The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-27

rtctiNeu INSTRUCTIONS from Emperor
William to hold his yacht, the Hohen-
zollern, as well as the dispatch boat
Gefion, in readiness for the trip which
he has arranged TO make with the en-
press early next spring TO the Holy
Land. He intends to spend next Easter
at Jerusalem and to preside at the dedi-
cation of the Lutheran church now in
course of erection there.
The first class cruiser of the German
navy which is to be launched next
month at Kiel is to bear the name Bis
marck and will in all probability be
named by the ex-chancellor. She is
huge vessel, with tonnage of nearly
II, 900 and horsepower of 10, 900. Her
proportions are of such character as
to render the name which she is to bear
particularly appropriate.
There are rumors at Rome of an inn
pending cabinet crisis, the minister of
foreign affairs the Marquis Visconti
Nenosta, being at variance with the
premier and with his other colleagues
which are the questions of Abyssinia
and the relations Of Italy toward France
and England. The Marquis di Rudini
desires TO organize the Italian colony
on the Red sea coast on q purely COM
mercial basis, abandoning its care and
protection to allied native chieftains
and restricting the military occupation
TO Massaua. This scheme is strongly
opposed by the king who finds his only
ministerial supporter in Visconti We
nosta. The latter likewise sides with the
king i'll preferring a strengthening of
the bonds of alliance with Germany
rather than the bringing about of an
economic and political understanding
with France, which is the chief aim of
the Marquis di Rudini, as it is of all
who have the welfare of Italy at heart.
President Kruger, yielding to the en-
treaties of his wife, has decided finally
TO retire from public life and will do so
as soon as the question of his pension is
settled. He declines to leave Office un-
less assured of an annuity of $25, 900 for
the remainder Of his days. His successor
will be General Joubert, the command
er in chief, whose election is practically
assured
One Of the first effects Of the procla-
nation Of the Franco Russian alliance
has been the order issued by the Berlin
( government for the exclusion of Musco-
! vite geese, which have hitherto been
] imported into Germany at the rate of
5000, 600 annually. This is likely to
| lead to retaliation on the part of the st.
| Petersburg authorities, and under the
circumstances it is possible that the
Russian gander may prove to be quite
as important q factor in the history of
! the nineteenth century as in the older
days when the geese saved the capital
| of Rome.
I Ireland's Nationalist leaders are or
ganizing meetings throughout the EN-
erald Isle for the purpose of expressing
the keen sense of disappointment that
prevails in consequence of the Duke and
! Duchess of York having been permitted
| to leave the country without the prom
Used concession of amnesty in favor of
the three ''invincible" political prison.
ers still doing life sentences. Their re-
lease was to have taken place at the
J time of the queens jubilee, and when
no announcement was made Oh that &C.
/ casion those who had the cause of the
men at heart were assured by the gov
eminent that the act of clemency was
only postponed until the arrival of the
J Duke and Duchess of York in Ireland
full The royal visitors have now come
and gone, after being most cordially
welcomed by the Irish people, while the
prisoners still remain in Jail.
I 1t has now become known in London
that the principal object of the British
mission to Abyssinia was to reassure
Menelek about the advance of the Nile
I expedition under Sir Herbert Kitchener,
and to obtain from him pledge of neu-
trality. In this respect the English en-
voy achieved complete success, and
since his departure Menelek has refused
to entertain proposals of alliance from
the Mahdi, who, it may be remembered
defeated and killed his predecessor, the
Negus Johannes.
| The last straw has been added to the
many trials of the unfortunate British
farmer by the importation on a large
scale of fox cubs from Germany for use
in the hunting field. The Teuton Reynard
is denounced as being even more vicious
and predatory than his English name
sake, and in the midland counties par
ticularly the farmers are suffering seri-
Gus losses through his strongly develop
ed taste for English poultry.
HERE AND THERE.
France must face the question wheth.