Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-15
CopNrioht, 1872.

Copyright, 1892.
LONDON, October 1.-The fact that the
| Prince Of Wales absented himself from the
! funeral of Lord TennJson on Wednesday
| in order that he might attend the New
market races, is provoking considerable
comment.
His action is especially dilated upon by
certain radical journals, which appear anx
| ious TO make a sensation similar to thai
occasioned by the baccarat scandal II
which the Prince was involved.
His absence from Westminster Abbey
would have been less reparked upon but
| for the fact that not a single royal person
age was at the funeral. though, as the
defenders of the royal faaily strongly en-
! phasize, they were represented by two
generals and two colonels, besides numer-
Gus splendid wreaths.
The efforts being made to arouse feeling
against the Prince will fall fiat. 1t is gen
orally felt that his Partially for the lighter
side of national life is so marked that to
show deep regret over the death of Lord
TennysoL would be mere hypocrisy.
Those agitating against his absence,
however, contend that his presence was
necessary, not as an expression Of his own
personal feeling, but as the next head OF
the nation assisting at national event.
The proposal made by the Parnellites
that the Paris fund be placed in the hands
of a committee Of three members from
each section of the Irish party, has failed,
owing To the Parnellites insisting that
claim of law costs be admitted and debts OF
the National League amounting TO over
920, 600 The McCarthyites insist that the
claims of the evicted tenants be the first
charge on the fund. Neither side will
yriald aDd tina daQdlOPk continues
Londoners, who oppose Mr.. Knill's cleo
ton as Lord Mayor, on the ground that be
is a Catholic, have decided TO make final
attempt to prevent his assuming the Office
The anti-Popery Association has prepared
petition to the Queen praying her TO re-
fuse TO confirm the selection of Mr.. Knill,
on the ground that he has publicly declared
that he owes first allegiance to the Pope
There is not the sliEhtast. chance of the
petition being gfante0, AID the petitioners
will probably receive a well merited snuo.
A manifesto has been issued calling upon
workmen out of employment to march In
procession behind the Lord Mayors show
on November 9, and afterward to force q
way into Trafalgar Square for the purpose
Of holding meeting there to give formal
expression TO demand for work or bread.
Among the passengers on the Germanlc
was Col A. L. Conger. Of Akron, Ohio,
president of the American Tin Plate Com
pany. He spent fortnight in Wales ex-
aiming tin plate plants, and he goes home
convinced that within two years America
will make all the tin plate thai will be re-
CURED. and at less than the average mar
ket price of the last five years. Conger
said:
IF America should not produce single
ton of pig tin it would be no disadvantage
to her, as of the "a, 600 tons produced in
1891, Cornwall produced 1900 tons, Austria
liza 5000, Saxony 1,500 and the South Sea
Islands the remainder. We can produce
black plates as cheaply as Wales, we get
tin at an equal advan age, and the chief
question is workmanship and wages. We
pay double the wages paid here and there
will be no difficulty in getting plenty OF
men. The smartest manufacturers in
Wales are removing their plants to
America"
The Welsh newspapers, commenting
upon Conger's visit, say tnat the tin plate
industry has failed 10 take root in the
United States in spite Of the government
nursing and coddhng, and that the people
there are beginning to see that while the
tariff has severely hurt Wales 1t hurts the
tin consumers in the United States much
more.