Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-11-08
From Foreign Lands.

The latest rumor in political circles in
Canada Is that Sir Charles Upper Canadian
high commissioned to England, will succeed
Lord Saekville as British minister to the
United States. The authorship of the story
is unknown.
In receiving the archbishop OF San Fran
cisco, the pope OF Rome complained bitterly
Of his position and the action of the Italian
government. He exhorted the archbishop
TO stimulate American Catholics to a peace
fui agitation for the restoration of its tenn
poral power.
The corpses of two richly attired ladies,
one of them bearing a superbly jeweled watch,
have been found In Starnberg lake, near the
scene of the suicide of king Ludwig of Ba-
plete mystery. Two other ladies committed
suicide near the lame spot in the summer OF
1887, and their bodies were never identified.
Citizens of Portage La Prairie perpetrated
q practical joke on the Canadian Pacific rail
way by marching in a crowd to the Red
River Valley grade and acting in d suspicious
manner and as though about to put in a
diamond. The Canadian Pacific railway
officials came rushing up with locomotives
aud hand cars and guarded the crossing for
two hours. until convinced that the crowd
had no serious intentions.
The Manitoba government stole a march
on the Canadian Pacific by making a detour
in the track laying and running its line over
a turnpike near the blockaded points. When
the railroad force had their attention else
where the government put down the rails
hurriedly and ran an engine over the track,
thus reaching the provincialline on the other
side, The intention now Is to forward rails
and trans-ship them over the Canadian Pa
ciie track by hand. With an engine on the
other side they can be hurried to the front.
At present the Canadian Pacific has four
large forces guarding different points at an
enormous cost to the company. The report
IL current that the Canadian Pacific officials
fired their own bridge to turn public sympa.
thy in their favor. Supt. Whyte says that if
the company's property is taxed rates will
be raised, as they must make up any loss
out Of the province.
A banquet was given at the Hotel CONT
mental in Paris to commemorate the dedica-
ton OF the statue of Liberty Enlightening
the World" which was given by the French
people to the United States. Mr.. McLane,
the American minister, and NJ. Goblet, the
French minister of foreign affairs, were
among those present. The American minis
ter, in replying to NJ. Goblet's toast to his
health, said: The joy that the Americans
experienced In receiving tke Statue of Liberty
was equal to the pleasure yon experienced in
offering it. Before giving the emblem you
had given the thing itself. All of Che great
truths upon which modern social order is
based were elaborated and spread through
out the world by French genius. We received
them with ardor and finished by developing
them. II we have succeeded in reconciling the
liberty of each with the liberty of all, we eau
not forget that the germ came from France.
The modern world gravitates toward the
political orbit traced by France and America.
The symbol which the Statute of Liberty
represents will become a reality.