity.
Queen Alexandra has had replica
made of Mr.. Hughes portrait of her in
| her coronation robes, and will send it
as a gift to tie capital of her native
| country.
Prof. w. Forster, who celebrated the
! ffticth anniversary of his directorate
| on August 5, will retire from the direc-
torship Of the Berlin Observatory on
October |.
Rev. A. p. Doyle, of the Paulist Fa-
theirs of New York City, will leave New
York on October l. to take charge of
the new apostolic mission house i'll
Washington.
Sir Edwin Henry Egerton, who has
been Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary to Greece since
1892, will succeed Sir Francis Bertie as
british Ambassador to Italy.
Rev. w. B. Seabury, pastor Of the
congregational church, of Wellesley
Hills, Mass, is about to leave this
country for China, where he will build
Christian college at Snangsha.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of the
Europe on September %, and will spend
the winter or perhaps a longer time, in
Paris in TIE study or vocal music.
Alexander Blair, of Des Moines, is the
oldest voter In Iowa. He was born in
$50 in Beaver county, Pa, and has
been voting for seventy-three years,
his first ballot being cast for Andrew
Jackson.
Through Andrew Carnegie the Pitts
burg Chamber of Commerce has OBJ
tanned the attendance of John Morley.
of England, as the principal speaker at
the annual dinner on the night of No
Nember 4.
Mrs. A. d. T. Whitney. the authoress, !
who lives at Milton, Mass. was so |
years old. last week. She is Just about |
to publish her twcnty-seventh book. |
Her first book was written forty-one
years ago.
II. II. Swanston, who died in Calves
ton, Tex. on September l. was a son
OF Abner Rahman. the famous Amear
OF MShdnistan, who held both Great
Britain and Russia at bay for twenty
cne years preceding the present ruler.
Alleyne Neland, the British traveller
and author, has arrived in Boston. He
is British authority on tropical colon
lZatlon and has been studying the pros
lects of the United States for improy-
ing the Philippines as the British have
done in India
Sir William Ramsey and a party of
fourteen noted British scientists ar
rived in New York Thursday to attend
the meeting of the Society of Chemical
Industry. of which Sir William is pres
ident. The convention will be held at
the Chemical Club from September to
IL.
Jacques LagercrantZ. manager of the
Royal Swedish State Railways. is in
Chicago on his way to Duluth, where he
VIII study the ore trade and the meth
ods employed in producing and mar
keting. He has been sent here by the
Swedish Government with view to
the use of modern ma
chlnery in the mines in Norway and
modern methods of transporting the
ore.
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