The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-14
FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
h Indian Troubles-The Engineers
Strike-Jingoisn in Politics-The Pope's
Appeal tn br. w Settlement of
Palestine

Appear To - Settlement of
Palestine
Copyright by the Associated Press.)
London, September 1.-THE past
week in Great Britain has been marked
by ~enervescence in the labor world,
the quieting Of the Indian troubles,
with more or less confession of the gov
ernment's impotence in dealing with
the ameer of Afghanistan and the
defeat of the marquis of Salisbury in
the case of the German bondholders,
in the dreary struggle over the Greco
Turkish peace negotiations, which de-
eat has been caustically criticised and
has been followed by the sultan send
ing winter clothing to the Turkish
troops in ThessaIy.
The Trades Union Congress at Bir-
mingham, which has been styled by
Tom Mann, the labor leader, the con-
gress of fat heads" adjourned today
after a session chiefly noable for he
proposal to form a gigantic trades I'M
ion, out Of every conceivable trade, in
order to confront capital with a
threat of a general paralysis Of all in
dustry and by the proposal to stand by
the engineers in their present struggle.
The balance of the time of the congress
was mainly occupied with reaffirming
time-honored resolutions expressing, as
The Morning Post says, "pious opin-
ions of little value in practical life"
The ninth week of the engineers
struggle leaves 90 900 engineers, 1000
trade u%nionists, $500 non-unionists and
5000 labOrers out Of work, with strike
pay amounting to 933, 900 ($165, 0O0) per
week.
The so-called "Jingoism," in the
United States is finding an echo here.
An anonymous correspondent has writ
ten a long letter to The Spectator, in
which he attempts to prove that the
United States is really friendly to Great
Britain, in spite Of the American news
paper statements to the contrary. The
Spectator replies to this letter, saying:
while official America treats England
as at present, a any one believe in
American friendliness?"
The rise in wheat to 40 shillings has
dragged up the price of bread 6k q I'd
and in the poorest quarters Of London,
where bread is sold in slices, the loaf is
fetching 1 shilling. On top Of this the
Millers' National Union has started a
demand for fewer hours Of labor, with
a threatened strike if their demand
is not accorded.
Since the announcement Of the ex-
tensive discovering Of gold in the KlOn-
dyke region the company promoters Of
London have been busy taking ad-
vantage of the newspaper boom given to
that part Of the world. Fifteen KlOn-
dyke Qimited) companies which have
recently started, have brought out a
capital to the amount of G2, 046, 583 Of
which G1,137, 691 is offered to the pub
lie. In the meanwhile there is an i'm
menSe demand for ANYTHING ndy
ian in order to float further companies
in the spring Of 1893.
France, which protects Catholic in
trests in the Orient, has been appealed
to by the pope to prevent the success Of
the Zionist movement, which is re-
garded with horror at rome. MOnsig-
nor BOnetti, the apostolic legate at Con-
stantinOple, has been recalled to Rome
in order to devise roeanS to oppose the
Jewish plans to purchase and COLOMBO
Palestine, which plans are not as form
liable as generally believed. If the
statement of DIR. Grunhut, a Hungarian
Hebrew and head master of the Ger
man school at Jerusalem, are to be
credited, there is plenty Of good land
there; but the poverty of the Hebrews
of Jerusalem is terrible. Out of a pop
ulation Of SO, 1000, there are 10000 He
brews, of which number %, O00, he asserts
live on the aims of their European
co-religionists. 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
Argentine republic with Russian He
brews has been abandoned in favor of
the establishment Of Hebrew schools
in Russia.