The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-23
Another Deeming Discovered
In the Person of a Young
Spendthrift.
MURDERED HIS WIFE AND BABE
Royalty Interested in the Coming
Marriage of a Duke and
a Princess.

OF the existence OF a system OF wholesale
lnfanticide have startled London within
the last few days and caused a rigid in
CURRY 1t has been ascertained as the re-
suit of investigation that within fort
night the bodies of sixteen infants have
been found within the area OF the eastern
section of London, and during the past
eight months twelve bodies have been
found in the same district. Most Of these
babies had been strangled by tying cord
about the neck or suffocated by tying a
towel over the face. One little one had
large rosebud forced down its throat to
cause death.
The police assert that unqualified nurses
are hired in most of these cases for the pur-
pose of disposing of the newly born babies.
These persons, they claim, are easy to find,
and are ready to do anything required of
them for fee ranging from 2 shillings and
sixpcnce to shillings and sixpence.
The Coroners propose to check this evil,
If possible, by more rigid examination OF
nurses, but the police declare that it will
be impossible to reach the root of the mat
ter without special legislation.
A man named Robert Hudson, who had
been arrested for the murder of his wife
and child, is likely to prove another Deem
ing. He took lodgings for himself and
family on Helmsley Moor, Yorkshire. In
a remote and secluded spot on the moor he
dug the graves of his wife and child and
after burying them vanished. a man liv-
ing on the moor noticing the freshly turned
earth, investigated and dug up the bodies
Hudson is young and highly educated
man who ran through his own and his
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his wife is evidenced by the fact that be-
fore he killed her he advertised for an
other wife, which he did under the name
of Hunter He was tracked for FIVE days
before he was captured.
The Statist and the Pail Mall Gazette
contradict the kilograms from ST. Peters
burg saying that the Chinese loan contract
has been signed. The fact is that China
withholds the ratification. Though she is
pressed by Russia to conclude the treaty
China may finally refuse to ratify the con-
vention.
She objects to the conditions imposed by
France that further loans must be secured
in Paris. She also refuses 20 hypothecate
any part of her customs revenue for the
loan. According to the Pail Mall Gazette,
the reason for this situation Of affairs is
that on April % last a special Chinese
envoy signed a contract with q London
firm granting the Bank of England the
option of arranging the great loan. The
bank Immediately placed at the disposal
of the authorities of Picking the sum of
e. 600, COO which was drawn upon. Russia
and France afterward stepped in and tried
to spoil the London contract. The double
dealing on the part of the Picking authori.
ties led the British Government to remind
them that the customs revenues of the
treaty ports, on which the loan must be
secured, are already practically in the
hands. of the British, whose rights must be
protected. With view TO fixing matters,
the Russo-French syndicate tried again to
indnce the Rothschilds to join the syndi-
cate, offering them $4,000, 600 OF the loan.
This offer the Rothschilds declined.
The Spanish Government has recently
placed large orders for war material in
Glasgow, Newcastle and Birmingham
comprehending the construction of twenty
gunboats and large quantity of small
arms and the furnishing of heavy con-
signments of ammunition. The aggregate
cost involves the expenditure of e., 500 600
The Spanish Ministry of Marine has an ac-
credited agent in England at the present
time who is arranging the contracts for
these supplies, most of which are already
under process of manufacture.
Despite the profound secrecy attaching
TO the plans of the Government as to the
details of the formation of new supreme
military council it has transpired that it
is the intention to propose the Duke of
Connaught as the commander-in-chief
holding the position of chief adviser of the
Secretary of State for War and the pro-
posed council of officers. In this matter
the Queen has carried her point insisting
upon the observances of the precedent
that a prince of the blood shall be in
chief command of the British army
Lord Salisbury was consulted in the matter
and promised the adhesion of the Conserva-
tive party to the scheme.
knowledge of this agreement alone in
duced the Government to assent to it's
adoption, as the proposal was certain to
raise storm of indignation in the Radical
camp, and without the help of the Tories
the proposal could not possibly be put
through. The Radicals are privately
attacking the Ministry anent the report
that Duke of Connaught will succeed
the Duke of Cambridge as commander-in-
chief of the British army. They have been
assured that the question is still unsettled
and that Field Marshal Wolseley or General
Lord Roberts is more likely than the Duke
of Connaught to succeed to the comman-
dership. This assurance, it may be said, is
not credited. 1t is certain that if the ap-
pointment is made when the Conserva-
tives are in power the successor to the
Duke of Cambridge will be the Duke of
Connaught.
Another royal appointment is projected
which certain to be received with We
hement protests if attempted, not only by
the. Radicals but by good many LIB
erals and possibly by some Conservatives.
This proposal contemplates the nomina-
ton of Prince Henry of Bat
tenberg, the ornamental husband bf
the Queens favorite daughter, Bea-
rice. as Viceroy of India. Both the
Queen and the Prince of Wales have
mooted the subject to Lord Rosebery, who,
under this pressure, it is reported, sug-
gested it to his colleagues. According to
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