St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07
GOSSIP OF LONDON.
The Wilde Scandal the Only
Topic Of Interest to Lon
donePS.
BIG GOLD MINING COLLAPSE
In Which the Insiders Are
SAID to Have Reapsd'
Millions.
ASTOR'S QUEER MOVEMENTS
English Public Piqued by His
Observation-Disclosures
Girl the Rage.
AsTOR's QUEER MOVEMENTS


Oueensberry, and Russell VS.. Rus
sell cases in the courts here, the
burning to death of woman in
Ireland under extraordinary cir
cumstances by her husband and
other relatives on the ground that
she was bewitched, the shooting of
girl by her lover in the streets of
London and the mans subsequent
suicide, one would have thought
the English press had enough to do
in correcting it's own morals this
week. But even these events have
not disturbed the usual self-suffi-
cient tendency to lecture the
United States. The Daily News and
other newspapers attribute the re-
suit of the Chicago election entirely
to the work of Messrs. Steas and
Burns.
Naturally the Wilde disclosures
continue to be the absorbing topic
of conversation at the clubs, etc.
! The stand taken by the ST. James
Gazette in refusing to print the de-
tails of the case is attracting much
deluged with letters of approval,
The action of the st. James Gazette
is likely to prove a good stroke of
business for the proprietors of that
publication. Tuesday last, the sec
ond day of the trial, in place of the
usual news placards which all news
boys display, the placard of the st.
To
paper in London with no details of
the Wilde case" Edward M. Car
son, @. c., M. P, who so ably and
relentlessly conducted the case for
the Marquis of Queensberry, was
classmate of Oscar Wilde at Trinity
college, Dublin. The presiding
judge, Justice Collins, is also an
Irishman
Wilde has been making immense
sums of money lately out of his
plays and books. His plays are now
running at two London theaters
and many companies are playing
them in the provinces. OF course, in
future, no one will accept his plays
George Alexander, proprietor and
manager of the ST. James theater,
stated last night that if it were not
for the fact that the withdrawal Of
W1lde's play, 1.-The Importance of
Being Earnest" would throw 100
persons out of employment, he
would at once stop it. Therefore,
unless the theater-going public man
ifests it's displeasure of the author
by refusing to witness his works,
the play at the st. James will be
continued as usual Another of
Wilde's plays which is now running
at the Haymarket theater will after
this week be transferred to the Cri-
terion theater. The authors name.
in both cases, will be omitted from
the bills and advertisements in fut-
ure.
MINING COLLAPSE.
The mining market has been ex-
cited by telegram from the Earl
of Fingall announcing the collapse
of the Londonderry gold mine, in
which Col. North, 1.-The Nitrate
King" is interested. The disgrace
full part of the affair is that insiders
have been selling heavily. for several
days. The decline in prices repre-
sents a loss of $4,000, 900 to the share
holders. ~
Woman and othere weekly news
papers this week print portraits of
Miss Mary Letter, of Chicago. Civ
ing her history and that of Hon.
George M. Curzon, M P, eldest son
of Baron Scarsdale, and late under
secretary Of state to India, to whom
she is engaged to be married The
weeklies described Miss Letter as
being an omnivorous reader, superb
ly educated and speaking and writ
ing several languages with easy
f1uency. One account of Miss Letter
says that the Chicago store of her
father is 80 big that Whitley's en-
tire establishment might be put in
corner of it,
The movements and concerns of Will
lam Waldorf Aston have not been such
common property in London as Lon
donerS would like. Mr.. Astor has built
himself for an office gem of a build
ing on the embankment next to the /
estate of the Duke of Norfolk) which
sports a respondent gilded weather
vane in the form of an old-time ship,
similar to those in which Hendrix Hud-
son first passed the Narrows. But be-
yond these externals, the possession
of Clivenden and the Pail Mall publ
cation, London does not know any
thing like sufficient to satisfy Lon
dons curiosity. The Pail Mall Budget
has ceased to be, Notwithstanding that