The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-05-15

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ceived the sentence calmly and with no
show of emotion She was taken to
the penitentiary Friday afternoon.
Miss Madelon Caufman os the Rail
road Jack" theater company, which
closed an engagement at Lynn Theater
Boston on Saturday. shot man who
was peeping through u window of her
dressing-room. She was dressing for
the last scene of the show when she saw
a mans face pressed against the window
glass. She told him to leave, and when
he declined to do so Miss Caufman took
a revolver from trunk and fired three
shots at him. The man uttered cry
of pain and disappeared. There were
spots of blood leading from the rear of
the theater to Summer street, showing
the way in which he escaped after the
shots.
By order of Bishops Fink, Hennessy,
and Cunningham of the Roman Catholic
church, the Catholics in Kansas last
week prayed for rain and good crops.
The order was issued two weeks ago
when Kansas began to suffer from the
drought. Special services were held in
the churches. However, before the or
der for prayers became effective, Kan
sas was visited by the heaviest rainfall
in a year, and in many parts congrega-
tons have been unable to attend the
services on account of showers.
Henry Walters, the art collector of
Baltimore, whose galleries already con-
tain many Of the rarest paintings,
bronzes, and ceramics in this country,
has just completed the purchase of 900
paintings and other art works in Rome
at ans aggregate cost of $1,00O,OOO. A
steamer has been specially chartered to
bring this collection to Baltimore.
The collection is especially valuable
in early Italian paintings. 1t has been
gathered, piece by piece, for many
years by the Rev. Marcello Massarenti,
priest who has an apartment in the
Vatican.
They include many italian paintings
of the early fifteenth century, represent
ing the dawn of the renaissance in art
Later Italian masters are also con-
spicuous in the purchase, though their
precise value and extent are not yet
known to Mr.. Walters friends in Bal
timore.
There is portrait of Raphael by him
self work by Titan, and portrait of
Bernini by himself. There are large
numbers of curios bric-a- brac, and lar
ger objects of art, including two mar
BILE sarocphagi of ancient Rome.
A dispatch received at Lisbon from
Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa,
says that peace in South Africa is GER
tain to result from the conference of the
Boer leaders, to be held at Vereeniging
Transvaal, May To- 1t is said the dis
patch continues, that peace will be Of
ficially proclaimed Nav %. Prepare
tions are afoot for general rejoicings.
After having met the burghers in the
field and explained to them the British
terms, the Boer leaders were to meet at
Vereeniging and reach final decision
on the subject of peace. A dispatch
from London, dated May 2, said it was
officially asserted that after their con-
ference at Vereeniging the Boer leaders
would proceed to Pretoria and announce
to Lord Kitchener the decision in regard
to the peace terms they were prepared
to accept.
IL expect to succeed myself as United
States senator" said Senator Mason,
who returned to Washington on Satur-
day. The state convention has moth
ing to do with the senatorship. The
fact that the convention adopted reso-
luton indorsing MIR. Hopkins under gag
and spur does not mean anything. There
is already a reaction against the stand
taken by the convention. That action
will not be ratified by the people.
will get enough votes in Cook county
with what | have outside to elect me.
Nearly 900 of my friends voted against
the resolution of Endorsement. The
fight has just begun. | am in to stay
and will be in it until the last roll call. -
There is sorrow in Pittsburg over the
dreadful calamity on the island of Mar
Unique. AT the Holy Ghost college, on
Bluff street, are men who mourn the
loss Of old-time pupils, fellow students
and friends.
Among the buildings destroyed at st.
Pierre was the college of st. Louis of
Gonzaga. 1t possessed faculty of q
professors, who instructed about 300
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