The National tribune., 1906-10-04
PEOPLE.

cooped III b. Ia little ward of the
Baptist Hospital swith three other pa
tients, Gen. SEdyfn McCook, command
er of the Cavalry Division on the At
lanta campaign. and for eight years
Governor of the Territory of Colorado,
is suffering the tortures of infiammatory
rheumatism. Racked with pain and
helpless, the famous commander is de-
pendent on the fraternal help which his
old army comrades give; but he is far
from respondent over his trials. For
six weeks thH General has been confined
to the hospital ward. He is 73 years
old. His right eye is sightless and his
right arm useless, but he is still buoyed
the fire that carried him to the head OF
Thomas's cavalry in the COS Gen.
McCook is the son of DR.. John McCook.
a brother of former Congressman Nc
Cook, of New York, and a nephew of
Maj. Daniel McCook, who sent eight
sons to the Union army, three of whom
were killed, while four of them attained
the rank of General. Maj McCook
himself was killed in battle by Morgan s
guerrillas.
A sensation was created on the Pa
cific Coast by the announcement that
All Fong, once the money king of the
Along settled in Hawaii about 40
years ago and amassed immense wealth.
He married a half-white woman by
whom ne had Is children, two sons and
thirteen daughters. About Is years
ago he returned to China with one of
his sons after leaving more than ST.
10000 to provide for his family. His
daughters became prominent in society
and were noted as being among the
in, ftnn To IN N
Islands. Nearly all of them MARI led
men of prominence. one becoming the
wife of Rear-Admiral Whiting. u. S. n.
Louis A. Gourdain, the eccentric
financier who was SO determined to
serve a prison sentence at Joliet that he
announced he would build himself a
dungeon cell just outside of the State
institution and insisted upon living
there in solitary confinement. Is trans
acting business again along new lines
through a bank he has established at
Chicago. GOurdain apparently needs
money. His private Jail has not been
built, and he is confined in his apart
ments at the Auditorium Annex by
sickness. Frederick Lindquist, who
drew plans for the miniature peniten-
tiary, has sued him for $4,000 damages
because Gourdain refused to accept the
plans. Now Gourdain Is waiting for
investors in his new cashiers savings
system. 1t is understood that the bank
isues what they term cashiers checks"
drawing 4 per cent interest. Cashier
Mullen is sending out c. o. d. a check
for 81 and leather pocketboOok, his
description of the latter being ITO carry
your money and cashiers checks"
These checks ore offered in any amount,
ranging from 81 to sic, 900, IL one wants
to pay for them.
Edward C. Wall. Of Milwaukee, for
mer Democratic State Chairman OF
Wisconsin and candidate for the Presi-
Dental nomination before the Demo-
cratic National Convention held in st.
Louis two years ago, has announced to-
day his engagement to Miss Martha
Ahrendt, hisI former stenographer and
private secretary. The date of the we'd
ding has not set. Miss Ahrendt IS
25 years old and Mr.. Ward is 63.
Advices have, reached Denver that
Harry Orchard, self-confessed murderer
of former Gbv. Frank Steunenburg, of
Idaho. whose confession implicated the
officers of the Western Federation of
Miners, has become maniac. He is
now confined in the hospital ward of the
Idaho Penitentiary, at Boise.
Sir William Treloar. Alderman of the
city of London for the ward of Earring
don Without since 1892, has been elect
ed Lord Mayor of London in succession
to Walter Vaughan Morgan. Sir VIII
liam has been known as the Children S
Alderman" because of his many bene-
factions to the children of the slums
Harry K. Thaw is to be examined
before a lunacy commission. This is
the result of much persuasion by his
mother and upon the advice of his law
yers. the intention being to avoid plac-
ing him on trial for the staying of Stan
ford White and send him to the Mattea-
wan Asylum for the criminal insane.
The newspaper humorists are having
a sweet boon in the application of Nit
chell. Jasper, an Indian of Delta Coun-
ty. Mich. for a license to marry Mary
Kick "a -Hole-in -the-Sky. 1t was also
significant that Mary's mother, and she
will be Jasper's mother-in-law, is
Afraid d-of-no-Man. The possibilities of
jokes on these two names are quite ex-
tensive.
The sorrowful news comes from Eng
land that Joseph Chamberlain, the fore
most public man in that country, is IT.
a dying con 1ition and is unable to either
walk or see. Once he was noted for his
strength of body as well as mind, but
now at the age of II he lies a helpless
paralytic. The raVageS OF the disease
have up to this time been concealed
from the public and it was stated that
he was suffering merely from a severe
attack of the gout. His American wife
who was Mary Endicott, of Salem. de-
scendant of the first Governor of Mas
sachusetts. is in constant and loving at
| tendance upon him and her affection
has touched the heart of all England
The Countess Castellane's suit 70,
divorce will come up again in the
French courts next month, but it is not
expected that a decree will be granted
for some months. The Countess will
remain in Paris until after the decree
is granted, but keep herself in seclu-
sion.
GEN CIISTER,S EATuER.