The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-07
Duke and Duchess of Devon
shire Will Give a Ball
Which Will Eclipse Previous
Performance i'm That Line.
GLASGOW'S BIG DRUNK
Greatest Exhibition of Intoxi-
cation Ever Seen.
The Young Men Rolled in the
Streets and Cutters.

London, Jan. lit may be SAID Inat
London has been deserted by the society
people, who are mostly entertaining or
being entertained at country houses.
The duke and duchess of Devonshire
intend to cap the season of gayeties
with a grand ball at Chatworth House,
Derbyshire which is to eclipse the fam
Gus Devonshire house fancy ball.
The duke of Northumberland who
died on Monday, will be inferred in st.
Nicholas chapel, Westminster Abbey.
where the Percy family have the right
of burial. Some pressure was put upon
the family to waive this right in view
of the limited space now remaining in
the Abbey. but without avail. The in
come from the estate is nearly 100000
pounds a year.
The duke of Marlborough by his ap-
pointment as paymaster general in sue
cession to the earl of Hopetoun, who
was recently made lord chamberlain,
becomes member of the government.
The office, however, is only a stepping
stone. There is no work and no pay,
but the duke may occasionally have to
answer a question in the house of lords.
The appointment is a reward for the
dukes labors for the conservative cause.
He is an interchangeable worker in the
Primrose league. Hardly a week pass
es without his having presided at
meeting of the league somewhere. Will
liam Waldorf Astor's Pail Mall Gazette
says: ''The duke is a young man who
has the good sense to take himself and
his position seriously and not rest sat
9Sfied, like beaumarchaiS nobleman,
with having taken the trouble to be
born. In the age we live in, it is emf
nently desirable that men of rank and
wealth should throw the influence of
their position and personality into the
scale of politics.
ALL GLASGOW DRUNK.
The Hogmany, or New Years feStivi-
fiAS a t ms ri a
by the greatest exhibition of intoxica-
ton in the streets ever seen in Glasgow.
One account of the scene says:
cit would need the pen of lola to de-
scribe the state OF the streets. The
most astounding feature of the de-
bauchery was the appalling number of
young lads rolling about the Streets
Lady Henry Somerset, w. T. Stead
and other friends and admirers of the
late Mrs. Haweis, the author of "Chaucer
''Chaucer's Beads Tales from Chau-
GER" have formed a commission to per-
petuate her memory by raising a fund
to be called 1.-The Mrs. Haweis' fund for
working girls the object of which is
said to be to financially aid English and
American girls between the ages of II
and 20 to learn a self supporting trade
or to engage in remunerative trade.
There is an cutlery among the jewellers
in the famous Pea body buildings, which
were eSta bliShed by the American phil
anthropiSt. George Peabody, who died
tees to raise the rents. Some of the ten
ants have written to papers complain
ing that the buildings are now let to
well-to-do artisans, instead of to the
poorest class, for which they were or
iginally intended. In behalf of the
trustees it is pointed out that the build
sngs are managed at a very small profit
only half the profit produced by Lord
Rowton's lodging houses and that an
increase of six cents weekly per room
| is necessary in order to enable the
fn hQ S1IcCPSSfnllV.
THE AMERICAN SQUADRON:
People here seem to have settled IN
| their own mind that an Amerlcan
| squadron will visit Portsmouth in June
| and it is unhesitatingly announced that
| the admiralty authorities have arrang-
| ed to have the British channel fleet. with
| the duke of York at it's head assemble
| in the Solent to meet the American
ships. One paper presunnes to know that
| the American squadron will consist OF
| all the best types of modern Warshlps.
| The Portsmouth municipality is evil
| IDENTIFY trying to boom the event for all
| 1T is worth, and a dispatch from Ports
| mouth today says official Information
| on the subject is eagerly awaited there
! in order to prepare the arrangements to
| give a fitting welcome to the officers
HARRY, THE VALET
| "Harry, the Valet" who on Wednes-
| day pleaded guilty to stealing the
| Duchess of Sutheriand's jewels, which
| were stolen while the duchess was on
/
| tober last proves to be an extraordi-
| nary character. The judge has post
| poned sentence in order to enable him to
inform the police as to what became OF
| the bulk of the jewels, of which only
! 81 600 worth out of $125,000 contained in
| the stolen satchet were recovered, the
| idea being that the prisoner will get a
| lighter sentence for the information
| The prisoner, however. replied to the
| Judge that he would not split on his
pals even if he got a life sentence He
appears to be one OF the most notorious
| criminals of the generation, is OF gen
| teeI appearance and has a grand all
| and a frank, engaging look. The pris-
| oner boasts he has made twenty bigger
1 tshauls'' than in the case of the Suther-
| land Jewels and claims he reduced rob-
| berry to a science, making it his bust
| ness to know everybody OF wealth and
| consequence in Europe. He further says
| he rarely made a mistake, owing to his
| cautious preliminaries, and declared
| that the only serious mistake of his
| career was when he robbed the Duchess
of Devonshire some time ago of jewel
| case and found to his disgust, that he
had taken paste.
| Harry, the Valet" appears to have
| made a great deal of money, for he lost
/ several thousand pounds in one week
| at a Soho gambling club. He had the
| Iordliest tastes and lived at a West
End hotel where his bills were over
| $3.50. Finally he was betrayed in the
Sutherland affair by his mistress, a
/ former actress, who Informed the police
| of the share he had taken in that rob-
| berry Otherwise there is every reason
| to believe that he would never have
I been caught, as the police had no clue
| to him. He was apparently devoted to
this woman, as while awaiting trial, he
| begged her to come to his prison and
| give him one more kiss
AMERICAN GUNNERS.
The splendid practice of the American
! gunners has galvanized the British into
a critical interest in the gun firing OF
/ their own navy and the results of the
inquiries made are not very reassuring
The performances of the Mediterranean