Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — MEN OF AFFAIRS. [ARTICLE]

MEN OF AFFAIRS.

Got. Hanly of Indiana never law the inside of a saloon in his life. Senator Foraker has purchased a home in Cincinnati, paying $100,(XX) therefor. John K. Harvey, recently re-elected Mayor of altham, Mass., was born in a log hut. Senator Cockrell says he doubts if he would care to go to the United State* Senate again. Capt. Robert L. Ilowse, new commandant of cadets at West Point, is a native of Texas. Secretary of War Taft has a brother who is an editor. The editor is tall, lean and wiry. Many English newspapers, including the London Spectator, speak of President Roosevelt as a “whig.” Mayor McClellan of New York has been making an exhaustive examination of the water supply of Boston. Gov.-elect Broward of Florida is of Huguenot descent. His mother belonged to a good old New England family. Major Gen. O. O. Howard, U. S. A., retired, is the only living American officer who has commanded 150,000 men. 1 retjerick Vanderbilt dislikes society, and frequently absents himself from homo when his wife has house parties. Joseph W. Folk of Missouri.will be the guest of honor at the banquet of the Missouri Society of New York on March 16. Senators Lodgj? and Platt (Conne ticut) aay government seeds are a humbug. Senator Pet tux of Alabama defends them.