The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-15
Prominent or Peculiar.

a close friend of Speaker Reed predicts
that he will become an ardent champion
OF the cause of Cuba in the near future.
Pope Brown declines to be a candidate
Tor governor Of Georgia, for the reason
that his own affairs require his atten-
ton.
Manlio Garibaldi. the last surviving son
OF the Italian liberator. has resigned his
ieutenancy in the Italian navy because of
broken health.
Succi, who recently completed his sixty
fourth public fast in Rome. has abstained
from food in his performances for 200
days of his life-nearly seven years
Ambassador Draper was present in
Rome at the casting of bronze statue of
General John A. Logan, made by the
sculptor Simmons for the monument in
Iowa circle, Washington.
After gravely rejecting for a few mo-
ments Joseph Jefferson replied as follows
TO Cincinnati bore who asked him
when an actor ought to retire: We'll,
counting the time for getting out of
tune and the SlowneSS of hackmen, |
think an actor should retire at about
HE
Lord Beresford," the English impos-
tor, who, after serving term in the
Georgia penitentiary, was compelled to
leave Fitzgerald between suns for whole
sale victimiZing of trusting friends. is
now in the City of Mexico, negotiating to
furnish the city with new system of
waterworkS.
Col. j. w. Slater who was connected
with Henry Watterson in the publication
of the famous Southern paper, the Rebel,
during the war, recently told how, on
day when Watterson had written a blaz-
ing article telling the soldiers to stand
like Spartans i'll the rain of bullets he
had fled in terror from a building which
had been struck by shell.
John Campbell, proprietor of hotel at
Warren, o., enjoys the distinction of be-
ing double cousin of President Mckin-
ley. His father and Mr.. Mckinleys
grandmother were brother and sister, his
mother and the presidents father hav-
ing been cousins. Not only that. MIR.
Campbell bears remarkable personal
likeness to the nations chief magistrate
Governor Bushnell of Ohio gave par
don to Ralph Wintersgill, a life prisoner.
on Christmas day, which was promptly
refused. Wintersgill is now 20 years old
and has served 20 years. In declining the
pardon he said the state had united him
for life and that he did not care to go
back in his old age to a world that had
| forgotten him and preferred that the
state should continue TO care for him to
| the end.
Major. A. c. Rosecrans, a prominent
manufacturer of Evansville Ind. and his
| wife are to give a completely equipped III
| dustrial and technical school to the city.
| He has made "a careful study of such in
| stitutionS all over the country. lie has
! become convinced that il is best to incor-
porate such a work under Christian aus
pices. and that there is no institution bet
ter qualified for its supervision than the
/ Young Mems Christian Association.
y committee specially authorized by the
car and formed under the honorary pres
| idency of the Grand Duke Constantine
| Constantinoyitch is about to open sub
scriptions throughout the Russian empire
! for the erection of a monument to Tourg-
| uenieff in his native town of OreE The
! great novelist is not entirely without COM
| memoration in his native country. few
years ago tablet was affixed to a house
| in Bougival that Tourgueineff lived in
and that is still inhabited by his nephew
! Paul Tourguenieff. a sculptor of talent
Mr.. Scheurer-Kestner, the champion in
| France of Captain Dreyfus, was. when q
| student in 1852, sentenced to four months
| Imprisonment and a 2,G00-franc fine fol
some republican propaganda in which ht
was implicated. Subsequently the EN-
press Eugene obtained his pardon and
grant of 100 francs made al the same
time to his cell mate. By some mistake
the two orders were confused, the Gel
mate being released and Scheurer-k est
ner. though he received the 100 francs
was obliged to complete his term of sen