Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-01-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

John u. Rockefeller Jr., after years
absence from instructing his Sunday
schooI class in the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church' New York. on account of i'll
health. Will resume noxt Sunday
EX-Representativc H. Kirko portet.
who represented Pittsburg in the nst
| Congress, will make n tour of the world
to raise ;l,5oc"o for Baptist missions
This money will be used to endow schooas
in foreign lands.
The Very Rev ]. ]. Ryan, president Of
st. Patricks College. Thurles. ireland. "a
visiting Archbishop Gennon of St. Louis
| He is on his way to the Philippines On
an important mission. He is u dstin-
gushed educator of Ireland?
I j.. +. Ayson, commissioner and chief
inspector Of fisheries OF New Zealand
who is in this country to study American
| methods Of fish culture and to obtain
whitefsh and salmon eggs for New Iea-
land waters. is in Washington.
! All Paris is reading and discussing the
memoirs Of the Philadelphia dentist. Dr.
Evans. the friend OF Napoleon III. which
have Just been published and which con.
tain most excellent description Of the
| last days OF the Second Empire
! James q. Mclaughlin is the only men-
bor of the District OF Columbia bar with
| two widely different and distinct profess
sions. He is an excellent lawyer and an
| ordained minister of the Methodist EMS
copal Church and regularly breaches to
Washington congregations
| Lieutenant General Chaffee contom-
plates becoming a permanent resident O:
California. He is inclined to select =,
homo at Berkeley or Piedmont. General
Chaffee will retire early next year and
is determined TO spend his remaining
/ years in California
Franklin *. Lane, who has been
named by the President for interstate
commerce commissioner was born ON
Prince Edward Island, British Columbia.
in 1863. He has lived in California sine.
he was seven years of age and is at
present one of the most prominent law
yers Of that State
James Francis Burke, one of the new
congressman from Pennsylvania, org'in.
lied the Republican National College
League. with a ranch in every large
American university and was elected It's
first president He has had brilliant
career from the time of his admission
to the Pittsburg bar.
General Corbin, who will become lieu
tenant-gcncral next April, will lea &c the
Philippines for the United States shortly.
1t is understood he will spend most Of
his term on the active list in visit t.
European countries on a leave of alb
sence for the benefit of his health now
somewhat impaired.
Archbishop Alexander Christie of the
diocese of Oregon, one of the most pop
ular and influential churChmen in tn
West, has just returned to his homo in
Portland, after visit of several months
/ in Rome. He was accorded a hearty r.
ception by the priests of his diocese aul
thousands of his pensioners
DR.. Edward Everett Hale was the
principal speaker at the celebration #
the Tooth anniversary of the establish
ment OF the public schools of the Dis
trict OF Columbia held in the First Con
gregational Church in Washington r.
Gently. Secretary Taft represented the
government at the centennial mee,ilg
DR.. William Osler, the noted physician
and medical nstructo', whose remarks
to the age of mans mental and phNsl-
cal usefulness created considerable COM
ment when they We're made in lecture
last spring. is on his way to this coun-
try. Recently his mother celebrated ner
seth birthday in Toronto Can.
Colonel j. Wesley Jones. who founded
the Volunteer Lfe-Saving association.
has just died in Brooklyn. He was born
in Philadelphia 81 years ago. Colonel
Jones had the reputation of being the
first white man who ever set foot on the
Yosemite valley, where he was driven
by Indians while he was engaged in taxi
ing the United States census.