The National tribune., 1909-11-18

resigned as Governor-General OF the
Philippine Islands.
The death was announced in New
York last week of DIR. Gabril Grant,
who organized in Panama in 1859 an
American hospital. being the first of
these institutions in Central America.
While on the IsthmuS he edited the
Panama Herald. DR.. Grant was Diyi-
sion Surgeon of the I'd n. j., which was
part of Gen. Phil Kearny's Brigade.
Brig Cen. John J. Coppinger, us.
ARMY, retired. died Nov. 4. at his home
in northwest Washington. Gen. Cop
pinger, who had an excellent record III
the war of the rebellion. was the SON
in-law of the late James G. Blaine, ana
is survived by two sons, Blaine and
Conner Coppinger. 1nterment was az
Arlington with full military honors.
w. H Lewis. of Seattle, Wash. was
here on business last week, and was
doing a good deal of strutting around
over the splendid success of the Seattle
Exposition He says that 1t is very
gratifying for man to come from the
Pacific Coast to the Far East and be
able to get away with the statement
that the city of Seattle has really been
able to hold an international exposition
without asking the help of either the
National Government or that Of the
State for funds to finance the snow,
and he says that all bills are paid,
which is certainly a proud record, and
Mr.. Lewis has a right to strut.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has reached
Lausanne, Switzerland, where 1t is like
ly she will make a long stay. Her eld-
est son she will enter at DR.. Aucken-
thaler's College and her daughters Will
attend the Villa Cyrauo School 1t is
not a little strange that the children of
Grover Cleveland should go so far afield
for their education. 1t Will be remem,
bered that Mr.. Cleveland. when elected
President the first time, was charged
with not having been west of Buffalo
in his life, and ii was not until after
he was married that he started on the
circumscribed Swing around the cir
Gle" What he didn't know about the
of this great country of ours
when he was elected President of the
United States would fill a great big
book Possibly 1t was his desire that
this sort of thing should not be laid up
against his children, and that is why
his wife has taken them abroad to edu-
cate them. %
The historical collections of the Unit
ed States National Museum are con-
stantly being Increased By gifts or loans
Of priceless heirlooms which frequent
Iy help to throw light on doubtful
points in the early history of this coun-
try. OF this character is the recent
deposit by the Townsend family. thru
Mrs. Marshall Phillips, of set of Gin
rinnati' china. This. valuable heirloom
was originally the property of DIR. David
who served under Washing
ton in the War of the Revolution.
The china is of, special interest as
throwing light on the best early pottery
that came to this country. 1t bears the
arms of the Cincinnati,
done in colors. The tea set was brought
from Canton by Capt Samuel Shaw in
1890, and is one of the three sets Or
dered for Gen. Henry Dearborn, Gov
VIM. Eustis, of Massachusetts, and DR..
David Townsend.
Carrie Nation is back again, and this
time without her hatchet, but she has
her mouth and her tongue still wags.
She declared before a large audience in
the Union Methodist Episcopal Church
Of Washington that the National Capt.
tai is "a very cesspool of rottenness and
vice" all because of the liquor traffic.
Mrs. Nation talked very conservatively
for her, altho a good deal of her Ian
guage is scarcely printable. but she de-
clares that she Is peaceably inclined
this time and will not use her hatchet.
The suffragets are going to use their
in her stead If they land on
Congress this Winter.
Maj.-Gen. John +. Weston, U. s.
Army, in command of the Department
Of California. with headquarters in San
francisco, will be placed upon the re-
tired list Nov. 13, when he will have
reached the age limit. Gen. Weston
was formerly Commissary-Gene of
the Army. He was born in Kentucky in
iS45. He was only Is years old at the
outbreak of the civil war, when he
served as a First Lieutenant of the 4th
Ky. Cav. In 1865 he was mustered out
as a Major. He entered the Regular
Army in August, 1867, as a Second
of the 7th u. s. Cav. which
in the Indian Wars under
Gen. Custer.