Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-11-19
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The Republic to BE Represented n CHI
capp by Dbj una Men.

The Republic to BE Represented n / Chi
cago by Objectionable Men.
New York, Nov IL The announce
ment that Nj. du Sommerard, who was
one of tho commissaires generauX of
the French department of the centen-
NAL OF 1876. and Captain Anfryc. who
was the deputy commissioner for the
French republic TO that exposition,
will probably be identified with tho
French section of the Worlds Column
bian exposition has served to call to
mind an episode connected with their
official relations TO this ~country at that
time, ard which created considerable
of ar international sensation. 1t was
in August, 1876, that an extraordinary
letter was published in n number Of
German newspapers, and which, it was
GAINED, had been written by Nj. du
Sommcrard to a friend in Germany.
In this letter it was declared that q
Slight fire, which had occurred
in the main building of the
centennial was an act Of inccndiarism
Oh the part of the Americans, who had
set fire TO the building containing the
French packing cases with the hope Of
destroying the French merchandise;
that the attendants were thieves
without exception who stole openly
from tho French department; and
that not only did the Judges ii. c the
magistratesl palliatc these acts, but
they actually participated in and
sometimes promoted the robberics re.
ferred 10 Not content with these as
h]ertions Du Sommerard made n vilS
and brutal attack upon the manners
and virtue OF American women I'm,
msdiateiy upon its publication in Ger
many the letter was teicgraphed to
the Paris Figaro, and thence caLled
N,ross n water. Its publication in
the newspapers of this country created
Il zen alton, followed by n storm of
Indignation. The late Hon. Ellhu
WashOurne, who was at that time
United State; IN mister TO France, was
prompt to act. After apprising the
state department at Washington OF the
statements contained in the letter, he
penucd a vigorous remonstrance to
Marshal MGMahon, who was at that
time president of the French republic
In the meantime both the Comic do
Brisnach and Captain Anfrye, the
French commissioners at philadei-
phia, had FASTENED 10 deny that any
charges had been contained in their
official reports TO the minister
OF agriculture and commerce, who
was president of the French
commission, upon which Du Sommer-
ard could have based his statements,
although Captain Anfrye admitted
that he had frequently Jcen compelled
TO complain of the insulting action of
tho centennial guards, of their dis
courteous conduct toward French cx-
hibitors, of numerous robberies from
the French department. and likewise
admitted hat he had been compelled
10 call upon the French government
for ten members of the Paris provincial
police to 60 guard duty in the French
section. Du ~Sommerard, on his part.
claimed that the letter had been
greatly magnitied, but an apology for
his action was made by
the French government, and
the sensation finally subsideI.
For the remainder Of the period during
which the centennial remained open,
however, the relations between the
American and French commissions, so
far as the boundaries of Fairmonnt
park were concerned. was decidedly
frigid Now that it is reported thai
the Frenchmen in question win be
identified with the French department
Mt the worlds fair, the episode has
been called to mind, and the feeling is
strongly expressed in commercial AMI
other circles having relations with the
sister republic that it would not be
good policy TO identify any Of those
concerned in the affair in question
with the control Of the French exhibit.
Baby Farming in Australia.
SYDNEY, y. S, Nov. IA few DAYS
ago the arrest Of the adult members of
the family named Maxim, who wee
suspected Of being engaged in baby
Warming, wus announced. The bodies
Of seven infants were found buried in
the back yard of the house occupied by
the family at Macdonald, u suburb of
this city The excitement eau Cd by
this discovery has been increased bs
the finding of the bodies of four more
infants in the yard OF a house formerly
occupied by the Makins at Redfern,
another suburb
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