Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1904 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Michael Donnelly, who has been directing the strike against the packers. Is President of the Amalgamated Meat

Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America. He was born in Ireland, but came to this country with his parents when quite young, and was reared In Kansas City T , where he learned the trade of cattle butcher. In 189(5 he succeeded George Berger, by

appointment, as President of the international body, was formally elected in 1900, and has been re-elected without opposition since that time. When Mr. Donnelly first became chief of the organization It numbered but fifteen unions, with 800 members. Now there are 270 local unions, with about 40,000 members, and all the packing centers of the country are organized. It is said of Mr. Donnelly that In past years he has been successful in preventing strikes, but nevertheless has procured better wages and conditions for the industry he represents.

General Kouropatkin Is a crack marksman. When he was Minister of War, during a tour of inspection he visited Sebastopol and strolled with the commandant along the boulevard, where there was a shooting saloon. His host Invited him to a contest, and the minister accepted, each to fire ten shots with a revolver at fifteen paces, the target being a piece of white cardboard about the size of a small cigarette case. With a revolver the general put all his ten shots into the target, to the complete discomfiture of the other competitor, and when a similar target was put up ten paces further off he repeated the performance with the rifle.

Ackley Hubbard, of Spencer, lowa, who was recently elected president of the lowa Bankers’ Association, is a

native of New York nnd was born In St. Lawrence County, In the Empire State, Sept. 15, 1849. He is to-day one of the most popular and wellknown of the con servative bankers of his State. In 18G9 he located at I Spencer, Clay 1 County, lowa, and

has since that time, with the exception of ono year In California, mad® his home there. He was elected clerk of the courts of Clay County in 1872 and wns married that same year to Miss Martha Hunt. lie studied law and was admitted to the bar In 1876 and was a successful lawyer for eight years. He began his career as a banker In 1891. He is a prominent lodge man and lias taken a great deal of interest In the State Bankers’ Association since its organization and has been present at every one of its yearly meetings. Dr. Conan Doyle confesses that he began his literary career at the early age of 6, with a story which he wrote about a tiger that swallowed a man. Ho used to make up stories to tell to his schoolmates, who, for the privilege of listening to his tales, would pay him In Jam tarts, of which he was Inordinately fond. Yonng Doyle had his own way of extracting the price he wished. He would get ills story worked up to some such climax as this: “While holding the rocky edge of the cliff with a grip of desperation, the hero could hear below him the continued growls of the enraged bear.” Having proceeded thus far, he would refuse to proceed further unless the price paid In current tartlets of the schoolboy realm was doubled.

To establish Christian Science In New York requires a personality of some force. Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson,

the wile of a Boston shipbuilder, became a disciple of Mrs. Eddy nineteen. years ago and was given New York as her field of work, where she founded the first church of the new cult and later was Instrumental in securing the orectlon of a million dollar

edifice as a place of worship. Mrs. Stetson is still In middle life and Is spoken of as the successor of Mrs. Eddy in the event of the death of that Indy. , Tlie steamship Ssn Jacinto of the Mallory line, waa practically destroyed by fire while lying at Roach’s shipyard, Chester, Pa., where Wle was laid up for repairs. The vessel was built by ths Roach Shipbuilding Company at a cost of over $500,000, and was launched about a year ago. James Satterfield, Jr., an 8-year-old boy, was arrested in Stroud, O. T., on the charge of horse stealing and taken. Immediately before n Justice of the peace, The horse waa stolen on July 4, and waa ridden by the boy Into Indian Territory,

M. DONNELLY.

ACKLEY HUBBARD.

MRS. STETSON.