The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-12
WEEK IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Salisbury Defeated BY the German
BondhoIders.

London, Sept. Copyrighted, 1897,
by the Associated Press).-The past
week in Great Britain has been marked
by efferYescence in the labor world, the
quoting of the Indian troubles, With
more or less confusion of the govern
ment's impotence IN dealing with the
ameer of Afghanistan and the defeat
of the Marquis of Salisbury in the case
of the German bondholders in the
dreary struggle over the Graeco-Turk-
ish peace negotiations, which defeat
has been caustically criticised and has
been followed by the sultan sending
winter clothing to the Turkish troops
in Thessaly.
The trades union congress at Bir-
mingham. which has been styled by
Tom Mann, the labor leader, as the
congress of fatheads." adjourned to-
day, after a session chiefly notable for
the proposal to form a gigantic trades
union out of every conceivable trade, in
order to confer on capital the threat
of a general paralysis of all industry
and by the proposal to stand by the
engineers in their present struggle The
balance of the time of the congress
was mainly occupied with reaffirming
time honored resolutions, expressing,
as the Morning Post says. "pious opin-
ions of little value in practical life.
AMERICAS HOSTILITY,
The so-called 'sjingoism' in the
United States is finding an echo here
An anonymous correspondent has writ
ten q long letter to the Spectator, in
which he attempts to prove that the
United States is really friendly to Great
Britain. in spite of the American news
paper statements to the contrary. The
Spectator replies to this letter, saying:
while official America treats Eng
land as at present, can anyone believe
in American friendliness?"
John Howard Parnell, elder brother
of the late Charles Stewart ParneH,
and Parnellite member for South
Meath, has written in reference to the
so-called Paris fund, particularly that
portion of the fund which is said to be-
long to the Parnell estate. He says
that $4,000 sterling constitutes Pc
litical and not personal debt; that 1t
is one which should be refunded out of
the general Paris funds, as it was Dor
rowed by his brother from the Hiber-
Man bank and spent for a political
purpose. Mr.. Parneli adds:
1T is g, disgrace to deprive my bro
theirs property. and especially his
creditors of the money due"
DEARER BREAD.
The rise in wheat to 40 shiIHng5 has
dragged up the price Of bread to 67s
aid and in the poorest quarters of
London, where bread is sold in slices,
the loaf is fetching l shilling. On top
of this the Millers' National union has
started a demand fos fewer hours OF
labor. with a threatened strike If their
demand is not accorded.
United States Consul General Burke
has received a very satisfactory reply
to his demand made to the sultan of
Morocco for satisfaction and compen-
sation for the assault made by three
Moors upon the protege of an American
citizen residing at TaHgiers The as
sault was committed in June last. The
assailants are now in jail at Tangiers-
The sultan has promised to pay an m
demnity and he has ordered the pris-
oners to be semitic Fez Prisoners are
only sent TO Fee for grave crimes. They
suffer the most terrible agony on the
way there; they are loaded with chains
and are starved and beaten all along
the road. In the interests of humanity
Mr. Burke objected to the transfer and
demanded that the punishment should
be meted out to them in the local pris-
ons.
The sultan acceded to this. The re-
suit is AL the more gratifying when it