Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-28
FROM over
the OCEAN
Society is Very Dull During
This Season.
BRITISH NAVAL INCREASE
Many Big Warships Are Being Built
mormon Agitation Causes
Serious Trouble.
BRITISH NAVAL INCREASE

London, Jan. -(Copyrghted, 1899, by
the Associated Press. 1.-THE weather in
england during the past week has been
bright and frosty. London, however, has
been devoid of social events. But, with
the opening of parliament and the early
drawing rooms, February promises a re-
vival of gaieties The queen does not
stort for Clinics until March 8, but prep
arations are already making for her trip
to the south of France.
The duke and duchess of Connaught
are spending the winter in Italy.
sister of Lord Curzon Of Kedelstone,
the Hon. Margaret Georgiana Curzon,
was married on Thursday to an Irish
gentleman named Waller, in the pictur-
esque Norman church at kedlestone
Among the presents was grand piano
from Lady Curzon.
Senior Rafael Igleesias, the president
of Costa Rica, leaves England next week
for Paris, where he will stay six weeks
and then go to New York and Washing
ton. lie has expressed himself as SAN
guine that the railroad now building from
the Atlantic to San Jose will be extended
to the Pacific. The president also said
that Costa Rica will welcome the Ameri
! can programme to build the Nicaragua
canal and added that Costa Rica will
freely give the necessary land.
Queen Victoria is taking keen interest
| in the developments of ritualistic contro-
Versy which is approaching a crisis. She
is much concerned about the dissensions
in the church and has expressed a strong
desire that an understanding be arrived
at between the government and bishops
before the proposed legislation places a
check, upon the ritualistic practices in
trOduced. Her majesty has been in COM
munication with the Marquis of Sails
bury on the subject She has always
taken an active personal part in the ad-
miniStratiOn of public patronage and con-
tributes largely from her private purse
to nearly all the charities in behalf of the
poorer clergy and their families. While
it is noteworthy fact that she has never
, contributed to any foreign missionary
society, her occasional attendance at the
Crathie Presbyterian church, which she
helped to build, gave Offense to the high
church papers, one of which character
lied her broad, religious spirit, thus eX-
| emplifed as deadly schism'' and ''un.on-
sttutonal." Recently, however, the ser
vices at BalmOral have been held in the
private chapel The visit of the bishop of
Winchester, the Right Rev. Randall
Thomas Davidson, ID. d., to Sir William
Vernon Harcourt, is considered signifi-
cant and it attributed to the desire of the
queen to endcaVOr to arrange compro-
mise acceptable to both sides, the bishop
of Winchester being particularly conf
dent of her majesty in church matters.
The chief event of this week has been the
dismissal of two curates of st. Agnes
church. Liverpool by their bishop in con-
sequence of complaints of their pulpit
advocacy of auricular confession.
The remains of the late Earl Poulette
were buried in the family Valut in the
parish church of Hinton, ST. George, on
Thursday The earl'S corOnet was carried
in front of the funeral cOrtege by his
valet. A great crowd was present in view
of the expected presence of the so-called
organ grinder claimant, but the people
were disappointed. The claimant who
now styles himself Earl Poulette, did not
attend, being seriously i'll and weak as
the result of an attack of acute rheuma-
tism Hinton house, the family seat is
locked up and guarded by the police and
the servants Of the estate, in consequence
of a report that the claimant intends to
attempt forcible entry in order to as
sert his rights. Great excitement prevails
in the little Somerset village of Hinton
St George where the estate lies. The
Poulette estates ar situated in the best
part of tn country and cover an area of
II 900 acres.
Sir Thomas Upton, owner of the
Americas cup challenger, has arranged
with Mr. Peter Geraldson owner of the
Yacht Isolde to represent him on board
the Yacht, which will defend the cup.
Lively scenes have occurred at Bristol
in connection with the Mormon propa-
eanda there Elder Herbert l.. James of
Salt Lake City heads the mission. An
anti Mormon league has been formed and
its members attack the meetings of the
MOrmonS The police consequently are
obliged to guard the mission house Vio-
lent anti Mormon posters have been dis
played in the streets. and mob smashed
every window of the mission house at
the last meeting and hooted, stoned and
spat upon the elders when they emerged |
out onto the street. Two women mis- !
sionaries were compelled to seek refuge |
in a police station. Elder James expects |
a serious disturbance at the next meet |
ing.
The record number of British warships |
is now building, amounting to 110 YES
vels ranging from the heaviest battle ,
ships to the tiny torpedo boat deStroyerS,
the figures being 16 first-class iron clads, |
SO cruisers, IA sloopS and gunboats and |
So torpedo boat deStroyers. Chatham
dockyard is credited with the unparal-
leled achievement of launching three of
the heaviest battleships in the same slip |