Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1899 — IN THE PUBLIC EYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The announcement is made that Maud Gonne, widely known as the Irish Joan of Arc, is about to start for Sonth As-

rica, determined to help the Boers against the English, whom she hates as bitterly as does Paul Kruger. Miss Gonne is the daughter of Col. Gonne, once an attache of the British legation at SL Petersburg. She was educated in Ireland, where her father had large es-

tates and was classed as One of the strongest supporters of the policy of coercion. When she was 19 her father died and she at once embraced the cause of the Fenians. She soon became one of the most bitter of the Fenian orators and was arrested and sentenced to serve six months in prison. She has since visited the United States and Italy, everywhere preaching undying enmity to England. It is now reported that she is going to South Africa with the idea of actually leading the Irish adherents of the Boers into battle. All Sicily will celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Francisco Orispi. There he is regarded as one of

the greatest men the world has produced, while even in the towns of northern Italy there will be ■celebrations in his honor. In spite of the generally admitted fact that he took bribes as a legislator, and blackmailed Italian financial institutions, h i s services to his country have given

him popularity, while his practical retirement from public life has softened the animosity of his political rivals. Even his bitterest enemies will contribute to the apotheosis of the man who has been called the “Bismarck of Italy.” Like their colleagues of the mounted police in Canada, the Cape Colony police are picked men, used to fighting, and

proud of the high reputation of their corps. The force consists of 2,000 enlisted men. and 68 officers. The men are recruited almost entirely in England, and are, many of them, the younger sons of gentlemen, who have no means of making a livelihood at home. They are mounted and are paid SSOO a year, out of which they are obliged to keep not only themselves but their

horses. They are said to cherish a particularly bitter hatred of the Boers. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of Brooklyn succeeds Miss Susan B. Anthony, retired, as president of the National As-

sociation of the Woman Suffrage Societies. This fact was announced" during a meeting of the Philadelphia Woman Suffrage Society. The new president is a popular young college woman and has for I a number of years been associated with Miss Anthony in advancing the work of the organization.

Before Alfred G Wynne Vanderbilt started on the trip around the world, from which he was called back by the

death of his father, it was reported that he was engaged to be married to Miss Elsie French of New York. Now the report is again revived. Miss French is a young woman of 19, and the daughter of the lata* Francis O. French, formerly president of the Manhattan Trust

Company. She has an independent fortune of her own, having been left between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 by the will of her father. . J As Jules Guerin and the twenty-one other admirable associates of the Duke of Orleans are languishing in confine-

ment, the importunate exile has formed a new committee in Paris, the most important member of which is the Due de Luynes, an active and able propagandist. True, M. Royer Lambelin is the

nominal president, but sometimes it is convenient that the real head of a conspiracy should apparently occupy an inferior position. National Tinplate Company, with $3,000,000, will be incorporated in West Virginia, to develop patents which are expected to revolutionise the business. Count Von Moltke, Berlin, tnember of the Emperor’s staff, has been granted an absolute divorce. The decree places the entire blame upon his wife. White residents of Mitchell County, North Carolina, refuse to let colored men work on a new railroad now budding. -- , ; 3 Australia has 10,000 men willing to

HISS GONNE.

FRANCISCO ORISPI.

CAPE POLICEMAN.

MRS. CATT.

MISS ELSIE FRENCH

DUC DE LUYNES.