Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-19
FOREIGN.
Destitution and Suffering In Scotland

LONDON, December lS.-At Glasgow
the depression and distress are unex-
ampled. The streets are swarming with
men, women and children. Thorough
! relief committees are being organized.
A Dundee dispatch says: There is
much misery in that part OF Scotland.
No adequate measures for relief has
been organized in the northern part OF
the country, where the fishermen and
agricultural laborers are destitute.
At Manchester vast numbers OF the
middle classes of poor, who will not ap-
peal to charity, are suffering keenly.
A Liverpool dispatch says: 1t is
many years since the working classes
of London endured such distress and
privation. At Bristol there are large
numbers unemployed, and much suffer
ing. Waiver Hampton reports much
distress throughout South Statordshire,
and food, coal and clothing are being
distributed.
Failure in the Scottish Iron Trade.
LONDON, December lS.-A dispatch
from Stockholm says: Another firm,
j. IIirsh, has failed with three million
crowns liabilities, its difficulties having
arisen through the fall in the price OF
iron and Improbable operations in
building and land. The assets are re-
ported sufficient.
LONDON, December lS-Seubina <
Co., iron ore importers OF Cardiff and
Newport, have failed in consequence OF
the stoppage OF the tin plate works OF
Booker & Co., near Swanson, whose
bills Seubina Il Co. held TO a large
amount. This failure will considerably
increase the liabilities OF the West of
England and South Wales District
Bank.
The Times says: The firms which
lately failed are believed to have been
kept going by banks long after they
should have gone into liquidation. A
rather better feeling prevails in Sweden
now, but it is feared the bank managers
there have been no wiser there than in
other parts OF Europe, and hold too
many securities and too small Il proper
ton OF capital.
The Anglo-Afghan War.
LAHORE, December lS.-An official
dispatch states that Gen. Browne began
HIS IlldTCh W
which place he hopes to reach the 10Th
inst.
LONDON, December lS.-A special
from Jumrood, dated December 18th,
saws il has been determined to intlict
a vigorous punishment on Sukkin khels,
who led the recent attacks on the camp
at Ali Musiid. Twenty-Five thousand
men leave Ali Musjid to-day, Wednes-
day, to surprise their villages, which are
ten miles distant, and it is an
ticipated that the example made OF
these natives will have the effect of
pacifying the whole frontier.
Bayard Taylor Improving.
BERLIN, December lS.-Bayard Tay-
lor continues to improve. He left his
bed to day.
General Foreign Notes.
The Prussian Chamber of Deputies
adopted resolutions asking the govern
ment transfer of the Genital Prussian
railroads to the empire AS speedily AS
possible Mayback, Minister OF Com
merce, promised concurrence.
A special from Constantinople says il
is stated that Russia will not oppose
the StlltIlle lOI lllt lbdll udlaiitC'u ~
England provided the question OF war
indemnity is settled simultaneously.
The Porte notified the Servian envoy
that the Servians burned some Turkish
villages. The envoy telegraphed TO
Belgrade asking satisfaction be given the
Porte.
Ii Greece and Turkey do not agree on
on the frontier question the Porte pro-
poses TO submit the differences to the
decision OF the powers.
LONDON, December lS.-A correspOn-
dent at Pesth SAYS that the Eastern Rou-
melia Commission has decided to sus-
pend its labors, return to Constantine
pie, and not reassemble at Philippoplis
until the middle of next April. The
failure OF the commission is due to the
insufficiency OF the powers with which
the commissioners were endowed to
combat Russian and Bulgarian obstruc-
tons. Great Britain seems to have per
severed the longest, but finally in
structed her commissioners to return.
Russian Mission at Cabul Withdrawn.
LONDON, December lS.-At II. Peters
burg dispatch says the Russian Mission
at CabuI, has been formally and official
ly withdrawn.