Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-13

paper organs asserting that he was in
duced to speak during the campaign
owing TO assertions that the govern
, ment would proceed with the premier S
bill for the refrom OF the London coun-
ty council which has now been ADAM
doned
The domestic situation, therefore, is
distinctly uncomfortable
The recovery of the Marquis of Sa-
lisbury from his recent illness is very
slow indeed. He is only allowed to
peruse the most important papers. his
weakness is excessive. and no date has
been fixed for his going abroad, al
though Lady Salisbury goes to the Ri
! viera next week
Mr.. Goschen's somewhat rhetorical
peroration on the alternative of peace
or war, the first lord of the admiralty
remarking, If peace shall again reign
in our centres of industry and the
maritime instincts of the nation which
calls itself the
MISTRESS OF THE SEA
reasserts herself by an increase in it's
merchant seamen. then the nation may
look forward with confidence that if
there is peace it will be peace with
honor: but, if it is war. which God for
bid, it must be war crowned with VIC
tory provoked animated gossip in
the lobby; but it was agreed his re-
marks have not specifically affected
the present international sitaution, and
his allusion to the mailed fist" we
prefer to celebrate the homecoming
of our ships rather than their send
ing Off was received with much
laughter and cheers.
The sentiment favoring war with
somebody. which prevails with the
"~Man-in- the Street" has attracted the
attention of the stock exchange specu-
lators, and the Bradford observer re-
ports the formation of a syndicate to
build and speculate in warships. At
present the members of tho syn 7icate
will confine their operations to cruis-
ers. gunboats and torpedo boats The
sum of G500.G00 (S2 500 000l has already
been subscribed and an order has been
placed on the Thames for a C, uiser.
The enterprise really amounts to the
intervention of the middlemal be-
tween foreign powers and the British
shlpbuilders.
Mr.. Joseph Havelock Wilson, mem
Der of Parliament for marlborough,
secretary of the National Seamen' S
Union, as the result of his recent trip
| to the United States intends urging
immediate action upon the part of the
Board of Trade to stop the practice of
shipping Seamen TO New York. by
which they must pay fl to f3 (S5 to
S15), for the privilege of getting a
ship.
THE DOMESTIC TROUBLES
of the Grandduke and Duchess of
Hesse have eliminated in the separ-
alton of the couple and the Duke of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (the Duke OF
Edinburg). father OF the Grand Ouch
ess, is going 10 Cimiez in order to try.
with the help of Queen Victoria. to
heal the troubles in the grand ducal
household. Emperor Williams offer to
intervene having proven fruitless, the
grand duchess declaring that nothing
on earth will induce her to return to
her husband. The result has been TO
set on foot a movement to secure the
succession of the dukedom 70 the
granddukes eldest sister. the Princess
Louise Of Battenberg. an arrangement
which is favored at Windsor at ST.
Petersburg and not much objected 10
at Berlin.
Sir George Lewis, the we'll known
lawyer. before the House of Commons
committe inQuiring into the evils OF