Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONALS.

Richard T. Greener, the United States consul at Vladivoetock, Russia, is a negro and a graduate of Harvard university. It is not so many years since Governor Wells of Utah was a newspaper reporter in San Francisco on a salary of a few dollars a week. President Loubet of France la no mean swordsman. He has fought three duels, in two of which he was successful and severely wounded in the other. Lord Strathcona, the richest man tg Canada, left England at the age of 2$ as a clerk for the Hudson Bay company. He now owns a controlling block of the company's stock. Among the three most abstemious public men of New York are Richard Croker, David B. Hill, and Loula F. Payn. None of the three drinks wins or other liquor, and Mr. Hill never smokes. Kimberley Is not the first place Cedi Rhodes has been under fire. In 1896 he went through the Matabele war. He carried no weapon, but was wont to gallop about with only a riding switch in his hand.