The National tribune., 1906-04-26
PEOPLE.


! particularly of Fire Commissioner
| O'Brien. who is said to stand nearest to
| Mayor Mcclellan. 1t is alleged that
! Mayor Mcclellan and Commissioners
O'Brien are trying to build up politi-
cal machine in opposition to Tammany,
| and they want to make assignments of
| duty in the police force to favor that
| end. Col. Bingham resents receiving
orders from any one but the Mayor. aud
! has had n heated interview with Com
missioner O'Brien. who he wants to
attend strictly TO his duties as Fire
Commissioner and allow him to attend
| to his as Police Commissioned. When
questioned by the reporters as to his
| intention of resigniug. he wrote ar
| italian saying on a slip Of paper, AMI
| handed it to them, telling them that
| any boOtblack would translate it. The
| words were Isl non e vero ben trovato.
| which means, IF not true, it might wei
/ be true"
Rev. Henry N Couden,. the blind vet
! eian, who is Chaplain OF the House of
Representatives. has suffered severe
! bereavement in the death of his son,
| Henry n. Couden, Jr., who was a veter-
marian in the United States Army and
| was stricken with heart disease April
| 16, while riding back to Fort Lawton,
| near Seattle. Wash.
It
widely-read and popular war corre-
| s?ondent and became editor of the ONO
State Journal. He was a lifelong aud
| intimate friend of ex-Speaker j. War
rem Keifer, now a member of the House
| of Representatives. and when Mr.. Fray
died last week he bequeathed all his
pl operty, amounting to some $4,000,
TO Gen. Keifer. The veterans will re-
jOice at Comrade keifer's good luck.
James Hamilton Lewis. who, during
his service in Congress as Representa-
tive from Washington. afforded much
In-making material to the newspaper
men by his carmine whiskers and vo-
ciferous neckties. is now Corporation
Counsel of Chicago, and has been sem
fenced to so days imprisonment in the
| Sangamon County Jail by Judge Hum
| phrey, of the United States Circuit
Court. Judge Humphrey had held that
| the Alton Waterworks Co. is the prop
| erty of the Farmers Loan and Trust
Co, and had issued an injunction re-
| straining any one from interfering. Mr..
Lewis brought suit, which il is claim
| ed jeopardized the sale of the Water
| works to syndicate. and therefore
| brought him into contempt of court.
| He was given five days to purge him
self of contempt by dismissng the suit,
| which he has since done.
| Trust an active minded boy to invent
| new ways by which he can make him
self a nuisance and annoy other people.
| Joseph Petroni. II years old, of New
York City. went into the Thalia Thea
ter with bag of snuff and began drop
| ping it into the orchestra. Soon every
| body was in frantic sneeZing fit; the
house was in an uproar and stampede
| occurred. An officer arrested Petroni
and his victims wanted to mob him,
but he was gotten away to the police
| station and the magistrate fined him
| 50, which was very mild punishment
Alarming reports have been current
| as to the physical condition of Col
Clarence Edwards, Chief of the Bureau
OF InsuIar Affairs. who lately went to
New Mexico to live in tent and try if
| outdoor exercise would not cure him
| of consumption. He was broken down
| by his hard work in the Insular Depart
ment, and his voice had sunk to nearly
a whisper. The latest news from him
is more hopeful. 1t is true that tu-
bercular bacillus has been found I'm his
vocal cords. but it is confidently be-
lieved that two or three months in the
climate of Fort Bayard. New Mexico, will
restore him to health.
The trial of Representative f. Spen-
Ger Blackburn, of North Carolina, has
| been going on at Greensboro, in that
State. The indictments charge that the
defendant unlawfully received from A
o. Davis 800 as fee for compromis-
ing a case before the Internal Revenue
Bureau, and that J. Wiley Shook gave
him $500 to compromise a case 1t is
also charged that he received $500 for
settling another case. The defendants
answer il that he was not member OF
| Congress at the time of the alleged Of
fenses. his election being in November
| 1904, while he did not actually become
a member until March, 1905, when he
took the oath. The alleged offenses
were committed prior to March. 1906.
| After the testimony was all in the
Judge ordered the jury to acquit the
defendant.
The older generation will remember
with pleasure bright, sprightly actress
who was very popular all over the coun-
try and who was one of two sisters
! They were Olive Logan and her sister
Celia Logan. Olive was far the bright
on of the two, and was educated in the
Methodist Seminary in Cincinnati but
went upon the stage. and after some
years of success there developed as a
writer and playwright. Later she mar
ried William Writ Skies, prominent
| newspaper man, who was appointed
Consul TO Cardiff, Wales, by President
Grant. Mr.. Skies died, and Mrs. Skies
supported herself by writing and lee
turing. She became infatuated with
James O'Neill. who was employed about
Days Theater. She made him her pri-
vate secretary, and in 1892 married
him. and he took her name in addition
to his own. Later she secured him q
position in the Government Printing
Office in Washington, which he lost
and last week she had him brought
before the Police Court in New York
on the charge of drunkenness and non-
support He holds small place as
waichman on Ellis Island, but squan-
derS his wages in drinking and leaves
her absolutely without any means OF
lSupport. She is now 81 years old, very
large. and deaf, but she processes To
love her husband as desperately as
: ever, in spite of his shortcomings.
The managers of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company seem in earnest In
their proceedings against the McCurdys
Their latest suit is one to recover from
Richard A. McCurdy S1,002,S41.56. The
complaint charges conspiracy in the
appointment of Robert II. McCurdy az
Superintendent of the Foreign Depart.
ment of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company. There was a direct conspi.
racy entered into by the two McCurdy.
. to enrich Robert Fl. McCurdy by max.
, ing his compensation basis an exorbi.
tant rate and to prevent its being re.
duced when the business increased. The
information was concealed from the
Board of Trustees. Between 1886 anG
I1901 $1,000, ,S41.56 were paid Robert II
IMcCurdy in commissions, where a jus
L Ton,