The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-12
GOSSIP FROM LONDON
THE PAST WEEK WAS AN UN-
USUALLY sOMRER ONE IN
ENGLAND
MANY VISITORS From AMERICA
THEY ENLIVENED THE PROCEED
INGS AT CoWEs AND RACE
TRACKS
QUEEN MARGHERITA's MENTOR
Interesting story About ItnIy's
Queen DOwager-She Copied Her
Manners and Bearing From
an American Lady.

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.
! LONDON, Aug. n.-This can hardly be
| said to have been a lively week in Eng
land, for obituaries and funerals have
| been taking the largest space in the
newspapers. Particular groups had plen-
ty to think about. Nevertheless financiers
| have been busy with ehe American
loan," politicians with the dying parlia-
ment and the general election prospects
and society with country amusements
The way the South African war drags
out wears upon Englishmen, and no news
would be SO welcome as that some well
wisher of the TraSsVaal had convinced
| President Kruger that nothing in Europe
or China will make Great Britain relax
her ever-t tightening grip on South Africa.
Everybody in the army, or who has any
thing to do with it in South Africa, wants
to come home and is heartily sick OF the
whole thing. But, knowing that it must
go on to a finish, the dregs OF war are
having some bitterness.
PLOT WAS A SURPRISE.
The plot to kill British officers at Pre-
toria is taken in England as showing
the savage temper of the Beers, white the
OlIllSA ole ASPOA wv " W NO@o
things which are provoking adverse COM
ment in Great Britain. Thus the Stand
ard prints a Pretoria dispatch, dated
Aug. o, saying: THE Beers sniped
train at Bronkhorst yesterday on the line
between Pretoria and Middleburg. Two
of it's occupants were wounded. In &C
cordance with Lord Roberts warning all
the farms were fired within a radius of
ten miles,.
Even the British papers say there must
be a mistake somewhere. A couple OF
Beers fire at military train perfectly
within their rights as warriors, and every
farm house within ten miles in every d.
rection is committed to the flames.
AMERICAN VISITORS PLENTIFUL.
England is Overlooking with prominent
Americans who dominated Cowes and are
! in evidence at every important race
meeting and many of whom are members
of house parties at historic English or
Scotch places.
Mrs. w K. Nixon. of Chicago, is pay
ing visit to the Duke and Duchess OF
Newcastle at Clumber. Messrs. w. K.
Vanderbilt and w. Z. Whitney have both
been in London during the week.
Lord and Lady Eount-Stephen go to
Bombay in October to visit the North
/ COlCS LllSS win IAiOih AAANN-NO -
tour of India.
Mr.. Reginald Ward, the so-called cop
per king" has returned here from the
continent
F. R. Burnham, the American scout, IS
visiting Rider Haggard, In Norfolk.
TOURISTS GOING HOME.
The west-bourd transatlantic travel
| is rapidly increasing, though the reports
| Of the American hot wave caused num-
/ Der of cancellations. The Cunard line
| steamer Lucania and the American line
| St. Louis are both filled to their capac-
! ity however The former includes among
her passengers Tod Sloan, who hopes
to ride the suburban winner.
Archbishop Corrigan sailed for New
! York on board the St. Louis, accompanied
! by Bishops FitZmaurice, of Erie, and
! Dorca of Mexico. After a round OF
| pleasant visits in Great Britain, Arch
bishop COrrigan was the guest OF Cardl-
nal Vaughn for some time, and was pres
emf at the academic day at Stonehurst
| college previous to his departure to Ire
land, where he divided his last week
stay between the home of Archbishop
Walsh in Dublin and the charming coun-
try place of the American millionaire,
Thomas Kelly, at Celbrigh, near Dublin.
RECALLING OLD STORY.
| Sir Edmund j. MOISOl, the IoIAllSii din
bassador at Paris. takes exception to
Naval Lieut.. ]. S. Tretter's ascribing
the happy escape from war with the
United States in the Slidell-Mason af-
fair as due to Admiral Mines influ-
| ence on William H. Seward Chen secre-
| tary of state under President Lincoln).
| The British ambassador, who was then
! an attache of the British legation at
! Washington, writes to the Spectator:
THE happy result of the negotiations
was principally due to Mr.. Seward, who
was almost alone in the American cabi-
net in seeing that it was not only good
| policy, but consistent with the principles
always held by the United States, to con-
cede the demand of Great Britain. At
this distance of time it can do no harm
! for me to state that the demand as
| formulated by Lord Russell was deiiv-
/ cred to Mr.. Seward by me, privately,
Lord Lyons having charged me, after hts
! first interview with Mr.. Seward to go
at once to the state department and
place a copy of Lord Russel's dispatch
| in the hands of the secretary of state
| for his perusal."
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