Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerechow Michelsen, premier of Norway, whose speech In the Storthing attacking the

radical members of the left has created a cabinet crisis, has been at the head of the government since the se p aratlon from Sweden, and also was premlei when secession was formally declared. He has been prominent in polities since 1892;;

and in 1894 was a member of the Hagerup-Ibsen cabinet, ~llr. Michelsen was born In Bergen in 1857, took his degree In law at the University of Christiania, and practiced his profession until 1885, when he became manager of his father’s extensive steamship business. Lately he has been called the Bismarck of Norway, and it is said that he could have been president of a Norwegian republic, but was convinced that it would be better for Norway to be ruled as a constitutional monarchy.

Charles Albert Barnes, who has been, elected Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, is a distinguished

resident of Jacksonville, 111., ' and county judge of Morgan County. He has held other high offices in the Pythian order and is a trustee of Illinois College and of Jacks onville Female Academy. Judge Barnes was born at Alton, 111./

in 1855, and was educated in Illinois College and the law department of the University of Michigan. He has been city attorney and also State’s attorney for Morgan County. In 1904 he was delegate to the universal congress of lawyers and jurists which held its sessions in St. Louis. George Von Lengerke Meyer, whose appointment as Postmaster General was announced recently, is now the

American ambassador at St. Petersburg. Ambassador Meyer was born >n Boston June 24, 1858, and graduated at Harvard in 1879. Since leaving college he has been engaged In business as a merchant and trust ee. He has held municipal of-

flee in Boston and has been Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was ambassador to Italy from 1900 to 1905. Htfnry Broadhurst’s only tailor for some years after the commencement of his parliamentary life was his wife. Captain Albert R. Couden commands the Louisiana, the battleship: chosen to convey president Roosevelt

to Panama on his trip to find out what Is being done and how. The captain entered the navy in 1863, and was appointed from Utah. He was born in Indiana. Captain Couden was B greatly honor-

ed by being placed in command of the powerful fleet and the thousands of marines sent to Havana at the time of the Taft Intervention. It was the most important naval command since the close of the Spanish war. There were plenty of rear admirals available for the work, but the President chose to Intrust It to the captain of the Louisiana.

By the birth of a wee, helpless baby, the first male of the fourth generation of the old Parkinton family .of Milwau-

kee, about $5,000,000 seems lost to the Milwaukee Hospital Association. The mother of the babe Is Mrs. Wm. Woods Parkinton, a New York girl, wife of the only grandchild of the original John Parkinton. Under John Parkinton’s

will the entire estate was to go to the hospital In the event no heir was living st the death of the direct descendanta If the child continues to live there Is no chance for the hospital to obtain the indirect bequest. Capt Alexander Simpson of the Aberdeen liner Moravian has Just completed his seventy-first voyage, having traveled 2,000,000 miles without a mishap, a feat supposed to be unparalleled in British marine circles. Mischa Elman, the boy violinist, has revolted against being considered an infant prodigy, and has insisted on wearing trousers and discarding the sailor suit, which he found extremely uncomfortable. He is now 14 and gets furious whs: women want to kiss him.

PETER MICHELSEN.

JUDGE C. A. BARNES

GEO. VON L. MEYER

CAPT. A. COUDEN.

MRS. PARKINTON.