The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-25
AT ENGLAND'S CAPITAL
What the People in London Are
Talking About.
WAR, POLITICS, SOCIETY
Tod sloan's -Reappearancs the Event in
Sporting Circles-Dewey Buys q
Relic-More Light on the
Guinea Pig.
Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.

Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.
London, Sept. 24.-Great Britain is
still enjoying clear skies. although the
weather is cooler. The rainfall is prac-
tically nil. and farmers are bitterly
ming operations owing to the state Of
the ground. The recent hot spell
brought a plague of mosquitoes to sew
eral counties, resulting in the introduce
ton of American mosquito nets. The
sheep fair at Loves yesterday had to
suspend owing to the swarm of mos
quitoes.
The Soudan war correspondents re-
turned to London yesterday evening.
They speak Indignantly of the cavalier
treatment they hay been subjected to
by General Sir Herbert Kitchener.
They say they were kept in the dark
as TO what was giong on, and that
their messages were mutiliated by the
censor. 1t leaked out this week that
the sirdar had a narrow scape dur
ing the battle of Omdurman. He was
riding with his staff in front of a Sou
danese battalion, which was advancing,
when at least a dozen bullets whizzed
past his head. General Kitchener gall
loped as fast as he could, and word
was sent to the officers commanding
the battalion. There is no doubt the
perpetrators were some of the recently
enlisted Dervishes. The city corpora
ton has decided to present General
Kitchener with the freedom of the city
n a sword of honor.
The event of the sporting week has
been the temperance of Tod Sloan,
the American jockey, on the Manches-
ter race course, where he carried the
Lorillard-Beresford stable colors with
great success. He met with a great
reception on his arrival on the pad
dock, and crowds followed him every
where. His first victory aroused in
tense enthusiasm and he was cheered
to the echo. A comparison having
been made between the riding of the
late Fred Archer, the famous English
Jockey, and Tod Sloane, Lord William
Beresford has given the opinion that
Sloane is a distinctly better Jockey
than ever Archer was.
Mr.. Austin this week unveiled at
Whitby an Anglican cross in memory
of England's first poet, the Cowherd
Caodmin.
General Bates, the United States
military attache here, has returned to
London, after following the French
army He said in an in
terVleW: Il am profoundly impressed
by all l saw. The French officers
showed more interest in their profess
sion than n officers / have met else
where. The men were perfectly trained
and hardy, but as in all other European
soldiers / have seen, they lacked the
Intelligence and smartness of the Amer
lean regulars. / was much struck with
the perfect condition of the troops and
the efficiency of the commissary ar
engagements and general organization.
L nave never seen such close attention F.!
paid to the smallest details. The in
iantry movements, too. were equal to
those or the best American regulars"
In conclusion General Bates re-
marked: European armies have now
solved the problems of the organization
ana management of armies. and II
would seem unwise for the United
states, in any contemplated military
reorganization, not to take advantage
OF European experiences in reorganiz-
ing the army. 1t is not so necessary
Tor the United States to invent as il
is for the United States to CODY and
adopt the ideas of the European
The former king of servia is heavily
In debt and threatened with judicial
proceedings by no less tta seven
money lenders.
The Earl of Mimic. the new governor
general of Canada, has appointed Ma
]or Drummond of the Scots guards,
who has just returned from the Sou
to be his military secretary. and
he appointed Lieut.. w. F. LaceIes of
the Scots guards and Lieut.. ]. II. c.
of the Coldstream guards TO
be his aides-de-camp.
1t is announced that Rear Admiral
Dewey has purchased here, through an
agent, a Shakespearean relic in the
shape of a snuff box made from a
tree planted by Shakespeare
N his garden at Stratford. The box
formerly belonged to Gen. Sir Denis
Fack. one of Wellington's comrades.
She first section of the electric rail-
Dad to the summit of the Jungfrau, {
famous mountain of the Swiss Alps. {
has been opened as far as Asoiger gla- {
'ier. and ii is expected the road will be {
finished by the year 1904. !
The reports which have reached here [
an American cup defender will '
'e built ready to cross the Atlantic, are G
warmly applauded in yachting circles I
lere. The Yachting World says: g
This is not bad policy. There are sew S
raj international cups in these waters c
require looking after"
More light mas been thrown upon the 2
title Guinea pigs" by an article in the |
critic, a financial organ. in which a list
$ given of peers who have been made 4,
of unsuccessful companies. 1t \
700 peers. 100 companies and a ,
apital Of 1920. 900. 900. on s271. 06e, O7O of I
no dividends have ever been +
aid. Many Of the peers are directors :