The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-09
OUT OF WATER.
LOndOnPeCple Victims of Frozen
Waterpipes.
Princess of Wales is in Poor
Health.
RHODES BLACKBALL'D
Nine. NilssonExpected to Return
to the Stage.
.HODES BLACKBALL'D
Author of "The Weavers" En-
gagged on a New Work.

ating recently, although thousands of
houses are still without water as a result
OF frozen pipes and many thousands of
people are suffering from the prevailing
malady. The present epidemic of infiu-
enza has been more severely felt in Lon
don than in any other part of this coun-
try, and the death rate has risen during
the past week from twenty-one per thou
sand, the normal rate, to So so per thou
sand, remarkably high record.
Lord Rosebery. as it now appears, has |
been more seriously i'll than was general |
ly>imagined, and it is added, be is i'm
proving very slowly. Among the other |
distinguished sufferers is Baroness
Burdett- Coutts.
The home secretary, Mr. Asquith, has |
recovered from his attack; Mr.. Henry
Fowler, the secretary of state for Indian
affairs is confined to his room; the
Marchioness of Salisbury, who has been
suffering from influenza, is now able to
leave her bed and the Duchess of Suther-
land is down with an attack of the same
disease.
The queens drawing room at Buck
ingham Palace on Wednesday showed
the effect of the influenza epidemic, for
the usual attendance was considerably
reduced. At the drawing room by the
way it was noticed that pink and blue
were the prevailing colors in the toilets,
although mauve satin was greatly worn.
The weather was 80 cold that it drove
the public away from the Mall and gen
orally speaking the function was far
from being brilliant one.
Many rumors have been circulated re-
garding the absence of tie princess of
Wales from the drawing room, but the
general opinion seems to be that the
failure of the princess to be present up
on that occasion was the result of feeble
health, and she fact that she was desir-
Gus of not exposing herself to the cold or
of mourning the attendant fatigue
The queen has granted letters patent
to Lady Sibelle Mackenzie, elder daugh-
ter OF the late Earl Cromartie, to be
countess of Cromartie in the same man
ner as was her grandmother, the late
Anne, duchess of Sutherland. who was
duchess of Sutherland before the cpl
sode of Mrs. Blair, the present dowager
duchess of Sutherland. before the cpl
sode of Mrs. Blair, the present dowager
| duchess OF Sutherland, whose life in
Florida will be recalled by many persons
in the United States
Lord Woolseley, commander of the
officers in Ireland, has issued invitations
| to a fancy dress ball which will take
place next week in Dublin, and at which
the ladies must be dressed SO as to re-
semble some painting by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, George Romney or Thomas
Gainsborough.
The official correspondence between
the Marquis of Ripon, the secretary of
state for colonial affairs, and the Earl of
Aberdeen, governor general of Canada,
/ in regard to the death of the late Sir
John Thompson, premier of Canada, was
| published on Tuesday last. The MARQUIS
of Ripon referred to the pre-
mature close of the active and
brilliant career of the Canadian
statesman, marked by Solid useful states
manship, which made him feel that the
loss was a national one. Continuing. the
marquis said: 'The deceased was a
loyal and eloquent advocate of every
thing which tended to the unity of the
empire"
In club circles this week there has
| been much comment upon the sensation
caused, first by the black balling of the
Hon. Cecil Rhodes, premier of Cape
Colony, at the Travellers club, and sec
ondly at the fact that the Prince of Wales,
the Duke of Fife, his son-in-law and
i Earl Gray have resigned their member
ship of that club, thereby giving a
damaging blow to its prestige. The
black balling of Mr.. Rhodes, follow
ing closely upon the refusal of
the Marlborough club to elect Mr.. Belt,
the South African millionaire and a
partner of MIR. Rhodes in the Debers
diamond mines, is giving club men a lot
to talk about The Marlborough is the
favorite club of the Prince of Wales and
nobody is proposed for membership
there until his name has been first sub
mitted to the prince. To make matters
more ugly, Mr. Belt, it will be remem-
bered, was proposed by the Duke of Fife.
The prince, when he heard that Mr. Belt
had been black balled, offered to have
him renominated, but the South African
millionaire declined.
A petition signed by 400 of the most
prominent English Roman Catholics,
headed by the names of the duke of
Norfolk, the Marquis of Ripon, the Mar
quis of Butte, Chief Justice Russell and
forty other persons has been presented
TO Cardinal Vaughn, archbishop.of West
minister, requesting that presentations
be made to the college of the propagan-
da, TO secure the final removal of obsta-
cles which now prevent so many Catho-
lies from availing themselves of the ad-
vantages of education at Oxford and
Cambridge universities
The London county councils action
has proven the downfall of the licensing
party which made trouble for the En-
pire theater at the instance of Mrs. Orm-
ison Chant, and in consequence there are
great rejoicings in the amusement cir
cles of London.
Gerhard Hauptman, whose "Die
Weber" has created such political fuss
and which has been favored with such q
splendid theatrical advertisement in q
debate in the reichstag, is busy upon .
new work that touches upon the
political economic questions OF
the hour Hauptman is .
hermit and has retired from
| the world But he is no anchorite. He