Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-06-13

Carriages Will Cost-The Cars
Church and the Pan-Anglican
Conference-Movem Of Siam S
King-Fresh London Gossip.
London, June 12.-The weather has
| been winterlike during the greater part
of the week. Heavy rains fell and
London presented an especially bedrag-
gled appearance with the soaked half
| finished jubilee decorations everywhere.
| On Friday, however, there was a pleas
ant change to hot, bright weather. The
changes of temperature have been very
trying to the American visitors who are
| already filing the hotels. The season
! as whole has been a remarkably poor
/ one, the house agents especially echo
/ the complaint of poor business, saying
there were never less demand for fur
nished houses. The fact is that the eX-
! horbitant prices charged for everything
| is keeping many thousands away. LODI
| ging house-keepers, in many instances.
have been guilty of the sharpest prac-
tees and calmly announce double price
for the fortnight including the jubilee
to visitors who months ago engaged
rooms at a certain figure.
AS a fine example of the price of car
riages, one Of the biggest livery firms
asked 3 pounds $500 for carriage TO
Piccadilly and return, a distance of less
than two miles, and they add that they
will not guarantee to reach any particu-
lar spot.
According to an absolute unimpeach-
able authority" a writer in the West
minister Gazette relates how the Irish
song, "The Wearing of the Green" was
very recently sung in Windsor castle.
The Queen, it appears, requested a
young Irish lady, who was visiting the
castle, to sing an Irish song. She went
to the piano and sung The Wearing
of he Green" and, according to the
! tory told, her majesty was so touched
by the pathos of the song that she
BURST INTO TEARS.
! The writer continues: All" said my
eminent informant, you little know
the depth of the Queens sympathy for
the Irish and the tenderness of her
heart"
Great satisfaction is expressed in
Great Britain at the announcement that
the Queen has commanded William
Quiller Orchardson, R. A., who was
elected a royal academician nearly 20
years ago, to paint a jubilee picture of
herself, the Prince of Wales, the Duke
of York, and little Prince Edward.
Delagoa Bay, according to reports
emanating from good sources, is al
ready in the possession of the British,
and the increased number of troops
which has been and is being sent TO
Cape Colony is really intended for the
occupation of the new possession when
the time comes for announcing it. In
| this connection it is recalled that
! Rothschild practically purchased con-
| trolling interest in the Suez Canal for
Lord Beaconsfeld when the latter was
/ prime minister of Great Britain,
eighteen months before the transaction
was announced, and Rothschilds name
| is now mentioned as finding the money
! for the purchase of Delagoa Bay.
Mr.. John Redmond. the Parnellite
leader. accompanied by Louis Stuyve-
SAINT Chandler as star orator. is stump
! ing Ireland in the cause of the Red
mond League.
1t is said the queen intends to confer
an hoAorary grand cross of the Order
of the Bath on NJ. Hanotaux, the French
minister for foreign affairs.
The Pan-Anglican conference, which
will be held at Lambeth next month,
will be a notable one, at least in one
respect. 1t is officially announced that
the czar has decided that
THE ORTHODOX CHURCH,
of which he is the head, shall be rep
resented at the gathering of the Angli-
can prelates.
Mail advices to the Associated Press
from Gibraltar give further details OF
the movements of the Siamese yacht
Maha Chakskri. They say: THE yacht
| is now in its way to Constadt, Russia,
to await his majesty's pleasure to con-
! tinue the tour of the world which he is
| now making. This includes a visit TO
| the United States, Canada and Mexico.
| 1t is stated by the officers of the vessel,
who are all Englishmen, that the king
will spend sufficient time in America
to allow the yacht to go from New
York. where she will land. to San Fran
cisco. the place of fre-embarkation. The
date of his arrival in the United States
/ is not yet definitely decided.
NJ. Pean de Reszke's sudden absence
! from the opera on two occasions when
billed to appear at Covent Garden has
raised a crop of rumors as to differences
| between himself and the management
! in spite of the official announcement
! that his retirement was due TO indispo-
| sition. Maurice Grau says there is nc
I truth in the stories of trouble. adding
| that the management is as anxious as
De Reszke for the latter to appear; but
he explains the tenor is suffering from
a relaxed throat.
The Comedy Theatre, after several
adiournments, has at last brought out
]. H. Leslie's For the Honor of the
Family" which was given last Thurs
day afternoon.
Madame Melba made what is said
will be her only London appearance
this season at the Queens Hall on
Wednesday afternoon at a concert, un'