Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-15
RUMoRs OF WAR.
SPARKS BURNING IN RUSSIA,
SICILY AND AFRICA,
Which May Flame Up Into General
Confagration = Has Humbert
Made Ready for Flight?

dasb 10, .....to5 t-,r,ne There has
go.
beeh some strange SORT Of hlsnt en-
c0tnter between English and French
forces In the busb IN the Niger Valley in
H., $50 tr,.t.-i,-5 lot,yoon Sierr,
s"o' ''Hue ii'n'e''Ai,u -,
Leone ana SeneghmDin lhree Wei-
known young English officers, with six
Zoos, t1o,b .oi5t.rs Ia British uniform.
-, - ,n5-i ~. F.,,oh ,,,o,nors
nave peeh AilIeu " -
Original reports from Sierra Leone Doth
TO the news agency and the foreign Of
&C. ,-.rih.o a.. ..,i,, 10 a mistake ON
me- ,"' ~ ~,
rue part or the rench' VINO are sulu ~
have taken the negroes of the West India
-.,,i,,..,t Js..,,,t,. tb.f- ,,,ff,r,,s f,r saw
i'-'i''I' Ne9P''e 'H1'' $50
age natives.
10 put II mildly, TINS eNplanai lon I'M
presses London as quite too thin! Skep-
tcism Is all the more easy because Tor
years back q number of French officers
along the Upper Niger, notably Lieut..
Nixon, have been displaying the utmost
rancOr toward the English, and have
been boldly taking, on their own iniu-
alive. line OF practical hostility which
the French foreign office has been forced
10 disnyow.
Milton returned 10 Paris q few months
ago and told his side OF a story, which
hoth tbo Egtpiish and Belpinp oiicinls Ia
tbo Moor 6n,n countrv denounced as
a mi, ~ a. T,,, ,ybirb ca t,ok the Pa
r,IIio', 49, ti,at NJ, h.cane tbe hero
- H., 80 ar,5 ~ p.riai,n nrsgs hul-
- %. - s.'.i',,' ~, intn a
~, ~. Wv IL. .t,s a. L,rs,,sh la.
taeal Pi3aiisg 'h'1 , is UinierIond
tyIeSl7 III tHe utualnp'u - -.
saoulu Ue more ''soIyusiy -
nesc ahteGelcht Glrcullhlunggo Iuisn H.. a
tolerlby auDsInhthl prrauniPuou WuFaIIi.'aIt
theory lhat the catastropne az hurlhh
was due to an innocent hlsllIe'
In spite oh ms ietlhE inc l,"huoh pa
pers speak very Suardcdly 0t me mattel
Ministerial papers Ike me pally news
and the Chronicle ure q TRUE more hi4 w
bt IN tone Than the Times Aud the rory
organs, while Tie evening papers 81 nh
shades counsel cool ncals ana paneh''
uu ~ Is seen what INC Ifench VIII 40.
So far as one hears iron iurls' there are
only. brief comments. pitched IN rather
careless key ana iofeshHu9WilE q posi- won
tLnt tho fault was brush because tinelr
troops were not on BRUSH territory rms
apparently u qWle untrue lHe 9auErr
Is hoL 80 ihuc' tnAt lue-r r'ilch luIe'-n ' 81
nee desires 70 hNolu ~ gPNlVE! Mln lyPH-
ration as mat the lnrlous anu, i-ng'i'sn
7Itl5 'l oti7 "'E l"'i Wy . I'M ~,
Mui,h WIZ eyite tle lpttisu IN ~, ia'io
I,i,,F','S ] "a s,,,, ii,t,,t .''5
VIZ 'l' vuS' '' ny tiiui , i.'s
thr present rs l.vu w ny e'e'' D'uS
a. iIt NM, bcl, o,,r,s n, q,
,,lgi ' innnr,,t,,,,' ''' 5,6,nnut n Gnds al
W,,r',,,.. VIM, ed ovrT tbe frn tryjng In
~ r., -, ;ts.if ,,,rin t,,l;Ic 6rtsiJ.
tbr ,yi,,te r.,ntirrnt from III" RiHcl, son
"a tbe Rov ~ Riscav il d.solotrl Nv
or.iir u,injs and covrred deem Win snow
iI,r nt.rs the Britisb Islands know some
hing nj what winter elsewhere is like.
Tiree heavy falls Of snow on three SUE
rssaiye dnys with the mercury steadily
down In tho tweniies have given England
the most po'nr aspect she hns worn since
1872. In many pRrta Of the Kingdom
lower temperature has been reached this
week than was ever reached before since
records have been kept Coal was put
up yesterday TO $500 which 10 the pow
erty-sitrkcu pnrls Of London where only
tiny quantities are bought meaus fully
double and often more.
u ~ NOT strange under s9'h Go9dl'
tons. that lnducSts on starved aud lrO-
zen corp,es are multiplying in the Stun
parishes aud that the accustomed wall Of
the unemployed in the East l.ud takes on
@ note OF bitter menace winch mas hardly
been heard before. 10 have these de.
pressing internal troubles forcing them
selves upun his attention simultaneously
with tho sprlngng M OF alarming for
cigu complications right ON the other side
of that unrrow English t'hannel is, no
doubt hard on John Bun, but it will help
him to comprehend more generously the
state OF perpetual. strain ana two-fnccl
anxiety In which his continental neigh,
bors are, doomed to live until Arranged
don shall have been fought,
II Italy is not ON the verge Of that roy.
olutiou Of which l spoke q month ago,
she is providing q remarkably convincing
imitation of It. The extreme measure Of
putting an Sicily under martial law may