The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11
The English Premier Caught
Severe Cold
While Attending the Presenta-
tiOn of Ambassador ChOate
AT WINDSOR CASTLE.
Queen Victoria and Prince of
Wales Criticised
On Account of Absence From
the Opening Drawing Room.

copyright, 1899. by Associated Press,1
London, March 1.-THE Marquis of
Salisbury caught a bad cold while re-
turning from Windsor on the occasion
of the formal presentation of the United
States ambassador, Mr.. Joseph H.
Choate. to the queen, and he has been
confined to his house ever since. The
premier is unable to preside at the cab
met meetings or to hold the usual re-
cepton of the members of the diplo--
matte corps. Thus Mr.. Choate has not
yet called formally at the foreign office
Mr.. and Mrs. Choate have been inun-
dated with invitations to social events
which are about to take place. All the
ambassadors have left their cards.
The absence of the queen and the
Prince of Wales respectively from the
opening drawing room and levee of the
season has given rise to much criticism
and great deal of grumbling among
society people. As one of the papers
says, This is one of the duties belong
ing to the throne and the heir and the
public, who pay the piper, expect royal
music"
Another paper saws: "Outside of the
charmed circle of the Marlboroughs and
Manchesters. there is a very smart
American set in London now. Ladies
Abinger and oxford. Mrs. Onby Sores
ter. whose daughters were the bellies
of the Riviera season last year, Mrs.
Blake, Mrs. Alfred Paris. who is hold
Ing I0e most peasant weekly IeCepI1OIlS
in Chesham street, and Mesdames
Ralcheler and Freeman Schulge of
Philadelphia"
London will lose one of its most pop
ular beauties during the trip of Lady
Mary SackVille to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
George ]. Gould next month.
INTEREST IN KIPLING.
The newspapers here still pay consid-
recovery made by Rudyard Kipling.
The Times on Friday published prom
inently a set of verses after the style of
The BarTack Room Ballads" and sup
posed to be from Tommy Atkins to
Kipling on His Illness The last verse
ran:
we card that you were fighting ard,
just as we knew you would;
But we 'ardly 'oped you'd turn his
flank; they said you 'ardly could.
But the news has come this morning,
an I'm writing ere to say,
There's no British son more 'appy than
your old friend Thomas A
The bill of MIR. Harold James Reckett,
liberal member for the Brigg division of
Lincolnshire, raising the flash point of
petroleum from 73 to 100, is the result
of bitter campaign waged by certain
evening papers against the deadly low
flash" 1t comes before the house of
commons next Wednesday and will
meet with strong opposition, its oppo-
nents COntending that the OriginatOrS
of the agitation against the American
oils are the Scotch petroleum refiners
Moreover, it is shown that many of the
dGtlueHlS curing the past year were
not due to American oil. but to Rus
sion oil. whose test point is 103. The
bill, it is declared. seeks to compel the
public to use oils which apparently have
been but little favored by the people
up to now, and faVorS Russia at the
expense of America.
Three representatives of an American
syndicate are over here negotiating for
2 combination of the English and Amer
lean oil mills. They expect to carry the
scheme through and in about three
ever formed on this side of the Atlantic
Involving capital to the amount of s75.-
100000. The idea is that each side
abandon competition the others
ground and come to a working arrange
ment regarding the continental busi-
ness, especially that OF southern Eu-
rope, in oil and seed cake. The oil mill
ing industry here is confined to Hull,
Liverpool and London. Hull is the
principal center, but Liverpool has the
largest concern of the kind in the world.
KING ALFRED ANNIVERSARY.
The lord mayor of London, Sir John
NOce Moore, presided at a meeting held
at the Mansion house this week to fur
ther the proposed national commemora-
trOn in 1901 of the 1,000th anniversary of
the death of King Alfred. The queen
has given the movement her patronage
and the memorial will take the form of
a bronze statue of King Alfred, to be
erected in his district city of Win
chester.
WoIvesey castle. the ancient resi-
OenCe OF the E-DSl1Sn Kings near WIN
chester. will be secured as a memorial
museum The sum of $3.50, 900 is asked
to carry out the whole scheme
The Daily Telegraph announces that
1t will shortly start a Sunday edition.
It will be only an experiment and ex-
cept for the New York Herald's expert
ment, the Daily Telegraph will be the
first London paper TO have & seven
days issue.
MRS. POTTER's SUCCESS.
The success OF the theatrical world at
present is Charles Hawtrey in the
Cuckoo" at the Avenue theater where
in spite of the charges of impropriety
all Fashionable London is focking
The criticisms on "A Lady of Quality
a 5 play, are generally very severe and
it is not likely to succeed here.
Mrs Brown Potter's success in THE
Musketeers" has firmly esta blished her
to dictate her own terms She will play
the leading role in Henry A. Jones
''Carnac Sahib,' which Beerbohm Tree
will produce at Her Majesty's theater
on April 5. The new play will picture
Anglo-Indian life with soldiers and
rajahs galore.
Kyrle BelIew has contracted to ap-
pear with Sir Henry Irving at the
Lyceum theater at Easter.
VIM. PenIey denies he is contemplat-
ing an American tour.
AdVices from Vienna just received
here records the success of an Ameri-
can Madame BIauvelte at Thursdays
Philharmonic concert.
THE QUEEN STARTS SOUTH.
London, March 11--Queen Victoria
started for the continent today. The
sea was calm.
The Princess Of Wales. Princess VIC