Evening journal., 1892-12-03
FROM DISTANT LANDS.
A Budget of the Days Event
In Old World Centres.
THE SPREE SAFE IN QUEENSTOWN.


The Overdue Steamship For which So
Much Anxiety Was Felt Towed Into
Port with n Broken shaft-Her New
York Passengers to Sail Tomorrow.
Other Foreign News.
LONDON, Dec. 3.-The North German
Lloyd steamship Spree which left South
ampton on November 90 for New York
and was due in New York on November
3D. was sighted off Kinsale Head today,
in tow of another vessel. Great anxiety
has been felt both in Bremen and this
country regarding the fate of the Spree
which is commanded by Captain Wilt
gerod, one of the best officers in the At
lantic service
The Spree is being towed by the Brit
ish steamship Lake Huron, Captain
Carey, which sailed from Montreal, on
November 19, for Liverpool. All that
has been so far ascertained in regard to
the cause of the accident is that the
Spree has a broken shaft. The Lake
Huron is now off Queenstown with the
Spree in tow.
The Lake Huron is coaling at Queens
town and will probably resume towing
the Spree. The passengers on the Spree
are being landed. Some of them will
proceed on the Etruria tomorrow to
New York and others will await the
North German Lloyd steamship Elbe,
from Bremen, and Southampton. 1t is
believed that the passengers have suf-
fered horribly during the stormy weather
on the Atlantic.
English Press on Gould's Death.
In speaking of the death of Mr. Gould,
the st. James Gazette calls him the
"gambler millionaire" and says: ''The
most typical marauder of the age is dead
In his reckless contempt for honol
Justice, mercy or morality, he transcends
the giant spectators of the world. He
leaves a hundred millions of dollars ac
cumulated by gambling, swindling anC
fraud We don't like to speak i'll of the
dead but there is no other way to de
scribe Gould and the methods by which
he acquired his enormous fortune.
All the other English papers publish
similar leading editorials on the subject
of Gould's death, and some give sketche.
of his life and describe his more daring
operations.
To Extradite an Alleged swindler.
c. Hill Wells, the notorious Mont,
Carlo plunger and alleged swindler, ha
been arrested at Havre on variou
charges of fraud, and the British govern
ment has applied to the French authori
ties for his extradition. On Wednesday
November %, Labouchere's paper, Truth
which had previously exposed the swind
ling operations of Wells, stated tina
Wells had some time before purchases
an ocean going steamer and fitted her u
as a private yacht, that the steamer rC
mained for some time in Plymout
harbor, and within a few hours afte
Wells had been threatened with prose
cution the vessel vanished.
Valuable Coal Deposits at TucheL
BERLIN, Dec. 3-Highly valuable d'
posits of coal have been discovered q
Tuchel, in West Prussia. The fiscal e,
animation into the extent Of the deposit
will commence shortly.
A Rector Sued for Libel.
The trial of Rector Ahlwardt on IL
charge of libel in having published
pamphlet, accusing Herr Loewe, IL
Jewish manufacturer, with having fu
nished defective guns for army us
which were accepted by the ministry
war. was continued today. The prison,
handed to his counsel four official doc
ments, declaring that they were of colo
sal Importance. The court ordered tn
the documents be kept secret pendiT
the examination