Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

P. D. Armour of Chicago, “the old man of the markets*" has a contract from the Russian Czar Uo ship 7,000 cattle to that

country from San Francisco. It ie easy enough to secure the cattle, but the question of transportation i s an enormous task. There are not boats s enough on the Pacific coast to carry the cattle. Those who know Mr. Armour, however, are confident that he will solve the prob-

lem; if not, it wtill be the first the greatest trader in the world ever received an order jehat was too big for him'. The last great coup of P. D. Armour was made in connection with the Loiter w-heat corner in' 1897. This corner was months in maturing. It sent the price of grain soaring. Joseph Leiter was a foe worthy even of P. D. Armour. It is now a matter of common history how Armour wriggled'out of a "squeeze” that would have miant financial death to 999 men out of ITKX). He transported millions' of bushel! of wheat from Dfuluth to Chicago by blat in the winter' season, when navigation was supposed to be dosed, and it to Leiter. It was aa expensive affair for Armour, but in the end it smashed Mr. Leiter. *

George Bruce Cortelyou, secretary to the “President, has achieved a national prominence and popularity in a wry

short time. Cortelyou is especially popular with newspaper men because of his unvarying courtesy . and though tfijlness, while he is no less esteemed by the pufilic men of, the nation with whom he is in constant contact. Cortelyou’s versatility is something! to wonder at.

He is\3B years old and is an accomplished musician, a graduate of the New England conservatory. He is considered the most expert stenographer in the United States, and a marvel on the typewriter, using all eight fingers. He is a lawyer, having graduated from'Georgetown University law school, and took a post-graduate law course at Columbia University.

Police Lieutenant Edward J. Stesie of Chicago, who died suddenly the other morning, took a prominent part in sup-

pressing the Haymarket riot, bis being at the head of the column that advanced to disperse the anarchists. His clothing was riddled with bullets and he injured his wrist in clubbing one )f the r i o t e r s seuselbss

with his empty revolver. o Lieut. Steele was out for two days and two nights, and nine of the twenty-four members of his company were seriously wounded.

Mme. Kogora Takahira, wife of the new minister from Japan to the United

States, has accompanied her husband to all his diplomatic posts, and is in consequence a piuch traveled Woman. She has discarded the picturesque garb of her native country and is now gowned like a Parisienne. The wife of the new Japanese minister will, it is said

in Washington, have some very fine new carriages, and perhaps an automobile. •

Prince George of Greece, who is about to return to Crete, with the expectation

that he will be elected regent of the island, litis been ill in Athens for some time. His present post in Crete is chief commissioner, and it is said that he will urge the powers to allow the Cretans to elect their own form of government. The prince is the second son of

King George. He saved the life of the present Czar ( when the two were traveling in Japan as youths.

A resurvey of that famous old boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, known ns Mason "lid Dixon s linev

has been begun. The object of the resurvey is to re-es-tablish the line monuments, and to place monuments on the western end of the line where none have hitherto , existed. The State' of Pennsylvania and the State of

Maryland have each appropriated SI,OOO for this purpose. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, is president of the commission that will have the matter in charge.

P. D. ARMOUR.

LIEUT. STEELE.

G. B. CORTELYOU.

MME. TAKAHIRA.

PRINCE GEORGE.

H. S. PRICHETT.