The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-06-17
OUR LONDON CABLE Letter.
THE COLONIAL MILITARY DETACH-
MENTS ARRIVING TO TAKE
PART IN THE JUBILEE.
PROCESSION PROGRAM ARRA|GNED
Absence of Recognition of PrOmi-
nent COmmOners Has Stirred Up
Liberals-Purity Movement
Is Causing Alarm.

by the Associated Press. 1.-THE past week
has seen the arrival of numerous mill
tary attachments from the colonies to
take. part in the queens jubilee festivi-
ties. A splendid body of Maori police
are the latest arrivals. They reached
here yesterday evening from New
Zealand and composed an ode to the
queen while on their way here. They
hope to chant it before her majesty and
expect her to join in it. Colonial
troops are now to be met on every side.
They are generally men of fine physique
wearing smart uniforms, and are very
popular everywhere.
The official program OF the procession,
as published, has given umbrage to the
liberals, owing to the utter absence of
recognition of the civil side of the
Queens reign.
The Daily Chronicle is very outspoken
on the subject especially of the emitting
of Mr.. Gladstone and asks:
What kind of show is it that gives
u prominent place to the soldiers of
Emperor William and to the representa-
ltives of Turkish barbarity and excludes
the leading English-speaking statesman
of the age"
Continuing, the Chronicle remarks:
1.-THE Victorian era is conspicuous
above all in the progress of labor and
the steady growth of self-government.
Yet the working classes are ignored. A
still more striking fact is that the pre-
siding officers of the two houses of par
lliament are not recognized. The
speakers Office is century old. He is
the first commoner in England, presides
lover the most famous institution and is
the figure-head of the government, yet he
has no place in the procession. What
will the colonies, who are welded to pure
democracy, think of this?"
In conclusion, the Chronicle says:
"If the crown has done anything for
1.-THE country it is also true that the coun-
try has done much for the crown, for it's
own progress and for the general cause
of human welfare"
An extraordinary murder story comes
from Philippopols, Bulgaria, where a
Capt. Botchoff, Project of Police Novi-
itch and gendarme have been arrested
on the charge of numbering Anna Simon,
a beautiful public singer, and the mistress
of the captain. The latter. it appears,
became tired of Anna and determined to
get rid of her. With the aid of the pre-
feet and the captains brother she was
chloroformed and taken in cab to the
banks of the Martha river, where a
gendarme was in waiting. The latter
then threw her into the water. The
he was told by Capt. Boitchof that
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria had or.
ldered the woman to be killed. In con
Injection with this declaration it is pointed
out that the accomplice of the captain
WAS court gendarme of the prince
lpalace.
Capt. Boitchoff was one of the officers
who assisted in kidnapping Prince Alexan
der of Bulgaria, driving the carriage ii
which the latter was transported to the
coast. Prince Ferdinand. when he re
ceived Prince Alexander, took fancy t.
Botchoff. had him educated and attached
him to the suite of the Princess Maria
Louise, with the rank of princess adju
Itant. Boitchoff's liasOn with Anna
Simon was known to everybody in so
lciety. Capt. Boitchoff made rich
marriage recently, when the liason with
the unfortunate singer was much
talked of.
Princess ADELAIDE, widow of the first
Dom Miguel of Braganza, the former
head of the royal family of Portugal, is
to take the black veil tomorrow, wher
she will be received as a professed choil
nun at the Benedictine abbey of st
Cecilia of the Solesmes. She is the
mother of the present Duke of Braganza
and her six beautiful daughters have al
made brilliant matches. One is the wife
of the late Archduke Charles Louis OF
Austria, ex-president to the empress OF
Austria. Another married the brother
of Tie empress of Austria, who is an ac
complished oculist, and. assisted by his
wife, treats eye diseases gratis.
Princess Adelaide has been novice il
the abbey mentioned since June II, 1896
and was herself a famous beauty She
always had tendency toward convent
life. and the fire at the charity bazaar
in Paris on May 4 decided her to take
the black veil
The ears baby is to receive singular
name, Tatiana.
There. is serious alarm in all circles
of the French capital at the avowed in
tention of the parliamentary committee
which is now dealing with the Berengel
bill, to restrict not only the sale, but the
possession of certain classes of litera
ture and works of art. Acknowledged
works, such as are exhibited in the
Louvre, and some classical literature viii
be placed on the black list. This vii
bring the directors of the museums anG
the national library within the statute
Literateurs and collectors are in con
sternation, as the early adoption of the
law appears to be certain.
The Journal DIES Debats describes fin
proposal as odious especially the part deal
ing with the bare possession of works al
legged to be of odious character. The lis
drawn up includes over a hundred maste
pieces of the most illustrious authors o
France, and imprisonment for a month t
two years, and fine of 100 to 500 francs
are the penalties for the lending or givin,
any of them away. Berneger, who head
the purity movement is being urged t,