Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-12
BRITISH HAVE HAD PLENTY TO IN
TEREsT THEM RECENTLY.
ENGINEERS STRIKE STILL on.
UNION COMPRISING EVERY CONCEIv-
ABLE TRADE PROPOSED.
Lord Salisbury's Defeat In the Turko-
Grecian NegOtiations-Bfead Has
Gone to n Shilling q Loaf
Fifteen Klondike Com
panies Started.

London, Sept. u.-(Copyrighted) The past
week in Great Britain has been marked
by effervescence in the labor world, the
quieting In the Indian troibles. with more
or less confession of the governments inn
potence in dealing with the ameer OF At
ghanistan. and the defeat of the Marquis
of Salisbury, in the case of the German
bondholders, in tine dreary struggle over
the Graeco-Turkish peace negotiations,
which defeat has been caustically criticized
and has been followed by the sultan send
ing winter clothing to the Turkish troops
in ThessaIy.
The Trades Union congress at Birming-
ham. which has been styled by Tom Mann,
heads" adjourned to-day after a session
chiefly notable for the proposal to form
gigantic trades union cut of every con-
with the threat of general paralysis of
all industry, and by the proposal to stand
by the engineers in their present struggle.
was mainly occupied with reafiirming time
honored resolutions, expressing, as the
Morning Post says. "pious opinions of lit
tie value In practical life."
Even the Daily Chronicle says:
I'VE suppose there is nothing, for it to
do, pending political revival, but to go
The ninth week Of the engineers strug.
gle leaves $4,000 engineers, 1900 trades
nnionists, $500 non-unionists and 5000 la
amounting to s165.OOO per week. New firms
depending on engineering are stopping
work daily, and some of the locomotive
manufacturers have posted notices as fol-
."Eight hours day with the present rate
OF wages would be disastrous to the loco
motive trade Of England IN the face OF
We, therefore, feel 1t our duty to counsel
the men to refrain from any encourage
ment or support of the eight hour move
ment."
The so-called 'jingoism' in the United
States is finding an echo here. An anony-
nous correspondent has written long let
to prove that the United States is really
friendly to Great Britain. In spite of the
american new nswspaper .p statements n to the
letter, saying:
"While Official America treats England
as at present, can an, anyone believe In Amer
The rise in wheat to 40 shillings has
dragged up the price Of bread to 6t to
pence. and In the poorest quarters Of Lon:
Is fetching l shilling. On top of this, the
Millers' National Union has started de-
threatened strike if their demand. is not
accorded.
Since the announcement of the extensive
the company. promoters Of London have
been busy taking advantage of the news
paper pa boom given to that part of the world.
which have recently started, have brought
out &c capital l., to 81 the AMOUNT Of f2.oS.5sS Of
Thsn is offered Is to the gubdle
mand for anything Klondikian. In order to
float further companies In the spring Of
France, which protects Catholic inter-
ests in the Orient. has been appealed to
by the pope to prevent the success of the
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tolic legate at Constantinople, has been re-
called to Rome in order to devise means to
oppose the Jewish plans to purchase and
colonize Palestine. which plans are not
as formidable as generally believed. II
and Hf
school at Jerusalem. are to be credited,
there is plenty Of good land there but
is terrible. Out Of a population Of $1,000.
there are $1,000 Hebrews. of which number
2s, ,OO0 he asserts. live on the aims Of their
European co-reltgtontsts. 1t Is declared that
the possibility Of Palestine being Partition
ed among newcomers is too remote to be
considered.
1t is announced from Odessa that the late
Baron Hirsch's plan to colonize the Argen-
tine Republic with Russian Hebrews has
ment ss Of f Hebrew schools SC % in + Russia. I a'sn-
United States Consul General Burke has
received very satisfactory reply to his
satsfaeton and @ for the as
sault made by three Moors on the protege
of an American citizen residing at Tangiers.
The assailants are now in jail at Tangiers,
the sultan has promised to pay an indem-
be sent to Fez. Prisoners are sent to Fee
only for grave crimes. They suffer the
most terrible agony on the way there; they
are loaded with chains and are starved and
beaten all along the road. In the interests
of humanity. Mr.. Burke objected to the
transfer, and demanded that the punish
ment should be meted out to them In the
local prisons. The sultan acceded to this
The result Is all the more gratifying when
1t is remembered that the Moorish authors
ties shrugged their shoulders and refused
to take any action in the matter when Con-
sui Burke first demanded the punishment
of the three men. and also demanded the
payment Of an indemnity as a result Of the