The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Taft’s cabinet of nine men
by Philander Chase Knox,
of state, who was born
at Brownsville, v Pa. He
from Mount Union college,
in 1872, and three years later
to the bar. Daring the
and 1877 he served as as-
United States district attorney
western district of Pennsyl-
l -In the latter year he formed
with James H. Reed
exists and which has rep-
ratious, in*
\ the Carnegie Company. My.
fitered President McKinley’s
as attorney general in April,
until 1904, when he was
["United States senator from
The. latter position he
to become the head of Presi*
Taft’s cabinet He was a candi-
i presidential nomination in
national convention of
Mr. Knew is recognized as one
foreinoat constitutional lawyers
i country.
MacVeagh for the Treasury.
MacVeagh, secretary of the
ras born on a farm in
county, Pennsylvania, gradu-
Tale in 1862 and from
wehoel in 1864. He be-
in New York
ill-health forced him to aban-
and In 1865 he went to Chicago
in the wholesale grocery
In' this and other commer-
itts he has amassed a large
Before en&rfng the cabinet
of his holdings in the big
firm and resigned as director
Commercial National bank of
Mr. MacVeagh has always
in movements for the
welfare, locally and nationally,
been president of the Chicago
association, the Chicago
of Charities and the Municipal
r, vice-president of the
•Civic association, and chair-
of th* immigration department of
Civic Federation. Mr.
formerly was a Democrat
in 1894 he was nominated for
States senator by the Demo-
of Illinois, but was defeated in
legislature. He supported Grover
but afterward changed bis
allegiance because of the atti-
of the Democratic party on the
question.
Dickinson Is War Secretary.
M. Dickinson of Tennessee
3hicago, the new secretary
was born in 1851 at Columbus,
He graduated from the Uni-
ty of Nashville in 1872 and after-
studied law at Columbia college,
University of Leipsix and in
He served several times by
mission on the supreme
ennessee and was assist-
general of the United
For ten years pre-
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vious to accepting the place in Mr.
Taft’s cabinet he was general counsel
for the Illinois Central Railroad Com-
pany. When not living in Chicago,
Mr. Dickinson makes his home at the
Hermitage, the estate upon the out-
skirts of Nashville, Tenn., once the
property of Andrew Jackson. Like
Mr. Roosevelt, he is very fond of
hunting and fishing. Though a Demo-
crat, Mr.- Dickinson has always heed
an opponent of Bryan. ^
Wilson Retains His Place.
Only one member of the Roosevelt
cabinet retains his portfolio under
Mr. Taft That la James Wilson of
Iowa, secretary of agriculture. So ex-
cellent had been his work id that posi-
tion that there was no serious talk of
making a change. Born in Scotland in
1835, Mr. Wilson came to the United
States in 1852 and three years later
settled in Iowa. In 1861 he engaged in
farming in Tama county. He was a
member of the Iowa assembly for
jthree sessions and speaker of the
house for one session, and also was a
member of the Iowa state railway
commission. In 1873 he was elected
to congress, serving two terms, and
was sent to the national legislature
again for one term in 1883. He was
regent of the State university of
Iowa in 1870-74, and in 1890 was
made director of the agricultural ex-
periment station and professdr of agri-
culture at the Iowa Agricultural col-
lege, Ames, la. In 1897 he became
secretary of agriculture.
Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The first cabinet officer selected by
Mr. Taft after his election was Frank
H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts, who
gave up his place as first assistant
postmaster general to manage success-
fully the Taft presidential campaign.
He has been given the office of post-
master general in the new cabinet.
Mr. Hitchcock was born at Amherst,
O., in 1867, and graduated from Har-
vard in 1891 and from Columbia Law
school in 1894. Since 1891 he has
been a government official, having
served at different/times as chief of
the division of foreign markets of the
department of agriculture; chief clerk
of the department of commerce and
labor, member of the government ex-
position board and first assistant post-
master general. He is a member of
many scientific and social organiza-
tions and is the author of numerous
bulletins, reports and circulars on for-
eign trade and customs tariffs. His
of fc’work In the post-office department un-
der President Roosevelt was especial-
ly noteworthy.
Nagel Has Commerce Portfolio,
Missouri has been rewarded for its
switch to the Republican column by
the appointment of Charles Nagol as
secretary of commerce and labor. Mr.
Nagel is a leading lawyer of St.
Louis and the west. He was born in
Texas in 1849, moved to St. Louis
when a child and graduated from the
St. Louis Law school in 1873. He has
been senior member of the law firip
of Nagel & Kirby, professor in the
St. Louis Law school and' a trustee
of Washington university. In 1881-83
.he was a member of the Missouri Ijouse
of representatives, and in 1893-97 waa
president of the St/Louis city coun-
cil. He 1b a member of the Repub-
lican national committee and for years
has been an intimate friend of Mr.
Taft. He was one of Mr. Roosevelt’s
most enthusiastic supporters. As an
attorney Mr. Nagel •was identified with
several important cases dealing with
the numerous complications in the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in
the then Indian territory.
Navy Under Meyer’s Charge.
President Taft’s secretary of the
navy, George Von L. Meyer of Massar
chusetts, has had wide experience as
a business man, legislator, diplomat
and cabinet officer. He was born in
Boston in 1858 and graduated from
Harvard in 1879. He then entered
business and has been prominently
conected with a number of financial
and mercantile concerns. His career
as a public official began in 1889, when
he was elected to the Boston common
council. He then served on the board
of aldermen, and in 1892-96 he was a
member of the Massachusetts isglslar
ture, the last two years being speaker
of the house. In 1900 Mr. Meyer was
sent to Italy as American ambassador,
and in 1905 was transferred to Rus-
sia. In January, 1907, President
Roosevelt called him home to enter
his cabinet as postmaster general.
Ballinger Secretary of Interior.
After about one year’s service
commissioner of the general land of-
fice, Richard A. Ballinger of Seattle,
Wash., has entered the cabinet as
secretary of the interior. He is a
native of Iowa, having been born in
Boonesboro in 1858. After attending
the University of Kansas and Wash-
bum college at Topeka, he went to
Williams college, graduating id 1884
and afterward studying law and re-
moving to Washington. He was
United States court commissioner in
1890-92 and later was judge of the
supreme court in Jefferson county.
Wash.
Attorney General Wickersham.
George W. Wickersham, who be-
comes President Taft’s attorney gen-
eral. has had the reputation of being
one of the ablest lawyers In New
York city. Born 1n Pittsburg in 1858,
lie studied civil engineering in Lehigh
Catholic Church, in Path of Storm,
Alone Escapes Damage—Des-
truction Complete.
Brinkley, Ark., March 10.—Thirty
or more lives were snuffed out, sixty
people were injured and property es-
timated to be worth $1,000,000 was de-
stroyed as a result of the tornado
which wrecked this little city Tuesday
night. Of the known dead; fourteen
are white people. The tornado hov-
ered about the ci>!y a few minutes, but
its work of destruction was complete.
The Catholic church, -‘standing directly
in the path of the storm, alone es-
caped damage or destruction, and
stands Tuesday night a grim sentinel
in a scene of desolation. Main street
and Cypress avenue, the two princi-
pal thoroughfares of the town, are now
impassable, and piled high with wreck-
age from end to end.
0:1 Co. Motion Overruled.
Jefferson City, Mo.: The motions
by the Standard Oil company in Indi-
ana and the Republic Oil company of
Ohio for a rehearing of the ouster suit
recently decided against them and for
a modification of the judgment, were
overruled by the Missouri supreme
court Tuesday. The effect of these de-
cisions is to expel the Indiana and
Ohio companies from Missouri and to
restore to the Waters-Pierce Oil com-
pany, 60 per cent of whose stock is
held by the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, the right to do business
within the state.
Part of Town Destroyed.
Cuthbert, Ga.: The northwestern
section of Cuthbert was struck by a
cyclone Tuesday and almost totally de-
stroyed. .Many buildings are in ruins
and it-is exceedingly difficult to get
details, as total darkness prevails, ow-
ing to the damage of the electric light
system. It is known-that one man has
been -killed and many, have rbeen in-
jured. There were fifty loaded freight
cars on the railroad Hrack and all were
destroyed. <
Galveston Harbor Project.
Washington: Members of the board
of army engineers, after devoting an
entire day to discussing the features
of the greater Galveston harbor pro-
ject, expressed the opinion Tuesday
that the board would probably be
ready to make its recommendations
on the reports of Capt. Oakes, the
local engineer, and Col. Beach, the dis-
trict engineer, within two weeks.
Duck Three Million-Years Old.
New York: A complete skeleton of
a prehistoric duck, estimated by Dr.
H. C. Bumpas of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History, to be 3,000,-
000 years old, has just been acquired
by the museum. The specimen is so
well preserved that the greater part
of the skin, head, body and legs * may
be seen. it was found near Lance
Creek, Wyo. <
Medicine for African Trip.
New York: Medicine enough for a
regiment and surgical instruments
enough to do the work of an army
.hospital, will be carried by Theodore
Roosevelt to Africa, all condensed so
as to fill a suit case.
Lightning Strikes Woman.
Bonham: Mrs. Tom Skipworth, liv-
ing five miles south of. town, was
struck by lightning during the thun-
derstorm Tuesday and fatally injured.
Chicago’s First Born Dead.
Chicago: v Mrs. Margaret Ellen Lip-
scomb, the first white child born in
Chicago, after its incorporation as a
city, is dead in Bloomington, III. She
was born on March 3, 1836, and was
surrounded at her birth by squaws.
Her first bath was taken in a tub
made from a hollow log. She was
rocked to sleep in a cradle of bark.
Consumptive Hospital Protest.
San Antonio: A protest signed by
i number of the most prominent citi-
zens, including the mayor, was sent to
Senator Real Tuesday at Austin, pro-
testing against the .appropriation of
$125,000 for the building of a hospital
for consumptives in the southwestern
asylum grounds here.
Ships Peanuts from Gainesville.
Gainesville: Eighteen hrfndred bush-
els of peanuts were loaded on the cars
here Tuesday to be shipped to peanut
dealers in Eastern Texas. The cross
timber section of Cooke county has
been planted extensively in peanuts
the last ten years and the crop has
proved to be a valuable one.
Buying Texas Shorthorns.
San Antonio: A. B. Primrose, rep-
resenting Pearson & Co of England,
Is here to purchase Texas shorthorns
to stock a great ranch owned by the
company on the Isthmus of Tehuante-
pec. The ranch contains over 45,000
university and in 1880 graduated from acres of improved land,
the law school of the University of i ____
Pennsylvania. For two years he prac- Oddoscb Two Cent Fare
tk’Gd law in Philadelphia. In 1884 he
became associated with the law firm Topeka: The senate committee on
of Strong & Cadwalladare, to which failroads Tuesday submitted an ad-
Henry W. Taft, brother of the presi- ! verse report on the 2 cent fare b1H
dent, belongs. , which had already passed the house.
Trials of Winter
Do not permit yourself to be a vic-
tim to a cold or cough. They lead
to pneumonia, consumption and else-
where. Be wise: use Simmon’s Cough
Syrup. It cures coughs, heals lungs
and will keep you right here to enjoy
the beauties of spring.
He Knew.
“My boy, do you know the nature
of an oath?”
“Yes, sir, we got a parrot.”—Ex-
change. ___ _____
For Headache Try Hicks’ Capudine.
Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Nervous troubles, the aches are speedily
relieved by Capudine. It’s Liquid—pleas-
ant to take—Effects Immediately. 10, 25
and 50c at Drug Stores.
A man would rather lose $25 at the
racetrack than give it to his wife to
buy a bonnet.
over to Cure a Cold in Om bay. 25c.
. The most certain sign of wisdom is
a continual cheerfulness.—Montaigue.
Lewis’ Single Binder — the famous
straight 5c cigar, always best quality.
Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111.
And sometimes a poet fools people
by wearing his hair short.
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Hulbert, Elbert Monroe & Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1909, newspaper, March 12, 1909; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542576/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.