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the case, was appointed conservator of5w?«V-V:S.066;He filed a boud ot $100^'■-.V lt;^ ^-'■**wsfeLfrr-A • ■ v, v._ ^of r^lx men sat ia^opeii-xn^ti^J^iider ^hile ^Mr. ^l^c^^and jipo»irney? 6url^ |bldfc them how ijtliejec^ centric princess had spent $400,000, in addition to an annual income ranging from $35,000 to $50,000 a year. since shedime into j^ssesslpn of her 1894. ^ Then the jurbre affixed their sig*-natures to-Jthe^y^ which’thewoman^waS declared il spendthrl^MgThe pi^ent ^don of the uncle was pr^ipitaried^by demand made in Fel^ai^ last from Egypt for $50,000 to pay the woman's accumulated debts. These had accrued in two years, during which time she had also spent her princely income. ^“Tell the jury* how she spends so much money/* directed Attorney Gurley, while Mr. Lyons was on the witness stand.“Well, take, for instance, this case. Once in Paris she paid $25,000 for a pair of diamond earrings. Then later wheij she needed money, she pawned them for a small sum, and never re* deemed them,” was the answer. Then Mr. Lyons tqld of her mania for buying clothing.“Not one hat, but a dozen. Not one dress, but a score,” said the witness. “She buys royally, and then gives the clothing away to her maids. Even houses and villas have been sacrificed by her in this way.” m, After Mr. Lyons had finished Attor-JurteimtlK^fiv' “ V : ?VMKS. MAKY J.KONARD.at the anniversary of the battle ol Fredericksburg In Philadelphia on Dec 13, 1S93. The photograph here reproduced was taken at the time. The cross shown on breast was one of the “Kear-ney crosses” presented for bravery by Gen. Phil Kearney himself. The keg is the one she carried in the war. 'Slio had a paper signed by President Lincoln attesting to her bravery.PKINCES6 X)K CUIMAY.ney Gurley, who has been the attorney for the family for years, told the jury of the manner in which tfcis great fortune came to the princess. He told them how the princess’ father, Eber B. Ward, when he died, Jan. 2, 1S75, left to his widow and two children vast tracts of pine land in the vicinity of Ludington, Mich. In years this be-| came very valuable. The widow, on ! her husband’s death, had turned the ! management of the estate over to Mr.. 1 Lyons, as trustee. The estate was rnan-’ aged jointly until, in 1S94, it was par-* titioned equally between the widow, i the son. Eber B. Ward, Jr., and the daughter, Clara, who was then the j Princess de Chirnay, having 'married Joseph de Riquet. Prince de Chimay.The divorce of the prince in 1891 took from the estate $300,000, which the courts allowed him for the support of the two children which had been born to them, and whose custody had been allowed him. This $300,000 is exclusive of the $400,000 mentioned in the testimony before the jury.“Clara isn’t really half as bad as she ! is painted,” said her uncle, Mr. Lyons. “You would find hard work meeting a girt who is more attractive or has a kinder heart. When she is under the influence of her relatives she is the last girl you would suspect of. going through the escapades which have made her so famous. But away from their control she becomes flighty, and nobody can tell what she is going to do.“She was born in Detroit, Feb. 17/ 1S73* He mother was my sister. Clara’s father dropped dead on the streets of Detroit when she was only 2 years old, and her mother brought her and her older brother to Chicago, where they lived for a year, when she took the two children to Europe.Why Negroes Die Young,The American Missionary Association makes public a report from one of its representatives iu Nashville, Tenn., concerning the death rate among the negroes of the South. The report states that in ten representative Southern cities for the past five years the death rate of the whites has been 20 in 1,000; that of the colored people, 32 in 1,000. The South is said not to have shown much concern about the rapid increase of the negro, since the census of 1900 made it appear that in he ten years previous the black race increased 12.24 per cent and white 23.91 per cent. The death rate of the negro is greatest under the age of 15 and least at the higher ages. The race is subject to a higher death rate than the whites from the following diseases:1. Consumption at all ages, but especially between the ages of 15 and 45.2. All diseases of infants. The colored mother too often does not know how to take care of her infant.3. Pneumonia at all ages.4. Scrofula and contagious diseases seem also on the increase.“FRENCH MARY.”Zinc of the Most Noted Female Characters of the Civil War.y • l . y •/-' ! • * %t ... * * .' • fc .* .Mrs. Hairy Leonard* famous as “French Mary/* vi vandiere of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Pennsylvania volunteer regiment in the Civil JWar' committed suicide the other day at her homeha*Pem^lvShe was one ofpielmdstl characters* oftl;€iyU' the • Pittstwi^patch. ^Wotmded^dnce in bat|le; she ■was/ honored in many consspicuouscide |lt;§riden^ ^many veanS the aged woman had been ian; Inv^id/and lhtely ^ gre^ f erer f rom rh eumatis m and a rebel bit£ let bfirtdeh she estill cairried in her lift ankle. She was 07 years old.Her father’s life was reTdluon^A She^was, age~ofeia3,- and; came to this country;iuefore^the•St. ■’Professor of Savage Languasres.One result of the war in South Africa is a great boom in the study of the native languages of the dark continentamong young Englishmen. Evidently many of them expect to go out to the Cape as soon as the present difficulty is over. Under these conditions a de-. mand has been Miss wjcbxek. created for teachers who are to talk and teach the various native tongues. One of the best known of these teachers is Miss Wer-ner, who occupies the chair of South African languages on the faculty of King’s College, London. She began the study of the Zulu language from books a number of years ago, but found that she could not make much progress without hearing it spoken. Accordingly she went out to South Africa and spent several years among the natives. living for months at a time far from civilization and with only a single comrade. In this ‘way she learned to speak the four principal native languages with fluency.Drama Was Poor Rubbish.In a recent issue of the Tidning Oal-sund, a leading paper of Norway, appears the following dramatic criticism that may indicate that Shakspeare has been greatly overestimated in other parts of the world.•‘The traveling theatrical company at present visiting this town gave Iasi night a representation of a play styled *The Merry Wives of Windsor/ by a person called Shakspeare. The play is said to be a comedy, but is terribly monotonous in its effect, especially the two first acts. An uncouth and besotted cavalier who flirts and spoons with a bevy of demimondaines, but who becomes a victim to their absurd in-trigues—such Is the sum total of the plot. We can only say that such a play is poor fare to in vite an educatcKl public to. It wasa relief wbjncurtain dropped and we had an opportunity of listening to a selection of humorousSOngS,”;;iAi Family; Money X^endera.; Since lS15vthe Rothschild faxiiny has ;'raised|^for .^i^t^B^toing-^orie mpis£ than000,000; for Prussia* ^iOO^OCK^OW^tefe $1^000,000 of thei■t'v:*After alt;.A.:o5S • *y' . Vv“ • -rwhich hieeiteIll
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Silver Lake Record
Silver Lake, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 13, 1901
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