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Show Monsigneur Bichot Dead. WINNIPEG. Manitoba, March 17. Mgr. Rl-chot. Rl-chot. one of the pioneer Roman Catholic missionaries mis-sionaries of western Canada and for the past foity-three years parish priest at the French settlement of 8t Norbert on tha Red river, died today, aged SO years. The deceased priest took a prominent part In the Rlel rebellion In 1881. endeavoring behalf of the French half-breeds half-breeds to bring about a peaceful settlement, and waa one of the delegatea appointed by the provisional government to proceed to Ottawa I to draw up a bill of rlfbta |