The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-08

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pany to pick off the British officers.
The weekly papers comment with the
greatest satisfaction upon the kinship of
the empire as revealed in the colonial
offers Of assistance in the Transvaal
campaign. In Difference to the wish of
the secretary of state for the colonies,
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, only a portion
Of the contingent offered by Australia
will be accepted.
The fact that Major Cirourd, a French
Canadian, has temporarily resigned the
presidency of the Egyptian railway board
in order to take charge of the military
movements in Africa for the campaign
prompts the Outlook to remark: This
is real imperial federation"
The panic stage of the stock market
appears to have passed. The tone Of most
departments is much improved. 1t is be-
heved that an outbreak Of hostilities
would send Kaffir prices uD. the idea be-
ing that war would end in the acquisition
of the gold fields. It is curious that
Transvaal stocks have declined much less
than African colonial stocks This is due
to a belief that Great Britain will assume
the Transvaal debt after the war is over.
The condition of the money market ex-
cites attention. A still higher bank rate
is regarded as not improbable should war
break out. France, it is reported, de-
clines to sell more gold to America. The
stringency is felt throughout almost all
Europe. Russia is suffering from rather
severe financial crisis. The reserve of the
Imperial Bank is now very low, and
stocks of all kinds have fallen consider
ably. This, presumably, is due to over
speculation and TO the gigantic fiotation
of industrial companies. In a word, Rus
STA has been trying TO go too fast in the
endeavor to become a great manufac-
turing nation. Money also was very
tight in Germany The Statist again COM
ments upon the stringency in America
and says: sc fear that the period of
ease customary in October may this year
be altogether absent, and that a strong
demand for gold vii larise in November
to move the corn and cotton crops. Al
together there is every prospect of higher
instead of lower rates, since no gold is
available now from the Transvaal."
There are no further developments in
connection with the royalist plot IN
France; but the story concerning General
Roget and NJ. Goddefry Cavaignac form
er minister Of war, is believed to be cor
rect. France is momentarily quiet; but
indications are not far to seek that there
are serious latent difficulties. NJ. Miller
and, the socialist member of the cabinet,
in a political speech last Sunday, limited
strongly at anti-Jesuit measures. He de-
nounced the "accursed press Of blackmail
and calumny." and foreshadowed an in
tention to render amenable to law the
unrelenting factions. which under the
mask of religion conceal political enter
prises" He referred TO the clerical organ
La Croix, as the emblem Of this press.
Almost a the same moment il is announc-
ed that the pope has received and blessed
the editor of lie Croix; and the budget
committee of the French chamber of dep
uties, by thirteen votes against 1ne, has
voted the suppression OF the French en-
bassy at the Vatican. Doubtless on the re-
assembling Of parliament there will be
some sensational debates in the chamber,
inaugurating a campaign against the Je-
suites and a struggle between the cleri-
Gals and the republicans OF, in other
words. between the ant-Dreyfusites and
the Dreyfusites.
The Alaska negotiations proceed. al
though Sir Louis II Davies, the Canadian
minister OF marine and fisheries IS TAX
ing a short vacation in Scotland with Lord
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ian high commissioner The Associated
Press learns that there is a good prospect
OF a tentative settlement within a fort