Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-11
Parliamentary Inquiry Into the Jameson
Raid Becomes Farce,
JAMESON AND WllL0UGHBY ARE HEROES
Openly Boast Their Connection with the
Infamous 1noursion.
CROWDS FROM THE COUNTRY IN LONDON
Thousands from the North Come to See
Football and Fight.
QUEER RESULTS OF COURT TRIALS
RowDs FROM THE COUNTRY IN LONDON
QUEER RESULTS OF COURT TRIALS
Three Libel Suits Heard During th'
Week Illustrate the Nngnrics of
Justice by Their Widely
Varying Outcomes.

Varying Outcomes.
Copyright. 1897, by Press Publishing Company.)
LONDON, April 10.-(New York Worlt
Cablegram-Special Telegram)-The farce o.
the Jameson raid inquiry ends in genera
hilarity, and DR.. Jameson and Colonel Sill
John Willoughby are the most popular tive
men In England today. They made no bones
at the last of boastng that II they had sue
ceeded, all would have been endorsed by the
imperial authorities. Failure has cost Sill
John his commission and Jameson his in
come, but that will not be for long.
Major Heaneys appearance in the witness
chair furnished the most interesting episode
Of the committee hearing yesterday. He is
an Irish American, who, as was first exclu-
sively stated in these dispatches at the
time, carried the dispatch from the Johannes
burg reform committee to DR.. Jameson on
the frontier forbidding him to enter the
Transvaal. In appearance and manner
Heaney fulfills the ideal of a soldier of for
tune and stands out as the one member of
the revolutionary band who entered into the
affair in spirit of pure adventure. The
committee Immediately recognized this. He
gave his evidence with such nonchalant can
dor that his interrogators were instantly
disarmed.
CANDoR CoNvULsES THE COMMITTEE.
He testified that when he delivered his
dispatch to DR.. Jameson, the latters laconic
reply was: well, l am going in, all the
same. Will you come with me?' The
majors answer, repeated with the most mat
ter-of-fact air. was "Why, of course
will"
This sudden transformation from an ennis
sary OF peace into promoter of war con-
vulsed the committee, and especially as
Major Heaney obviously thought it was the
most natural thing in the world. The COM
mtttee has adjourned for some weeks.
The horde OF war correspondents already
lowering about the shores of the Aegean sea,
awaiting hostillties has been reinforced by
Hon. William Peel, the eldest son of Wis.,
count Peel form erly speaker of the House
of Commons who has gone out to join the
Times staf. The difficulty, the almost i'm
possibility, experienced by the heads OF even
influential aristocratc families In getting
employment for their sons since nearly all
the government billets have to be secured
mot by patronage but open competition
Is well exemplifed by Mr.. Peels acceptance
OF a post of this description.
All leading London newspapers have sew
eral men posted at different points awaiting
tho expected war. But In parliamentary
circles here peaceful solution of the Gre
tan imbroglio is deemed virtually certain.
PANORAMA ON THE STREET
London's main streets present curious and
typical appearance today. Thousands upon
thousands of strange faces were to be seen
In these thoroughfares up to 2 p. m, their
owners dressed in every conceivable English
costume. Scotch and Yorkshire predominant
Ing. The occasion was the great foot ball
match this beautiful afternoon In the Crystal
Palace grounds between two crack northern
clubs. Sixty thousand people were expected
ns spectators and knockdowns beyond count
ing during the game, at 100 among the
spectators to one on the playing field. The
contrast between the appearance OF the
streets today and on the 22d of next June
will be striking, but while the costumes of
the men and women on that day will be
vastly more expensive, it is doubted II they
will be more interesting or as picturesque
as those of today.
The first public recital by Miss Rosa
Green, an American mezzo-soprano, is pro-
as introducing a new strong voice of excel
lent quality and wide range. Miss Green
was assisted by Andrew Black, a baritone.
QUEER THINGS IN COURT.
The vagaries of English justice were
queerly illustrated by three verdicts this
week. Miss Marion Terry. one of a widely
known theatrical family, got n verdict of
$500 (s2 5000 against newspaper which
falsely printed that she intended to marry |
her brother-in-law, while Joseph Pennell, |
an American artist, assisted by an
American colleague, Mr.. Whistler, got |
only $50 Cs2OO) damages from the critic of the |
Review, who has accused him OF |
practical dishonesty In concealing the fact !
that his etchings. transferred from paper,
were really not drawn on the stone itself.
There was the usual difference Of opinion
among the artist witnesses, and Mr., Whist
er's testimony of course, was amusingly
cynical. Then a firm Of stock exchange job
Ders recovered verdict for $4,000
$40 o0O) damages for libel against Robert
Houston, NJ. p, on account OF a stock trans
action dispute. All the big lawyers were in
one or the other of these cases, The de-
'endant in the last one tried to corner the
took of a gold mine, and despite the reve-
atoms of the suit and the verdict there
,eems to be no probability of any parliament
ary action in tho matter
wELLEsLEY's FAMILY AFFAIRS.
The divorce obtained by Colonel Fred
Wellesley. urcle OF. Lord Cowley. and a
irand-nephew OF the great duke Of yelling
on (whose own domestic affairs recently oc- l.
upled the courts) frorl his wife. Kate
'aughan, the most famous OF the English
ancers, recalls q serial sensation created
en years ago, when Colonel Welesley's in.
atuation for her led him to break up his own
lone end sacrifice most promising career.
ie was military attache at ST. Petersburg
When he abandoned his first wife, beauti-
nj, attractive woman and deeply devoted to
I'm, for Kate Vaughan, then the leading
'urlesque actress in the Gaiety company,
When his wife obtained a divorce, he mar
led the dancer and they lived together some
ears, but financial difficulties overtakins
I'm. she left him for an obscure member CT
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