People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 11, 14 March 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

When the last mail left Home Dr. L'eber, leader of the Cathojifc Centre in the German Reichttag, was seriously ill. ™ There were six Popes in the nineteenth century, Pius VII. from ISOO to 1823 ; Loo XII. from 1823 to 1829 ; Pius VIII. from 1829 to 1830; Gregory XVf. from 1831 to 1846; Pius IX. from 1846 to IK7K • Leo XITT tb<> prospnt supreme pontiff, elected February 20, 1878. Samuel Lewia, uio weil-kuown Jewish money-lender, who did in England the other day, left a fortune of between three and four millions, and made bequests to charities amounting to over a million. Under his will the Sisters of Nazareth, Hammersmith, come in for £20,000. Miss Eugenia Washington, a grandniece of George Washington, the first president of the United States, died last November in Washington. A memorial Jhqutem Mass was celebrated for the repote of her soul, December 31, in St. Patrick's Church, Washington. She became a Catholic about 30 years ago. There was lately buried at the Carlton Catholic Churoh, England, the venerable Mr. Himsworth, who had reached the patriarchal age of 1)4. Mr. Himsworth was created a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory, by the Pope, in 1882, for founding: a college ot Cork, to educate Catholic priests for the African Mission. Ushaw College knew him as a benefactor, and he was one of the principal contributors to the Goole Catholic Church. He gave nearly £50,000 to Catholic institutions. Colonel Bryan Mahon, the dashing cavalryman who relieved Mafeking, is to be banqueted by bis friends of the County Galway, from which he hails. Colonel Mahon, who earned the mess soubriquet of ' The Mahout,' while he was in India, would much rather fight through a heavy battle than attend a banquet in his own honor, but his Gal way admirers, proud of the lustre hie gallant behaviour has shed upon the old soldier-breeding county, are not to be denied, and he will have to ' face the music' Colonel Mahon is now :SS. He joined the army 17 years ago, bo that he has a splendid recor 1 for his length of service. Sir William Butler, who took the chair at the lecture delivered recently by Dr. Todhunter before the London Irish Literary Society, received the cordial welcome of which he has always been secure in any gathering of his fellow-countrymen. Of the many generals with which England has been supplied by the Bister country, the Daily Chronicle says, Sir William is perhaps the onlyone who has been sympathetic to national aspirations. There were many Butlers with the Irish General whose patriotism wa- the topic of the evening. More effective, therefore, was the ulm-io'i Sir William made to the illness of the Queen, and to the loyalty which Irelaud has shown to her person, and was willing to show again. Sir Frank Smith, who died early in January in Toronto, waa born in County Armagh 7 ( J years ago. When at an early age he went to Canada, he was both penniless and illiterate. He became a clerk in a e-ture. rone to be manager, and afterwards opened a grocery bu.-in- s* on his own account in London, Ontario. He went to Toront; in Im) 7, opened business as a wholesale grocer on a largo mji c, :i j<l re irei in I^9l a millionaire. Twenty years before this \*<t w.i* Mi'umoned to the Senate by Lord Lisgar, and from 1882 onwi.nis wis a member of five successive Conservative Cabinets. In IM»4 \w \\.\-* . llrired the Premiership, but declined in favor of Sir MiM ki „n !>.,\\e!l. He was knighted the same year. Sir Frank was a Cut'ioh..Trio iK.i li i \ reportei of Mr. Benedict O'Tcole, the editor of the A<lvt ft n< r, I'.irkenlie id, England, which took place early in tne3lst year of his ag" Mr. OTojle's genial characteristics and his anilities were well known. The poeition which he had attained at •■o early an age w.is a deserved tribute to his journalistic talents. Born in Birkenhe .<!, and educated at St. Francis Xavier'B College, Liverpool. Mr. (> Tcole was articled to the late Mr. Benjamin Haram. P'litor and proprietor of the Birkenhead Advertiser, in the year 1 8Si>, and so highly were his services appreciated that before he had even completed his indentures he became 6ub-editor and chief of the reporting staff, and since Mr. Haram passed away in 1897 Mr. O'Toole had filled the editoral chair with conspicuous success. He was a typical Irishman, and eminently popnlar with his colleagues of the press. He was a member of St. Werburgh's congregation, and for years was a bass soloist in the choir, and, a musician of no mean ability, he also held the pott of assistant organist. His eldest brother is the Very Rev. Conon O'Toole, D.D , of Oswestry, and his mother, who in her time was noted as a singer, Miss Roboon being her name, had just returned from Rome as one of the band of pilgrims under the guidance of the Duke of Norfolk.