Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1901 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Alexander O. Brodie has been appointed Governor of Arizona. The new territorial executive is intimately known by

President Roosevelt, whom he succeeded as lieutenant colonel of the Rough Riders when the latter was promoted to the colonelcy of that regiment. Col. Brodie went into the Spanish war as senior major of the regiment, commanding the Ariz-

ona squadron. In the fight at Las Guasimas Col. Brodie was at the front and was one of the first of the United States officers to be wounded, a Mauser bullet tearing savagely through his right arm. The new Governor has had business interests in the West since 1877, when he resigned his commission in the regular army. His first venture was in the cattle trade in Kansas, in which he was successful. In 1882 he turned his attention to mining operations in Dakota and Arizona, and a few years afterward he was employed by the Water Storage Company at Walnut Grove, Ariz., as Its chief engineer and superintendent He is 49 years old. Jt Maj. Gen. French, who has been appointed to succeed Gen. Sir Redvers Buller as commander of the First Army

Corps, is one of the c o m p a r atively young soldiers who have risen to high positions in the British military service. He had fought in the Soudan and in the east previously to his appointment in 1890 to the command of the cavalry division in Na-

tal. He is one of the two or three British generals who have fought the Boers with success. Gen. French is 49 years old, was bom at Kent, England, and was educated for the navy, in which his father was an officer.

Former President Cleveland has been invited by the senior class of the Nebraska State University to deliver the commencement oration next June.

United States Consul General to Montreal John L. Bittinger, whose home is in St. Joseph, Mo., will be the next min-

J. L. BITTKXGEH.

ister to Mexico, according to reports from Washington. Maj. Bittinger is to succeed Gen. Powell Clayton. For several months the latter has been anxious to be relieved of the burdens of his position. President McKinley, say those who who were ia touch

with affairs at Washington, held the opinion that in the event of Diaz’s death Mexico would experience great trouble — possibly a revolution. Should this occur, the late President contended, Powell Clayton would be the proper man to represent the United States. It was understood and agreed, however, that as soon as Ambassador Clayton’s term expired a Missouri man should be appointed in his place.

Captain Dreyfus, who has been living at Cologne, near Geneva, has decided to leave Switzerland and make his home in Alsace, where he was born.

Lieut. Henry H. Ward, who has taken a prominent part in the cross-examina-tion of Rear Admiral Schley before the

naval court of inquiry, Is beardless and under 30 years of age. During the war with Spain he donned the disguise of an Englishman and visited every point in Spain where Information of value to the United States might be obtained. For this difficult

LILUT. WARD.

work he won unstinted praise from hi« superiors In the navy as well as from the chief officials of this country, he having obtained facts that proved of inestimable service for the successful prosecution of the War.

Miss Jane Toppan, the professional nurse who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Marv D. Gibbs and who is suspect-

ed of having poisoned three other members of the family of Alden P. Davb of Cataumet, Mass., is claimed to be insane by Dr. Latbrop of Lowell, who attended Miss Toppan when she was ill at Dea. Miss Toppan attended all of the deceased persons

and was with them when they died. She had been intimate with the Davis family for years, and it is claimed by the friends of the family that her motive was to secure money which she knew to be hidden on the premises. Arsenic found in the stomach of Mrs. Gibbs led to the arrest of the nurse, who protests that she is innocent. Count Tolstoi is not an obedient patient. Some time ago his physicians told him not to walk or to ride horseback, but he did what he pleased, saying, “I know better than all physicians what is good for me." Former Gov. Hogg of Texas says that abont a year ago, while on his way to New York, he stopped off at Beaumont, and having made a million or ao there he will now resume his journey to Gotham.

COL. BRODIE.

GEN. FRENCH.

MISS TOPPAN.