Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Edward W. Hoch, Governor of Kansas and the champion of the State in its bitter fight against the Stand-

ard Oil Company, whose reform plans have been given a setback by the court decision against the State refinery projects, was the editor of the Marlon Record until he was nominated for the office he now holds. He was born in Dan-

ville, Ky., lived for a time in Marion, Ind., and removed to Kansas in 1870. As a Journeyman printer he served for a time on the paper he afterward purchased. When Governor Llewelling was in office Hoch was a member of the legislature and the Republican leader of that body. He has never held other office. He was nominated for Governor because of his aggressiveness as an opponent of party ring rule in Kansas.

Dr. William Henry Maxwell, who delivered the annual address and presided over the deliberations of the Na-

tional Educational Association, which convened for a five day meeting at Asbury Park, has been superintendent of public schools of Greater New York since the consolidation, and had previouslj held the same posi- ] tlon in Brooklyn.

He was born in Ireland in 1852, was educated at the College of Belfast and Galway and at Queen’s University. He came to the United States in 1874, became assistant superintendent of the Brooklyn schools eight years later, and In 1887 was made superintendent. He is the author of many school text-books and educational works, but Is chiefly known to the school public as tha author of Maxwell’s grammar. He was elected president of the association at St. Louis a year ago.

Right Honorable Arthur James Balfour, whose ministry recently mei serious defeat in the House of Com-

mons, has been prime minister o( Great Britain since July, 1902. He represents the East Lothian district in the house, and was first lord of the treasury and leader of his party in the House of Commons from 1895 to the time of his elevation to the premiership. Despite many bitter

attacks on the government iu the lasi three years, Mr. Balfour so far managed to hold his following in lino even in the stormy debates over the fiscal issue. Mr. Balfour was born in Scotland July 25, 1848. He is the author of a number of books on theological and p&litical subjects.

Richard D. Harvey, who has been made assistant manager of the United States department, of the Royal Ex-

change, is an insurance man who is widely known. For the last ten years he has been general agent of the New Hampshire in the Western field, and previously had been special agent for the German of Peoria, and general

agent for the Greenwich. Mr. Harvey was one of the founders and the first president of the Illinois Field Club, and was instrumental in organizing the Western Sprinkled Risk Association, of which he is secretary.

In Constantinople the other day a bomb was exploded in the court yard of the mosque, close to the Sultan. His

Majesty was not injured, but several members of suite were killed or injured. As the Sultan was issuing from the mosque at the conclusion of the ceremony of the ae 1 a m 1 i k a bomb burst in the court ynrd. Hi s Majesty displayed lelf-possession and

courage, himself driving the phaeton on the return to the palace.

Fhya Akharaj Varadhnra, the Siamese minister, is one of the most enthusiastic members of the Chevy Chase Club of Washington and is an enthusiastic devotee of polo. i ' Sig. Puccini has induced Sig. Giacosa and Illisa to write a libretto for an opera baaed on the life of Queen Marie Antoinette, to be completed in September, for which he will write the mueic. Don’t uee a gallon of words to express a tea spoonful of thought

GOV. HOCH.

ARTHUR J. BALFOUR.

DR. W. H. MAX W[?]LL.

R. D. HARVEY.

ABDUL-HAMID.