Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1906 — BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

BREVITIES

THE HALL OF FAME. John L. SyndeKa Seneca Indian, has received permission to take the New York state bar examination. J. Eads How of St. Louis, founder of a philanthropic institution in that city, lias decided to become a “tramp” in order to learn needs of “hobo” class and scatter literature along the way. Sir Arthur Nicholson, the chief representative of the British mission at the Moroccan conference, will receive the knight grand cross of St. Michael and St. George for his services at Algeciras. Professor C. G. Lagergren, one of the most prominent Swedys of Chicago and well known throughout the northwest, has been elected to the SwedishAmerican Historical society of Chicago. Joseph Klein of Philadelphia passed his one hundred and sixth year on earth last month. He smokes a pipe and reads the newspaper continuously. He immigrated to this country from Bohemia when seventy-three years old. While Lafayette Case, the veteran bee hunter of West Rutland, Vt., was in the woods recently in search of wild bee swarms he came upon a hollow tree with nine j raccoons in It. He captured them all and sold the whole family at a good price. Captain Tyree Rivers, who was wounded during the recent encounter between the American forces on the island of Zulu and a band of hostile Moros, comes of a long line of southern ancestors who were distinguished in the Confederate and Revolutionary wars. One of the most Interesting figures in Harvard university is Edward Ray, a Blind student who hails from a small country town in North Carolina. He has mastered the most difficult courses in high mathematics, in geology, won a degree from the University of North Carolina and is now working for the degree of M. A. at Harvard. Griffith J. Griffith is now serving the last months of a two year sentence in San Quentin prison, California, for shooting his wife. His large investments in land in Los Angeles and vicinity, made before his imprisonment liegan, have increased in valufc to such an extent that they are now said to be worth upward of $1,000,000.