Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-31
(copyright. Assoeia,ed Pres..l

Copyright, Associated Press.)
London, October 30.-The weather
here and on the continent continues al.
most as mild as summer, but London
on Thursday, was visited by regu.
lar midwinter fog. lasting nearly TWEEN.
ty-four hours. Traffic was greatly de.
layed thereby and there were numerou.
accidents reported.
Owing to the death at Richmond OF
Wednesday last of the Duchess OF
Teck, all the great social arrangements
have been cancelled at court and gem
eral mourning will be ordered. The
newspapers are making great deal OF
fuss over the death of the Duchess. an.
pearing with turned rules and printing
pages of obituary matter. Her royal
highness was undoubtedly a good wo-
man; but certainly she was not the
idol of the people which the papers
make her out to be, and her great vir-
tues were not recognized until, by the
marriage of her daughter to the Duke
Of York she became the mother of a
future Queen of England. Prior to that
the Tecks had for years been in great
financial difficulties. and occupied an
unenviable position among royalists
both here and on the continent.
The story of the charge of He Cor
don Highlanders across the free zone
at the storming of Dargal Ridge, which
has come in bit by bit from India. re-
veals many instancesvoS great personal
heroism and has producAi an extraor-
binary wave Of patriotism throughout
Great Britain. At the theakes and mu-
sic halls everything which Han>be posl(
sibly construed into an illus III
bravery and dash of the High
rapturously applauded
painful scandal is agitat
the minor courts OF Germ
connected with the British
lily. The eldest daughter %
presumptiye Is report ~
cate condition Of I'D
her trouble being lackey of thycodft.
whom she insists upon marrying.
The Car and Czarina Yesterday
concluded their visit to the Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess at Hesse at Darms.
tadt. While there His Russian Mai.
esty strolled about the streets and for.
ests, but two Russian police agent,
kept him in sight. The imperial party
visited the theater at Darmstadt almost
nightly, and suddenly, in the middle OF
the first act, the gas, except on the
stage, was turned down to the lowest
point in order that the imperial party
might be able to seat themselves un-
obcerved.
The German postoffice Is experiment.
ing with an invention, an electrical
typewriter apparatus, which, at a cost
OF S125, can be connected with tele-
graph wire and messages which are
typed off on the keyboard at oAs> end
are reproduced at the other end.
Vanity Fair, reviewing the hunting
prospects at Melton MdNxbray, Ii sarcas-
tic in its references to the Duke OF
marlborough, who has just Arrived
there. coming down in DucaI fashion
by special train. AS hunting man, I'D
Duke is credit to his boot-maker. I'd
no one wears more perfect boots"
A curious echo Of the famous te
gram of Emperor William of Germa
to President Kruger, OF the South A
rican Republic, after the capture Of ~
Jameson and his followers, was heard
in the courts on Wednesday last whe2
a German merchant attributed hK
bankruptcy to decrease of business cfT-
ing to the prejudice this telegrapkic
message of sympathy with the trans
vaal created in London against Ger
mans in general.
A paragraph appears in the papers
this week calling attention to the neg
lect of Thackery'S grave in Kensal
Green Cemetery. 1t is oyerrun with
ivy, which obliterates the inscription
Sir Charles Dixie, the well known
Radical member of Parliament for the
forest of Dean division of Gloucester.
shire, addressing big meeting at New
Castle this week, said he had hitherto
never believed in the embittered feel
ing here between capital and labor or
that capital Expresses labor, as 1t does
in America" But. he added, recent
events showed the uprising of the bad
American spirit here" particularly In
the shipbuilding and engineering
trades
At st. Paul's church, Knightsbridge.
to-day, there was fashionable as
sembly at the wedding OF Miss Nora
Meiggs to MIR. Herbert Allfry. The
bride is the daughter of prominent
American, Mr.. John G. Meiggs. who
has long been a resident in London,
and the bridegroom belongs to well
known English family. The wedding
was attended by number Of promin-
ent English and American friends Of
the couple The brides attendants
were Miss Hilda Meiggs. the bride
sister; Miss Gladys Meiggs, a niece
the bride: Miss Sophie Meiggs. on1
the brides cousins: Miss Synon,
NJ. Grace and two children,
Brenton and We're Allfry, tho
costumed as a page.
Adyices from Berlin say q
Rosette Ettinger, an AmeriG
before Emperor William at
early this week. and that hi
conyersed with her and CON
the singer upon her voice.
There was a stormy epl1
Potter-Bellow company
EIwood. an English
with Mrs. Potter, ate
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