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...HENRY BERN...
...France last week Asturias walked in erect and smiling, chatted animatedly with Mm Doumergue and Briand and with Members cf the Corps Diplomatique. Every day thereafter he took moderately long walks in the Paris Bois. He then left for Switzerland to be put through a course of calisthenics at Bern...
Born: on a Jones County, N. C. plantation, Jan. 20, 1854. Start-in-life: a country lawyer. Career: Son of a well-to-do planter, he attended Wake Forest College, was graduated (1873) from Trinity College (now Duke University), commenced the practice of law at New Bern at 21. The same year he married Eliza Humphrey of Goldsboro. Aged 32, he was elected to the House of Representatives, soth Congress, for one unimportant term (1887-89). In 1892 when Populism threatened, he was made head of the Democratic State Executive Committee, held the Weaver vote down...
Democratic Field Marshal Simmons wanted to get back to New Bern, N. C.. where a bank failure, he explained, had cost him every cent he had. He it was who proposed the truce?adjournment of the special session, putting the tariff over to December. On the vote the Young Turks marched into the breach and turned the tide of battle by joining with Insurgent Republicans and a handful of insatiable Democrats to defeat (51 to 34) the adjournment resolution...
Married. Edward Lee Cannon of Washington, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; to Miss Elizabeth Roberts of New Bern, N. C.; at New Bern...