Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-30
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progress peacefully, and there is every
indication of an amicable understand
ing between the powers, the situation
i'll France, in the opinion of we'll in
formed persons, is graver menace to
peace, and, in the present excitable
state of the nation and shaky condi
ton of the ministry, something is like
ly to occur to disturb European peace.
A note of warning has even been
sounded by some of the French news
papers, which urge a cessation of the
present agitation in France, pointing
out that the country should not play
into the hands of Germany The Petit
Journal says:
THE government may soon be I'M
able to prevent some one in authority
from making a statement which is
liable to occasion a conflict. We have
certain proofs that Germany foresees
the possibility of war and is making
arrangements accordingly She means
( to be in the right and accuse us of
creating trouble"
The relations between France and
Great Britain are also drifting towards
a crisis. the Niger negotiations III
Paris have not reached an agreement,
and there are no signs of them doing
so. In the meantime, everything is
tending to take the question out of the
hands of the diplomats and leave it TO
be settled by
THE HANDS OF SOLDIERS.
The well informed Manchester Guar
dian remarks:
IF Lord Salisbury cannot come to
an agreement with France, he cannot,
! without the less of something more
substantial than prestige, much longer
defer the occupation of the disputed
territory Already British troops oc-
cupy parts of the Borgu country, and,
while the international commission is
marking time in Paris, the rival claim
ants in Africa are drawing perilously
near each other. This constitutes the
real danger of the situation"
On Emperor Williams birthday
Thursday Mr. Poultney Bigelow re-
ceived the following message from
Berlin through the chief aide-de-camp:
''The Emperor has charged me to
thank you very much for White Mans
Africa He is quite delighted with it
and amuses himself very much reading
it, Your description of South Africa
and the manner in which it is vast
ing, is the best he ever read"
THE RETURNING ANIMATION
in the West End streets betokens the
approach of the Parliamentary season.
and the hogira to the Mediterranean.
The Monte Carlo carnival season has
! already set in, the Battle of Flowers
at Mentone occurred this week, and
the carnival at Nice will begin on Feb
ruary 10. Mrs. John w. Mackey has
arrived at Nice, from Rome, for the
/ season.
Diplomatic privilege is still the sub
ject of sarcastic comment in the press,
owing to a member of the ENJOYS staff
claiming this privilege for his dog.
against the muzzling order, and the
foreign Office has issued note to all
embassies, pointing out i'll the most
polite manner that the muzzling order
is purely a sanitary measure, and ex-
pressing trust that the ENJOYS good
sense will help its enforcement.
| Signoria Crispi, wife oe the former
Italian premier, has set the new fash
I ion in Italy of appearing at outdoor
festivities accompanied by a tame cal.
which, attired in a richly guided coat
of vellum, with ribbons, follows her
! like a dog Other fashionable ladies
have followed her example.
The Church of St. Helbertas, Bioh-
! opsgate, this city, is now the focus Of a
tremendous contest among the parish
| toner's, owing to the ritualistc OBJ
servances there. The vicar, who is an
old man, lives at Hastings, and he ap-
pointed a curate, who introduced holy
water, the confession, the stations Of
the cross. incense etc. some of the
PARISHIONERS OBJECTED
to this, and a meeting on Thursday
night at the church was turned into "a
ritualistic bear garden" The malcon-
tents howled, exchanged epithets and
gesticulated for two hours, declaring
'sthe church was being used for dirty
confessional and for debauchery.'
"Scoundrels," liars" 'drunkards."
| were among the choice epithets ex-
changed Eventually resolution was
adopted supporting ritualism, bur the
fight will be continuer and tie police
will be called in upon the next occa-
sion.
The patentees of three Dublin city
theatres, under an old law Oh George
ILLS, have issued a notice 5roi, biting
amateur theatricals, as the act referred
to gives them a monopoly of theatrical
performances. All Dublin society is in
arms against the lessees and they
threaten not to attend the theatres.
The fashionable theatrical success at
present is undoubtedly Arthur w.
Pineros new comedy, "Trelawney Of
the Wells" and all society is fiocking
| to the Court Theatre. chiefly to see
! Lord Rosslyn, who, under the nom de
theatre of James Erskine," has a part
in the production, though the play
alone would fill the theatre for a long
time.
Beerbohm Trees production Of
Julius Caesar" is receiving the great