The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-26
People In General.

George A. Fowler of Kansas CITY Las
given S2l 900 to rebuild the AGRICULTURAL
shops of the University of Kansas. re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
Sandow, the famous strong man, has
offered a number of valuable prizes for
the most symmetrically developed COM
petitors throughout the United Kingdom.
DR.. Hans Meyer. the African explorer,
will once more try to ascend the
faro this year, In order TO decide whether
its glaciers are old. The expedition Will
last about six weeks.
H.. w. Danforth, acting assistant sur
geon, who Is reported among the wound
ed at the battle of Santiago, is a Milwau-
kee man. He had previously served with
the Cuban insurgent army. being personal
physician to General Maceo for nearly a
year.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is little re-
nowned for anything save his huge col
lection of dressing gowns. lie has a per-
feet mania for this kind of useful gar
ment. and has paid as much as 100 gum
cas- for an embroidered robe made up for
him in Paris.
Henry ]. Havnor, the New York barber
who was convicted In 1895 of shaving a
man after / o'clock on Sunday afternoon,
carried the case to the supreme court ana
that body has just decided that the con-
viction was legal. The fine imposed on Mr..
Havnor was s., which he will now have to
pay.
The imperial chancellor of Germany,
| Prime Observation-Disclosures, is about
to sell the last Of his enormous posses
sions In Russia. They were the property
e - - -sa,- oa1 ~ ha- death had
TO be sold i'm accordance with the Russian
law forbidding the holding of real prop
erty by aliens.
Rev. Edward Huber of Baltimore has
shown that Commodore Schley's ancestor
was Thomas Schley. a German schooi-
! master who. in 1735. came to Maryland
from the Palatinate with about 100 set
tiers, and founded Fredericktown, or, as
they called II. Friedrichstadt.
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Captain Robert Powell Page Wainwright
OF the lst United States cavalry. who is
among those commended for good con-
duct at the battle of La Quasina, Is a
son Of Commander Jonathan Wainwright.
Killed in the battle of Galveston bay. In
1868. a brother of Jonathan Wainwright,
killed I'm the expedition against the pi-
ratical steamer Forward. and a brother OF
the w~ell-known actress, Marie VAIN
wright.
Ex-Chief Of Police Crowley OF San
Francisco has been presented by the chi
nese government with a banner which
confers on him the right to enter the pub
lie grounds of Pekin. This is the highest
honor ever conferred on a white man ex-
cept General Grant. who was also given
a similar banner Ii was given TO the
chief in consideration of his fair treat
ment OF the San Francisco Chinese dur
ing his % years lncumbency of the or
fee.
After the fall of Khartoum in 1855 an
enormous quantity of stores had to be de-
stroyed, owing to the want of transport
Among them were about a million rounds
OF ammunition, which was ordered TO be
thrown into the Nile. The duty OF super
intending its destruction fell TO General
Sir Herbert Kitchener, and when II was
finished he found to his dismay that the
contents of two of the boxes thrown into
the river were not ammunition. but lO.oe
gold sovereigns apiece, about 100000 in all
II is hardly probable that any attempt
will be made 20 recover the lost treasure
when the expeditionary forces reach tho
spot. for after a lapse of 10 years II mus
be buried beyond all hope of recovery II
the mud OF which the bed of the Nile ]:
composed. ~