Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1897 — PERTINENT Personal; [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personal;

A tower 105 feet high will be erected in Bristol in memory of John Cabot. Ex-President Harrison is taking bicycle lessons. He wears a suit of Scotch homespun. The New York Order of Confederate Women has elected Mrs. Jefferson Davis honorary president. Paderewski gets $5,000 for one concert in London in jubilee week. Patti gets a like sum for three songs. C. W. Walton, who has occupied a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court of Maine for forty years, will soon retire. Ex-United States Senator Call is to be made State agent in Florida for the collection of an Indian war claim of $750,000. King Otto of Bavaria is now permitted to stroll about the palace grounds, but there is no hope of the restoration of his mind. Archduke Franz Ferdinand d’Este, heir to the throne of Austria, who was supposed to be dying of consumption, is recovering in Southern Tyrol. Captain Scriven, United States military attache at Rome, has been appointed military .attache at the American embassy in Constantinople also. Henry B. Cheatham, the colored man who was recently appointed recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, owns much property in the District. S. H. Bowers, author of “Sherman’s March to the Sea,” secured the passage of an act by the lowa Legislature, making the wild rose the State flower. Admiral Canevaro, commanding the fleets of the powers off the coast of Crete, was born in Peru, of a Genoese father. His brother is Peruvian minister to Italy and France. Gen. Nelson A. Miles will be present at the Queen’s jubilee as the military representative of the United States Government. Ambassador Hay will be the dip. lomatie representative.