Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-20
THE WAR SCARE AGAIN.
Supposed Cause of the Depression on
European Bourses


VIENNA, November 19.-There seems
to have been some foundation for the
depression reported at closing hours
Yesterday on all the European bourses,
with the exception Of Paris.
The newspapers of the Continent to-
day are bristlng with alarmst rumors
and sensational intimations. Promi-
nent among these is the report, said to
be well founded, that the Russian gov
ernment has ordered reinforcement OF
0,000 troops to be dispatched to the
frontier, and that orders have been is
sued to largely increase the barrack &C
commodations at Various points along
the Russian frontier generally.
Coupled with the above announcement
is the report, believed to be correct. that
the Austrian government, in addition
to the reinforcements recently sent to
the Galician frontier, has ordered
large body OF troops to be dispatched to
strengthen the frontier guards. Tacked
onto these significant statements is the
fact that the German War Office has
ordered a large number OF portable
tents to be manufactured for the use oil
the Eastern Army Corps, with the view,
it is openly stated, Of shelterlng the
German troops from the inclemency OF
the weather in the event Of war this
winter with Russia. Additional bar
rack room is also being provided in
many towns along the Russo-German
frontier, and many cavalry corps have
been strengthened in the military dis
10 mould hoya n haar tha fret
onslaughts of the Russian armies
The opinion previously expressed In
these dispatches. that the Car and his
advisers are being driven to desperation
on account on the famine troubles, in
ternal political difficulties and financial
complication brought to an acute stage
by the recent failure TO float the new
Russian loan, and that war would be a
positive relief from these complications,
seems to be gaining ground rapidly, and
may be the cause of much OF the present
uneasy feeling. This feeling has been
increased by the fact that the Russian
Minister of War is said to have suddenly
Abandoned the project of purchasing
new smokeless powder and small caliher
rifles in France, and to have ordered
the Government ammunition factories
to work night and day at the task Of
filing old Berdan cartridges with smoke
less powder. Finally number OF vet
eran regiments are being transferred
from Finland to the Austrian frontier,
while the recruits alone are being sent
to the Baltic Provinces.
In view of these facts, it is not aston
81, ba 6anrnScn1 q nd
that the Austrian Emperor may, in an
unguarded moment, have uttered words
which he has since regretted and which
NAV have involved the Tdgebldu in a
criminal prosecution. The only bright
spot in this gloomy political horizon is
the announcement which is being CON-
mented on to-day, to the effect that Ba-
ron Albert de Rothschlld has gone to
the relief of the French syndicate
charged with floating the new Russian
loan, and that he has taken S5.000,000
OF the unsold script. This, naturally, in
view Of the attitude Of the Hebrew
bankers generally toward the Russian
government, is considered to be a
remarkable step: but, it is also recalled,
that the Rothschilds when the recent
financial panic, following the Emperor
of Austria's alleged alarmist utteranees,
was at its height, jumped into the relief
of the market by ordering their brokers
TO make large purchases of stock. 1t
would thus seem that the Rothschilds
are bulls in a very bearish market, and
Baron Albert Rothschild's action in re-
gard to the Paris syndicate is not hav-
ing the enlivening effect which 1t would
have had under other circumstances.