Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1910 — SIRES AND SONS. [ARTICLE]

SIRES AND SONS.

When Robert Taft, son of the president, finishes bis acadenjic education at Yale on June 22 he wfll enter the Harvard Law school. General Sickles is in his eighty-fifth year. He lives in New York in one of the old fashioned residences of what is known as the Washington square quarter. Midshipman Herbert O. Roesch of the United States Naval academy is now the bolder of the greatest number of individual honors Won in national rifle matches,''' •'? In Daniel E. Finn, the new leader of the First assembly district. New York city, Tammany Hall has gained the youngest leader in its ranks, and Mr. Finn goes into the Wigwam with the distinction of being the first Tammany leader to succeed bis father. Dennis Kane, almost ninety-five years old, a Confederate veteran and inmate of the Soldiers' home at Beauvoir. Miss , recently returned to the home after an absence of five months, during which time be walked to Portland. Ore.. and back, a distance of nearly 4.000 miles. Captain C. C. Healey, head of the mounted division of the Chicago police department, has started on an official mission to the old world such as seldom falls to the lot of a police officer. His orders are to study street traffic and transportation methods in the principal cities of Europe "and to make a report of the systems employed.