Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-11-04

accidental death.
An Uusuline nun at Boulogne. whose
Tooth birthday is to be celebrated, en-
tered her convent eighty years ago and
has never set foot out OF it since.
'Rradshaw's'' originator. Robert Dig
giles Kay. has just died in Southport,
Eng. Though he edited the g.lde for
forty-one years. he lived to he eighty
seven years of 10
Count Bo -iface de Castellale. Anna
Gould's husband. is about TO enter loli-
ties. He is a candidate for the ham
Der of deputies for the department OF
the Basses Alps.
A tilemaker named Outlet, his wife
and four children have committed sui
eide by the use Of charcoal fr,nes, at
Choisey-le-Roy, France. Poverty was
the cause.
Countess Samuel Gyula Of Budapest,
who VAS a Baroness Alice Becsly. is to
compete with the Princess de Chjmay
by appearing ut the Paris Olympia in
poses plastigues."
4 memorial TO the late Guy de Maus-
SAINT, the novelist. was unveiled III the
Pare de Monceau, Paris. The meInori-
dl Vldlioh WAS AtliNtl0u ny mn
lola.
H~ydrophobia, causing death, was
communicated TO n Paris young woman
recently by her pet dogs tapping her
face before it was observed that ii
had gone mad. The ~,foctor could find
no trace of a bite.
The United States embassy at Berlin
has been instructed to vigorously re-
new its remonstrances against, and 10
demand the repeal of the prohibition
against the importation of cattle and
fresh meat from America.
The negotiations of the Chinese gov
eminent with the Hooley syndicate for
a loan of $50, 100000 have been aband-
oned. The government is now negoti-
ating with the Hong Kong and Shang-
hal banks.
Two Mauritius postage stamps of the
issue of 1858, belonging to DR.. Lee
grand's collection, have been sold for
$4,000 francs TO NJ. Bernichon of Paris.
There are only seventeen impressions
Of these stamps in existence.
Bismarck's name has been the sub
ject Of an elaborate investigation by n
DR.. LANCE, who concludes that it is a
contraction of Bischofsm lrk, and re-
iects the derivation from Blese, the lii
tie river that flows near the Branden-
burg town, Blsmark,
The general disposition to increase
naval ornaments can be gagged by the
fact that. eighty-Seyen warships are
building in Great Britain alone. They
aggregate a displacement OF 3lS,G12
tons. OF these eighty-seven warships,
thirty-four go TO foreign governments.
The Prussian department of a%gricult-
ure has resolved to encourage fruit
growing. and is presenting fruit trees
10 the farmers living along the public
roads and railways. Several of the
provincial chambers have adopted sim
liar resolutions.
The chamber of commerce of Reich
enberg. Bohemia, has passed a resolu-
ton urging the government of Austri-
Hungary to negotiate with the other
powers with the view of taking con-
certed action against the new United
States customs tariff.
Leon Gutter, professor of paleogra-
graphy at the Paris Ecole des Charles,
is dead, at the age of sixty-tive years.
His edition OF the 'Chanson de Rol
and was adopted by the French
schools. and served to popularize the
study of old French literature in that
country.
Franz BetZ, the baritone of the Ber-
lin Opera house, who was the original
Hans Sachs when the "Meistersinger''
was first performed at Munich, in 1868,
is about to retire. He has been n mem
Der of the Berlin company for forty
eight years. He was the Wotam in
the first performance OF the Neibelun-
gen triology at Bayreuth in 1876.
The United States embassy Will make
an application to the French govern
ment for the extradition of William Il.
Foster, Jr., who absconded from New
York Sept. 26, 1873, with Slg5,Oo0 be-
longing to the gratuity fund of the
New York Produce exchange, and who
was arrested at Neuilly bg the French
police at the instance of Scotland Yard
detectives.
Herr Liebnecht, the Social Democrat
leader, has had the sentence of four
months imprisonment for indirect lese
majestic, inflicted upon him by a Bres-
lau Judge, confirmed by the supreme
court al Leipzig. Although he did not
mention the kaiser, the court held that
some of his words might seem t the
hearers aimed at him, and by the doc
trine Of the dolus eventualis it might
be held that in his thoughts he was in
sulting the ruler of free Germany.