Capper

One who or that which caps; specifically, a person or machine for affixing the caps on cans in a canning-factory. Also, a workman who takes the filled moulds from a brick-making machine; a device for placing percu ion caps in the head of a cartridge shell; and (slang) a person employed as a decoy by mock auctioneers, gamblers and confidence men. Caprivi de Caprera de Monte-Cucculi, GEN. GEORG LEO, VON, German soldier and statesman, was born at Char lot ten burg, Feb. 24, 1831. He entered the army in his eighteenth year, and received rapid promotion. In the campaigns of 1864-66 he won distinction. He was chief of staff of the Tenth Corps in the Franco-German War, and in 1883 was placed in command of the Thirtieth Division at Metz. In 1884 he was appointed as the head of the Admiralty department. After the reorganization of the navy by Emperor William II, Gen. von Caprivi returned to the army, and took command of the Han over i an Army Corps, one of the finest in the army. He succeeded Bismarck as Chancellor of the German Empire and President of the Pru ian Council, Mar. 19, 1890. Caprivi retained the chancellorship, but resigned the presidency of the council, October 26, 1894.