The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-26

tradesmeu's shutters and a recently erect
ed municipal bandstand
The Young Queen of Holland. who re-
Gently displayed her strong will by re-
calling whole issue of postage stamps
because her portrait on them made her
look too girlish, is again showing her
spirit in the question of her betrothal to
Prince William of Wfede, an officer in
the German Army, which has been prac-
tically settled upon. The official an
nouncement of the betrothal has been
kept back on account of certain diff
culties in the protocol, the question beng
whether the Prince should be invested
with the right and prerogatives 81
Prince Consort or retain his present rank
Unless the former plan is adopted neither
the laws of Holland nor the Foreign
Courts will recognize him as member
of the Dutch Royal Family. The Wleoe
family insist upon the title OF Prince
Consort. but Queen Wilhelmina demands
that queen victoria's precedent be follow
ed and that he title of Prince Regent be
not conferred until eighteen months after
the marriage 1t is expected, however,
that the difficulty will be overcome before
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s,ss r.,a5 t,y brot hers The Prn-
,ass r,a,,li,,a affe,ygard married the elder
p,;saa 81 Jz1iasIe prince Frederick, and
T1i,l,e1nsi,,a dater,,ined to keen her vow
,,,a ,rad bis brother Prince William. who
= go. o,,,,ea tban Prince Fred
ar;olr rrbss II is added explains queen
zvilhelnjna,s Indifference to other suitors,
..',,e, ~. ca,,sed 90 much comment
otber renorts. however, say that the
real reason for the selection of Prince
William of Wiede as a husband for Queen
wilbelmina is that his mother is a Prin-
cess of the Netherlands and that, there
fore he is likely to be more acceptable
q tbe neople of Holland than an entirely
foreign prince.
Adyices from Brisbane. Queensland, con-
tain a ghastly story Of eannibalism in the
German group OF the Sulu Islands. It APP
nsars that Queensland trading cutter,
the Sea Ghost with three white traders
and crew of seven natives. was boarded
~ the freacherous natives of the Island
~ Balsus who murdered two Of the whites
ana e5x If tha blacks. Their bodies. it is
.assertad xveva then dressed for cannibal
faast II the meanwhile the natives found
hoo of rnrn and soon thew were all help
lassIv drink BEFORE they recovered from
+,,ei, s-unor tbe Surviving white man and
e,,a ,,a+ire seaman managed to unloose
~ rones with which thev were bound
- asesr,ed S sna1i boat from which
t,,s,, were niclxe5 nm Nv a British ship.
NJ, A1fred a5arnsworth presiding at a
,.,oo+;n.r ~ +ba sharaholders of his after
,,oo,, re,vs,,s,,ar the ..F,vering News.
800 so,oe intarestinpe remarks on the
cr,a,,isl,-E ,nerican war and journalism.
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so,,.ae - ,.a,-s,,,,a ~ +ba nepsnaners
W.. oorresnondenca from Cuba cost the
.E,,,a,iro nJawes f3ao fst 50o) and the re-
s,,lts 1,axye not naia the hare expenses.
rY,,,.. ts,.s4 x.,ae1s tba eaies ho,Jns5ad nm an
axtra ion ooA comics ner day. the second
week thev fell off heavily and the third
week tbev returned to their normal figure.
The smashing Of the Spanish fleet off
Santiago failed to move the circulation
bv single copy. The fact is that the
English people never regarded the con-
test as a serious affair. They could not
conceive lit possible that folk of the same
name and the same blood as ourselves