Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — LORD PAUNCEFOTE DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LORD PAUNCEFOTE DEAD.

British Ambassador to the~United States Succumbs* Load Pauncefote. British ambassador to the United States, died at the embassy in Washington 'Saturday morning. The

officials were greatly shocked and expressed the •ieepest sympathy with the* widow and a realization of the loss which both countries have sustained. The foreign office representatives were particularly affected, as, apparently, they had no idea that the ambassador’s condition had been critical.

Sir Julian Pauncefote has long been liighTy regarded in this country as Brit - isli ambassador, which position he took iu 1893. He had been the recipient of unusual honors here for fifteen years. Lord Pauncefote, as the head of the British delegation to the peace conference at The Hague, was one of the most attractive aud interesting figures. A firm believer in peace himself, he had done much to avert a resort to arms uud to bring about universal peace. He was born at Munich in 1828, and was education in Paris and Geneva. He received a legal training and had judicial experience. He became a lawyer at Hongkong, and was mftde Attorney General of that colony in 1865. In 1874 he was made lord chief justice of the Leeward Islands, and was knighted. From 187.4 to 1882 he acted as legal assistant to the under secretary of state, first in the colonial office and then in the foreign office. He became virtually permanent foreign minister of England in 1882. In 1885 he was appointed delegate to draw up an act for the navigation of the

I Suez canal, and in 1888 he was sent to America as envoy extraordinary and minister pleniisitentiary at tlie time of the Lord Sackville trouble. Five years later he was raised to the status of ambassador. Lord Pauncefote was at Washington during two very critical periods, when the Venezuelan question came up. and at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war.

SIR JULIAN PAUNCE. FOTE.

FORT DE FRANCE. CAPITAL OF MARTINIQUE.