St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-24
Severity Of the Winter and
Rava ges Of Grip Add to
Their Hard ships.
LORD ROSEBERY'S ILLNESS
Cause Rumors of Gladstone's
Return to PoWeP--Stage
and Stage Celebrities.

spread amount OF sickness through
out the United Kingdom, is decreaS-
ing in strength. In this city, as a
result, the death rate has dropped
from 41.2 per thousand last week to
1914 for the present week. The nor
NAL death rate is about q per thou
sand. But in spite of this fair show
ing, fresh cases of influenza are re-
ported daily. The general condition
of the metropolis is indicated by the
fact that $4,000 destitute persons
were relieved by the various chart
table institutions during the past
week, and the interim report of the
select committee of the house of
commons which was appointed to
inquire into existing distress has
disclosed a state of affairs which ap-
parently can only be met by ex-
tensive relief works in certain dis
tricts Through the medium of the
local government board, circular
letter was addressed to the mayors
of towns and to the chairmen of
district councils asking for informa-
ton on the following points:
1. Whether there is any exceptional
distress in the district and how far
this is due to circumstances peculiar
to the locality or to the severe
weather.
2. What is being done to meet the
distress by public authorities or by
voluntary agencies, and the average
daily number relieved by each of the
agencies during the week ending
Saturday, Feb. 16.
3. Is an unemployed register
maintained, and with what result {?
4. Have you any suggestions to
make for the purpose of relieving
such distress?
The replies to the circular letter
came in with promptitude, and the
committee in its intermin report
made an, analysis of these replies.
In substance, the 1914 replies which
were received--ffom districts repre-
sent1ng a population of over 20, 0OO,-
OO0 may be summed up by saying
that in 500 localities, representing a.
population of 6,797,231, there is no
exceptional distress; that in Asa, To-
calities, with population of 10, 3S1 :
900, there is
EXCEPTIONAL DISTRESS.
due solely to the severity of the
winter, and that in LA localities.
with a population Of 100000, there
is, apart from the want of employ-
ment due to the weather, an exceD-
tlonal want of employment owing to
siackneSs OF trade, depression of
agriculture, or to particular local in
dustrial causes. From this showing.
the committee concludes that If is
abundantly clear that while over a.
great part Of the country no lack of
employment has prevailed beyond
that Which might be expected as a
consequence of an unusually severe
winter, there is, and has been dur
ing the present severe winter. much
grave distress affecting workmen
ordinarily in regular work, as we'll
as those whose employment is
always liable to be intermittent.
and that much suffering has been
caused by this distress in manv
parts of the country.
ROSEBERY'S ILLNESS.
The condition of the health of
LORD Rosebery is not changed, but
there is no question that he is seri-
ously Ill, and that the complications
OF the political situation are such
as to deprive the premier of the en-
ergy necessary to fight difficult and
delicate questions. Under these cir
cumstances, it is not astonishing
that the widest rumors are circu-
lated and that many people are turn
ing their thoughts towards Mr.. Glad
stone as likely to be the man who
Will guide the Liberals once more
out OF political darkness and into
the sunshine of political harmony.
Mr.. Gladstone is now on his way to
London, and is expected to arrive
here tonight.
Mrs. Emily Crawford, the we'll
known Paris correspondent, in Truth
this week has drawn a very painful
picture of Queen Victoria as she
looked upon her arrival at Nice. It
| appears the queen stopped a great
| deal, was weary and was hardly able
| to raise her head She looked up and
around with eyelids as though lack
| ing strength to look otherwise. Her
| clothes were all loose and bundly. in
keeping with her facial expression.
Lord Cecil Rhodes, premier of Cane
! Colony, sometimes called the Ma
| poleon of South Africa-some of his
| friends prefer to give him the title
| OF the '''uncrowned king of South
+, Africa" after having been black
balled at the Travellers club a
couple of weeks ago, causing the
Prince of Wales, the Duke Of Fife
| and others to resign their member
ship in that institution-has been
elected member of the AthenaeurA
under the rule allowing the election
of nine notabilities every year. Prof.
Horsley and Prof. Villers Stanford
were concurrently chosen.
The funeral of Lady Mary Mont
agu, one Of the daughters of the late
Duke of Manchester, who married
Miss Consuelo Yznaga, of New York,
who died on March Is at Rome of
double pneumonia, took place at
Kimbottam church, st. Meets, on
Thursday last in the presence of a
large concourse of notable people.
Lady Mary was only sixteen years
old, and is said to have been the
prettiest girl in England. She and
her sister We're known as
THE HEAVENLY TWINS"
Their portraits have been painted