The Alaska citizen., 1916-02-07

gate conditions as relating to the nited States. started for laris and LCndon today well pleased with h.s visit hereSP He said before n.s u,- parture Hat he was very glad that he had come; that his cen' ersati.n, with German statesmen Ead e." vinced him that the r2la. ions be tween the two governments were less menacmg than Americans anu Germans in general had been led to believe.
 TAKES HIS OWN LIFE LONDON. Feb. -Brigadier- Gen eral Sir Rolla Estouteville Grim ston, catra equerry inwaiting 10 King George, was found today ill his room. strangled to death \ handkerchief was twisted around lis ne-k and tied to the bed rail. At first il was thought that there might have been foul play, but later devei- opments showed that il was pre- mcditated suicide, the cause of waich l is unknown. General Grim3tOn wos I5 years of age.
 GENERALS KILLED. { PARIS. Feb 1-According to ad vices received in this city from the , Balkan peninsula. two Montenegi!t | ! generals were assassinated in that 1 region today because Of their ca pitulation to the Austrans recently 1 DO NOT LIKE IT. i LONDON, Fsb. Many wapape-s 1 throughout England have commented 1 unfavorably on the American note relative to the treatment of arm d merchant ships by the United States 1 Some of the writers suggest that the attitude of the state department i3 1 the result of German influence in | the United States.
 REBELS MOVING. | LONDON, Feb 2.-According to i official advices re. eived in this city today from Peking, the conglomerate l insurgent army which is moving against the forces of the emperor i have crossed the great China wall and are now engaging in siege ope- rations. The insurgents number less than thirty thousand at the present time. but their ranks are being aug mented rapidly and the movement is assuming serious proportions.
 PREMIER RESIGNS
 1 PETROGRAD, Feb. Slowing to 1 i'll health, according to his own statement, Jean L. Goremykine, presi, dent of the council and premier of Russia, has resigned his position NJ. Sumner, on of the progressive ] members of the council has been ] elected to fill the vacancy.
 l Although attributing his resigna- tion to i'll health, it Is publicly known that Goremykine was forced out be cause of his reactionary tendencies.
 TURK SUICIDES.
 | LONDON. Feb. 3-According to advices which have reached this city Youssouf Izzedin, heir presumptive 1 to the Turkish throne, committed suicide at the palace today by sev 1 ering his arteries Prolonged health was responsible for the rash act. The deceased was born in 1857,
 RIOTS IN PORTUGAL, 1 LISBON, Feb. 3.-Rioting has been general in this city since Sunday, the disorders being in the nature of protest against the steadily in creasing cost of foodstuffs in this country The efforts of the authori- ties to quell the disturbances have been futile and the rioters are gain ing strength hourly. It is feared that the entire country will become involved unless quiet is soon re stored.
 COMPANIES TROUBLED.
 LONDON, Feb. 3.-The Appam case is source of much specula- tion in British insurance circles, OW- ing to the fact that it is the first case of the kind that has arisen since the commencement of the war. The action taken by the insurance companies will depend upon the at titude assumed by the government with regard to considering merchart- men German cruisers.
 The Appam carried half a million pounds of bullion at the time ot the capture.
 BOATS COLLIDE.
 HALIFAX, Feb. 3.-Wireless ad- vices received in this city late this afternoon tell of a collision between the Japanese steamship Yacau Maru and the Silver Shell. the accident occurring off Cape Race during a heavy fog Both of the vessels are reported to be in a sinking condi- tions and many lives are endangered, although it is believed that the many ships which are now rushing to the scene will be in time to rescue these cu board the damaged boats,
 BOAT BELIEVED LOST. PARIS, Feb. 4.-Fears are enter tained for the safety of the old American steamship Orteanian which left New York on December 23, bound for Malta. Nothing has been heard from the vessel since the de- parture from the American coast.
 WHAT HE PLANNED.
 LONDON, Feb. 4.-Bridgeman Tay- Tor, an unregistered alien, informed the police today of a conspiracy to destroy the Welland canal, in Can- ada According to the story of Tay- lor, Captain Franz von Papen or i ganized the plot and was to have directed the work of blowing up 1 the waterway which forms the con meeting link tetween Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Taylor also declares that von P.ren planned the de struction of various munition plants 1 in the United States and Canaaa.