Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Sir Hiram Maxim, who has made an offer of £50,000 to anyone who will bring him a successful flying machine, not a

balloon, guaranteed to have unbreakable patents and navigable in any wind, has had some experience in aerial machine construction. He devoted the past several years of his life to that study and to experiments. Some years ago his aerial war kite, “'The Monitor,” was ad-

vertised to revolutionize the world, and by its very demoniac attributes to make war impossible. But It did everything but fly. air Hiram is an American who deserted his country after he had achieved fame, and is now the heud of a great English shipbuilding and armament concern. ID is the inventor of the Maxim rapid-tire gun. Gunner Charles Morgan, whose nomination to be chief gunner has been sent to the Senate by President Roosevelt,

fired the first gun in the engagement of the United States ships with the earthworks nt Matanzas at the outbreak of the Spanish - American war. At that time he was serving on the New York. Morgan made application for promotion to the rank of ensign a year ago.

His application was opposed by Rear Admiral Sampson on the general ground that warrant officers, being members of enlisted crews, are not fitted by education and training to assume the responsibilities of the social positions bf line officers. Morgan is 37 years old and has been in the navy twenty years. Estes G. Rathlione, to whom, through the decision of President Roosevelt, will be given the benefit of a new trial on

the charges of fraud in management of the Cuban postoffice, is one of the most widely known men in Washington, and has been quite popular with members of Congress. He was formerly a politician in Ohio, and subsequently went to the capital, where he became prominent as a lobbyist. He spent

considerable time in Muncie, Ind., ami it xvas there he first met Neely, upon whom fell the first blow of exposure in the crooked work done in the Cuban postal department. Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone were favorites in Havana society. Henryk Sienkiewisz has been summoned before the law courts of Posen. The German government accuses him of lese

ruajeste and seditious utterances. He was born at Okreya, in Podlaisia, of a family originally Lithuanian. It emigrated to Poland because' of the Russian war. He went to California in 1870, but did not stay there long. He returned to Poland to en-

gage in the literary work that has made him famous. M. Sipialguine, who was assassinated in the lobby of the ministry at St. Petersburg by a student disguised in the

uniform of an aid de-c amp, had been minister of the interior of Russia since November, 1899. He began his public career as justice of the peace. In 188(1 he was made Governor of Kharkov, two years later Governor of Kurland, nnd in 1891 Governor of Moscow. In 1894

he was appointed assistant minister of the interior, and five years later to the head of that department, mid to the position of one of the Czar’s principal iqlvisers. M. Sipialguine Was 49 years old and a member of one of Moscow’s oldest families. Hiram S. Cable, who has been appointed general superintendent of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific lines west

of the Missouri river, is 34 years old and came Into promln e n c e by building and operating the Pike's Peak Cog Railway. After that he locnt»ed In Chicago nod entered the service of the Rock Islau<l and Peoria, of which he was vicepresident when appointed to the Rock Island service.

SIR HIRAM MAXIM

CHARLES MORGAN.

E. G. RATHBONE.

H. SIENKIEWICZ.

M. SIPIALGUINE.

HIRAM 8. CABLE.