The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-21

marry Miss Virginia Fair. Mr.. Cochran is
just now cutting something OF a dash In
the fashionable society OF New York
Is very attentive TO Miss Fair.
Senator Plat of New York has an enor-
nous stock OF good conundrums. which he
apparently originates himself. as tiny all
seem to be new. The senator is a natural
born joker.
The car has had his special den In the
ST. Petersburg palace papered with car
toons relating to himself. including a
great many ~caricatures Of the most RI
diculous sort.
Henry Keenan, and Mary Randall were
inmates of the Osbourne county, Kansas.
poor house up TO n few days ago. when
they eloped. leaving a notice behind TO the
superintendent that they had gone out
into the garden of hope 10 sip OF the How
ers OF love-"
Miss Maria Sandoval, who Is so far
Mexico's only woman lawyer. won her
first case recently in the criminal court
In st. louis In defending two policemen
charged with having needlessly wounded
a woman during an effort TO quell a dis
t~urbance. Miss Sandoval's defense was a
brilliant one.
"
Walter r. johnson has just celebrated
the 10th anniversary Of his service as or
ganist OF 81. Paul's Methodist Episcopal
church, New York. lie was an infant
prodigy and won his present position
in n large competition when only ~ years
old. He has given 1900 ~recitals I'm different
parts Of the country.
William L. Ship and William III. Smith
studied together at West Point, gradu-
ated at the same time. each rising to the
rank OF first lieutenant. AT the battle of
San Juan both were killed inside of Is
minutes and now bills to pension their
widows have been simultaneously intro
duced in congress.
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Professor William Conrad Roentgen.
the ~discoverer of the form OF radiation
that bears his name, has received the Of
fer of a generously endowed professor
ship in the University of Leipsic. He has
taught I'm Strasburg. H~ohenheim. Giessen
and Wurzburg. Since his discovery of the
y rays he has been made n baron by the
emperor Of Austria.
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Police Inspector Rhoades OF Brooklyn
was robbed of a valuable gold watch the
other evening while riding home in a
crowded street car. When ne missed the
~ "Ah,A tdthlik Jill ht y
bered having been jostled while on the
rear platform of the car. He went to the
nearest police station on the discovery of
his loss and reported II just like an ordi-
nary citizen has TO do.
The late William II. Smallridge OF Glen
Vile. w. Va. a veteran of the civil war.
carried a bullet in his heart for 81 years.
His death was due to the presence of the
bullet, and, I'm fact. he never suffered
any Inconvenience from II. Before his
death he asked a physician. in the inter-
est Of science. to make an autopsy In or
der TO find the bullet. The physician did
so and found 1t embedded in the heart.
II turns out that the dinner given by
William Waldorf Aston at Cliveden for
General Kitchener was not attended by
that celebrity because at the last mo-
ment he received an invitation from the
Prince and Princess of Wales. When the
prince learned that this invitation had de-
prived Mr.. Astor of his guest of honor he
wrote q handsome apology. explaining
that the princess had never met Lord
Kitchener and this was her only chance
to do so.