Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Congressman Vespasian Warner, nominated for Pension Commissioner, is beloved of Civil War veterans

throughout th* country. Starting In life as a newsboy, he was but a mere youth when the war broke opt, but at once he went to the front and served for five years, part of the time as a private. After hostilities closed he entered

Harvard and was graduated from the law department of that university in 1868. Returning to his home at Clinton, 111., he began the practice of law, and speedily won prominence in public affairs. His Congressional experience began with the Fifty-fourth Congress, and he has been nominated by acclamation for every term since that time. He was born at Mount Pleasant (now Farmer City), 111., April 23, 1842. The Minnesota State Historical Society may take steps to have statues of Henry Hastings Sibley and Alexander Ramsey placed in statuary hall in the national capitol. United' States Senator John H. Mitchell, who was indicted for alleged conspiracy to defraud the federal government of public

lands, has been a resident of Oregon for forty-four years. He wa s born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1835, obtained a common school education, studied and practiced law, removed to California and thence

to Oregon, where lie has been prominent for over a quarter of ti century. Senator Mitchell has been a member " of the United States Senate four times: first, he was chosen in 1872 and served until 1879. He was re-elected in 1885 and again in 1891. In 1897. however, twenty-eight members of the Oregon House refused to take the oath of of,fi.ee, and he was defeated. He was sent back to the Senate in 1901 to succeed George W. Mcßride, and his term expires in 1907. Purcell Powless, a full-blooded Oneida Indian, grandson of a former chief of the tribe, is a motorman in SI. Louis. Rear Admiral George Wood Pigman. U. S. N., soon to retire, entered the naval academy in 1801. F. H. Trimble, a student at Morningside college, Sioux City, has sailed for China, where he will teach Chinese

boys A merlcan handicraft. Mr. Trimble's work la to be entirely new in the missionary field in China. He will introduce and take charge of an Industrial department at the Boys' Theological school at Hing-Wa. The main lines of work will be cotton-

weaving and the manufacture of rattan furniture. At the start employment will be given to fifty Chinese boys who will work their way through school. After the industrial work is well under way at Hlng-Wa it Is to be extended to many other schools in that part of the empire. Henry Merwin Slirndy has been intrusted with the njodeling of the Grant memorial to be erected in Washington at a cost of $250,000. Shrady’s father was the physician who attended Gen. Grant in bis last illness. Professor Charles P. Neill, who has been appointed Commissioner of Labor by Presiient Roosevelt, to succeed

Carroll D. Wright, has been a resident of the capita) for many years, and is popular on account of his identification with charity work. Since a short time after the founding of the Catholic University he has occupied the chair of social and politi-

cal economy in that Institution. Professor Neill gained wide distinction as assistant recorder td the commission that, arbitrated the differences between the anthracite coal operators and the striking miners. The Rev. Elis Jaffe of Pretoria. South Africa, is officiating at a Jewish synagogue in Baltimore at present, and may become permanent cantor of the congregation. John nn<l Maurice Reid, brothers, work a (arm together near Waterbary, Conn., but have not spoken to each other in ten years. Arthur Raikes. new British minister to Chili, leaves this week for his post. He has been a incuilier of ths British embassy at Washington. Prof. William P. Trent has finished ■ volume furnishing a select anthology ot the writings of southern authors from earliest time* te the present.

VESPASIAN WARNER.

J. H. MITCHELL.

F. H. TRIMBLE.