Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-12-30 | Page 4 | A Mammoth Edition, Personal Mention

I PERSONAL MENTION Congressman Joseph G Cannon of Illinois linois has completed the purchase of 10000 acres of land In Cass and Saunders counties coun-ties Nebraska S S q Col Thomas Wentworth Higglnson of Cambridge Mass was 78 years old on thQ 22nd He Is In excellent health and Isrnow engaged upon n new edition of the mo of Longfellow the feature of the work being the poets early life < i S S No one In the House Is a better authority author-ity on fish than Representative Minor of Wisconsin Ho is a disciple of Izaak Walton Wal-ton nnd durIng the summer spends much of his time with rod and line Mr Minor is said to be so expert with the rod that ho can toll the difference between the blto of n black bass and a brook trout Before coming to Congress Mr Minor was engaged In the shipping business I S S The Prince of Wales and his brother the Duke of Connaught tho Dulce of Fife the Marquis of Lore and a lot of other titled people are stockholders In the Great Northern Railway company They wero Induced to Invest by Lord Stralhcona the Canadian railroad magnate mag-nate d S H Sir George Wombwcll who has just entered en-tered upon his 70th year Is One of the very few officers now living who survived sur-vived the charge of the Light brigade Hew He-w a Cornet 20 years old when he made his escapo unscathed from the valley of death or S S S A friend of William C Whitney tho other day spoke of the latter gentlemans lavish style of entertainment Mr Whitney Whit-ney said In reply I have the money and can afford the expenditure I Is the duty of every rich man to spend as much as ho can afford and that Is my way of helping those less fortunate than myself Better give employment than glvo alms V S + John D Rockefeller Is following the ox ample of Gladstone and chopping wood merely as exercise on his road to health at his country seat In Pocantlco hills Mrs Rockefeller herself looks after tho preparation of her husbands meals The latter can hardly eat a full meal as yet for he Is suffering considerably from Indigestion Indi-gestion Besides his woodchonnlng Mr Rockefeller exercises with dumbbells and In outdoor walking 4 S S 1 Isaiah T Montgomery of Mound Bayou Miss Is the only colored Mayor In the United Stales Ho Is the wealthiest man In the cIty named and Indeed owns nearly near-ly tho whole place At the conventionof negroes In this city some months ago he gained prominence because of the clearness clear-ness of his views on th negro question Montgomery was born a slave on tho plantation of Jefferson Davis