| Show BEFORE 11 ae JUSTICE ARMOUR NO BETTER alaskan boundary commissioner may succumb to illness in london justice armour at of the canadian su preme court who Is lying seriously HI ill at the home of his eon son in london eng ung land shows no signs of improvement and it Is feared he may succumb jus tice armour la Is one of the alaskan MIA boundary commissioners and is wei V known both in canada and the united states he was born in ontario in 1830 s on of a church of england minister and rapidly rose in the profession ot of law to which he had devoted himself though for many years rears a sufferer from chronic stomach ailment justice ar mour has been among the most active jurists connected with the british gov eminent and has contributed liberally to the important decisions of the day HERBERT SPENCER NEAR DEATH condit on of great philosopher Is causing his friends alarm herbert spencer the foremost of living philosophers founder of the synthetic philosophy and perhaps the greatest of intellectual english men Is quite ill at his home in ton and Is believed his death Is near mr spencer tor for some weeks past has been disclosing unusual symptoms of weakness and although his mind seemed to be perfectly clear until a few days ago his present attack Is alarmingly like a general breaking down of his mental and physical strength mr spencer was born at derby in 1820 and has been active in the intel life of the world since be he was 27 years old he has worked upon his great system of philosophy for upward of forty three years although in 1896 with the publication of the last volume of his principles of ogy agy that immense undertaking was supposed to have been completed mr 5 le f herbert spencer spencer has been a sharp controvert con trover and be he has met some notable men in the lists among them frederic harrlson harrison the positivist and more re bently prot prof of freiburg he was never married AMERICAN OP OF HIGH LINEAGE george calvert nearest male descend ant of lord baltimore george E calvert an employed of the united states court of claims Is the them nearest lineal descendant of the lords baltimore in this country and would bear the title lord baltimore it if it were not now extinct he ile Is a genial middle aged gentleman of modest and retiring disposition disinclined to at tr act to himself any attention on ac count of his distinguished genealogy he spent much of his life at mount airy having been a boy there during the civil war ar when the estate was JA aa the line of communication of the secret service of the concede confederacy racy between baltimore and richmond along which union deserters and straggler stragglers who crossed the lower potomac also crossed the hb home of the cal verts has been purchased by 3 ed ward addicks the delaware politician who will turn it into a clubhouse rich man serves as constable phineas T loundsbury an ex governor of connecticut and now dent of a new york bank makes his hiff legal residence in ridgefield a small town of his native state where he re mains during the summer months A year or so ago he was elected mayor and still holds the place this spring a lot of his young friends as a joke put his name on the ticket as one of the town constables he ile was elected accepted the office and was sworn in I 1 get my tun fun out of it he says I 1 spend my leisure time in watching the men who run me tor for office and in making them keep off the sidewalks with their wheels and live up to the town own laws in other ways L |
