The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-04
LONDON HAS GRIP
Deaths From the Disease 113
In the Past Week.
Miss AStOr In Satin and Pearls
Is Presented at Court.
QUEEN THREATENED
By the French Papers Which
Refer to the Maine Incident.
But She Will Go Guarded by
Torpedo Boat DeStrOyerS
QUEEN THREATENED


reached an epidemic form in London,
being responsible for one in eighteen
| deaths during the past week, when the
deaths from the disease reached total
| of 113. But the increase was accom-
panied by the least number of deaths
from pulmonary affections recorded
| during the present winter.
The two drawing rooms this week
| brought the people to town. The Ouch
ess of Buccleugh presented Miss Astor,
who wore a white toilette with silver
| embroidery, and satin train bordered
with single pearls. She carried a bou-
Quet of white lilies.
The United States ambassador, Mr..
Joseph H. Choate. is still staying at
Claridge's hotel and is busy house hunt
| ing. He has accepted an invitation to
attend the annual dinner of the asso-
ciated chambers of commerce on
| March Is.
THE QUEENS VISIT.
The arrangements for Queen Vic
| toria's departure for the Riviera next
Thursday have been completed. Her
| majesty will travel to the south of
France by way of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in
stead of via Cherbourg, being the first
time she will have visited Boulogne
since the Crimean war.
Some interest is taken in the fact that
| the Queens yacht will be conveyed by
eight OF the fastest torpedo BOAT Oe-
stroyers in the British navy, five of
| them being 30-knOt boats. Cruisers
| have previously been employed for this
| duty and the use of destrOyers, it is
| limited in some of the papers. is intend
| ed to set off the French papers tall
| TALK about submarine torpedo boats.
There is much indignation in England
| at the Scandalous and coarse attacks
! made upon Queen Victoria by some of
| the newspapers of Paris this week. The
Libre Parole, in an insulting article.
said:
Frankly, the queen will be we'll ad-
vised if she does not come to France
this spring. The constitutional fiction
that it was Lord Salisbury and not the
! queen who inflicted the outrage of
| Fashoda and the humiliation of Muscat
| on France will not suffice. 1t is we'll
known that the queen has directed
| England's policy throughout her long
| reign, and she has never missed an op-
! pOrtunity of displaying her antipathy
| for France. Under the circumstances.
therefore, her visit is an additional in
j suit and defiance of public opinion.
! After this warning it will only be her
/ fault if she meets with a hostile re-
! ception in France"
| NJ. Cassagnac's Autorite says:
| 1.-The queen becomes our guest at
moment when the British government
I has made itself more than ever our en-
! envy. Her journey will be full of the
/ same risks the Maine incurred in
| entering Cuban waters, and the French
| government is committing the same
| foolish act as Senior Sagasta by not
| preventing France from being placed
in such a position that the smallest &C
cident might precipitate both powers
| into a terrible conflict"
/ After such insinuations as the fore
going it seems possible that the queens
/ visit to France will not pass without
| some chauvinist incident.
| A special police staff has left Paris
| to watch over her majesty at Cimiez,
| where her heavy baggage is already ar
| irving.
queen Victoria pays $4,000 monthly
| for her own rooms. without counting the
| exepnse of her suite, numbering 60 per-
sons. Altogether, her little trip will
| cost her about $4,000. Her chaise, ia
| vorite white donkey and numbers of
| pet dogs and birds have been sent
| ahead.
| Her majesty also has a curious whim
| about sleeping in her own bed which
| is taken with her wherever she goes
WALES GOES TO PARIS.
The Prince of Wales went to Paris
! this week and visited the exposition
| grounds. He proceeds to Cannes on
| Sunday.
The princes wonderful scheme, known
| as The League of Mercy, in connection
| with which a new order has been es-
! tablished for those who collect and pro-
| mote the collection of subscriptions for
| the Prince of Wales hospital fund five
| years work being required for admis-
| sion to the order, is severely criticised
I in several quarters. The Daily News
thinks the prince has not been fortu-
| nately advised in committing himself
| and in securing the sanction of the
| queen to such a scheme. The paper
| calls it "An organization of SnobOcracy
| by the aristocracy, which is repugnant
| to the idea of charity and not calcula-
| ted to add to the dignity of the throne"
The annual report upon recruiting
for the army shows a slight increase in
| the development of recruits but So per
| cent have still been objected to owing
! to unsatisfactory physique. The sur
| prising announcement is made that IS
per / 900 are utterly illiterate and that
only 40 per 1000 are described well
educated
I DISAPPEARANCE OF A. PRINCE
There has been a revival of the SEN
Sation caused a few weeks ago by the
| alleged disappearance of Prince Lud-
| wig Won Lowenstein Wertheim, who
married Lady Anne Saville, a daughter
of the earl of Mexboro He moved a
| good deal in English society and then
| disappeared suddenly. An advertise
ment inquiring after his whereabouts
caused conSidera bic speculation in the
| London press and a telegram from Ma
| Mia has been published saying the
| prince is at Manila, has been there for
| many months, was present at the de-
| Struction of the Spanish fleet and was
| member of the European club but, it is
| added, his behavior aroused suspicion
| and he was thought to be acting as the
| confidential agent of the German gov
| eminent Before Manila surrendered it
| is further alleged the prince was allow
ed to pass in and out of the Spanish in
| surgent lines, each party apparently re-
| garding him as favorable to themselves.
| Happy is the man or woman who can
| eat good hearty meal without suffer-
| ing afterward. If you cannot do it.
take Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. 1t digests
| what you eat, and cures all forms of
! Dyspepsia and Indigestion. Geo. w.
| Stansfield, w. H. Wilson, A. J. Arnold
| & Son, A. ]. Kane & Co.