The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-12-26
PeODIe Talked About.

People T0Iked AbOut.
Lieut.. Peary has learned 10 speak
the Eskimo language with all the ease
of a native. 1t is almost as easy to
reach the pole as TO acquire that
tongue.
Joseph Jester. a farmer living near
Muncie. Ind. has received information
that he is one of three heirs 70 over
800 acres of land lying in the heart of
Wilmington. Del.
Jason Brown. one of the two sur
viying sons Of John Brown. is about
to leave his home in Ohio and take up
his residence in California. The other
son, Salmon Brown, lives in Oregon.
\ good many years 10 Mrs. Kelley.
the English actress. who has Just Gel
| enrated her ninetieth birthday. said:
Modern theatrical art is like a spring
chicken; it is all legs and wings
| Rev. DR.. Fowler. member Of the
national Presbyterian committee on
Y. L. =. c. f.. has resigned his charge
at Cedar Rapids. Iowa. and has ac-
cepted a call 70 Los Angeles. Cal.
Samuel VI. Robertson Of Louisiana,
| Harry st. George Tucker Of Virginia
ana David F. WILDER of New York.
| members of me new congress. have
succeeded their fathers in the national
legislative body.
Frederick -. RanniSter. who has
Just retired from the office of chief
engineer of the London 4 Brighton
Railroad company. after thirty-four
years service. has been granted a pen
sion Of 5000 a year.
No man in Utah has fought Nor
moniSm more reientleSSly than Judge
{. &. Goodwin. the editor Of the salt
Lake Tribune. but no man in Utah
has been more active in doing acts of
kindness to individual Mormons.
The "Kafir king" Of Cripple Creek.
Col. is Winfield :. StrattOn. who is
said TO be worth 3.o0o,00n. \ few
years ago he was n carpenter and was
the first man TO discover gold at Grip
pie Creek.
II is rumored that the infant child
of Prince AdolphuS of Teck has been
pronounced blind for life. The queen
and the duke of Westminster 9TH" in
faut'S grandfather summoned special
lists from far and near. hut their YER
dict was that nothing could be done.
While Paderewski was in Richmond
some individual sent him Il banjo and
asked him TO write on the SnePpSkin Il
short musical sentiment. This is what
Padcrcwski wrote and signed: Il have
not the pleasure Of being a performer
on this beautiful instruments; am only
4 piano player
The intranSigeant of Paris says il is
reported that Capt. Albert Dreyfus.
who in January last was publicly de
graded and confined in a fortress 10
undergo a life sentence for having di-
vulged government secrets. has eS-
capped from the fortress in French
Guiana in which he was confined.
Mr.. Reed is the fourth speaker of
the house of representatives reelected
To that office after an interval during
which other persons occupied the chair
of the presiding officer of the house.
The preceding speakers thus reelected
were +. \. Muhenberg, Henry Clay
and John w. Taylor.
Edward Coils. who has been sen
fenced TO prison for eighteen months
in London for bigamy and cruelty,
fifteen years ago. when he was a
young soldier in the British artillery
in. India. at the battle of Maiwand,
held his gun alone against a hundred
.AfghanS. every II of whom was
firing point blank at him. and the act
was described as a deed of daring
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