Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-29
OVER
THE OCEAN
Celebration of the Cromwell
Anniversary.
AN AMERICAN MINISTER
Is Visiting in the Old Ccuntry--Barb-
arity on the Niger Coast--
Queens Health Good
AN AMERICAN MINISTER

London. April 29-(Copyrighted, 1899,
by tha Associate Press :)-London is still
practically deserted by society people,
most of whom are at Newmarket, where
there is very gay and fashionable gath
ering. Here the Prince of Wales has been
enjoying himself, while Mr.. Joseph Park
er. from the pulpit of the city temple, has
been fuminG against him as horse rae
ing prince The newspapers of this city
have generally taken DR.. Parker to task
for his violent words in his sermon on
Tuesday last on the occasion of his ad
dress on Oliver Cromwell
The most interesting event Of the week
has been the tcrcennary of the birth of
Oliver Cromwell lord protector of Eng
Hand Celebrations have taken place all
over ENGLAND at places connected with
incidents in the life of Cromwell. The
chief ceremonial was held at his birth
place. at Huntingdon on Thursday,
where sermons were preached and great
demonstra tion took place at Market hall.
MANY thousand Of people visited Crom-
wells home at Hinchbrool1 and meetings
by At this latter place pastors of the
Church of England protested against
the seeming attempt of the non-con-
forrists to ronopolize the Cromwell
celebrations.
There was an imperialistic demonstra-
| ton on a small scale on Thursday when
deta achment of the New South Wales
| lancers arrived at the Albert docks and
marched through London to Waterloo
| station from which point they went by
| train to Aldcrshot for 81. months train
| ing with the home cavalry. The band Of
ths Coldstream guards led the procession
as it passed through the streets. The
| lor1 mayor and sheriffs in full robes Of
office, stood upon the balcony of the man
| sion house to see the men pass. The Lord
! Mayor. Sir John Noce Moore, frantically
| waved his cooked hat and shouted in ap-
! plause. Large crowds filed the streets
along the route over which the lancers
| passed and greeted them with great en-
thusiasm.
| Another body of Australians. whose do
ines will help to fiji the newspapers dur
| ing the next six months. is the Austral-
| ian cricket team. which will next week
| begin tour of England during which
| they will meet all of the county cricket
teams. The season of the national pas
time opens next Monday. The newspap-
ers are already devoting much space to
| discussion of the prospects Of the game
| and to arrangements which have been
made for matches.
| Queen Victoria this week opened a new
bridge over the Pailon river, near Cimiez.
! on invitation of the local French author
/ tiles. The mayor and q section of the
municipal council wished to have the
! bridge named Victoria, in honor of the
queen Another section Immediately
! started counter proposal to name the
bridge for Felix IFaure, the late president
Of the French republic, while a third
| party wanted the bridge named after a
| local celebrity. Feeling ran high and,
| finally after farcial squabble, it was de-
cidad not to name the bridge at all.
The queen is at present engaged in ar
ranging the delicate matter of the domi-
ellie of her grand daughter. Princess
Maud, who is already tired of living in
gloomy Copenhagen. Her husband,
i Prince Charles, therefore desires to re-
ceive an office in the British service and
become a naturalized subject of the
queen. Crown Prince Frederick of Dem
mark, is now at CimeZ, discussing the
subject with the queen.
| An incident has just occurred which re-
yeals the queens attitude on the VeXed
question of the property of ladies. One
| of her daughters while leaving Windsor
was detained in one of the waiting rooms
of the station. When she left the station
the master found in the station a silver
princess was engraved and the words
| From her Mothen'
The United States Ambassador, Mr.. JOS
| eph H. ChOate, was present at various So
cial functions this week. Mr.. Choate has
been invited to speak at the banquet of
the roval academy on Saturday evening
at which the Prince of Wales and the
Dnkes of York and Connaught will be
guests.
The Marquis of Lorne, son-in-law of the
queen, has just received a snub in con-
nection with the application for license
FOR a hosiery at Roseneath, known as
Ferry inn, which has the unique glory OF
having had member of the royal family
as its architect, Princess Louise Of Lorne
having drawn the plans for it's recon-
struction. The marquis owns the inn
land recently evicted the landlady who