Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-05-22
THE NEWS OF ENGLAND
Fate of the Canadian Commission
Attracting Much Attention.
TROUBLE WITH THE BOERS.
Coming Meeting Between Sir Alfred
Miner and President Kruger May
Bring Matters to Crisis.
Other News of Interest.

Of great Importance, and the various
rumors and reports on the subject at
tract much attention. A dispatch from
Washington to the effect that the re-
sumption of the commissions labors
depends upon a settlement Of the Alas
kan boundary dispute has been promi-
nently published in this city, and your
representative made inquiries at the
center Of the negotiations in London.
From an unimpeachable source he OBJ
tanned the following statement:
The thorny nature of the Alaskan
question makes 1t probable that on the
resumption of the sittings of the COM
mission it will be withdrawn from dis
cussion to be taken up later should cir
cumstances be favorable. The Alaskan
question, in fact, has practically been
dropped out Of the discussions, and the
statement that it's discussion and set
| Element will be made the sine qua non
Of the resumption of the sittings of the
commission is Inaccurate"
The newspapers here express regret
| at the fact that the Alaskan dispute
has grown more acute at a time when
the relations between the two countries
are so cordial, and the news that the
the autumn has given satisfaction
The South African Trouble.
The great johannesburg plot against
the Transvaal Is classed as having fiZ-
zled out like a damp firecracker. 1t is
claimed that the Boer organs first tried
to magnify the affair into another
Jameson raid, but now have abandoned
the attempt in despair. 1t is further
asserted that the men arrested COM
prised a couple of Boer agents who,
some people claim, probably engineered
the whole scheme. The remainder of
the prisoners are described by a Times
correspondent as a set of honest but
drunken wastrels," whose intention
was only to prepare for the defense of
the town against possible Boer violence
in case Of war. The police are believed
to be responsible for the discovery Of
the conspiracy. Nobody thinks that
President Kruger knew anything of the
Matching of the affair, as he is looked
upon as being too shrewd not to see
flasco An interesting insight into Boer
methods was given in a report that
most of the barmaids at Johannesburg
receive handsome rewards from the
Boer secret service fund for spying up
on customers.
Much Importance is attached to the
coming meeting between Sir Alfred Mil
ner, the British high commissioner of
South Africa and governor of Cape Col
ony and President Kruger at Bloom
fontein, capital of the Orange Free
State There is general anticipation
that Sir Alfred Miner has been in
structed by Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
secretary of state for the colonies, to
put forth certain demands in the shape
Of concessions to the uitlanders in a
form practically amounting to an ult-
matum and that the Beers will be re-
quired to accept and carry out the Brit
ish demands within a specified period
or the Transvaal will be occupied by
British troops.
Uitlanders who have just returned
from the Transvaal are strongly of the
opinion that President Kruger will now
give in if Great Britain takes the bull
by the horns. They add that the Beers
will arm and that there will be rattle
Of swords and scabbards, but that they
will finally yield without bloodshed.
No "GladstOne Day"
The attempt to make the anniversary
Of Mr.. Gladstone's death MAY 1917 the
occasion for great party demonstra-
ton similar to the Conservative Prim-
rose day must be written down as a
failure. The Liberal organs urged the
wearing of a white buttonhole, 1.-The
white flower Of blameless life," as it
was christened by the party papers, but
the idea did not become popular and
hardly a citizen in London was seen
wearing one, while even in the Liberal
and Radical clubs few people adopted
the idea.
The fund for national memorial to
Mr.. Gladstone is also not the success
anticipated The fund has been opened |
for nearly year and has only secured |
C 900 instead of the minimum of e So |
900 needed to carry out the proposed |
scheme. This failure was in spite of |
the fact that the Prince of Wales acted |
as president of the committee, which !
included many of Mr.. Gladstones poit-
ical opponents, like the Duke of Devon
shire, Mr.. George ]. Goschen. Mr.. Hen
ry Chaplin and the Duke of Westmin-
ster. The anniversary of Mr.. Glad
stones death Friday was poorly cele-
brated. The family and the villagers
attended a memorial service at Ha-
warden church. Canon Scott Holland
officiated at the service at Mr.. Glad
stones London church, ST. Peters,
Windmill street. in the presence of a
large congregation. In addition there
were few small meetings in provincial
towns
Women White Ribboners Meet.
The National Woman's Temperance
association held a successful twenty
third anniversary in London last week.
Lady Henry Somerset, as president, was
the chief speaker. She expressed keen
at the fact that the late
Miss Frances Willard will have a statue
in the capitol at Washington and at
tackled the clerical shareholders of
brewery companies. During the course
of her remarks she said American ex-
perience had shown how the drink in
terest dominates political parties and
urged the banding together of the best
interests of the community against such
a power. She also assailed Sir Thomas
new departure in applying for
drink licenses for his establishments
but Sir Thomas presided at meeting
of his shareholders last week and there
was no opposition from the women
shareholders to the drink licenses,
though clergyman entered a protest
The meeting, however, was satisfied
with a dividend of II per cent and
cheered Sir Thomas Upton and the
Shamrock heartily. 1t appears that