Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-28
PERSONAL NOTES.

Representatives Payne, Dalzell and
Tawriey never appear in the House
without a red carnation in their but
tonhoie.
SencheZ BustillO has been appointed
: Finance Minister Of Spain in place OF
Osma Y. Scull, who resigned on ac-
count of ill health.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president OF
Columbia University, New York. is to
deliver q course of lectures at the Uni
versity of Copenhagen next September.
Luther B. Little. secretary and treas
urer of the Republican State Commit
tee of New York, is so eloquent q
II speaker that he has gained for himself
the title of Daniel Webster No. a..
William II. Prescott, of Rockville.
Conn, vice president of the United
States Envelope Company, and one Of
the most prominent envelope manu-
facturers in the country, is dead at his
| home.
Vice-President Fairbanks will speak
at the dedication of the monument
erected by George Middleton, of Chica-
go, to the memory of Union soldiers Of
|
of Madison, the latter part of May.
Professor Of Mathematics Edward r.
| Eawson, the second ranking officer in
that corps of the navy, was placed on
the retired list Friday on account of
age. He Is from New York and entered
the naval service in October 1890.
George Helm Yeaman, lawyer, eX-
| Congressman and minister to Denmark
under President Johnson, died Sunday
in Jersey City. aged so years. He was
born in Hardin County, Ky, studied
law ar OwenshorOugh, Ky, and began
| practice there.
| DIR. Isaac r. Trimblc, a we'll known
Baltimore surgeon, died there Sunday
night of blood poisoning. He vas in
fected while performing an operation
on FEBRUARY 10. He was professor Of
anatomy in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons.
Capt. Paul Conroy and Lieut.. J. G.
| McIlroy, of the Ninth Infantry, and
| Lieut.. j. Cafferty, Of the cavalry sta
| ton at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. have
| been ordered to Toxic as military at
taches, with special instructions to
study the japanese language.
| The American Consul General and
Mrs. Gaffney will present to King
Frederick of SaXuny, the Rev. and Mrs.
+. Ward Denys, of Baltimore; William
| Mcneil Rodewald, Miss Rodewald and
| Miss Lentihon, of New York, at the
court concert which is to be held Feb
| ruary 26
Maj. Alexander Mcdowell, clerk of
| the House Of Representatives has issued
the Congressional Directory in tabloid
| form. The miniature directory just
| fits the average vest pocket, and it con-
tains all the really necessary inforna-
ton which its larger and bulkier elder
! brother contains.
Colonel George w. Goethals, chair
man of the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion, expresses the confident belief that
the canal will be opened and ready
for business by the 1st of January,
1915. Colonel Goethals has just COM
pleted visit to the United States and
returns at once to Panama.
| Frederick Van Eeden, the sociologist,
poet and founder of the cOmmunistic
colony Of Walden, in Holland, will ar
rive in New York at the end of this
week, and will be entertained by the
Civic Forum. He is in the first rank
among the poets, essayists and
| dramatists of Holland.
Emperor William has received Prof
Schott, the well-known sculptor, who
with Prof. Rheinhold Begas, also &
sculptor, is actively engaged in pro-
noting an exhibition of German sculp-
ture in New York. The Emperor gave
| his approval of the exhibit, for which
statuary worth $3.50, 900 has already been
| pledged. +
Corporal James Tanner, of Washing
4 ton, d. c., has been appointed menu
Der of the committee on erection of q
statue in honor of Benjamin T. Step
| henson, founder of the Grand Army OF
the Republic. In the erection OF this
| memorial to General Stephenson every
post in the national encampment Will
have part.
General Nicholas Rolando. who re-
Gently disappeared from his home in
Barcelona, Venezuela. which fact to-
gether with the arrest of several of his
partisans caused rumors that revclu-
ton vas afoot, has arrived at Wlllem-
stad, Curacao. He was accompanied
| by three at!eT olilci'iS VI t'e
Ian army.
Kenyon Cox, the painter, is also an
accomplished writer. He is son of
Gen. Jacob D. Cox. secretary of the In
terror in President Grants first Cabi-
net who. after his retirement from the
army became a successful writer on
historical and military topics and was
for more than twenty years Il contrib
uJOr to ''The Nation