Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-13
WHEEIING w VA - DAY MORNING. JANUARY -. 1856.

disturbance in the Transvaal, with or
without DR.. Jameson, merely a ques-
JiOn Of time, still remain unsettled.
While President Kruger is releasing
DR.. JamesOn's men with one hand, with
the ether he is throwing into prison
the heads of all the English enter
pI.ses In johannesburg. He cannot be
allowed 10 transfer the charges Of
treason from armed invaders TO the
heads of a population, which never
asked anything but fair share Of poll
tic6l rights. And as he could have
prevented Dr. Jameson's raid By dl-
vulging what his preparations prove he
knew, he does not come 10 court with
clean hands Whether against DR..
Jameson or against JOhannesburgers,
we should advise all concerned to hear
Hon Cecil Rhodes before deciding upon
the somewhat obscure and complicated
transactions"
THE STANDARD.
The Standard SAYS: I'VE are enabled
to state that President Kruger has not
demanded any changes in treaty stipu-
latiOns. If such are demanded, Eng
land would resist
eve are authorized to declare that
the EmperOr's telegram to President
Kruger was not at most an expression
Of a feeling of mOmentary irritation
which has now passed away, leaving
the relations between Germany and
England as friendly as heretofore"
The Standard. it should be remem-
bered. stands closer to the present
government than any other newspaper
In England. A dispatch to the Stand
ard from Berlin says: 1T is rumOred
that the Empress Frederick has writ
J ten to Queen Victoria and the Prince
of Wales. explaining the Emperor s
policy. with the assurance that he had
not the slightest intention 10 darken
the evening Of the Queens life by an
AnglO-German war"
WARRANTS OUT.
A special despatch from Johannes
bug SAYS that warrants are out for
The arrest of TWO hundred persons, all
leading men in the mines and principal
companies OF the stock exchange. and
of the professional element. but not of
the mercantile classes. Among those
arrested are several Americans and Ger
mans Including J. s. Curtis, an Amer
/ lean engineer.
THE PRINCE THANKS EN-
The Prince of Wales on Saturday
, caused all the prominent members Of the
colonial office staff to be presented to
/ D m and ne congratulated them in kind
, ly terms upon the wolE they have
achieved in the last fortnight.
The Berlin correspondent OF the Daily
News says:
The crisis IS less acute and as Pres
/ idenI Kruger s making peace with Eng
| land over Germany's head. Germany
I has esranged England without gain
ing anything by the occurrence. Every
/ body IS getting tired Of the whole Ques-
] tiOn"
! A despatch from Paris to the Daily
/ News says: Herr Blokland has pro-
baby asked France 70 take part in 2
| European conference TO abrOgate the
treaty of 1884 and upon Great Br1tain's
/ right Of pre-empt.on in Delag0a Bay
! No importance IS attached to his visit.
/ II anything. France is anxious to redress
the Ui-landers grievances. The sixty
1 millions Of French capital in the Trans
va2l would then be worth much more"
/ A despatch from Brussels to the Daily
/ News says: There was an enJhus.as-
/ tic demonstration in favor Of the Beers
az The Flemish theatre to-day. Patriot
&c BOer songs were sung and were much
| applaUGed.'
I An Odessa despatch to the Daily News
/ says; The bulk Of the journals here
/ dsprecate Emperor Williams telegram
( to- President Kruger as most in-advis-
ed.