JV v wv v V Jv . J Current Tovws Minister Elected Sheriff. Rev. Samuel F. Pearson of Portland. Port-land. Me.. was recently elected sheriff of Cumberland county, the best paying off, re la Main, although be standi The Late Cen. fainter. On. John Mr:'auy Pi:irrr, vboe death occurred at Sprincfield. 111., last we-k. was horn In Eagle Owk. Scort eounty. Kentucky, on September IS. 1S17. In IS3: be removed to Illinois nd In ICS ttie.1 in tlarllnvllle. He -was admitted to Ihe bar In 1 S 40 and was jiii to the state conditional convention In 1S47. He was a member iof the state e-nate lS'.IM. a de'eirate to the national Keptifo Iran convention In Philadelphia in lv'.G. a presidential elector on the Republican ticket of JM;0 and a del' gate to the peace convention con-vention In Vah!nt;U.ii. February 4. 1J6L lie was elected colonel of the Fourteenth Four-teenth Illlnids Volunteers In April, 1561, accompanied General John C. pledged to only take $3.00. and to cover the balance bal-ance of the fees bark Into the county treasury. He was nominated by the Prohibltion-Uls Prohibltion-Uls and was opposed op-posed by Mr. Ds-peaui. Ds-peaui. the Reput llran, and Mr. liar- ' r. . Rev. 8. F. Pearson ton, the Democratic Democrat-ic candidates. He received 6.440 votes. Republicans and Democrats forsaking forsak-ing their candidates and uniting In his support His e'.ectlon Is taken to mean a determination on the part of the voters of Cumberland county that the prohibitory law shall be strictly enforced In thst section of the state and to that enforcement Mr. Pearson stands pledged. In the office of the late Co'lls P. Huntington for many years a picture by Koaus hung Us title was "Ich Kann Warten" (I can wait). It represented rep-resented a poor Inventor waiting for an Interview with a capitalist In a letter Just found Mr. Huntington fates thst the spirit of this picture was the motive of his life. Elected an In jane Man. The re-elmtiLa of Charles A. Bou-telle Bou-telle of Maine, to a seat In congress Is an extraordinary event In politics, because be-cause of tbe fact that Y Boutelle Is now an Inmate of an Insane asylum. Boutelle has represented the Bangor district In the house of representative for a score of yeers. He has been an active man at Washington, and, as chairman of the naval committee, has been responsible, to a large extent, for the great development of the navy in recent years. Tbe great mental strain told upon his health, and last spring CKN. JOHN M. PALMER. Trsmoat (a his expedition to Sprlng-Jeld, Sprlng-Jeld, Mo., and was commtialoned brigadier-general of volunteers In Decem-iber Decem-iber of the same year. From tSliS to 1873 he 'was governor f Illinois. In !t91 he was elected Tnlted Slates senator and served a Ju!l term. The Gold Democrats placed tbe name tof Senator Palmer before tbe Indianapolis Indian-apolis convention of 1 and he wa momlnated on the first ballot for the Presidential orRce. "Rained by Speculation. Ot Oceanic, N. J., Charles B. Foote. at prominent New York broker, is suf-(erlng suf-(erlng physical and mental torture. Ha permitted his fondness fond-ness for spe ulat on to carry him to a J-neroua extreme and his life Is paying pay-ing the penalty for his firms ruin. Foote was the Junior partner of the firm of Hatch A Foote, which has r.. . , . anne Business on Charles B, Foote. . ,, . . . S all street for 4U years. For aorje time Mr. Foote baa been worried. He appeared to be un-lr un-lr terrible mental strain. Septem-r Septem-r 1 his mind broke don and paralysis pa-ralysis followed. With bis absence from the office came an investigation cf his books and It was found that he fcad Involved the firm, through unauthorised unau-thorised -speculations, to such an ea tent that an assignment was neces- C. A. BOUTELLE. be was a total wreck. He was taken to an asylum at Waverly, Mass., where, for a time, he was a raving maniac. In spite of this he was renominated re-nominated by tbe Republicans of bis district and re-elected by a great majority ma-jority ltd w k 'Because of "Blighted Lox)e. Rlrh, talented and finely educated, Frank D. Van NoMrand of Kingston, N. Y., has for the pat twenty-five avary. A War Board LiKrly. ' Gen. William Ludlow, whose visit to Kurope will probably result In the creation of a board of general managers man-agers for the war d-partment. ha." keen long a student of continental and Insular military Institutions. When tie went abroad three months a so for the special purpose of Inspecting foreign for-eign army methods he had already re- years rbo.-en the life of a hermit Van Nostrand was the youngest child of Kliaa T. Van Nostrand. a well known Kingston c o n t r a ctor. who upon his death, j twenty-seven years ; sgo, left a fortune V'- y- y i or iioo.ooo. At the,, ....... . .k v F- D- van Nostrand time the an Nos- I trends were living In one of the most Imposing mansions In the city. The j children continued to live there after I their father's death until they married I and only Frank remained. j Old residents say thai one day, cot ' long after the last of the family l.jd I married and left the homestead. Van 1 Nostrand was ieea moving his person- I kl effects from tbe stately ancestral j n-snlon to a sma1 building In tee ' tear where he has since remained. For ' years he haa not been seen on the J street In daytime and there axe only a ; few who know tbe man. Some of the old people remember a ( beautiful New York girl who came '.o ' spend her summers In tbe mountains j back of Kingston. Van Nostrand i owned the smartest horses In tbe city : and be was often aeen driving with this beautiful girt He never talked aboct the girl and his ftienda believed that be regarded her aajn aa too sa-eni sa-eni to be spoken. For two errmme-w this went on. Tbsn the girl went back t New York. Tbe next spring Frank Van Noetrud axrved ta kis hermltxga. GEN. WILLIAM I.VDIjOW. viewed thee matters with some care. Cen. Ludlow (then a colonel) was formerly for-merly military attache of the American Ameri-can embay In London. In lSi he Investigated the ship canal systems of Europe and Asia and made an elaborate elabo-rate and valuable report to the government gov-ernment on this head. He Is one of the most bnlliant of the officers of the engineer corps, and von high distinction distinc-tion aa an actual fighter on many At' lis duriLg the vv ot easnoaUoa.