Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

James Graham Phelps Stokes and Rose Harriet Pastor, whose engagement was recently announced, hav«

long been conspicuous in social settlement work in New York. The bride, who is 20 years old, was born in Russia, and when a babe was taken to London, where sh* received her education. With her faintly she came to America in 1891,

and since that time has been a cigar factory worker and writer for Jewish papers. Mr. Stoke* is a millionaire philanthropist and is conspicuous socially. He is a graduate of Yale and a member of the leading clubs. His brother is Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., a distinguished Episcopal clergyman, and his sister is the Baroness Hallset. The couple are to be married in July, Lucius G. Pratt, who recently died al Newton, Mass., helped build the Santa Fe and the Mexican Centra! railways. Justice John Marshall Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, who favors the building o-f a Presbyterian

cathedral in Washington, is one of the distinguished jurists of the country. Since November, 1877, he has been on the Supreme Court bench. He was born in Kentucky in 1533, was educated in Center College and Tra asy 1 vania University, and was

a colonel in the Union army. For four Kpars he was Attorney General of Kentucky, and was twice nominated lor Governor. Justice Harlan was an .arbiter in the Bering Sea ease, and ■as handed down decisions in some Bamous suits, including tlhe Nebraska Raximum freight rate case. H. Newberry, who has acKptcd the office of Assistant Secretary Ktlie Navy, is one of the distinguished

business men cf Detroit, being interested in banks, railways and transpor tatlon companies. M r. Newberry is 40 years old, and is a graduate of the Scientific School of Yale. lie helped to organize the Michigan State Naval

Brigade and served with it during the Spanish war on the Yosemlte, holding the position of- lieutenant and ordnance officer. Later he was appointed on the staff of the Governor, with the rank of colonel. Mr. Newberry is a personal friend of the President, and is heartily in sympathy with his naval policy. John Burroughs, the eminent naturalist, is visiting the Bermudas. Attorney Edwin W. Sims, whom President Roosevelt has appointed solicitor for the Department of Com-

merce and Labor, is a Chicago man, and since August. 1903, has been attorney for the bureatt of corporations of the same department. From 1901 to 1903 lie wits attorney for Cook County. Mr. Sims was born iu Michigan, was

educated at the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in the law in 1894. During his incumbency of the office of attorney for Cook County he made a notable record In the collection of delinquent taxes. Dr” Cowen, conductor of the London Philharmonic-- Society, is 53 years old, and was born in Jamaica. Ananias Baker, of Rochester, Ind., who became noted through his sensa-

tional exposure of the cigarette bribery plot in the Indiana Legislature a few weeks ago, has again come into the public eye through the announcement that he will lead a reform movement whoso object will be to wipe out corruption* iu - the State. Baker is

rapidly gathering about him a strong following. He is popular in his home district, having run ahead of his ticket at the election last fall. - Indiana proposes to erect a statue of her great war Governor, Oliver P. Morton,, in the statehouse yard at Indianapolis. Tufnell Burchell, acting undersheriff for the city of London, holds the office his father, grandfather and great-grgud-father successively occupied.— • The new Senator from Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane, receives more begging letters than any of hia colleagues.

MISS ROSE PASTOR.

JUSTICE HARLAN.

T. H. NEWBERRY.

EDWIN W. SIMS.

ANANIAS BAKER.