The Colorado statesman., 1906-07-14
Personal.

PersonaI.
President Fallieres of France, gave
brilliant dinner in Paris, in honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Longworth.
Congressman C. H. Adams, Of Wis
consin, died at the Auditorium hotel
in Chicago after an illness of several
weeks.
Gov. Keuhter within whose juris-
diction the town of Bialystok is situat-
ed, has been recalled, serious allega-
tions regarding the massacres having
been brought against him.
Emperor William of Germany has
paid visit to King Haakon of Nor
way.
w. r. Hearst has stated that he is
positively not candidate for the
democratic nomination for president
in 1908.
President Roosevelt delivered the
Fourth of July address to his old
friends and neighbors at Oyster Bay
during rain storm. He reviewed the
work of the year and said that all
that had been or would be done in
curbing the trusts would be without
fear, favor or malice on his part.
Secretary Root and family have
sailed from New York on three
months tour of South America dur
ing which they will attend the Pan
American congress at Rio de Janeiro.
Fourth of July was celebrated in
San Francisco this year without fire.
works of any description.
William j. Bryan was the principal
speaker at the Fourth of July cele-
bration of the American colony in
London. His subject was "The White
Mans Burden"
Attorney General Wiley of the
Philippines has been appointed to the
judgeship of the New United States
court in China He is a native of St.
Louis.
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
democratic national committee, has
issued statement in regard to the
alleged gambling at his hotel in French
Lick Springs, Ind, in which he denies
any connection with the recent raids
there. The statement was issued IN
reply to the New York Worlds demand
for his resignation from the commit
tee.
Sir Joseph Ward, the new premier
of New Zealand, was the guest at
luncheon of President Roosevelt at
Sycamore Hill recently. He expressed
himself as being anxious for recip-
rocity treaty between the United
States and his country.
Rev. l.. P. Mercer, d. D., the orig
inator of the congress of religions at
the Chicago worlds fair, dropped dead
at his home in Cincinnati recently. E
Harrison Terrell, who nursed Gen.
Grant during the last years of his
life, died recently as the result of a
ment at Washington.
Winston Churchhill, the well-known
novelist, is a candidate for governor
of New Hampshire on an anti-cor-
poration platform.
William ]. Bryan was an interested
spectator at a recent session of the
British house of commons.
Maj Gen. Mecllel, of the German
army, who re-organized the Japanese
army in 1885, is dead at Berlin.
Christopher Columbus Langdell,
LII. D., professor of law at Harvard
university, died suddenly at his home
in Cambridge, Mass, recently.
Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf,
dumb and blind girl, has been ap-
pointed a member of the Massachu-
setts commission for the industrial
education of the blind
miscellaneous.
Seizabure Shimize. imperial consul
of the emperor of Japan, is in Kansas
gathering information regarding the
wheat crop and the methods of pro-
duction.
The International Policyholders
committee representing the New York
Life and Mutual Life insurance COM