The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-23
MAY Be GLADSTONE.
The Grand Old Man May be
Called Upon
To Take the Helm if Rosebery
Should Die.
SOME LONDON GOSSIP
Miss Letters Intended Presented
With a Medal.
Queen Victoria Reported to be
Very Feeble.

copyrighted 1895 by the Associated Press
LONDON, March 23-The epidemic of
influenza which has been causing so
many deaths and such widespread sick
ness throughout the United Kingdom is
decreasing in strength.
The ger or Il condition of the metropo-
lis is indicated by the fact that $4,000
destitute persons were relieved by the
various charitable institutions during the
past week, and the interim report of the
select committee of the house of COM
mons, which was appointed to inquire
into the existing distress. has disclosed
state of affairs which apparently can
only be met by extensive relief work in
certain districts.
Kosebery No Better.
The condition of the health of Lord
Rosebery is not changed, but there is no
question that he is seriously i'll and that
the complications of the political situa-
ton are such as to deprive the premier
of the energy necessary to fight difficult
and delicate questions.
Under these circumstances it is not
astonishing that wild rumors are circu-
lated, and that many people are turning
their thoughts toward Mr.. Gladstone as
likely to be the man who will guide the
Liberals once more out of political dark
ness and into the sunshine of harmony.
Mr. Gladstone is now on his way to Lon
don and is expected to arrive here to-
night
Mr.. Wylie Crawford, the we'll known
Paris correspondent of Truth, this week
has drawn a painful picture of Queen
Victoria as she looked upon her arrival
at Nice.
The BlackbaIIed Pro mier
The Hon. Cecil Rhodes, premier of
| Cape Colony, sometimes termed "the
Napoleon of South Africa" though some
of his friends prefer to give him the title
! of the "Uncrowned King of South Afr-
ca after having been black balled at the
| Travellers club "a couple of weeks ago,
causing the prince of Wales, the duke
! oil Fife and others to resign their mem
! bership in that Institution. has been
elected a member of the Athenaeum
under the rule allowing the election of
nine notabilities annually. Prof. Victor
| Horsley and Prof ViIliers Sanford were
! concurrently chosen.
| The Katharines of the United King
| dom and America have just placed a
beautiful slab of Irish gray fossil marble
! over the grave of Katharine of Aragon,
in Peters borough cathedral. Tne in
scription and the arms of the queen are
| beautifully carved.
Miss Letters Fiance.
The Balloon society has presented the
| Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, eldest
son of Lord Scarsdale and member of
| parliament for the Southport division of
! Lancashire, with gold medal in recog-
uition of his notable achievements in
| Asia Mr. Curzon, it will be recalled, is
engaged to be married 10 Miss Mary
Letter of Chicago, daughter of Mr.. L.
| oft ho Mr.
Curzon was formerly private secretary
to Lord Salisbury, and is the author of
the Lothian and Arnold history, prize
essays Russia in Central ASIA and
persia and the Persian question"
Bicycles the Fad Now.
The Duke of Fife, who has been learn
| ing to ride a bicycle in the secluded
streets of Brighton with man servant
| on one side and page boy on the other
side of the wheel. seems to have set the
| example to other notable persons to do
likewise; for the Duke of Portland, mas
ter of the horse and late colonel of the
| honorable London artillery company, and
Mile Yvette Guilbert, the lively French
singer, whose suggestive songs have de-
lighted large audiences in London and
on the continent, are now following the
Duke of Flies example, and Lady Colin
Campbell has just patented an improve
menu IN bicycling WalIetS.
Joan of Arc Fetes.
Cardinal Vaughn, the Roman Catholic
archbishop of Westminster, has accept
ed an invitation to preside, jointly with
the archbishop of Tours France, at the
Joan of Arc fetes, which are to take
place in Paris in May.
In all the states the sales of DR. Prices
Baking Powder are increasing. Envious
competitors cannot check its onward