Arizona republican., 1897-09-26
ROUND ABOUT EUROPE.

ROUND ABOUT EUROPE.
 Fall of Royal Favorite. M. Ilg, the Swiss engineer who has until now been the principal European adviser and favorite of the Abyssinian ruler, and the recipient of all sorts of min ing and railroad concessions from that dusky potentate, has suddenly fallen into disgrace and has been thrown into prison by Menelek and loaded with chains. It appears that the mon arch has been persuaded by some of his French friends that the unfortu- nate Eg, who was principally instru- mental in bringing about the peace between Abyssinia and Italy, has been bribed by the latter to betray the land of his adoption and to sacri- flee the interests of Abyssinia for the sake of money
 Greece's Parthenon All Right.-The alarmist accounts recently published by the English press, and especially by the London Times, regarding the condition of the Parthenon at Athens are wholly unjustifed by facts. There is no danger of its tumbling to pieces. On~tbe contrary, it is well snored up. and adequately supported -~by powerful scaffolding, which has been put up in order to permit of the replacing of the defective architraves and capitals with marble exctracted from the old quarries at Pentelicus, by the Greek Archaeological society acting in conjunction with an inter national com mittee of architects and Savants.
 Why Dr. Jameson is in Africa-It is announced in London by the South < African Chartered company that the work with which Dr. Jameson has been intrusted, and for which he re- turned to the Dark Continent, is the management of the construction of the transcontinental telegraph line which is intended to span Africa from Cape Town to Cairo.
 Major Lothaire's New Job-Major Lothaire, the Belgian officer who was dismissed from King Leopold's army for having hanged the English mis- sionary trader, Stokes, without any form of trial and merely from mo tives of personal spite, in the Congo Free State, has just returned to west Africa for the purpose of undertakins / the management of a Belgian com pany trading in rubber, ivory and cof- ice on the banks of the Congo.
 England to Build Big Docks at the Cape.-Dhe British government has decided to spend $14,OO0,O0O in the construction of an elaborate system oi new docks, basins and coaling jet ties at Simon's Town, Cape of Good Hope. The plans have already re- ceived the approval of the admiralty and work is to be begun at once. The docks will be of sufficient capacity to hold the largest iropclad afoat.
 Old Trea Mills For Sale.-Eng- lands pri authorities are abol, lshing the the tread mill and oakum pic fh the penal institu. floni n,1ttin. Of tn tn hited Kingdom, and are putting contct labor to more prof itaDle use Army and navy stores especially the making of garments ana accoutrements, are now engagins the attention of the inmates of hel majesty's jails, who likewise manu. fracture the mail bags of the posta department and the shirts, uniforms and boots of their arch enemies. the police. The result is vast saving all around, and an announcement is made that the government has some three hundred badly worn tread mills for sale to the highest bidder.
 Twelve Good Months for Erin The returns just issued by the Brit. lsh government show a remarkable decrease in Irish emigration for the last twelve months, the figures being the lowest since 1871. This. together with the declining death rate, a birth rate considerably above the average and a very extensive immigration or Irish citizens returning from America would seem to indicate that III spite of the famine which is now declared to be imminent, Ireland has been enjoying recently a greater de. gree Of prosperity than for a lone time.
 Queer Doings for Allies.-A sensa. -tion has been created by the discov- cry that both the Austrian and Italian governments are busy day and night constructing the most costly and elab. crate Notifications at the points where the empire and the kingdom meet in the southern Tyrol and in the neighbOrhood of Pontebba. This, ii would appear, means that neither al Vienna nor at Rome is there much confidence on the part of the authori- ties in the extension of the existing triple alliance, since allies do not, as a rule, consider it necessary to adopt such means of defending their domin-