The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-12-09
THE WEEK IN LONDON.
Storm OF Unusual Severity Causes
Considerable Damage
d. Along the Coast.

Along the Coast.
London, Nov. 26-.rhe recent compare
lively mild weather which has prevailed
in Great Britain has been interrupted by
a thorough blizzard In many parts of the
country, especially in the north, where the
&snowdrifts have been several feet deep.
Three men persisted in the show ih the
highlands, train was blown off the rails
near TraIee, ireland, numbers of fishing
boats have been lost, many fishermen
have petished, and the Irish mail boats
and cross channel mali services were in.
terrupted or seriously delayed. Trains
have been showed up at several places
and generally the snowstorm is consider
ed to be the worst for many years.
The severe weather reached as far south
| as the Mediterranean, where a French
transport, bound for Tunis, was obliged
to return to Toulon in a damaged condi-
ton. She also reported that some Of the
recruits ON board of her We're killed or
injured during the storm.
The Queen Entertaining.
Queen Victoria who has been enter
tanning extensively at Windsor this week,
received visit from man named Math-
| ews, described as man who presented
himself at the castle with a bundle of pa
pers under his arm, and asked to see her
majesty. He said he had just come into
| u large property, through the death of his
| grandfather, and he wanted to consult
| with the Queen about it. The authorities
| found that he was a harmless crank and
| they sent him buck to London.
The dislike of the Queen for the late
William e. Gladstone was well known,
but since the death Of the great states
man her majesty has given several proofs
| of her kindly regard for Mrs. Gladstone.
| the widow. She has written frequently
| to the latter inquiring very compassion
ately regarding her health, and express
| ing the hope that her bereavement has
now lost it's keenness.
There is some discussion this week as
to whether the Queen will again go to
| the south of France next spring, in view
| of the Anglophobe feeling excited by the
! Fashoda dispute.
Outbursts upon the part of the French
| newspapers urging that pressure be ex-
ercised in the proper quarters to induce
the Queen not to go to the French Riv
iera, but to Florence instead.
Countess Appeals for Funds.
The Countess Casa Valencia. wife of
the former Spanish ambassador of that
name, has written to the newspapers. ap-
pealing for further funds to be devoted
| diers and widows of the slain As gen.
erous contributions already received will
! not suffice to meet the widespread misery
existing among this class of unfortunate
Spaniards, a three days bazaar will be
| opened at Downshire house, on Deem
Der 1. by the Infanta Eulala. The pro-
ceeds will be devoted to the Spanish fund
| for the relief of the wounded and. the
widows.
At Cambridge on Thursday last, Gen.
Kitchener was accorded great reception
when he received the freedom of the Dor
Ough and was admitted to the degree of
doctor of laws, which was the occa sion
for an outburst of time-honored rollicking
undergraduate spirit. The students mus
tered in great force at the same house,
sang patriotic ditties and dangled a life
size etfigy Of dervish over the balcony
in front of the general, who, with the
university "big-wigs.' had to undergo
good-humored chaff Later, the students
celebrated the day with an enormous
bonfire in front of Market hall. the fire
being replenished with garden fences,
tradesmen's shutters and a recently-erect-
ed municipal bandstand.
Young Queens Spirit.
The young Queen of Holland. who re-
Gently Displaced her strong will by re-
calling a whole issue of postage stamps
because her portrait on them made her
look too girlish, is again showing her
spirit i'll the question of her betrothal
to Prince William of Wiede. an officer
in the German army. which has been
practically settled upon. The official an
nouncement of the betrothal has been
| kept back on account of certain difficult
| ties in the protocol, the question being
whether the prince should be invested
with the rights and preroga tives of prince
consort or retain his present rank.
| -, Unless the former plan is adopted nei-
Their the laws of Holland nor the foreign
| courts will recognize him as a member of
| the Dutch royal family. The Wiedc fam
lily insist upon the title of prince consort
| but Queen Wilhelmina demands that
Queen Victoria's precedent be followed
| and that the title of Prince Consort be
| not conferred until eighteen months after
the marriage. 1t is expected, however
that the difficulty will be overcome be-
tore long. The wedding has already been
| Spring.
A Romantic Betrotha,.
1t has leaked out that the betrothal of
the young Queen to the Prince of Wiede
is of romantic origin. The princes older
brother married the Princess Pauline OF
Wurtemburg, who was Wilhemina's in.
| innate girlhood friend. Once, when they
were staying together and indulging il,
dreams of the future, they vowed. accord
ing to the story, that they would only wed
two brothers. The Princess Pauline aft
crWards married the elder Prince of
Wicde, Prince Frederick. and Wilhelmin,
determined to keep her VOW and wed
| his brother, Prince William. who is four
years younger than Prince Frederick.
This, it is added. explains Queen Wilhel-
mlnas indifference to other suitors, which
| has caused so much comment.
Other reports, however. say that the
real reason for the selection of Prince
William of Wietle as husband for
Queen Wilhelmina is that his mother is a
princess of the Netherlands and that,
therefore, he is likely to be more accepta-
bic to the people of Holland than an ell
| tirely foreign prince.
CHASTITY Story of Cannibalisn,.
Advices from Brisbane, Queensland.
| contain CHASTITY story Of cannibalism in
| the German group of the Sulu islands.
1t appears that Queensland trading cut
| ter, the Sea Ghost. with three white
traders and a crew of seven natives. was
boarded by the treacherous natives of the
island of Baku, who murdered two of the
whites and six of the blacks Their
bodies, it is asserted, were then dressed
for cannibal feast.
In the meanwhile the natives found a
key of rum and soon they were all help
lessly drunk. Before they recovered from
their stupor the surviving white man and
the native seaman managed to unloose the
ropes with which they were bound and
escaped in small boat, from which they
were picked up by a British ship.
Dispatches received here from Rome
say that the action of American publish
ers in refusing to buy book, LA pere
Hecker,' to which the Vatican had given
it's imprimatur, and which contained al
.eged reckless statements regarding Car
dinal Gibbons, Archbishop Ireland and
other distinguished American prelates
will considerably influence the Pope's
coming decision on the orthodoxy of the
doctrines of American Catholics.
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