The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-04-27
STORIES OF THE DAY.


Archbishop Martlnelll, the apostolic
delegate and representative Of the pope
In the United States, has just sustained
q severe loss by the death of his only
surviving brother, the Augustinian
monk, Father Aurelius Martinelli. The
archbishop's other brother, Cardinal
Martinelli, died two or three years ago.
While the Turkish government is cx-
periencing no difficulty whatsoever in
obtaining all the small arms and am
munition that it requires from Ger
many, 200. 900 mauser rifles having just
been dispatched thence to Constantine
pie, an entirely different policy is be-
ing observed by the powers toward
Greece, for the Austrian authorities
have just prevented a cargo Of 1000, 900
cartridges, addressed to the Greek war
department at Athens, from leaving
Triest.
Picture robbers are once more at
work OH the other side Of the Atlantic,
and within the last fortnight three old
masters have ben cut from their frames
in European picture galleries and are
believed TO be now on their way to
America. The collections victimized
are the National Picture gallery of
Pesth. which has lost Murillo repre-
senting "St Joseph and the Boy
Christ" and Van der Neer portray
ing burning city situated on the banks
Of river crowded with shipping. The
other collection robbed is the great
Madrid Picture museum, and the paint
ing missing is the preliminary sketch
by Murillo of his well known picture,
entitled "St Anne Giving Lesson to
the Virgin" which hangs in the same
gallery. The stolen picture is AZ cent?
meters by 25. The police, as well as
the most famous picture dealers Of Eu-
rope, insist that there is in New York
firm which makes a speciality Of stolen
pictures of this kind and allege that the
missing Duchess of Devonshire" is
likewise in the possession Of this firm,
which for long has been under surveil-
lance, lately, however, relaxed.
Much indignation has been caused in
England by the discovery that British
firms have, within the last three months,
shipped an enormous quantity Of war
material, such as small arms, ammuni-
tion and machine guns, to the Transvaal
by way of Delagoa bay. Inasmuch as
the Beers are avowedly and openly pre-
pairing for conflict with England, the
war material in question is obviously
intended for use against British troops.
The English government has in conse-
Quence of this established rigid system
of observation in all the ports Of the
United Kingdom, and at every fishing
town detectives from the police depart
ment at Scotland Yard have been sta
toned for the purpose Of cooperating
with the local coast guards.
Thanks to influences exercised in
quarters that are described by the press
as "illustrious" Leopold being
evidently the parsonage meant-the Bel
gian senate has passed resolution ex-
empting Ostend and Spa from the oper-
alton Of the new statute against gam
bling hells. This is, of course, equiva-
lent to the grant of state monopoly for
the maintenance Of public gambling ia
bles in the two popular Belgian resorts
in question.
Official news has reached London
from Valparaiso to the effect that. in ac-
cordance with a resolution recently
adopted by the Chilean congress, a de-
cree is about to be issued Offering a state
bounty of $125, 900 to any foreign COM
pany or firm which will undertake to
establish an iron foundry in the country
ON sufficiently large scale. The action
Of the Chilean government in this mat
ter has been dictated, it is said, by the
increasing evidences Of the existence in
the country Of iron ore in large quanti-
/ ties
No moro striking clew to the true
condition Of the present relations be-
tween France and Russia can be found
than the recent refusal by the great
financial houses Of Paris to float the
new 500, 900. 900 loan which the Musco-
vite government requires for the devel-
opment Of its railroad system in Eu-
rope and Asia The Russian treasury
has in consequence placed the loan at
Berlin, Frankfort and The Hague, where
it has been taken up with enthusiasm.
This shows that France and Russia are
drifting apart, the former in the direc-
tion Of Great Britain, while the under
standing between the courts Of st. Pc
tersburg and Berlin is at the present
moment better than at any moment
since the Berlin congress, 10 years ago
Incidentally it may be mentioned that
the Russian treasury is about to issue
ON its own account, over and above the
loan contracted abroad. railroad bonds
secured by the various principal rail-
ways and guaranteed by the state
Brussels has simply gone wild over
the project Of converting itself into
seaport Not only the people, but tho
authorities as well, seem to take IL for
granted that the moment the ship canal
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