The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-11-04
Eorcicu Notes.

ward Ianytry. returned Il WI ~
accidental death.
An Cusuline nun ut Boulogne. whose
Tooth birthday is to be celebrated en-
tered her convent eighty years ago ana
has never set foot out of 1t since
.Bradshaw's" originator, Robert Dig
Giles KAY. has just died i'm Southport,
Eng. Though he edited the "'ndc FOR
forty-one wears. ne lived to he eighty
seven years Of age.
Count Bonifacc dc CaStelialc. Anna
Goulds husband. is about to enter oil
ties. He is "A candidate for the nam
her of deputies for the department OF
the Basses Alps.
4 tilemaker named Outlet, iIs wife
ana four children have committed SUI
eide by the use 0f charcoal i'nheS. III
Choisey -lc-R Roy, France. Povcr!E was
the cause.
Countess Samuel Gyula of Budapest,
who was n Baroness Alice Becsly. Is TO
compete with the Princess de 'hi;lay
by appearing nj the Paris Olympia in
poses plastiGues.
\ memorial to the late Guy de Maus-
SAINT. the novelist. was unveiled III the
Pare de MOucrau, Paris. The memorl-
al Grafton was delivered by Emile
lola.
Ilydrophoba. causing death, was
communicated to Il Paris young woman
recently by her pet dogs tapping her
face before il was observed that II
had gone mad. The doctor could find
no trace of Il bite.
The United States embassy at Berlin
has been instructed To vigorously re-
new its remonStranceS against, and 10
demand the rpeal of the prohibition
against the Importation of cattle and
fresh meat from America.
The negotiations of the Chinese gov
crnmcnt with The HOOley syndicate for
Il loan Of SSO.WO.OOO have been aband-
oncd. 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 DIR. Le-
grandS collection. have been sold for
5000 francs 10 NJ. BernichOn of Paris.
There are only seventeen impressions
IF these stamps in existence.
Bismarck name has been the sub
jcct of an elaborate investigation by a
DIR. Lange. who concludes that il is Il
contraction Of BischOfsmark, and re-
.iects the derivation from Blese. the lit
tie river that flows near the Brandon
burg town, Bknark.
The general disposition to increase
naval armamentS can be gauged by the
fact that eighty-scven warShipS are
building in Great Britain alone. They
aggregate displacement of 3lS.Gl2
tons. OF these eightysevcn warships.
thirty-four go To foreign governments.
The Prussian department Of agricult-
ure has resolved to encourage fruit
growing. and is presenting fruit trees
TO 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 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. ut the age OF sixty-tive years.
His edition Of the 'Chanson de Kol
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 I'm lStjS
Is about to retire. He has been meln-
Der Of the Berlin company for forty
eight years. He was the Wotam in
the first performance OF the Neibelun-
gen tliology ut Bayreuth in 1876.
The United States embassy VIII make
IN application to the t'rnucn govern
mcut for the eXtradition Df William l..
Foster. .Er., who abscOnd2d rr,m New
York Sept. ~. ISIS. with SlySOnD be-
longing to the gratuity fund OF the
New York Produce cXc.Iinsc. ana who
police ut the instance Of Scotland Yard
detectives
Herr Liebnecht. the Social Democrat
leader, has had the sentence of four
months Imprisonment for indirect lesc
majestic. inflicted upon him by Bres-
lau judge. confirmed by the supreme
court at Leipzig. Although he did not
mention the kaiser, the court held that
some OF his words might seem 10 the
hearers aimed at him. and by the doc
trine OF the dolus eventualis II might
be held that In his thoughts he was In.
sulting the ruler Of free Germany.