Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

John T. Wilson, who haa rejected an offer of $25,000 cash and a salary of $5,000 from the Canadian Pacific Railroad,

is the president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen of America, a position which he prefers to the important post tendered him by the big Canadian company. Mr. Wilson directed the strike of the Canadian trackmen with such skill as to win the admiration of the railroad

officials. He is, as may be imagined, one of the most capable labor leaders in the country, and it is to his efforts that the organization of the trackmen is due. Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant of Ireland, resigned his office July 17. He had held the post since 1895, the usual term being only three years. Joseph Hodges Choate, who has been mentioned by Don M. Dickinson as a presidential possibility in 1904, has never

held a public office save that of ambassador to the court of St. James, unless exception be made of the time he served as president of the New York constitutional convention in 1894. Mr. Choate is essentially a great lawyer. He is now in the seventy-first year of his life, and has just cotn-

pleted the fiftieth year of his career in the legal world. He is a native of Massachusetts, and he has lived iu New lork City since he began the practice of law just half a century ago. Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M. P., will visit the I nited States the coming autumn to study the American naty and to inquire into ..the working of the Morgan shipping combine.

XV oodrow Wilson, the new president of Princeton University, is one of the youngest university presidents in the world. He is but

45 and was born in Virginia. He was educated in the schools of Augusta, Ga., and Columbia, S. C., and at Princeton. He studied law, but concluded t o abandon it in favor o f literature and higher education. For some years Professor Wilson has been a member of the Princeton faculty and his selection as president of the

university is said to have come as a great surprise to him.

Seyid Ali, who succeeds his father ns Sultan of Zanzibar, received the last two years of his education at Harrow, England, leaving there a year ago for Zanzibar. The head master of the school describes him as a frank, honest boy, who was universally popular, but did not shine as a scholar.

General John C. Black, who has come out as a candidate for Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Kepub-

lie, is generally known to Grand Army men through his former service an Commissioner of Pensions. General Black is a wellknown lawyer of Chicago. He was a member of Congress at large from 1893 to 1895. was United States Dis-

trict Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1895 until 1899, and is a prominent member of the Loyal Legion. His war record is prime. He entered the army as private, and left it as a brevet brigadier general.

Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister at Washington, is not to relinquish his post for several months. His successor, Liang Cheng, is in London and will return to China prior to assuming his duties iu Washington. Maj. Gen. Samuel B. Young, who has been selected to succeiHl Gen. Miles in the command of the United States army

on Gen. Miles’ retirement a year hence, is a native of Pittsburg and is now in his 63d year. Like the present commander, Gen. Young is not a West Pointer. His first military experience wns that which he won as a volunteer. He entered the regular army In 1860 as

captain in the Eighth cavalry and wns slowly promoted until during the war with Spain he was made a brigadier general and placed in command of the Second brigade of Shafter’s army. In 1898 he was made a major general and served in the Philippines until last yenr. At Cumberland Gap. Ky., George Williams, deputy Sheriff, shot nnd killed Charles Vaughn, who resistisl arrest. Vaughn was guilty of a small offense Consrrr.'rablY excitement was caused bj the killing. Vaughn belonged to a prominent family. , Figures have been Issued showing that the British army during the war in South Africa consumed 84,500,000 pounds of Jam. Rich gold mines have been found In Galapagos Island*.

JOHN T. WILSON.

JOS. H. CHOATE.

PROF. WILSON.

GEN. BLACK.

MAJ. GEN. YOUNG.