Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-20
(Copyright. Assoclated Press

regarding the events that would imme-
diately precede and follow hostilities
with the Transvaal continues TO occu-
Ply public attention. 1t appears that
no declaration of war is necessary.
The process, according to good author
ity, would be proclamation by the
British high commissioner, Sir Alfred
Miner, stating that the convention OF
London is annulled and that Queen Vic
toria has resumed the government Of
the country known as the South Afri-
can Republic The general command
ing the British expeditionary force
would then be instructed to occupy the
Transvaal and hold it until fresh
government is established. When the
country is paciied commission,
doubtless including all classes of the
inhabitants of the Transvaal, would be
appointed to draft a new constitution
That all this is easier said than done
is quite palpable, even to the most
enthusiastic Englishmen. Estimates of
the strength of the Beers widely
diverge. Mr.. John Morey referred to
them as able to put an army of $4,000
men in the field while the war Office
officials seem to think that $4,000 is
ALL THEY COULD MUSTER.
Ac Of for OF
tirely depends upon the assistance they
receive from the Orange Free State and
the natives, which is impossible to
gauge. The present atmosphere of war
has enormously stimulated army re-
cruiting. Crowds of young men sur
round the Offices and daily large
patches of young men take the queens
shilling.
The indignation over the Dreyfus
verdict seems to have somewhat sub
sided. This is doubtless due to the
rumors of his probable pardon. Ester
hazy is staying at a hotel on the Is
land Of Guernsey, practically.in hiding
for he spends his days in his ROOM
only venturing out at night 1t is
said that the feeling of the Channel Is
landers towards him is by no means
friendly.
In Belgium the Dreyfus excitement
has resulted in the issuing of pictorial
postcards bearing portraits of the
prominent figures in the Rennes drama,
and even reproductions of the hand
writing of Dreyfus and Esterhazy.
The queen has been dragged into
the church fight. She is quoted as say
bishops decision:
Surely if incense is illegal now, it
must have been so
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Why did they not discover it sooner?"
This enuneiation by the head of the
church delights the Ritualists.
Commenting upon the difficulty eX-
perienced in finding a successor as am
bassador at Washington to Lord
Pauncefote, weekly paper says it is
more than likely that Sir Thomas Hen
ry Sanderson, K. C. B., permanent
under secretary Of state for foreign af-
fairs since 1894, will receive the APP
pointment to Washington as a reward
for his long services in the permanent
under secretaryship.
The United States ambassador, Mr..
Joseph H. Choate is staying with Mr..
and Mrs. Bradley Martin, in Inverness
shire He is expected back in London
at the end of this month. Mr. Joseph
Choate. Jr, is deer stalking with sthe
Earl of Kintore.
Mr.. Henry White, secretary of the
United States embassy, has gone to Ger
many, whence he will take his wife to
Switzerland.
The United States military attache,
Col. Samuel S. Sumner, is accompany
ing Emperor William at the military
manoeuvres. With Col Sumner is
Lieut.. Mervyn C. Buckley, U. S. A, who
previous to going to Germany, COM
pleted
A THOROUGH INSPECTION
of the Woolwich, Chatham, Portsmouth
and Plymouth arsenals and dockyards,
in accordance with his special miss ion
to investigate European ordnance and
equipment Lieut. Buckley, after COM
pleting his work in Germany, goes to
Paris.
The Duke of Manchester has created
considerable talk and some scandal by
appearing at MRS. hughes Hallett's
fancy dress ball, at Dinard, in an abbre-
waited bathing suit
Mr. Andrew Carnegie's yacht Sea
Breeze, with himself and several titled
commoners and their wives on board,
broke down off the coast of Scotland
several days ago. Distress signals were
made and the party was eventually
taken off and landed by a fishing smack
and had to spend the night at the little
town of Cromarty.
The Flies have now got the big
steam yacht for Mr. A. ]. Drexel, de-
signed by Watson, in the framing stage.
1t is said that it will equal any yacht
afloat in speed and equipments.
T. F. Harvey, of Chicago, who made
a fortune recently in the chewing gum
combination, has been staying in Ire
land, where he was born. A section of
the Irish party has offered him one of
THEIR SURE SEATS
at the next election. Mr.. Harvey will
not make a decision until he returns
from his forthcoming visit to America
He has been on intimate terms with. the