Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-16
GOSSIP FROM LONDON.

LONDON, Oct 14-All sorts of disasters
have been confidently predicted as the re-
suit of the county councils sway in Lon
don, and it is useless to deny that in other
quarters than the ultra conservative q
great deal of anxiety is felt as to the issue
of some of the measures proposed, and
others which it is confidently asserted are
being considered. The Marquis of Sails
bury, among others, stoutly opposed the
creation of the body, and his eff
forts to deprive it of its power for
mischief may yet effect serious re-
suits, especially if he is aided b. the
council itself by such unpopular measures
AS the closing Of places Of amusement be-
cause some of the female habitues are not
all that could be desired. Great real
estate owners like the Duke of Nestmln-
ster are opposing, with all means in their
power, improvements involving the Sc
Questration of ground in the heart OF the
city for widening some streets and pierre
Ing new thoroughfares to relieve the con-
gested state of some of the main avenues
of traffic. A new outlet from the Strand
to Holborn will involve the demolition
of line of buildings not very
ornamental to be sure, but yielding
large rentals and the owners are
frantic with indignation at what they do
not hesitate to call open robbery. The
amount of compensation in such cases is
always unsatisfactory and it is certain
that the scheme for street improvements
will bring upon the heads of the council a
perfect avalanche of law suits. Visitors
to London, as we'll as residents, will hail
with joy the widening of the streets. The
owners of buildings on that great thor
oughfare are much concerned at the
threatened obstruction of all business
while the improvements are being made
and the consequent loss of rents.
Socialig5s feel grim satisfaction in
every i'm .ident which increases the discon-
tent of the rank and file of any of the con-
tinentai armies with their governments.
The recent strike Of the dock laborers at
Fiensburg was easily crushed by the au-
thorlties, who put soldiers at work leading
and unloading vessels in the strikers
places. The strike of the bakers in Berlin
recently was ended by the same arbitrary
process, bakers having been detailed from
the ranks Of the soldiers to supply the
places of the men who had refused to work,
and the latter had to submit. The mem
DRY OF these acts will not quickly die out.
The soldiers do not obey such orders will
ingly and these are only so many more
items added to the long account which the
down-trOdden masses are patiently await
ing an opportunity to settle.
A dispatch from Capetown says the
British gunboat Bramble has sailed from
there for Wall Fish Bay Oh special mis-
sion.
A Partisan journal has been interview
Ing eX-hing Milan, OF Servia, who says
very emphatically that his abdication of
the Seryian throne WAS not only sincere,
but intended to benefit and is final. He
does not intend to resume power in Servia,
and has no political aims in that country.
He was not at all surprised at the conduct
of his former queen, Natalie. She was
always fond OF kicking up row upon
the slightest prOvOcation or no provoca-
ton at all, and the present peculiar
condition of affairs in Servia gave her
an opportunity she could not ignore. He
ridiculed the suggestion that the eX-
queen had any assurances of support from
Russia, but admitted that her game was
to convince the Servians that Russia stood
behind her.
The Swiss federal council is on the track
Of various official abuses in high places,
and to remedy one of them has introduced
a bill making it unlawful for member of
the council TO hold any other salaried Of
fee. The bill viii be passed at once.
The entire upper portion of the province
Of Corinthia in Austro-HungarY has been
inundated by floods rushing from the
mountains, and the important city of
KlangenfOrt, the capital of the province, is
under water to the depth of several feet
Dr. Narpolink, of Vienna. has been made
bishop of Marburg
The Shoa mission will leave for Rome
next Sunday.