Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Francis E. Leupp, the new Com■ioner of Indian Affairs, is a well known newspaper man. Many year*

ago he became identified with the work of upraising tlie Indians and acquired information that is exceedingly valuable. He is regarded as being one of the best posted men in the country on this subject. He is a native of New York. where he

was born Jan. 2, 1849. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he received the degree of A. M. and of the law department of Columbia University, where he received the degree of LL. B. He is the editor of the National Civil Service Reform League, 'and in 1892-95 was made a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners. Mr. Leupp is the author of several books dealing with civil service and political economics and a life of the President. Elisha Nye Pierce, one of tlie best known horticulturists in the United States, is dead at Waltham, Mass. Robert Watchorn, commissioner of immigration. was once a miner and worked several years in Ohio aud Pennsylvania. Prof. Rutherford, who has been awarded the Rumford medal by the British Royal Society, is a New Zealander. Admiral -Baron von Spann, of the Austrian navy, the fifth member of the commission investigating the con-

duct of the Baltic fleet in the Dogger bank firing episode, is regarded as the most distinguished naval ofllcer in the empire and is virtually at the head of its naval department. His selection was due to the unani-

mous action of the other four members of the commission, who were empowered to choose a fifth man. ’Die admiral Was a great favorite of the late Admiral Tegethoff, who was the father of .tlie Austrian navy and won the victory at Lissa over a comparatively superior Italian flerit. William J. Yau Patten of Burlington, Vt.. lias turned over to the Vermont Sons of the Revolution that i<rt of the old Ethan Allen farm known as "Indian Rock." ThoipaX A. Edison s;tps the first record taken on the phonograph was "Alary had a little liiliib.” General Cipriano Castro, who has compelled the Supreme Court of Venezuela to confirm a decree confiscating

the property of the American Asphalt Company, has been President of Veneezuela since 1900, when he ousted Ignacio Andrade from that position. Castro is -IS years old, and prior to 1899 occupied minor public offices. Since assuming the Presidency.

however, he actually has become » dictator, and will have no man iti his cabinet who disagrees with him in any particular. He is but five feet two inches tall, and is arrogant, selfwilled and cruel. He is further described as shrewd and cunning, but not diplomatic, nervous, irritable and excitable. Harry Boiilton, who died in Cleveland recently, hired John D. Rockefeller as a carpenter when he once was foreman in a railroad shop. The equestrian statue of Gen. George B. McClellan at Washington will stand in Connecticut avenue in front of the British embassy. Gen. Trepoff, whose excesses in quelling disturbances at Moscow twen-ty-five years ago caused him to be

called "the Moscow butcher,” has been using his old methotls in putting down the Uprising in the St. Petersburg district, of which he was hurriedly made Governor (leijcral after the massacre of Jan. 22. Ho is said to be'for the

hanging of Gorky, Aie novelist, and other prominent puMficists arrested for their part in tliMjprlsing. Gov. Herrick of Ohio says he twice refused the ambassadorship to Italy. He knows nothing of Italian and is too old to learn. Dr. Obadiah C. Bogardus. sheriff of Monmouth county. N. J., admits that the profits of his office in 1904 were over SIO,OOO. James Jewett Turner, first vice president of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, began bis railroad career a* a, ticket sonar.

FRANCIS E. LEUPP.

ADM. VON STAUN.

GENERAL CASTRO.

GEN. TREPOFF.