The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03
DulCet Note That Seems
DiSCOrdant to the
British Ear.
General Miles Is Coming Home
Posted on European Mill
tary Affairs.
England Excited Over Typhoid
Fever Epidemic-Faminei In Ire
land Is Inevitable.

LONDON, Eng, Oct. 2-The British
public seems 10 be convinced that Amer
leans are trying to lead Great Britain into
trap by including Russia and Japan
among the participators in the Bering Sea
seal conference and the newspapers and
Government officials are fostering this
idea. Not only was the letter of the
United States EN- bassador, Colonel John
Hay. of July 90 excluded from the Blue
Book on the Bering Sea question, but
with two exceptions the newspapers did
not publish Colonel Hays letter when it
was furnished 10 them by Reuters Tele-
gram Company, and not one of the m has
commented upon it.
The comments of the Globe and Vanity
Fair on the situa ton are especially often
sive.
Vanity Fair says: 1t looks as If We
must do some thing to suppress the
Yankee. Unless the constant annoyance
OF Washington ceases gunpowder may
have 10 be used. We hope the matter
will De settled, as we do not want to see
the United States put back many years,
nor are we anxious TO make history for
them.
Vanity Fair further consoles itself with
the belief that the eagles voice is far
stronger than its beak and bigger than its
coura e.
General Nelson A. Miles, Mrs Miles and
Aid de- Camp Captain Maus sail for the
United Stales on the American liner st.
Louis on October .. The commander Of
the army has been in Europe since May
on his tour of military observation and
has inspected everything of military in
terest from the armies of the great pow
ers IN field of action down to balloons
and bicy cles," as he remarked.
| He has looked oyer Notifications, bar
racks. camps, ordnance works of all
classes, and in the interval of this work
has written three reports 10 the Govern
ment, covering different features of
European militarism. After his return he
will, with the assistance of Captain Maus,
prepare another and more com piete re-
port, N which will be embodied recon-
men dations for the improvement of the
United States army.
Returning Americans continue TO fill
the London hotels and restaurants and
all the transatlantic steamships during
the week sailed with heavy passenger
lists.
The King of Siam has been the lion of
the week, but the novelty of his visit has
worn off, and Chulalongkorn III is gener-
ally voted bore. His majesty is said TO
be very angry at the fact that he has not
received the Order of the Garter, but
Queen Victoria is determined that only
Christian sovereigns shall hereafter
recsive the Order of the Garter. as the
knights oath can only be taken by a
Christian.
The whole kingdom is excited by the
epidemic of typhoid fever, which is at.
trsctine so much attention 10 Maid
stone, Kent. There have been 1900 cases
in that town ana It's vicinity and about
fifty deaths have occurred. The epide mic
is Spreading at the rate of 120 cases daily
and the authorities are working night and
day in their efforts to crush out the fever.
The hospital accommodation is made
quate. Temporary hospitals are being
erected and the schools are Deing con-
verted into sick wards. There have been
numerous cases of typhoid fever through
out the country among people who re-
Gently visited Maidstone. TIE town
authorities OF that place are held re-
sponsible for the outbreak. owing to their
| refusal TO renew the appointment of a
watchman for the water supply at a salary
of 500 yearly.
the Marlborough baby will be chris
tened at Blenhsim toward the end OF DC.
tober: and it is reported that the Duke
and Duchess .of York, who will visit the
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough for the
shooting season, will be the sponsors of
the infInt.
Congressman John DalzeIl of PennsyI-
vania, with his wife and son, sailed tor
New York to-day from Southampton on
board the American line steamer st. l. luis,
after passing several weeks in England,
Ireland and France. To representa-.
tive of the Associated Press he said that
unquestionably there would be famine
i'll Ireland. Mr.. Dalzell added:
'Indications of this can be seen from the
car windows Haystacks are floating in
the fields, the peasants are unspea aka oily
wretched and the country seems to be
more miserable every year."
Referring 10 the new United States
tariff, Congressman Dalzell said:
Il have had very little opportunity to
observe the effecis of the tariff. but l
judge il is fu hlling our anticipations, and
that it will give American merchants,
manufacturers and workingmen more 10
do. l say this from the fact that all the
business men / have met in Europe are
denouncing it and com mplaining tn at it has
lessened their business. This is par rticu-
larry the case with the merchants of Paris,
who complain that their American trade
has decreased"