Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — Honored by the Sultan of Sulu. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Honored by the Sultan of Sulu.

Miss Marie Sweet of Denver is probably the only Caucasian woman in the world who has received a present of pearls from the sultan of Sulu. General Owen J. Sweet, her father, is governor of the Sulu archipelago, over which Hadji Mohammed is the native ruler. All the pearls found in the waters of the Sulus’ sea are the property of the crown. The sultan, who sent the pearls to Miss Sweet, as a mark of honor to her father, dispatched with them a letter written In Sanskrit on parchment, rolled, after the manner of the ancient papyrus and sealed with the royal seal. This was the first letter ever written by the sultan to a woman, as the ladles of his country are not communicated with by means of writing. Miss Sweet added the pearls to an already large and fine collection, sent her at various times by her father. P. Cuneo, editor of the Wyandot Republican, Upper Sandusky, 0., has left for Turin, Italy, to assume the duties of consul for the United States government, to which position he was recently appointed by President McKinley. Mr. Cuneo Is said to be the only Italian in this country who is the publisher of an English newspaper. He was born in Naples, and has not seen his native land since he left it fifty-two years ago. Henry H. Rogers has presented to the Unitarian Society of Fairhaven, Mass., a church, parish house and parsonage as a memorial to his mother, Mary Rogers. The cornerstone of the church was laid on last Monday afternoon. The group of buildings will be one of the most beautiful of the kind in the country.

MISS MARIS SWEET.