Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03

LONDON, December 2.-The utter
ances of Cabinet Ministers and others
on the subject of the suggested Anglo
Saxon Teutonic alliance have detract-
ed public attention, to some degree,
from the list of casualties that marks
British progress in South Africa. But
the glowing insinuations of triumphs
of British diplomacy cannot stem the
growing tide of private sorrow that
manifests itself with the ever increas-
ing prevalence of crepe and the alb
sence, through mourning, of many
prominent families from social fes-
tivities. AS Ambassador Choate said
at the American Thanksgiving banquet
yesterday there is scarcely an English
family of his acquaintance without
relatives already either killed or
wounded in the war. Yet, the press
has taken kindly to this new topic,
though the more conservative papers,
such as the Times, point out that
sympathetic alliance with the United
States is an easy matter compared
with one with Germany, on account of
the difference in race and language.
While it is not actually SO stated, the
palpable deduction has evidently oc-
Cured to the writers on this topic that
the United States is far more fitted,
from racial and other conditions, to
allay herself with Germany than is
Great Britain, the development of
which, judging from popular opinion,
would be decidedly unsatisfactory to
Great Britain at present unless she
managed in some way to become
party to the new Breibund.
The bitter controversy between the
British and French press is not with
out it's amusing features. All manner
of Frenchmen and French women, res
ident in England, from ladies' maids
to authors and Abbes, have kept the
correspondence columns Of the English
papers full of disavowals of the attacks
on the queen which have marked some
of the Paris papers, while the French
papers themselves take little pains to
conceal their satisfaction over the irri-
tation they have created, though the
better class of people discountenance
the vulgarity of the criticism. The
English papers have violently assailed
every anti-Dreyfusard in France, but
they cannot conceive the justice of tit
for-tat argument when the queens
personality is involved.
A duel just fought in Paris between
NJ Jules Huret, of the Figaro, and NJ.
Viau, of the Libre Parole, sprang part
ly out of the controversy. NJ Huret
has been in England sending over pro-
British articles to his paper and has
denounced M. Viau, who accepted a
challenge and paid for his criticisms
with a wound in the arm which has
paralyZed two of his fingers.
Charles DAM, the cyclist, whose fame
up to the present has been based on
his defeating Zimmerman, at Florence,
has been engaged as the leading tenor
of the Lyric Theater, Milan.
Two Irish magistrates were deprived
this week, by Lord Ashbourne, the
Lord Chancellor of ireland, of their
Offices, on account of anti-British COM
ments on the Boer war. The proceed
ing is most unusual, especially as one
of the delinquentS was a noBleman,
Lord Emily, who, speaking TO some Ia
borers at Limerick, inferred that Great
Britain might have another Ladysmith
in Ireland. Lord Ashbourne asked for
an explanation, but Lord Emily
haughtily refused, whereupon he was
removed. Lord Emily is prominent in
Ireland, both socially and politically,
and an ardent Home Ruler. The only
other instance on record il when Mr..
Gladstone, years ago. deprived Lord
Rossmore OF magistracy for similar
urteranees.
General Kitchener has decided to
open the wady Halfa-Khartoum rail-
road December 4 with a weekly service
of trains. Tickets are now being Is
sued to the Second Cataract of Khar-
toum, where a touri5t-hotel is being
erected.
The hearing of the investigation of
the concern with which Lord Mayor
Newton is mixed up has, SO far, brought
out nothing startling against London's
chief magistrate. A promoter testified
that checks were sent to various fnan-
cial and other editors to obtain favor
able notices OF the company, but this