The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-12
IS KLONDIKE MAD
FIFTEEN COMPANIES WITH A CAPT.
TAI OF TEN MILLIONS AT
LONDON.
AN APPEAL TO THE FRENCH.
The POPE ANXIOUS TO BLOCK THE
PLAN TO COLOMBO PALEs-
TINE.
SULTAN OF MOROCCO NOW TAME.
Naval Demonstration by the United
States satisfactory in Its Re-
suIts-LOndOn Gossip.

LONDON, Sept 11.-Since0 the an
houncement of the extensive discover
les of gold in the Klondike region, the
promoters of London have been busy
taking advantage of the newspaper
boom given to that part of the world.
Fifteen Klondike Qimited) companies,
which have recently started, have
brought out capital to the amount of
e, 046, 583 sterling, of which Fl, 691 is
offered to the public. In the meanwhile
there is an immense demand for any
thing Klondikian, in order to float fur
ther companies in the spring of 1898.
France, which protects Catholic in
terests in the Orient, has been appealed
to by the pope to prevent the success
OF the Zionist movement, which is. re-
garded with horror at Rome. Mgr.
Benefit, the apostolic legate at Con-
stantinople has been recalled to Rome
in order to devise means to oppose the
Jewish plans to purchase and colonize
Palestine, which plans are not as for
midable as generally believed. II the
statement of DR.. Grunhut Hungarian
Hebrew, and head master of the Ger
man school at Jerusalem, are to be
credited there is plenty of good land
there; but the poverty of the Hebrews
ofJerusalem IS terrible. Out of popu-
lation of $4,000, there are 10000 He
brews, of which number $4,000, he as
serts, live on the aims of their Euro
pean co-religionists. 1t is declared that
the possibility of Palestine being parti-
toned among new Corners is too remote
to be considered.
1t is announced from Odessa that
the late BaronHirsch's plan to colonlza
the Argentine Republic with Russian
Hebrews has been abandoned in favor
of the establishment Of Hebrew
schools in Russia.
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 on an American citizen residing
at Tangiers The assault was COM
mitted in June last, the assailants are
now In Jail at Tangiers. The sultan
has promised to pay an indemnity,
and he has ordered the prisoners to be
sent to Fee. Prisoners are only sent
to Fee for grave offenses They suffer
the most terrible agony on the way
there They are loaded with chains
and are starved and beaten all along
the roads. In the interest Of human
ity, Mr. Burke objected to the trans
fer and demanded that the punishment
should be meted out to them in the
local prisons The sultan acceded to
this. The result is all the more graf
flying when it is remembered that the
Moorish authorities shrugged their
shoulders and refused to take any ac-
ton in the matter when Consul Burke
first demanded the punishment of the
three men and also demanded the pay
ment of an indemnity as a result of
the outrage.
The rise in wheat to 40 shillngs has
dragged up the price of bread to SEQ
I'd, and, in the poorest quarters of
London, where bread is sold in slices,
the loaf is fetching one shilling. On
top of this the millers' national union
has started a demand for fewer hours
of labor, with threatened strike il
their demand is not acceded.
THE DUKES TOUR.
The tour Of the Duke and Duchess
of York, which was continued today
at Glasgow, Scotland, where they met
with an enthusiastic reception, formed
the subject of the heartieSt cOngratu-
dalton in many quarters, particularly
in Ireland. where the people, politi-
clans and others, admit it has
zone Soou zeal LOT 1IlStl
trade. The duchess. for in
stance. accepted a Galway fisher cloak
from Father Dooley The cloak was
made at a factory which Father Doc
ley started in Galway, and already 100
CT these cloaks have been ordered.
either in white or crimson. The latter
color is correct. Another result of the
visit of the Duke and Duchess of \ ork
to Ireland is that a royal residence
will, in all probability, be established
in that country, and the early aboIi-
ton of the vice royalty is everywhere
accepted as a fact. The duchess wen
nall hearts. and the duke is almost as
popular, though he did not escape crit
idcism
Across the rejoicings, however, falls
the shadow of the coming famine. The
Daily Nation, after getting a letter
from every pastor of a parish in rural
Ireland says: Since black AZ, th-
Irish laborer has never faced win
ter more full of privation.' The har-
vest is as bad as can be in the west
of Ireland and it is pretty sure that
there will not only be a food. but d
fuel, famine. Not only are the pota-
toes rotting in the ground. with the
grain crops beaten down by rain, and
not worth reaping, but the turf cut
will not dry. Unless there is eXcep-
tional weather within the next few
days, famine is a certainty.
Everything in connection with the
visit of President Faure to Russia was
thought out with diplomatic clever
ness and instances of it are leaking.
out every day. AS an example of the
tact employed it is pointed out that
the French president took with him
three speaking dolls as presents t.
the Grand Duchess Olga, the older OF
the two daughters of the car and
czarina.
The car recently filled up a census
paper In his own handwriting, giving
his name and surname "Romanoy,'
his social status as "czar of all the
Russias," his profession as master Of