The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05


Payers-In London the Price of Bread
Rises-Duke and Duchess of York Are
Hailed With Great Demonstrations Ia
IreIaud-The Pope's Longevity Pros
pects-strike of the Engineers.
copyrighted 1897 by the Associated Presso
London, Sept. 4-The failure Of the po-
tato, hay and corn crops in most of the
% districts of Ireland has resulted in the
gloomiest outlook for the winter. The
chairman Of the Michaelstown board of
guardians, at a meeting held by that
body on Thursday last, declared that Ire
land is on the verge Of great agricul-
tural crisis and that numbers of rent
payers would be compelled 10 go to the
Workhouse.
The price Of bread is rising slowly in
London and the outlook for the winter is
Of rhe eioomiest kind. The city requires
10000 quarters Of foreign wheat weekly.
Independent of -four, and during August
less than $4,000 quarters arrived per
week Not one-tenth of London's bread
is made from English flour, and the bak-
ers assert that with -four al the present
figure, a loaf OF bread at 51s pence OIL
eer<s) will send them into bankruptcy.
The hop crop is below the average.
The picking which Is in full swing, has
produced the usual pauper invasion Of
Kent and has been marked by greater
distress than usual. The warehouses and
police stations OF that county are filed
and there have been several deaths from
exposure in the fields and hedges during
the recent storms.
The bad weather and the cyclonic dis
turDances show no signs of abating. The
rainfall for the month of August was
greatly in excess of the average, and In
some places was greater than in the case
of any August of the past twenty-eight
years.
The Duke and Duchess Of Yark contin-
ue their triumphal visit to Ireland. They
have spent the last two days al Barons-
court, the Duke of .Abercorn's place.
Their spontaneous popularity among the
Irish is in sharp contrast with the serv-
lie adulation Of the English.
The Irish peasantry have shown them
selves especially anxious 70 see the
duke and duchess. The correspondent
OF the Daily Graphic. who, his paper
says, is a prominent Parnellite, who has
suffered for the Nationalist cause. sent
the following private telegram 10 the
editor:
The tour has become a triumphal pro-
cession. At Castletown and Dunraven
magnify its significance
The Castle clique at Dublin is so de-
termined 70 make political capital out of
the visit Of the Duke and Duchess Of
York 10 Ireland that the lord lieutenant.
Earl Cadogan, has been obliged to set
his foot down firmly in order 10 prevent
IL from being turned into a Protestant
ascendancy demonstration, and he has
ordered expunged several sentences, in
this sense, from addresses sent TO their
royal highnesses by Orange societies.
Court circles are enjoying a 16-page
booklet, written entirely in cipher by
minor royal parsonage, in which amusing
stories and facts connected with the in
ner lives of the members of the royal cir
Gle are set out in the most unvarnished
manner. Most of the matter in this pub
iication concerns Emperor William OF
Germany. and the writer asserts that
$500 people are languishing in the Ger
man state prisons on charges Of les ma
jeste. The booklet is in great demand.
Il is said to be like pages from the
"Pickwick Papers
The pope's attending physician de-
clares that Leo XIII. will see the twenti-
eth century. The announcement has
been decidedly unpleasant TO the papal
initiators of changes in Rome, who are
in a complete state of stagnation. One
cardinal said this week
IF you want to be correct in state
ments about the Vatican, you must say
and impress upon the people that the
present complete stagnation in every
Ehing initiative does not project any
changes. No one, however, wishes 10
undertake anything now. for if DR.. Tap
pen is wrong in his prediction. a real,
great and radical change may arrive al
any moment and all fear to find them
selves the mainsprings OF some enter
prise which might be displeasing 10 the
new pope"
Paderewski. while on his Polish es-
tate. near that Of de Resseke's. has cut
mis- hair short and is practising bicycle
riding.
The strike in the engineering trades
has grown more serious within the past
week. II has now extended TO the vari-
Gus trades connected with engineering.
= .,.,,-
ers etc. a Newcastle. Sheffield and 9th
er centers have received notices that
their services viii not be required after
this week Many Of the firms affected
declare that they are preparing 10 move
their establishments % the continent.
and they add that the question Of eight
hours work per day is by no means the
moSt important thing involved in the
dispute. The strikers are opposed 70 the
introduction Of new machinery and are
trying 70 artificialy check production.
In connection with the engineering
strike the Employers Fedora ton has
issued a statement regarding the hours
OF work in the case OF engineers in Amer
lea. based on the official statistics OF the
United States government bureau. show
ing that wages are not higher and With
fewer holidays.
Naval circles continue TO make much
Of the docking OF the United States bat
tleship Indiana at Halifax, and il is re-
marked that The predicament OF the
United States must he taken into ac-
count in estimating her fighting power
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, the American
iroamaster has rurchasei Skiha T-ss-fa