The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
A WILLARD STATUETTE
LADY HENRY SOMERSET EN-
GAGGED IN MODELLING.
Severe Punishment Of a Number of
British Officers at Hythe School of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Utterance
of the Kaiser Concerning French
men-Amusements In Metropolis.

| CSdlnS III IOnQOn are OIliClIilS dtliiD
uted TO influenza, and there are some
| apprehensions that it will assume cpl
demic form.
The racing at Newmarket was again
| the occasion for big society gatherings.
There was a record attendance ar the
| Cambridgeshire, where lots of money
| was dropped on the Prince of Wales
| Nunsuch, which was left at the post
with Tod Sloan in the saddle.
The racing fever of the last few
weeks called forth protests from var
/ ious quarters. Mr.. Henry Labouchere,
/ III Truth, referring TO Tod Sloan, de-
nounces the nauseaous jockey worship
which was such a discreditable and
idiotic feature of the turf 20 years
ago.
Lord Russell of Killowen. the lord
chief justice of England, in speech,
has also decried this mania, saying:
They worship this god TO such an
extent that if Tod Sloan, supposing his
nationality did not stand in the way,
We're to become a candidate for EPSON,
it is doubtful if the present member
would have a chance"
GEORGE TO ABDICATE.
According to advices received from
the court of Copenhagen, where King
George OF Greece is staying, after at
Denmark, it is believed there that he
will abdicate next spring, in favor of
the crown prince, Constantine, and will
return to Denmark and settle there per-
menently.
The birth of son to Prince Emanuel,
Duke of Aosta, oldest nephew of the
king of Italy, was very important
eI ent for the house of Savoy, as, unless
a change of circumstances occurs, he
will sit on the throne Of Italy. 1t has
been asserted that the crown prince,
Vittorio Emanuele, prince of Naples,
who was married Oct. "A, 1896, to Prin-
cess Helena of Montenegro, may never
have issue, and, as the Duke and Ouch
ess of Aosta were married, relatively.
a long time without having children,
the enemies of the house of Savoy, es-
pecially the clericals, diligently spread
the idea that the absence of Il direct
heir after the Prince of Naples was the
result o: a curse of Cod -or the usur-
PATTON of the papal states. Anxiety was
beginning to be felt in the royal family
of Italy, and the Count OF Turin, the
second nephew of the king, was given
to understand that he would have to
be married. The project, however, has
been stiHed by the birth of a son to
the Duke and Duchess of Aosta-
PETERS PENCE IN SUGAR.
nection with DaDal finance has been
made by a well informed newspaper of
Rome, which says that the vatican au-
thoritieS have decided to invest the
Peters pence fund in a large sugar
mandatory, and, it is added, there are
some misgivings in Catholic circles as
to the wisdom of the vatican again
embarking in a speculative undertake
ing, seeing that the last venture re-
suited in the loss of several million
lire.
General Lord Kitchener has been
overwhelmed with social invitations
since his return to England, but he is
DISPOSED to take a rest. He has been
asked by two English publishing firms
has been trying to get him to consent
to a lecturing tour in the United States.
But the commander of the Anglo
Egyptian forces has declined all these
propositions.
The statement that General Kitch-
ener served in the French army during
the war of 1901 was confirmed this
week by an interview with his ste9-
mother at Oman. She said she had
just received his commission in the
British army and went to France on
q holiday visit to his father who had
settled at Oman. Young Kitchener, in
spite of the opposition of his father,
who feared he would lose his British
commission, joined the Oman mobiles
and set out against the Germans. IT
Laval he assembled in a balloon to re-
connoiter the enemy's position, and
caught a severe attack of pleurisy
which compelled him to return to Di-
nan and cut short his career in the
French army.
WILLARD STATUETTE.
Lady Henry Somerset. who is living
quietly at Eastner castle. is occupied
in modelling a statuette of the late
Miss Frances E. Willard.
The talk of military circles. next to
the prospects of war with |
France. has been an extraordinary af- |
fair at the Hythe School of Musketry, |
resulting in the severe punishment of
Is out of the Sc officers there. 1t APP
pears that one of the officers incurred |
the disgust of his fellow officers |
Oy offensive Boosting at the expense |
IF Il certain lady. A number of the /
other officers at first played a trick /
upon him as a warning. and he COM |
planned to the commandant. who rep |
rimanded the culDrits. The brother Of /
icers of the Objectionable officer there |
Upon determined to give him a severe !
They went to his room, !
destroyed all his uniforms, and then, !
after having stripped him, inflicted |
corporal punishment. Several of the /
officers who took part in the affair
lave been dismissed from the school,
md others have been punished in va
ious manners.
The French papers declare that EN-
,eror William made the following ut
erance during his visit to Constanti-
lople:
The French are extraordinary peo-
lie. When you see them separately
hey are charming. but in a mass they
re unbearable. They refuse 10 under
tand US. If we two were allied, we
hould run the world. Never mind; 1
hall end by forcing my friendship
n them
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DEATHS.
The sad circumstances of the death
f Mr.. Harold Frederick, the London
of the New York Times,
as directed considerable attention
pom the Christian Scientists, and espe-
tally upon the kindred sect known as
he peculiar people" The number of
eaths of children among the latter
as become unpleasantly large. This
eek a coroner's jury found a mem
er of this sect guilty of the man
laughter of mis- son, eight months old.