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...likelihood that Tammany would support me." The chief significance of "bolts" lies in the volume of votes which they may involve. The volume they represent is a less ponderable matter, especially when the bolter is out of office. Mr. Owen, part Cherokee Indian, is mostly Virginia patrician. He was born and educated in Virginia. He went to Oklahoma, with which State his name has long been connected, when he was still young and the region was a Territory. He grew potent, first as an Indian agent, then as one of Oklahoma's first U. S. Senators...
...generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy purse. Not until a generation later did the Powers fully realize that they had allowed Uncle Leopold to seize, under humanitarian pretexts, one of the richest colonial empires on the Globe. Astounding is the story of how British-born & U. S.-bred Henry Morton Stanley, greatest African explorer, sought to convince U. S. and British statesmen of the boundless worth of the Congo; of how he was feted as an explorer but had his practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities...
Ellen Terry was born, as it were, between an exit and a curtain call, while her mother and father were playing in Coventry. At eight she made her debut as Mamillius in The Winter's Tale, a performance witnessed with apparent pleasure by Queen Victoria. When Ellen Terry was twice as old she married the then famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith...
...Born. To Alice, six-ton hippopotamus of the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, a 100 Ib. son. The Menominee (Mich.) boiler works built an iron crib...
Chicago obligingly furnished a list. It pointed to the offices of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., where sat Minnesota-born Eugene Morgan Stevens, golfer, fisherman, bond expert, and New York-born Frederick Tudor Haskell, trained in Chicago banking for 55 years. It pointed to the "biggest" Continental & Commercial National Bank with its Brothers Reynolds, Arthur of the potent Armour meatpacking interests, and, George McClelland, who politely declined in 1909 to be Taft's Secretary of the Treasury. It pointed to big but smaller banks, to the Chicago Trust Co., from whose roster of vice presidents the U. S. Chamber...