Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-23
SP0ILINa FOR FIGHT.
An Alarming Crisis in the Greek
Cabinet.
MINISTER'S THREATEN TO RESIGN
Unless War Is Waged Against Turkey
--.0pposition to Home Ruls.--
General Dispatches.

! LoNpOS, FEBRUARY y--.-DspatShes froin
Athens say that the war feeling in Greece
has been grstely intensified By the move.
ments of the allied feet in the Mediterra.
mean and the threat Of the Powers to disa.
bic or blockade the Greek squadron. A
Cabinet crisis is imminent Premire
Delyannis overswed BY the frm attitude
Of England and the other powers. team tS-
order the Greek commander to make even
formal exchange Of shots with Admiral
Sir John Hay, and hence the Greek feet
has retreated to Euboea 10 prevent being
bottled up in Salsmis Bay. This is terri
bly, CALLING to the Ministers Of War ami
Marine, and they have notified the Premier
that they will resign unless war against
Turkey is Immediately declared, so as to
give Greece belligerent rights aud preven,
interference BY the Powers except as de
clsred allies Of the Porte.
To add fuel TO the hsmes, tispsteh
from Sslonica announces great indigna.
ton there over the search Of another
Greek merchantmen by Turkish msn-oi
war. A number Of torpedoes which have
been placed in the channels OF Salonica
Bay have lately been stolen and taken
away. The work was. Of course, credited
TO the Greeks, and there MAS no Greek
man Of war in those waters il was sus
pected that the stolen torpedocs were beng
sent away on trading steamers. The
Greek steamer 0monia was accordingly
overhsuled BY q Turkish gunboGt. Her
manifest and other papers were examined
aEd ieund TO be perfectly regular, and the
captain Of the Omonia denied that he bad
any torpedoes on board, bu, the Turkish
commander refused to believe him. The
captain WAS therefore arrested, transferred
TO the gunbost and put under guard OF
marines. The 0monia WAS then thorough
ly searched, but as no torpedoes were
found the captain was finally released and
the steamer allowed TO proceed.
CHURCHILL ExrHusEs TIN oRiNGENrS.
LONDON February 29-lord Randolph
Churchill has been greeted with much en-
,husiasm in Scotland ard the North OF
Ireland, on his way TO Belfast, where has
gone TO assist the Orangemen in their op-
position TO Home Rule. Al Suanraer
near Port Patrick, where be embarked Tor
Belfast, be made speechin which he said
he imagined tha, Scotchmen had benefited
and were benettirg too mu,h h by their
union with England TO support or tolerate
any attempt to dismember the Umpire.
This sentiment was received with cheers.
When ord Randolph landed at Larne, II
miles north Of Belfast he received an ova
ton. The little town ia slmost wholly
/ Protestant, and every urhDgeman in II
seemed TO be at the wharf TO welcome the
ex Secretary Tor India. there were no
Nationalists present.
Tory politicians here say that the object
OF Lord RandoIphs pilgrimage is not 10
help the Irish Pro,estsn,s. to whom he
will be no more loyal than be was TO Per
nell, but 10 recruit q personal following 10
maintain bis pre;ensions rs a leader in tho
{ Tory party. Up 10 recent date be wa
seeking 10 organize Tofy.Irish faction ia
favor OF home rule. Failing in that he re-
sorted to bis usual acrobs,ic tac,ice, turn.
ing q complete somersault, and came up
smiling ns the determined foe Of
home rule, ard the champion
of the Orsngemen. OF course bis
former henchmen promptly dropped him,
with the exception 0I few friends whose
allegiance is on personal rather than polit-
ical grounds He expected, however, to
secure the support Of al! the IL ish loyal
lists, and cor bGden,y counted on the sixteen
4 Tory members from Ulster as q solid nu
cleus Tor bis new party. But these Orange
men are suspicious Of his new professions,
and they fail 10 flock 10 his standard
Therefore be has gone 10 lister, and Ia
exhibiting the burning seal Of q proselyts
10 get the Tory constituencies TO Recognize
him as leader, in the hope that this viii
force their mem bers 10 accept them "a their
Moses.
AN ArrEAL To ARMS iDgiLD.
In reply 10 the welcome by the people VI
Larne to day, Lord Randolph made rAbid
speech counselipga refOrt 10 arms Hs
said that the &C called home rule scheme.
under whatever drguise 1t might be pre-
sented, meant nothing lees than difsolG'
ton Of Irelards connection with Great
Britain. This would involve the placing
Of the Roy alisls Of the North under the
woke of the League Parliament TO be art
up in Dublin. This would be n monstros
ity OF IMPROVEMENT which would %
aohorrent 10 civilization. He counsel!sd
them, therefore, 10 organize ior dss.
pera.e RESISTANCE On their own soil, and
hand 10 hand, against the trai'orog' and
! murderous foe. lie warned them that The
struggle was only beginning, and that an
less England interfered with q strong bssd
70 protect her loysl friends in lre!std. Il
would speedily result in civil war and ira
tricidal bloodshed on the fields Of Antrim.
rug xEw ciaDIyAL's PiLuUX.
LoSpos. Febrssry 22.-hos, Reverend
William Henry Elder. Roman Catholic
Archbishop, Of Cincinnati, embarked al
Queenstown yesterday for ss" York, Oh
the Canard line steamer Gsllia. he 10 The
,, bearer Of the pslium cent By tho Pope "a
Archbishop Gibbon. Of Baltimore tbs
I, American Cardinal deSgbsts,