The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-18
STRIKES SPREADING IN EUROPE.
Labor Troubles in Germany Are Ex-
pected to Have Widespread Results.

Labor Troubles in Germany Are Ex-
pected to Have Widespread Results.
By Cable TO the United Press.
LONDON, May IS, 1sS9-Strikes of a
most determined character are imminent
in the English and Welsh coal mining
districts and in Belgium in consequence
of the labor disturbances in Germany.
Any reports of the cessation of the latter
cannot be depended upon, the
articles to that effect published by
the German press having been
dictated by the authorities and, to speak
in the mildest form, are premature. AS
soon as the supply from the native mines
was cut off coal was hurried TO Essex and
other points from Belgium, and a great
quantity of English coal destined for
cities in France was shunted to German
lines.
A scarcity of gas coal is feared in Paris,
catastrophe, the Importance of which
may be imagined, considering merely how
ruinous any interruption of the lighting
arrangements would prove to the Exposi-
tion. Delegates representing the German
strikers hastened to England and laid the
matter before the miners union, and the
latter will require a guaranty from their
employers that no coal exported ostensibly
for French consumption shall be sent to
Germany until the strike there shall have
ceased
If a change now being considered by
the English military authorities is car
r1ed out, there will be something akin to
revolt in the most aristocratic arm of the
service. 1t is in contemplation to trans
fer the cavalry training school from
Aldershot to the Curragh of Kildare, a
much better place, allowing facilities for
manpuvering large bodies of horse
which are totally wanting at Aldershot
The grievances of the officers have been
many OF late years. Up to within quar-
ter of a century both wealth and pedigree
were necessary in an aspirant for a COM
mission in q crack cavalry regiment and
the swells of that exclusive branch fiat
tered themselves that though the line
might be contaminated by the sons of vul-
gar tradesmen they had Influence enough
to preserve themselves from contact with
such inferior beings. But some plebeians
have lately invaded even the cavalry, and
it is possible that the croWning indignity
may be inflicted upon them of trans
ferlfng them to Ireland.
AT Aldershot they could spend two or
three days of the week in London, and
still attend to their nominal duties, but it
they are exiled to the Curragh the Chan
mel will sadly interfere with such relief
from their arduous tolls. The
Duke of Cambridge and the Prince
of Wales have been frantically ap-
pealed to by many officers in
'the set" of the latter, and it is hoped that
the scheme of the coldblooded authorities
may be rendered abortive and the country
saved from the threatened resignation of
many of its most conspicuous ornaments.
They Would Have Killed the Czar.
ST. PETERSBURG, May is, 1ss9-The
conspiracy against the life of the Gar,
which was recently discovered among the
army officers in this city, has been found
to be more widespread than was at first
supposed Not only are numerous high
officers of the st. Petersburg soldiers
among the conspirators, but also the regi-
ments at Moscow and Warsaw are impli-
Gated in the plot s4
Three officers have committed suicide
A bomb was found at Warsaw and hun
dreds of the officers and soldiers had been
arrested there. Great excitement prevails
over the affair. The CZarina is completely
unnerved at the terrible discoveries.