Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1906 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Michael Davitt, the Irish patriot, died in Dublin of blood poisoning, following two operations for necrosis of

the jawbone, due to an attack of influenza. Mr. Davitt was one of the most prominent figures in Irish politics for over a third of a century. Hawas born in 1846, but it was not until 1865 that he attained prominence by his connection

with Fenian brotherhood. In 1870 he was convicted of treason and felony and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. He was released, however, on ticket-of-leave in 1877. Two years later, with Charles Stewart Parnell, Davitt founded the Irish Land League. He began an extremely vigorous cam-

paign for Irish Independence, and in that same year was arrested for sedition. The case against him was not pushed to trial and Davitt came to the United States to organize the auxiliary land league of the United States. On his return he was again arrested, and in 1881 was sentenced back to penal servitude, from which he was not released till May, 1882. His work for the Irish Land League brought him into trouble again, and in. 1883 he was again imprisoned for seditious language. Davitt was first elected to Parliament In 1882 while a prisoner in the Portland convict prison, but was disqualified by special vote of the House of Commons for non-expi ration, of sentence for trea-son-felony. He was again elected and, unseated in 1892. He was returned the same year, but resigned in 1893, owing to bankruptcy proceedings. In 1895- he again took seat In the house. After the outbreak of the Transvaal war in 1899 Davitt made a climax to the fruitless opposition of tb» Irish members- by again tendering his resignation as a protest against the government’s policy. Frank D. Millet, the well known war correspondent and mural painter, is now said to be designing a series of war medals for the federal government. Senator Joseph Ralph Burton, in whose .case, the JJni ted S tates.Supreme Court rendered a decision upholding

the ruling of the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis sentencing Burton to fine and Imprisonment for illegally representing a St. Louis concern before the government departments, has been the

senior senator from senator burton". Kansas the last four years, and since the campaign of 1876 had been one of the orators of the Republican party. He is an Lndianian by birth, 55 years of age, and for three terms was a member of the Kansas legislature. Burton made an aggressive fight against conviction, the indictments having been found faulty twice, and on technicalities a new trial was granted by the Supreme Court after he was first convicted in 1904. At that time, besides the jail penalty, he was sentenced to pay a fine of $2,500, precisely the amount he is said to have received from the St. Louis concern involved In his downfall. J. Willie Pope, prominently connected with the commercial growth-of Atlanta, Ga.. is slated for the presidency of the proposed exposition of 1910. Mrs. Mary IT. Hunt, who was known throughout the civilized world as the originator of instruction in the public

schools on the evil effects of sthnnlants and narc ities on tlie human system, died recently at Boston. Mrs. Hunt had been since 1880 world su;>erintendent of scientific temperance i instruction for the Voman’s Christian Temperance Union. She was a native

of Canaan, Conn., and first became conspicuous in temperance work in 1879. As chairman of the W. C. T. U. committee to put in practice her plan for compulsory scientific temperance education, she carried the fight into every state and territory, nnd achieved a notable victory. Iler work having attracted the attention of European investigators, Mrs. limit was. in 1903, called to the anti-nicoholle congress at Bre■men, and subsequently her course of study was introduced into the army and navy schools of Great Britain by the English war department. She was the widow of Leander B. Hunt, who had been a prominent manufacturer at East Douglas, Mass. Of all the modem writers, Sir Walter Soott has the largest place in that gigantic work, the British museum catalogue. Scott has a larger number of entries under his name than any other author savs Shawspearc. who has two volumes devoted exclusively to him. It is told of Herbert Spencer that when out for a drive from time to time he would have his carriage stopped, no matter if in a crowded London ttWet, till he had felt his pulse. If it wrs regular the drive continued; If Det, bo y ent lirsctly homo-

MICHAEL DAVITT.

MRS. HUNT.