Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
THE NEWS OF LONDON.
The Ascot Meeting and the Oppres-
sive Weather Empties the
Metropolis.
Copyrighted. 1896. BY the Associated Press.

Copyrighted, 1896, Dy the Associated RreSS.
London, June 2O.-The Ascot races
and the oppressive weather emptied the
metropolis of the majority of it's fashion
able population during the week. The
mercury dubbed up to the vicinity of SO
degrees during the greater part of the
time, very exceptional showing for this
city, and there were many sunstrokes
and prostrations from the heat reported
The Ascot meeting was an unusual sue
cess as fashionable function, in spite
of the restrictions imposed by the Queen
out of respect to the memory of the late
Prince Henry Of Battenberg. The
weather permitted the brightest and
lightest costumes and the Princess of
Wales with her daughters and large
party were on the royal stand and the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who
has been staying at Cliveden with Will
liam Waldorf Astor and numerous other
members of the royal family, were pres
ent, but not one of the royal party went
into the so-called royal enclosure.
Prof. Elliot Gets Curiosities.
Advices from Berbera, dated May 25,
say that Prof. D. G.. Elliot of the Field
Columbian museum of Chicago, who had
been for three weeks previously on the
Gohari plain and at the foot of the Golas
mountains, securing rare specimens of
Sub-trOpical animals for the museum, had
then returned to Berbera, where he was
forming a large caravan with when to
penetrate into the interior. Prof. Elliot
had already obtained fine specimens of
the wild ass, gazelles,. hyenas and bah
boons and was going first to Togo plain
and then via Horgeisa and Milmil to the
Webbo river. All the members. OF the
American expedition were well when
those advices left Berbera.
Sir George Baden Powell, the well
known member of Parliament and Brit
ish commissioner to the Behring sea in
1891 and at the commissions at Wash
ington in the same year and in Paris
in 1894, is to take a party of. astrono-
mers to Northern Siberia in his yacht to
witness the eclipse. The party will then
search for the hansen expedition.
Several of the newspapers; announce
that the Duke of York will shortly visit
Canada and Australia.
P r. Sherard, writing from the Au-
thors' club, says that he has visited Os-
car Wilde in the Reading prison and
that the prisoner is a complete physical
and mental wreck.
Queen Victoria is expected to arrive at
Windsor on Tuesday and the old castle
is being made as bright as possible in an
ticipation of her return from Scotland.
There has been much complaint at the
number of ladies who visit the House of
Commons and Sir Henry Fowler. mem
Der for East Northampton and late
secretary of state for India, has made
formal proposal to limit the members to
two visitors each daily. The present
average is about five for each member
per day and the tea parties on the ter
race of the House of Commons are be-
coming a serious item of expense for
those who receive the fair visitors
Dread Famine in Italy.
A letter from an Englishman who has
long been a resident in Italy is pub
lished in Truth and gives a serious pic
ture of the situation of affairs in that
country. He says that a revolution is
only a question of time, that the taxes
are so per cent. on all incomes and that
the starving state Of the peasantry and
the lower classes generally equals that of
the French before the revolution. In
Sardinia, he adds, mothers are feeding
their children on grass and weeds by
the roadside and that in all parts there
are deaths from starvation. The woman
straw workers of Tuscany it appears,
are in open revolt and everywhere the
men and women are reduced to skeletons
and are to be seen carrying their last
rags to be sold for taxes. In LOm-
hardy and other northern districts, where
the people live on insufficient Indian corn
the horrible disease known as pollagra
is increasing and more than 10000 per-
sons are affected, of which about 1000
die yearly. A good part of the victims
die insane.
of a pronounced pattern and the win
dows of fashionable haberdashers on
Bond street present a striking array of
color. Among the many patterns is
lavender colored tie, which is crossed by
narrow black lines. Others of the sailor
knot type are of reddish brown color
and are very effective in appearance, al
Al, Pow
sons.
Sims Reeves, the veteran English tenor
Che was born in 1929, who was recently
married to young lady, is the happy
father of bouncing baby.
Visit of Massachusetts, Artillery.
Great preparations are being made at
the armory house, Finsbury, this city,
where the headquarters of the ancient
and honorable artillery company of Lon
don are situated for the reception and
entertainment of their comrades from
Boston, the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery company of Massachusetts,
The Prince of Wales, who is captain
general and colonel Of the London COM
pany, is taking very great interest in
company and has obtained from the gov
eminent permission for the American
visitors to enter this country as an armed
body. 1t is noteworthy that this COM
pany will be the first military body to
come to England from a foreign country,
privileged to parade the streets of Lon
don fully armed as when passing through
their own country. The committee has
also made arrangements for trips through
the British Isles France, Germany and
Switzerland between July IL and %.
Bob Fitzsimmons in London.
Bob F'itzsimmons has been the rage in
London for the last fortnight. With his
family he is stopping at the Adelpni
hotel and his appearance on the strand
or in Piccadilly makes a sensation of a
mild sort.
To a representative of the Associated
press Fitzsimmons said: II am over
here to look for match. This means
that I will meet any man in the world,
barring Corbett and color. I have con-
stantly stated to my London friends that
I will not meet Corbett under any con-
sideration until he has first met the men
whom I have named and suggested to
him. When he has made a record, per-
haps I will oblige him with fight.
have met William A. Brady, Corbett's
manager, who is also in London, and
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