The National tribune., 1910-06-30

Mrs Tart left WASHINGTON June 21
for the Su:nmcr White House at Bev,
ierly. Mass. President and Mrs Taft
were to have gone to New Haven TO see
their oldest son, Robert, graduate. but
Congress has proven refractory, anC
President Taft could not leave while the
stress was on, so Mrs. Taft was unable
to go either. Miss Helen Taft went or
TO New Haven by herself, and will join
her mother some place in the East
The grounds about the Summer White
House are said to be in splendid Condi-
ton, and handsome fountain has been
erected by the owner of the cottage
close to it, The drives along the North
Shore and the woods have been put in
splendid condition for the benefit of
the President and his family, who en-
! joy riding.
The battleship Idaho is to enjoy for a
year the coveted honor of being the
best hitter in the American Navy. A
comparison of the shooting perform
ance of the battleships this year was
made public recently at the Navy De-
partment. The Idaho made a score of
1921. The South Carolina gets second
place with 42,5S5, and the Wisconsin
third, with 4O,47S.
The battleships are competing for a
trophy, their rank depending not only
on the hits of the guns, but on their
work with mines and torpedoes. While
the target practice has been concluded
by the battleships only a few have
done the required mining. OF these
the Wisconsin stands at the head Of
those which have completed the COM
petition, with a score of 1894; the
Maryland second, with 1851. and the
West Virginia third, with 22,264.
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in Washington last week when former
Senator Francis NJ. Cockrell announced
the engagement of his daughter, Anna
Ewing Cockrell, to Mr.. NJ. A. Coromalis.
the Minister of Greece to the United
States. The wedding will take place
July g. The Greek Minister is a very
much older man than his bride, and
that the daughter of sturdy American
like Senator Cockrell should marry a
foreign diplomat seems almost incredi-
BILE. Former Senator Cockrell probably
cares less for society than any other
man who ever wore the Senatorial toga.
He is plain. practical, matter of fact,
and very don't carish, and the last man
on earth who would be pleased to have
his daughter marry foreigner. but
Miss Cockrell is a young lady of her
own mind, and when she got ready to
marry. why she just did, and that is all
there was to it. She is very much like
her mother, tall, graceful and with ex-
quisite manners, albeit just a little
naughty.
Maj.-Gen. Leonard A. Wood, Chief of
Staff, U. S. Army, delivered the address
to the graduating class at the Virginia
Military Institute last week.
Mrs. Mary Scott Castle, later Mrs.
Porter Charlton. who mysteriously dis
appeared in Italy, was found dead in a
little lake near the village of Maltriso,
near Como, about 80 miles from Milan,
and now her husband has been found,
and has confessed that he killed her
1t is the old, old story of woman mar
rying her son, or, in other words, TAX
ing boy to rear. She was considerably
older than he was. and he was not of
age. Porter Charlton is the son of
a law clerk in the Bureau of Insular |
Affairs of the War Department Mrs |
Castle had been divorced from her |
former husband, and was nearly 20 |
years older than the kid whom she !
married. She has been in and around |
a number of times, and |
vas a good deal of a soldier of for
une." 1t is to be just plain case of |
murder, because the boy got mad