Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-08-26
.coryright, Associated Fress.l

Chinese cryptogram and the unending
war in South Africa and the recon
struction of that country, strike ON a
little one hundred mile Welsh railroad
anything else in England this week,
| because it is closely related to the coal
supply and the manufacturing vitality
Of the kingdom.
The Taft Vale railroad carries the
product of fifty thousand coal miners
into Cardiff. The fifth day of the strike
sees small quantities of the best steam
coal commanding thirty five shillings.
All the Cardiff factories are shut down;
and the merchant feet are unable to
leave the harbor because they have not
been supplied with coal. Most of the
mines are still piling up coal at the pit
mouths. All will probably be idle in
another week. The cause of the dis
pute is that two thousand railway SER
wants want a half penny an hour more
and are upheld in that demand by the
Union of Railway Men of the United
Kingdom, with 6 100000 in the treas
ury and strike income of $4,000 a
week. interviewer with the discussion
anent the coal scarcity,
Trouble Is Brewing Elsewhere
in the railway world. The Great East
ern men have handed In an ultimatum
demanding increased wages and threat
ening to strike if this is refused. The
probabilities are that American coal
will be imported. The arrival in the
Thames on Thursday evening of the
British steamer Queenswood, with four
thousand tons of coal, and the sailing
Of the British steamer Armstor from
Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday with
four thousand tons destined for Bantry
Bay for the British navy, afford text
on which hang abundant speculation.
English writers seem to take melan-
choly satisfaction in pointing out
Americas exhaustless coal supplies and
the ultimate certainty that large ex-
ports will be made from that country
Passengers are requested to beware
of gambling" This pencilled notice
was posted in the Campania's smoking
room when she arrived a week ago.
Several Americans who had lost rather
heavily at poker, after the game COM
pared notes and decided to repudiate
their debts, being convinced that they
had been playing against card sharps.
The principal loser was a South Amer
lean ranchman, whose paper debts
amounted to over e1.00O, The win
ners were two New Workers, VINO were
apparently
UnncGuainted With Each other
when the Campania left New York.
The South American alleged that he
had been cheated. He paid $40 and
notified the winners that ne would pay
the balance OF his losses when they
produced satisfactory references. He
also telegraphed from Queenstown for
| a detective to meet the steamer at
Liverpool. One did so, but beyond
telling the victims that the winners
were we'll known sharpers he could do
nothing.
The taking by American bankers of
the exchequer bonds seems to impress
the Shah of Persia immensely. The
st. James Gazette has some curious
| information from Paris on the subject.
1t says:
''The Shah is convinced that finan-
cial reasons render the alliance be-
tween France and Russia less import
ant every day, because France is tired
of giving money to Russia. The only
nation that can give money to Russia
is the United States. The Shah has a
brilliant idea that by cultivating
friendship with America he may secure
himself against Russia, whose relations
with America are likely to become very
close before long"
Mary Anderson, Mrs. Antonio Ma
varro), admits that she is not as young
as when playgoers knew her, but she
has confessed to
Having Received a Shock
at a Bazaar held in Broadway, Wor-
cestershire, the other day, when the
rector Of a religious community told
her she was a mother to them. She
| made little speech. in which she re-
marked: Il am somewhat overwhelm-
ed by the clerical compliment, but he
might have said sister -"
Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, mem
Der of the New York Rapid Transit
Commission, who has gone to Scot
land to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie, has devoted considerable
time to studying both the Paris and
London underground electric RAILROADS.
Il have been afforded every opportun-
ity to study the working of both sys-
TENS" said Mr.. Smith to a representa-
tive OF the Associated Press, especial
ly IN London. where | have ridden
during almost every hour of Che day
and l am prepared to make a COM
plete report to the commission on my
return to New York. The London
electric railroad is certainly a great
improvement over anything London
has ever had. But, after all 1t is not
rapid transit in the sense we under
stand it in the United States The dis
lance from the Bank of England to
Shepherds Bush is four hundred yards
short of six miles. This is covered
in twenty-five minutes, including thirf
teen stops This is done by means Of
two single-track tubes, which, ,tof