Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-02-23
IRISH CROWN JEWELS.
EOefng I0re WIN Be Heard Of Their
DiSappearana.
KING EDWARD INTERVIEWS
Great Scandal that Was Reaching
Alarming Proportions.
HIGH PERs0NAGEs CONCERNED
One Of Them Said to Be the Duke
Of Argyle.
IRISH TRADE ADVANCES STEP
Governments of Twenty Countries
Agree 60 Classify Their Imports
anG Exports te the
Island.
1GK PERsONAGEs CONCERNED
One Of Them Said to Be the Duke
Of Argyle.
IRISH TRADE ADVANCES sTEl

investigate the conduct of Sir Arthur
Wears, late ulster king am in
position to state that nothing more will be
heard of the matter. As a matter of fact
scandal Of such alarming proportions
was threatened that King Edward, himself,
was forced to intervene, and at his per-
sonal request the whole affair is to be
dropped. The king even went to the extent
Of sending a personal request to the Irish
nationalist members of Parliament to let
the scandal rest. and the Irish unionists
who had planned to make use of It to en-
barrass the government received a per-
emptory order from their English masters
to keep silent.
1t is impossible to do more than hint at
the nature of the scandal, but It is of the
same character as one which besmirched
castle society about twenty-five years ago,
and some very exalted personages are in
directly involved. One Of the persons con-
cerned is said to be a close friend OF the
duke Of Argyll, who married the kings
sister. and it is this fact, it is said, which
induced the king to take his unprecedented
action. Some hint of the scandal was con-
tanned In the correspondence which passed
between MIR. Birrell, the chief secretary of
ireland, and Pierce OMahony, Sir Arthur
Wears half-brother, after the removal Of
Sir Arthur from his office. 1t was charged
by Mr.. Birrell that Sir Arthur had been in
the habit Of associating very closely with
a man of notoriously bad character, and
Mr.. o'Mahony retorted that this man was
also a friend of the duke of Argyll.
Advance for Irish Trade.
A step In advance for Irish trade has
beon taken by the Foreign office, which
has secured from the governments OF
twenty countries a promise that hereafter
they will classify their import and export
trade. with Ireland separately from that
with Great Britain. Some irritation is felt
that the United States should have de-
clined to maze this concession. The larg-
est export trade in Belfast linens is with
the United States, and It is hoped that the
American authorities win see their way to
changing their decision.
The Inflated Dublin international exhl-
bition has not been dead loss to every
one, for the Dublin Corporation tramways
report shows that the last half of 1907 was
the most prosperous in the history of the
undertaking, and the officials ascribe the
increase I'm traffic wholly to the exhibit
tion The profits for the half year were
more than $4,000, an increase of 100000
over the last half of 1906, and the working
expenses were only slightly increased. 1t
is not generally known that Dublin has
the most complete and efficient street rail-
way service of any of the great cities in
the three kingdoms. Dublin has a mile of
tramway for every 1862 OF its inhabitants,
while Glasgow has a mile for every 1879
Inhabitants, Leeds a mile TO every 9,O56
and Liverpool mile to every 1894 None
of the English cities running their own
tramways can show such a prosperous
balance sheet the Dublin tramways in
spite of their larger populations.
No Trousers for Constabulary.
A sensation has been caused throughout
the length and breadth of Ireland by an
ukase which has just been issued by Sir
Neville Chamberlain. the Inspector general
of the Royal Irish constabulary It's text
Is as follows:
annual Requistion for Clothing, l9OS-9:
Waterproof Coats-The expense of issuing
a blac waterproof coat to each member
of the force in the summer of 1905 win be
net by dispensing with the issue OF
summer trousers
Now the members of the Royal Irish
constabulary are modest men and even the
provision OF a waterproof coat does not
compensate them for the deprivation of
trousers. At first they scanned the notice
carefully in the hope that some substitute
trousers would be provided. but nothing
has been suggested-not even kits, and the
.constabulary are in despair They feel that
the government is covering their shoulders
at the expense of their shins and they
are talking about an appeal to Parliament
In the meantime the country is loking for
ward to seeing the police in waterproof
coats and no trousers.
New York will probably soon see the ex-
tensive use OF the beautiful Connemara
N.auEN
Peter Rafferty,. the owner of one of the
largest Connemara quarries has just re-
turned from New York accompanied by
Louis Mowbray an architect, and John
Leahy a contractor of that city, who are
arranging to purchase the entire output
Df the quarry for use in decorative work
n New York buildings where Italian
marbles have formerly been employed. The
marble viii be shipped rough from an Irish
.eg1 aaE dressed in New York.
S'inM Time in Prison.
The hrirS Of the political prisoner In
lrelsnR gave changed from the time when
Wnliaul orrien. NJ. p. was forced to sit
ia ais cen in Kilmainham goal wrapped
in a blanket because his own clothes had
been taken from him and he would not
wear the prison garments. Mr.. Ginnell,
M r.. who Is serving term OF six months
for contempt or court ls not only allowed
. 10 have his own clothes and his own food
but all the parliamentary papers are sent
10 him and he Is In almost as close touch
with what is going on in Parliament as II
ne were In his seat at Westminster. He Is
hlso allowed to write to the speaker and
sther parliamentary officials without hav-
ug to submit his correspondence to the
iensorshlp OF the prison officials
A remarkable sign OF the changed poll
tical conditions in ireland Is given by the
return unopposed OF MacMurrough Kevan-
aQh as Nationalist H. p, for Carlow. Mr.
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