The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-08
London Pictures
by Richard Willis
Interesting Resume Of the Important
Events of the Week.
THEY WANT PAY FOR MEMBERS
Trades Unions Desire to Have Represen.
tatives in Parliament Receive Salaries
Sufficient for Campaign Expenses.
Threatened Bagpipe Epidemic.

of the Trades Union congress waited
upon the prime minister to urge the
government ito make provision for the
payment of members and also for the
expenses of the returning officers. They
pointed out that the United States and
the colonies all paid their representa-
tiVes and thereby returned men who
were in position to understand ques-
tions pertaining to labor matters,
whereas in England when a poor or
working man was returned he was
obliged to depend upon precarious sub
scriptions, which moneys are collected
from the laboring classes. The annual
sum recommended, $500, would enable
suitable men to return to parliament
and to attend to their duties in an eff
cient manner. Lord Rosebery in reply
promised to do all he could in the mat
ter, but appealed for reasonable time
and went through a formidable list of
bills already pledged next session.
Scotland, Wales and very much Ireland
and even England! were all pressing
for first consideration, and what is a
poor Liberal government to do? The
deputation then said that Mr.. Lord
Rosebery was a very nice man and
gracefully withdrew. If the subject
comes up next session 1t will undoubted-
ly attract great amount of attention,
as the arguments embraced by the
trades committee are just and fraug'ht
with great common sense.
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to be lightly asked in the presence of
oagpipes. On occasions the Scots
guards terrify the babies in the London
parks and the Highland sports held an
nually are one big screech combined
with wall, but one composes oneself
and bears up, so to speak-on land. But
now the martial music is going abroad,
Why" says Lord Rosebery, should
not sailor boys have their bagpipes as
well as Tommy Atkins" and seeing no
reason, he promptly presented the cap
tain of the training ship Caledonia, now
on the Firth, with a check of $50 in or
der to provide the ship with a bagpipe
band! There Is more in this than meets
the eye for given an ironclad and a
the enemy that could stand the strain? ?
No, bagpipes and Briton will still rule
the waves.
Mr.. Asquith, the able young home
secretary, has been addressing a few
earnest words to the Liberals of Brm-
ingham urging them to unite for the
good of their party. At one time Birm-
ingham was a veritable hotbed of Radi.
caism but at the time that the home
rule question came up and Mr.. Cham,
berlain announced himself an Unionist
tremendous split took place ant
"Brummagem' has veered round tc
Conservatism. The personality of Joey
had great deal to do with this, as there
is no more popular man in the town
He is, by the way, still making scathing
ana vigorous speeches IN different parts
of the country and is especially hot or
the home rule question. Joey like:
breadth and quantity and that is why
he makes such butt of portly Sir Will
lam Harcourt, who has returned t
town very much improved in health.
Every high bridge is responsible for {
certain number of deaths and the new
tower bridge will be no exception to thu
rule. As a rule the drowned are sui
cides, and occasionally a man kill
himself attempting foolish dive.
famous diver in the person of Bel
manner. He has made one or two at
tempts already, but has been stopped
by the police, but on Sunday he eludet
them and ascended by means of prl
vate trap door, used by the wOrkmel
to get at the roof. He then quietly di
vested himself of his clothes and dive,
or, rather, jumped feet first into tn
water, a distance of $50 feet. The poo
fellow fell with a fearful splash, wa
seen to rise to the surface and put hi
hands to his face and then disappear
The body has not been found. Fo
years past the man has been goin
through dangerous performances
starting with the Monte Cristo sac
feat in which Fuller was tied in sac
and dropped from height into tn
water, once from London bridge, an
iiV hou Juol COllNluucu dll tIBdStllltIl
at the Aquarium, where he droppe
feet first into q tank six foot deep fror
the roof. His last foolhardy attemp
was purely for advertisement.
The floods all over England are sub
siding. The greatest distress prevail.
and large sums of money are being sen
to various parts where the poor peopl
have mostly suffered. At Windsor tn
queen has kept the kitchen staff bus
making soup, and regiment of soldier
have been carrying round provision
at Eton college, which is on the oppC
site side of the river. All the boys hay
been sent home and 1t will be some tim
before the venerable college will |
habitable again. At Bath the author
ties are at their wits end to cope wit
the distress, and the damage done
enormous. At Dachet the people al
still confined to the upper rooms an
the village narrowly escaped tht
demolition owing to the bursting
old Windsor lock and the consequer
liberation of vast volumes OF waite
which rushed through the street
carrying trees, palings, masses
shrubbery and dead carcasses of catt
along in the torrent. Navigation wa
impossible and the unfortunate inhal
itants were nearly starved when r
lieved.
A dastardly attempt has been mac
to wreck the Bournemouth expires
Three men placed large sleeper ON II
line, but fortunately the engine pushe
the sleeper before it and finally got
Jammed between the wheels and b
yond a rough shaking the passenger
suffered no further hurt. A man no
IN custody was found loafing about II
spot and was put in cell with sapp,
of the Royal engineers, who told Il
magistrate an extraordinary story Il
following morning, 1t appeared tn;
this fellow prisoner had unburdent
his mind to the young sapper. He sa
that he and two friends intending
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