Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06


STATEMENTS ARE KEEPING IT,
TIED GENTLEMEN BUSY MAX
ING DISCLAIMDRS-TE
| PARTY WINS A MORAL VISTORY.
| ANOTHER BIG COAL STRIKE
| THREATENED - BARONESS D E
| KOQUES CALLS ON MRS. MAY
| BRICk-sOME UNSEEN INFLU-
ENCE KEEPS THE AMERICAN
| WOMAN IN PRISON = CLAUDE
| VANTIN MAKES A RAISE.
London, November 5.-Apart from
politics, the attention of London this
week has been mainly directed to the
ceremonies in honor of Gen. Kitchener
yesterday and to the resumption of the
exposures of Mr.. Ernest Terah Hooley,
the bankrupt company promoter.
Kitchener was the guest of Queen Vic
toria at Balmoral during the early part
OF the week, and he presented her ma
Jesty with many interesting relics of
the battle of Omdurman. On Thursday
the general went through the quaint
ceremony of being admitted to the
Freedom of the Fishmongers Com
pany. and it was as citizen and a
fishmonger that he received the free
dom of the city of London on Friday.
The sword of honor presented to Gen.
Kitchener at the Guild Hall yesterday
is magnificent specimen of the jew
eler's art. The hilt is of solid gold,
surmounted by figure of the British
lion, and it bears the figures of Brit
ANNA and Justice and the monogram
of the general in diamonds, rubies and
sapphires, and the British and Egyp-
tian flags enamelled in their proper
colors. The scabbard is finely orna-
mented and inscribed with the names
of the sardar's victories. The blade is
of the finest steel.
MR.. HOOLEY'S STATEMENTS
during Wednesdays bankruptcy exam
nation brought forth a crop of dis
Chalmers from titled and other gentle
men whose participation in his profits,
| according to Mr.. Hooleys evidence,
was in nowise creditable. Some of
these rejoinders are palpably weak.
Mr.. Hooley's revelation regarding the
Carlton Club and the part played by
the Marquis of Aborgavanny and Sir
| William Marriott has caused qualms
among the clubmen. His statements
give the key to the meaning of a para
graph in Mr. Henry Labouchere's
Truth, setting forth that former mill
lionaire WIS about to expose the COM
mittee of great West End club which,
having accepted money to secure his
election to membership, had his name
erased from the books without return
ing the money when he was adjudica-
ted a bankrupt.
| The Temperance party won moral
victory this week in attacking the sale
| of intoXicants within the Houses of
Parliament, which is in the anomalous
| position of breaking the laws made by
its members. The action was an ap-
peal from the decision of magistrate,
who held that the licensing act did
| not apply to the Houses of Parliament,
and the Appeal Court practically adj
mitted that the magistrates decision
was wrong in view of the present state
of the licensing law. But the court
dismissed the appeal on a technical
point. The Lord Chief Justice, Baron
Russell, of Killoween. however, rec
commended Parliament to pass bin
legalizing it's position.
The great South Wales collier strike
was no sooner over than another is
threatened, owing to the miners decid-
ing by big majority to retain every
Monday as a holiday. Trouble Is ex-
pected next Monday, Ihe1 :ne absent
ees will be prosecuted.
The London County Council this
week decided by an overwhelming ma
jority in favor of the
COMPULSORY PURCHASE
of all the London water companies, in
volving many millions of pounds ster-
ling. Such a bill, however, will meet
with desperate opposition in Parlia-
ment. where the vested interests are
exceptionally strong.
The Baroness de Roques has arrived
here from France. and has paid her
semi-annual visit to all the authorities.
She was permitted to visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Maybrick, who is undergoing
imprisonment for life after having been
convicted of poisoning her husband,
in Ailesbury prison. on Wednesday.
She reports the prisoner in a lament
able condition, worn to the bone and
still unable to work. She is confined
in the infrmary. and her spirit is ut
terly broken. Friends of Mrs. May
brick here are convinced that some in
fiuence which does not appear on the
surface is alone responsible for the op-,
position of the home Office to the re-
lease of Mrs. Maybrick. 1t is known
that Col. John Hay. just before leaving
the United States embassy here to as
sumo the duties of Secretary of State
at Washington, made another unsue-
cessful effort TO obtain her release, and
that the lord chief justice also lately
took steps in the same direction. A
peculiar feature in connection with the
case is the persistency with which re-
ports are appearing in the English
papers saying that some one in New
Zealand has left Mrs. Maybrick for
tune Mrs. Mayhrick's mother wrote
to the British officials and to the Unit
ed States consul at Wellington. New
Zealand, and both replied that there