Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1899 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The Rev. Dr. Briggs, the Presbyterian heretic, has been ordained a priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is go-

ing to Europe for a little while, and on his return will devote himself to church work. Some Episcopal ministers are of the opinion that the ordination of Dr. Briggs will be the cause of great harm to the church. Bishop Potter does not agree with them. Whatever heretical

doctrines Dr. Briggs has taught are to be found in his book called “The Introduction to the Study of- Holy Scripture.” The author of that book, says the bishop, has “simply stated conclusions which the best learning and the most devdut minds have accepted before him.” The bishop doesnot accept all those conclusions, but he insists that none of them denies or impugns any fundamental doctrine of the faith.

Senator James McMillan of Michigan, who has thrown down the gauntlet to Secretary Alger, is one of the richest men In

Detroit. Born in Canada sixty-one years ago, he came to Detroit when 20 and has since been identified with the great business enterprises of the Wolverine State. He was taught politics by “Zach” Chandler, and has had much successful experience in

managing political campaigns, both for himself and for other people. He is at the head of the Michigan Car Company and of a number of other important corporations. He was first elected to the Senate in 1889 and again in 1895. The last time Senator McMillan had the honor of a practically unanimous election, there being but one Democrat in the Michigan Legislature.

A fortune of very ample dimensions is about to fall into the lucky hands of Mrs. E. G. Noble of Kansas City and Captain

J. T. Norris of Emporia, Kan. Three other heirs are to be benefited by a Ger- | man estate, valued at * $2,500,000, each of the recipients probably receiving a draft for $453,000. The estate has been transformed into money/ and the millions arel in the coffers of Ber-® 1 lin’s leading bank,

and have been lying there for years awaiting the presentation of evidence that heirs were in existence. This evidence has been procured, the identity of the heirs established, and Mrs. Noble will quit keeping boarders and enjoy a million or so. Henry C. Frick of Pittsburg, Pa., who is credited with having purchased the mammoth steel interests of Andrew Car-

steadily, and at 40 he was enormously wealthy and master of the coal trade. In 1882 the Frick Coke Company was organized. Andrew Carnegie then became associated with Mr. Frick in the coal and coke business, and for many years the two have worked together.

William B. Trembley, a private of Company B, Twentieth Kansas volunteers, is the Kansas soldier referred to in she Ma-

nila dispatches as sharing with Private White a great part of Gen. Funston’s credit in gaining for the the American troops the victory at Calumpit. The dispatches say that Trembley and White swam the Rio Grande, carry-

negie and with having formed one of the wealthiest combines on the globe, thirty years ago was a poor bookkeeper in a Pennsylvania flour mill. He made his start in business by the purchase of a small interest in a coal mine near his home. The business grew

ing a rope to the side occupied by the enemy. By means of the rope the rafts laden with troops were safely ferried over. Trembley is 22 years of age and is the only son of a widow. Miss Nannie Randolph Heth of Washington was appointed sponsor for the entire South at the annual reunion of Con-

Miss HETH.

federates, at Charleston, S. C. The post of honor had previously been filled by Miss Winnie Davis. The newly appointed sponsor is the daughter of Maj. Gen. Henry Heth, who was with Gen. Robert E. Leo from the battle of

Spottsylvania to the surrender at Appomattox, and who is now the oldest ex-Con-federate general, with the one exception of Gen. James Longstreet.

DR. BRIGGS.

SENATOR M MILLAN.

MRS. NOBLE.

H. C. FRICK.

TREMBLEY.