The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-06
Men and Women.

William N. Chase, the painter, is to
paint portrait of Vice President Ho-
bart.
James B. Broderick, chief of the Penn
sylvania bureau of mines, began life as
boy in coal mine at 20 cents day.
William M. Evarts, though by no means
in physical good health, is as sound of
mind as ever, and his friends ridicule the
report that he is losing his reason.
Mrs. Eliza Melvin Schrader of Iowa
City is real daughter of the American
revolution. Her father was one OF the
men of re-" She is 81 years of age.
The Marquis Of Ripon is the possessor
os a Cromwellian relic. The metal plate,
with an inscription. which was on the
coffin in which Cromwell was buried in
Westminster Abbey came into the pos
session of the daughter of the sergeant
by whom the body was disinterred, and
subsequently became the property of LORD
Ripon who is a lineal descendant OF
Cromwell.
Herr Won Stephan, first postmaster gen.
era! of the new German empire, to whose
memory bust was recently unveiled IN
Berlin by his successor, was the only self
made man who ever rose to high position
in the Prussian state service. Stephan
not only founded the Universal Postal
Union and originated post cards but he
was the advocate of cheap international
telegraph rates.
The statue of Benjamin Franklin pre-
scented to the city of Philadelphia by JUS
tus c. Strawbridge. is being placed in
position on the postof1ice plaza, prepara-
tory to the unwilling ceremonies, which
are shortly to take place under the aus
pices of the University of Pennsylvania.
James M. Beck, Esq, who will deliver the
Grafton, is obtaining quite vogue in this
line. He did similar service at the I'M
yelling of Stephen Grard's statue two
years ago.
Prince Adalbert, the third son of the
Emperor William, will leave Germany
early in June on board the training frigate
Charlotte for nine-months' cruise. BY
the desire Of the emperor the prince, who
is 10 years old. will be treated exactly
like the other cadets on board. The Char
lotte will proceed via the Mediterranean
and the Suez canal to Zanzibar, and to
the German colonies of East and West
Africa, Rio Janeiro, the Antilles and
thence home.
1t was with sport that the late Duke of
Beaufort's name is most intimately asso-
ciated. He spent many tens of THOUSANDS
of pounds in maintaining the Badminton
Hunt. Although long a martyr to govt,
| he was scarcely ever known to allow this
| complaint to keep him out of the field,
| where the daring he displayed, even when
| an old man, was often the cause of envy
and wonder. He was all his life a straight
| rider to hounds. a perfect whip, a good
| shot and a successful angler.
| General Funston is full of dash and
I daring, yet he appears to be commander
| who reckons beforehand all the chances
| in an exploit One of the members of the
| 10th Kansas relates that before throwing
| his column across a railroad bridge neal
| Malolos, which was under the insurgen
| fire, the general ordered large detail OF
men to strip naked and enter the water
beneath the bridge to catch the dead anC
wounded who might fall off. This precau
ton saved the lives of at least two wound
ed men who fell from the bridge into tn,
| swift river. f&;"