Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-11-21
.BATTLESHIP BUILDING
RECORD TO Be BROKEN
British Dreadnaught to Be
Rushed to Completion In
Five Months.
NOTED PICTURE is SOLD
Oldest Canvas In World to Be Sent
to Ameriea-Mysterious Amer
lean Woman Is
SOUGHT, IN
NOTED PICTURE is SOLD

London-Special: Battleship build
ing records are to be beaten by the
British navy il the plans of construc-
ton of the latest British dreadnought
are carried out.
The new vessel is ordered to be ready
for launching five months after the
laying of the first keel plates
Somewhat of a sensation was caused
at Portsmouth when 1t was officially
announced Immediately after the
launching Of the Iron Duke that the
keel plates of the super dreadnought
which is to follow were to be laid next
Monday. In recent years 1t has been
the practice to allow two or three
months to intervene between the
launching of new ship and the laying
down of another.
1t is said that promises have been
made to the admiralty that the new
ship will be ready for launching with
in the five months and she will be
ready for service within one year. thus
beating the record of the original
dreadnought by two months.
It is also claimed that the new ship
will be as great a departure from pre-
vailing types as the dreadnought was
from Its predecessors. Provisions for
Oil fuel will be made in the new vessel
and she will be armored to resist air
attacks.
The United States will probably
possess the oldest painting on canvas
in the world in a short time
The picture, which was discovered
by Robert de Rustafjaell. of Luxor.
Egypt is about $500 years old and it
is executed in wonderfully bright coll
ors on well-preserved cloth. 1t belongs
to the period when art in Egypt had
reached its zenith and the figures in
1t are not nearly so stiff as the usual
rock paintings ornamenting the in
terror of Egyptian tombs.
Rustafjaell is associated with an
English company engaged in agricul@
ture in Upper Egypt and all of his
spare time is devoted to archaeology.
Besides the painting, he has uncovered
some valuable papyri and the largest
collection ever made of Egyptian flint
instruments.
Before he left Luxor with the paint
Ing, an American traveller offered the
finder a large sum for the work but
at that time he was determined to keep
1t for his own collection and refused
to part with 1t. Since his return, how
ever, the offers have been raised to
such figure that he has consented to
negotiate for it's sale. Rustafjaell de-
clares that the most tempting offers
have been made by the London agents
OF American collectors. and he feels
sure that the painting will be sent
across the Atlantic
The suffragets are pursuing consti-
tutional as we'll as militant methods Of
gaining their ends. They are about
to present petition to the house Of
franchise the women Of Great Britain.
This is signed by the representatives
of the leading women's organizations Of
Australia.
ground of the success which has at
tended similar action in Australia and
on the further ground that Australian
women removing to England are hui
inflated by being disfranchised
mysterious American woman is
sought by the English probate court
in an effort to prove the death of an
English banker, who. after disappear
ing on the eve OF his wedding day, is
belonging to the American.
The court has been for the fourth
tlme asked to presume the death of
William Robertson Lidderdale, for
On January 8. 1892, Lidderdale, on
the eve OF his marriage to Miss Eliza
beth Chapman. in whose favor he had
made q >. viii; left for London after
ora craving aa $1,000 from his private bank
ceived from him on the following day
Dy MISS Chapman, on alighting at
r ~ station, he had met Miss
| vlning, an Old love. Nothing more was
J heard OF Lidderdale until February 10.
1892 when the following notice an.
peared in the obituary column OF q
London newspaper: -
Lidderdale-On January 80, on Miss
B. A. II. Winnings yacht FORESIGHT. viii
liam Robertson Lidderdale. Of ilmin-
ster. The result Of an accident on
in notion"
subsequeltnly Miss Chapman re-
a {cfo HoAA
1880 In bank notes, some THINKERS and
some OF Miss Winnings visiting cards.
On one OF the latter in Lidderdale's
handwriting was written. WAS true
It has been suggested that Mise
Vining never existed and until the
present nearing no proof Of the fact has
been advanced. A director in Lidder-
t Gaae 3. pam now comes forward with
ing, who was strikingly beautiful
woman about 40 years Of age Her fun
name was Miss Beatrice Alice Hasle-
dean Vining. She had no fixed abode.
but was an American citizen. She
evidently spent most Of her Time trareIs
ing on the yacht Foresight, which was
never registered with Lloyds, but which
witnesses have described as having
been anchored of Westgate in 1890.
Ihe judge said he believed there was
MISS Vining and expressed the hope
that through the numbers on the bank
notes some trace of her or the missing
man might be found in America.
the case has been adjourned in the
mystery and her equally mysterious
yacht may be established. a
a Risk.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
His Dad-What do you think OF the
new baby, Earle?
little bit risky getting one now. before
the 1919 models are out? a
Automobile statistics show that there
are 76.1e licensed autoraobiles a. New
York state. The city OF New York has
more than half Of these a % The rest