Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-21
BRITISH UNREST.
The INSTRUMENTATION of the
Grenadier Guards.
SCENES PATHETIC AND AMUSING.

A Wave of Discomfort Rolling Over the
Tight Little IsIe-Recent Illustration
of the Power of Brawn-The Prince of
Wales and Prize Fight-The Ancient
Order of Hibernians Denounced-Gsr-
many and Austria Give the Turk q
Hint-Foreign Notes.
LONDON. July 21.-The sending of the
Grenadier guards to Natal as a punish
ment for characterization has caused a
great commotion among these unlucky
men and their families. The barracks
where the Grenadiers are located are be-
sieged by hundreds of wives and sweet
hearts, bewailing the fate that either sep
arates them from husband and lover or
compels them to follow to a distant and
| inhospitable CLINE. The scenes witnessed
at the interviews between these cOmpan-
ions in misfortune are both pathetic and
| amusing. In some cases the sorrow over
necessary parting is manifestly genuine;
in other cases it is apparently all on the
side of the one who is to be left behind.
Discomfort Everywhere.
1t is not known just when the departure
will take place, and it is reported that the
authorities will keep the place and hour
of sailing secret, so as to avoid connection
and unpleasant incidents as much as pos
| sible. The trouble which resulted in the
startling order that the guards should be
sent abroad is merely section of the
wave of unrest which is sweeping all over
the United Kingdom Not alone the aris-
tocracy, but the middle classes Also OF
England are deeply stirred over the man.
| ifestations of discomfort of which, The
London Times says, "there is much abo u,
in all ages, classes and occupations"
Gave the Colonel n Hint.
1t has been many years since England
| has witnessed anything like mutiny
| among English soldiers, but this move
| ment came so near being mutiny that i,
is the subject of rigid official investiga
| ton. The second battalion of the Grena
| dier guards, in which the so-called mutiny
| occurred, has lately lost many excellent
men because of rigid discipline, and the
| whole British army is suffering from the
| same cause. This fact even the military
| authorities are beginning TO appreciate
] and it is understood that Cal Maitland, oil
1 VIZ huS hCNOiNOu n 4uitl
| ton to be less energetic in discipline.
Trouble Among the Workers.
The trades unions are also everywhere
moving for increase of pay and shorter
hours. The ship joiners of the Thames
have succeeded in their demand for ar
| increase OF wages to shillings a day; the
Northumberland coal owners have agreed
| to an advance; the laborers in the Roya
dock yard Mt Sheerness have passed reso
buttons calling for an increase of wages
| and urging. somewhat reasonably, that
| the government ought to set an example
to private employers of labor by paying &
| fair days wages for fair days work
The newspapers are still discussing the
effect of the victory of the gas stokers al
Leeds
A Portentous Event.
Attended, as the strike was, by deter
| mined violence on the part of the strikers
who set military and police alike at def
| ance, and at length compelled large and
prosperous city, through its authorities
to yield to their terms, it is the most por
tentous event in labor annals that has
ever occurred in England. The Leeds city
council has been obliged TO buy off fol-
SIS, 600 the claims of the men who were en-.
gagged to take the place of the strikers
and who were hired for several months