Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-27
Ra, Maiesty's Illness

became X. jWn, but, the reports from
the begiLSan were so grave that they
found the rates of most of the COM
panies probibitive. The shares of GER
cain insurance companies have fallen
this week from one-quarter to one
point, but the majority are unchang-
ed. Reputable brokers informed a rep
resentatiye of the Associated Press
that the amounts are exaggerated. The
best companies considered the risk too
speculative, but a majority of the in
suIances were taken so long ago that
plenty of reserve has accumulated. The
premium on the Queens life month
ago was five per cent. When her i'll
ness was rumored it rose to fifteen
per cent. in a day. Saturday it was
thirty per cent
The majority of the leading theatres
are draped with crepe and have post
ed blackboard announcements that
they will be closed until after the fun
eral of our beloved Queen" The music
hall managers held a conference and
afterwards published the fact that the
halls would reopen until the day of
the funeral on account of the loss
their employees would sustain if they
were closed.
This Action Is Unpopular,
The people think the managers might
carry their employees through the
mourning season, instead of using
them as an excuse for their own un-
willingness to foregc a fortnightS re-
ceipts.
Sober English journalism was shock
ed at the display around Osborne
House by the correspondents OF the
new English sheets of what the Times
terms American methods" The scene
before the lodge gate, following the
solemn announcement of the Queens
death, certainly did not tit the OCCASION
A crowd of reporters assemble with
cabs, horses and bicycles, Hardly
had the words, Her majesty has
passed away" fallen from the officials
lips, when the reporters aud messeL-
gers, with Il wild whoop, started TO
race Down the steep hill. half mile,
30 the telegraph, some of them bawling
to their assistants below The Queen Is
dead" One English reporter sent n
rival spTawling from his bicycle. which
skinned his face in the dirt. whereupon
he knocked down the aggressor.
The court officials have been exceed
ingly active in running to earth false
reports, like the fictitious death bed
scenes, and have already secured the
Recall OF Two correspondence
They are now investigating the sources
Of the premature announcement of her
majesty's death. published in America,
for the purpose of acting against the
authors. Having access to all the tele-
graph and telephone messages. they
have discovered that no report was
sent from Cowes before the Queens
death, therefore it must have been
faxed in London or America.
\ unique illustration of British adj
herence TO traditions marked the sign
ing Of the proclamation at ST. James
Palace. The Lord Mayor is always
one Of the signers, whereupon, accord
ing to the view of the privy councillors.
he must retire before the King enters
and the speeches are made An
ancient picture represents the Lord
Mayor among the receivers of the King.
therefore the mayors invariably claim
this right Wednesday, however. the
Duke Of Dey0nshire (Lord President OF
the CounciD, requested the Lord May
or to leave the room. which he relue-
family did.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty amend
me1t, among the portentious events Of