The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
Guest of Queen Victoria During
Part of the Week.
HIS MAGNIFICENT SWORD
BANKRUPT HooLEYs STATE
MENTs DIsQUIETING.
Mrs. Maybrick's Mother Visits Her
In Jail-spirit of Prisoner Utterly
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Opposition of
Home Office to Her Release
American skips With Large Sum.


Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.)
London, Nov. APART from politics,
the attention of London this week has
been mainly directed to the ceremonies
in honor of General Kitchener yester-
day, and to the resumption of the ex-
posures of Mr.. Ernest Terah Hooley,
the bankrupt company promoter. The
general was the guest of Queen Vic
tora 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 free
dom of the 'F'ishmongers" company,
and it was as citizen and fishmonger
that he received the freedom of the
city Of London on Friday.
The sword of honor presented to Cen
eral Kitchener at the Guild Hall yes
terday is a magnificent specimen of the
jewelers. 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-
tan flags enameled in their proper col
ors. The scabbard is finely ornamented
and inscribed with the names of the
sirdar's victories. The blade is of the
finest steel, damascened near the hilt
with gold.
Mr.. Hooley's statements during We'd
nesday's bankruptcy examination
brought forth a crop of disclaimers
from titled and other gentlemen whose
participation in his profits, according
to Mr.. Hooley's evidence, was in no
wise creditable. Some of these rejoin-
ders are palpably weak.
HOOLEY'S REVELATION.
Mr. Hooley's revelation regarding the
Carlton club and the part played by the
Marquis of AbergaVenny and Sir Will
lam Marriott has caused qualns among
the clubmen. His statements give the
key to the meaning of a paragraph in
Mr.. Henry Labouchere's Truth set
ting forth that a former millionaire was
about to expose the committee of a
great West End club which, having ac-
cepted money to secure his election to
membership, had his name erased from
the books without returning the money
when he was adjudicated a bankrupt
The temperance party won a moral
victory this week in attacking the sale
of intoXicants within the houses of par
lament, which is in the anomalous po-
sition of breaking the laws made by
its members. The action was an APP
peal from the decision of a magistrate,
who held that the licensing Get did not
apply to the houses of parliament and
the appeal court practically admitted
that the magistrates decision was
wrong in view of the present state of
the licensing law. But the court dis
missed the appeal on a technical point.
The lord chief justice, Baron Russell
of Killowen, however, recommends par
lament to pass a bin legalizing its po-
sition.
The great South Wales collier strike
was no sooner over than another is
threatened owing to the miners, in de-
fiance of their agreement with the en-
ployers, having by big majority de-
cided to retain every Monday as a hol-
iday. Trouble is expected next Mon
day, when the absentees will be prose
cuted.
/ The London county council this week
decided by an overwhelming majority
in favor of the compulsory purchase of
all the London water companies, involv-
ing many millions of pounds sterling.
Such a bill, however, will meet with
desperate opposition in parliament,
where the vested interests are excep-
tionally strong.
MRS. MAVERICKS CONDITION..
The Baroness Bouques 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 hus-
band, in Ailesbury prison on Wednes-
day She reports the prisoner in a Ia
mentable condition, worn to the bone
and still InghlP n Gha ic oOr
fined in the infirmary and her spirit is
utterly broken. Friends of Mrs May
brick here are convinced that some in
fluence which does not appear on the
surface is alone responsible for the OPP
position of the home Office to the re-
lease of Mrs. Maybrick. 1t is known
that Colonel John Hay just before leav-
ing the United States embassy here to
assume the duties of secretary of state
at Washington, made another unsuc-
cessful effort to obtain her release and
that the lord chief justice also lately
took steps in the same direction.
Claude Vautin, a metallurgiSt and
inventor known on the Pacific coast,
where he has lectured on mining sub
jects, has left London, after a finan-
cial coup by which he secured 100000
(S100, 000) in Bank of England notes and
American railway securities. The police
lillllh lie inlay nave SOue 10 America
Vautin established luxurious offices on
the strength of expectation from his
invention Of an improved process of
extracting gold. He also advertised
himself as a consulting metallurgist.
His invention failed to bring in the
expected returns and his creditors be-
coming importunate, Vautin ordered
various brokers to buy large blocks of
securities for which he gave notes
When the brokers discovered that the
notes were worthless, Vautin had dis
appeared with his plumber.
The wedding of the Earl of Stafford
to Mrs. Colgate will probably occur in
America.
The theatrical season is getting I'M
der way Revivals of THE Musket-
GERS" have reached the Importance of
fad, Beerbohm Trees production of
THE Musketeers," Sidney Grundys
dramatizatlon of Alex. Dumas novel,
THE Three Musketeers," given at Her
Majesty's theatre on Thursday night.
was the most notable incident of the
week.
Wilson Barrett has written a letter to
the Telegraph expressing amazement
at Hall Gaines statements regarding
THE Christian" and giving the text of
cable messages exchanged between
them, according to which Game gave
Barrett the exclusive rights to Bar
rett's version of THE Christian" ex-
cept for America.
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Concert at the Fort.
Following is the programme for the
open air concert to be given at Fort
Douglas at 8 p. m. today: