Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-18
CECIL RHODES
Gets Valuable Fresh Meat
Contract
A COSTLY FIRE
Many Items Of Interest From
The Old Country

London, Jan. IS. - The StobcrosS
RiVet Works at Coatbridgein Lanark
shire, the largest in the United
Kingdom have been completely des-
troyed by fire. The. loss is estimated
at s30O,o 900.
Fashion states that King Ed
ward recently appeared in a frock
coat with velvet cuffs. This has in.
duced hundreds of London's well
dressed men to order coats of the
me description. The cuffs are
three incbes deep and are tu!ned up
from inside the sleeves.
Cecil Rhodes has secured contracts
amounting 10 several million pounds
sterling, tor supplying South Africa
especially the British troops in that
part Of the world, with fresh meat,
which will he taken to South Africa
in refrigerator vesstls from British
colonies and elsewhere.
NJ. r odes' fiends admit that
one or his motives for SO doing en-
anates rom long standing differences
which have existed between himself
and the head OF one of the South
African cold storage concerns, which,
ut present, practically controls the
fresh meat trade at South Africa.
The Daily Mail states that corona
,tion boxing carnival will be held at
the National Sporting G ub in June
at which picked representatives from
Oxford and Cambridge will meet
representatives from Harvard and
Yale.
A despatch from Bonny, West
Africa, says 25 important chiefs have
bsep captured by the British at Aro.
1t is believed that the backbone of
the uprising has been broken.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Cha acel-
l,r of the EXchequor, has Informed
the members of Parliament REPRESENT
ing Newcastle that the coal tax will
not be altered in the Ginning bud
get.
The action of Miss Portia Knight
against the Duke of Manchester for
bre .ch Of promise of marriage has
been settled for $4,000, exclusive
of 90, 500 costs. Miss Knight object
ed 10 settlement, preferrlng revenge.
Her o icitors, however, considering
The Duk 8 bankrupt condition, per-
suaded her to settle the case out of
court.
At meeting of the Court Of the
Common Council OF the City Corpora.
tion iG was agreed, amid loud cheers,
TO present an address in a gold casket
to Mr.. Jo,eph Chamberlain.
The British steamer Braemer Cas-
tie, from Capetown for Southampton,
which stranded on Gurnard ledge,
lie Of Wight, on Jan. IA, has been
tloated.
They do say King Edward is lying
awake nights trying TO thiok what be
can do to match the Kaiser,s yacht
christie ming and Prince Henry's visit
to America. 1t is up to England to
pay the administration compliments.
In spite of numerous warning re-
ports ia both British and American
papers, the gold brick swindler seems
to be operati G largely in England.
Persons Of high social rank have been
approached through the mails, 10
some cases with success. In one case
a gentleman paid between Sl0, 900 and
el5 600 for two gold b icks of the |
kind so familiar to American farmers,
which he went all the way to New
York to get.
The municipal elections in Cork |
have resulted ia The defeat OF Eugene
Cream, M. P, for the southeast divis-
ion of Cork, ex-Mayor Roche and
other nominees of the United Irish
LEAGUE. THIS is attributed to speech |
made by Mr.. Cream In the course OF
tue campaign in which he declared
that il King Edward came to Cork
for the purp 'se of opening sthe inter
national exhibition he would be ho IT.
ed through the city,