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Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12154, 31 January 1908, Page 4

The death is announced m London of Mr Howard Baker, who- was ons of the original Mohawk Minstrels. The Jefferson D'avis memorial association o f biew Orleans is planning to commemorate tbe hundredth anniversary of tbe birth of Mr Davis, on Ju ne 3 next, by breaking ground for tbe erection of an imposing monument to the only President of the Confederacy; Mrs RuSseii £>age, widow ofthe late Wall street financier, has just paid a sixty three year-old debt contracted by her father, Mr Joseph Slocum. He was interested in a salt business with one Ezekiel Oliphant, but the bnsiness did not prosper, and when it was wound up Slocum owed Oliphant £400. Mrs Sage on going through some old papers recently found a niemorandnm of ber father's debt, and sent a cheque for £10,000 to the heirs of her fatbei's dead partner. " Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria is the only Royal doctor. He hafc jusi complete his five-thousandth operation for cataract. He takes a fee only from thoso patients^-iiKlio can easily afford it. The Newcastle Cathedral, which is said to have suffered through the recent earth. creep, was recently sup(costing£2ooo). "~ **""" *~ 1 '"