Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-04
WHEELING <&2 MONDAY. 4
FRESH FOREIGN FACTS.
The News of Yesterday in the Old
World.

world.
Details of the Insurgent Defeats
in the Philippines-The French
Elections-Hard Up for Money.
European Preparations for War.
The Countess Really Dead.
Cheap Money in London.
PARIS. January 4-vivion st. Martin,
the famous geographer Is dead.
PARIS. January 4.-There has been
heavy fan of snow at Monte Carlo.
PARIS. January 4-The demonstrations
on Sunday in honor of Gambetta al biah-
qui were thinly attended.
NAPLES. January S.-The Cardinal
Archbishop of Naples is dead; re wa1
born in 1894 and was created Cardinai al
the consistory of March a. 1881.
BUENos. AYREs. January 3.1The
Chamber by a vote of % TO 10 passed the
second reading OF measure providing ior
the resumption of the integral service
debt
LONDON. January 4.-Lord William
Beresford who was injured by a fall from
his horse in the hunting tield last Wed
nesday. is progressing faVoraply toW"ros
recovery.
LONDON. January 9.-Oficial advices
from India say that the rams nave pcne- s
fitted nearly all the famine districts there
and that the average price OF grains 10
ten seers per rupee.
PARIS. January An. Constans has
been defeated at Toulouse by one vote by
NJ Remusat Nearly sixty of the Sena-
tors whose terms expire nave Deen re-
elected, including NM. Trarieux, Coch-
cry and DeVelle.
LONDON. January 4-The Hon. Sir Jo-
seph William Chtty. Judge or the Cnan-
cery division of the High Court or Justice.
has been appointed Lord Justice OF the
Appeal Court. vice the Hon. Sir Edward
Ebenezer Kay, resigned.
PARIS. January 4.-There is much talk
of the impossibility of the French dock
yards executing quickly enough the new
naval programme and the question:
whether ironclads shall be purchased III
England has excited u patriotic discus
sion.
LONDON. January A Vienna dis
patch 10 the Times reports that Tech
nicist' writes 10 the Neue treie Presse
that there IS no doubt that Austria Hun
gary will have 10 follow France and Ger
many and spend from eighty TO one hun
dred millions for quick-fring guns for the
artillery service
LONDON. January At is reported
from Warsaw that the doctors have de-
cided that the Countess Helena Potocka.
whose body was disinterred after her
burial through a dread that she was
merely in a state of catalegsy,, is dead.
and no catalepsy existed. The body has
therefore been reinterred.
LONDON. January A Vienna dis
patch TO the Daily Mail says: 1T is
stated that their finances will soon com,
pei the Princess Of Chimay- -Caraman and
the Gypsy RIGGS to abandon their luxuri;
ou.; mode of living. The Princess has signed
a contract TO sing in Buda Pest music
hall, RIGGS playing the violin in the or
chestra.
OTTAWA, Ont. January 3-Hon. A g.
Blair, Minister of Railways. returned here
to-day from his trip TO the Pacific coast.
II Is understood that his report 10 the
government Will be i'm favor of building
a railroad through the Crows Nest Pass
of the Rockies. but how it is TO be done
IS another question, upon which Mr.. Blair
Will say nothing.
LONDON, January 4.-The financial ar
ticle in the Times expresses the opinion
that the feeling on the Stock Exchange
that another period of cheap money and
booming prices is coming. is not justified.
There may perhaps, be short periods OF
cheapness.' said the Times, but unless
there Is some unforeseen change in the
whole situation money will tend to be COM
paratively scarce for the whole year
LONDON, January THE Times st.
Petersburg correspondent denies rumors
of the retirement of NJ. De Witte, Minis
ter of Finance which depressed the
bOurse on Thursday. The correspondent
says that the rumors originated In the
postponement OF NJ. De Whites scheme
of currency reform and alleged dissen-
sions between NJ. De Witte and Prince
Khilkoff. Minister OF Communications,
about railway management.
LONDON. January i-rhe Brazilian
treasury delegate writes TO the Times
with reference to the sale last Thursday
fee which. Il was reported were believed
10 be a consignment of the Brazilian gov
crnment to the ROthschilds of London In
lieu Of bills 10 pay the interest on the
writes that the Rothschilds already had
sufficient funds to pay for the coupons on
the external debt
MONTREAL January 3-Great interest
has centered in the probable attitude OF
the Roman Catholic bishops with regard
to the newspaper La Patrie and its pro-
prietor. Mr.. Beaugrand. in view of the
very radical stand taken by the paper in
connection with the action of the bishops
in placing l. Electeur, OF Quebec, under
the ban. 1t was expected that similar
edict would be pronounced to-day from the
pulpit In the case of La Patrie. No refer
ence was made to the matter, however.
perhaps in view of the death, last Thurs
day, Of Archbishop Fabre.
LONDON. January 4.-The Standards
Madrid dispatch reports further details
received there from the Philippines of the
disastrous defeat Of the rebels. Accord
ing TO the adVices, at the battle of Bull
acan. Cen Rios, commanded the Span
iards The rebels numbered Z. 900 and were
infTpnphen f'gTgROn hA