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Show BRIEF TELEGRAMS Dublin. The painfully sudden death of General Sir William Butler will be deplored throughout Ireland, as well as in England and in those colonies where he had seen much service. A brave and capable soldier, j he served the British empire In Canada Can-ada and Africa, and rose to within a step of the highest rank in the army, though, owing to his frank, honest and, as e.'ents proved, sensible advice given to the government on the day before the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa he was for a time most unpopular in England, and scarcely received the full measure of reward which his services merited. He was as skilled with the pen as with the sword, and some of his books make most interesting reading and will be regarded as valuable additions to British military history. His wife, too, a Miss Thompson, earned undying fame by her paintings, two military subjects, "The Roll Call" and "The Scots Greys at Waterloo," being among the most admired of the pictures pic-tures shown at the Dublin international interna-tional exhibition of 1907. It is, however, as a patriotic Irishman Irish-man that Sir William Butler will be best remembered in this country. He was a convinced home ruler, but though his naaie was several times mentioned for constituencies he never entered parliament. Still In another sphere he rendered good service to his country, being a prominent member mem-ber of the National university commission com-mission and of the senate. Realizing the importance of presenting pre-senting a united front in the next par liament, the Irish parliamentary party is campaigning as actively almost al-most as though a general election was in progress. The Redmons, Devlin, Dev-lin, Dillon, O'Connor and the other leaders are making speeches constantly con-stantly and are paying special attention atten-tion to the constituencies represented by O'Brien malcontents. It is confidently confi-dently predicted that the O'Brienites will not be able to carry more than three or four seats at most, and it is regarded as well within the line of possibility that both O'Brien and his lieutenant, Timothy Healy, will be defeated. ; Bishop O'Donnel , of Raphoe said recently: "I do npt remember any time when the country was more united in support of the Irish party than it is at present; neither was there any time when that support was better deserved." This seems to about sum up the situation. The leading Irish papers published the other day a queer fish story from County Cavan. It is said that two anglers in a small boat near the mouth of the river Finn saw an enormous en-ormous fish approaching them from Lough Erne. Its back was above the water, and It raised waves on each side. The men quickly pulled their boat aside, but. the. fish gave chase and was soon alongside, plunging on the surface at a furious rate. It" ap peared to be fully 100 feet long, with proportionate girth, and had a large head. The scared men Francis and Philip McDonagh shot into a weedy place, whence they watched the monster mon-ster dash up the river to a small, deep lake, where it disappeared from view. The brothers say that it was unlike any other fish they ever saw. Crowds of people are watching for the reappearance reap-pearance of this strange monster of the deep. London. Have the queens of Eur rope discovered the waters of eternal youth? If not, what is the secret of their long live? At the present time nearly every court in Europe is dominated dom-inated by a dowager queen. True, many of their deceased husbands have been sent to an early grave by the hand of an assassin, and this, no doubt, accounts, In a great measure, for the abundance of widowed queens. England, Russia, Italy, Spain, Hol-liand, Hol-liand, Portugal and even France have royal widows, and in nearly every case these women exercise a powerful influence in court circles. Alexandra, the queen-mother of England, has become famous for her beauty and youthful appearance, great beauty and youthful appearance. appear-ance. She is now in her sixty-fifth year and is living quietly at Marl-boroilgh Marl-boroilgh House, London. She was the Princess Alexandra, eldest daughter of the famous King Christian of Denmark, Den-mark, and was married to the late King Edward, March 10, 1863. Queen Margherita of Italy has shared a troubled throne, and even now, in her age and invalidism, is a mighty factor In the government of Italy. She is a daughter of the late Duke of Genoa, and was married to the late King Humbert in 1860. The Dowager Queen Amelie of Portugal Por-tugal is one of the most charming as well as one of the most tragic figures in Europe today. She was a daughter of the Comte de Paris of France, and her marriage to King Carlos of Portugal Por-tugal was a very happy one. But their throne was always tottering, and the good sense and charity of Queen Amelie was credited with doing much to hold the sympathy of the people. She studied medicine and obtained a degree, practicing incognito incog-nito in the poor quarters of Lisbon. She is finely courageous and once saved one of her boatmen from drowning. - New York. Experts are coming to the conclusion that the trouble with the United States is that we are too rich and are consequently too extravagant. extrav-agant. It will be hard to convince the man who is trying his hardest to meet his bills that this is the case, but statistics sta-tistics show a gradual increase in. the per capita wealth of the country from -$300 to in 1850 to $1,600 in 1910. And yet those who have lived during both periods tell us the average aver-age man was pretty nearly as well off fifty years ago as he is today if not comparatively better off. It is up to the statesmen to find out what the trouble is and to apply the remedy. St. Petersburg. Some time ago a whole family was murdered at Pot-chep, Pot-chep, in the southwest of Russia. Two men named Gluster and Shmak-hin Shmak-hin were charged with the crime, and although protesting their innocence to the last, the former was hanged, and the latter sentenced to a long term , of hard labor. It was subsequently ascertained as-certained that there had been a miscarriage mis-carriage of Justice, and the real murderers mur-derers were arrested and tried by court-martial at Chernigoff, and condemned con-demned to death.' This occurred on May 26, and the three murderers were confined in Chernigoff jail pending the exesution of their sentence. The other day two of them were found dead in their cell. They had been strangled by their companion with a twisted piece of linen. The three had drawn lots as to which of them should kill the two others, and then commit suicide. The man who lost fulfilled the first part of the bargain, but at the last moment shrank from doing away with himself. The imperial stages are largely-kept largely-kept up by the tsar, and no less a sum i ...I s, 111 i . ! than $2,500,000 is drawn annually from the royal treasury for their maintenance. Rome. American churchmen in Rome are making elaborate preparations prepara-tions for the reception and entertainment entertain-ment of the pilgrimage of the Knights of Columbus, which is to reach Rome the latter part of August. From advices ad-vices received here it is believed that there will be several hundred leading American Catholics from all sections of the United States among the pilgrims. pil-grims. They are expected at Naples August 18, going from there to Genoa, Ge-noa, where they will take part in the festivities in honor of Christopher Columbus. Co-lumbus. They will act as combination combina-tion guards of honor and guides while the American pilgrims are in the Holy City. They will be granted a special audience by the holy father, and nothing will be left undone for their comfort and entertainment while here. A pretty story reaches Rome from the Alps. The other day an enormous flight of swallows passing from Italy northward over the Alps, near the famous fa-mous hospice of St. Bernard, were surprised by a heavy snowstorm. The monks, observing the helpless birds like a black crowd approaching the hospice, opened the doors and windows, win-dows, whereupon thousands of the birds swarmed in, seeking shelter against the snow and the storm. The refectory, the corridors, the kitchen, and even the monks' cells were crowded by the swallows. The birds remained the whole .night, and next morning, the weather being fine, they continued their flight. Many hundreds that did not reach the hospice hos-pice were afterwards found dead in the snow. Two lions that the Emperor Men-elik Men-elik of Abyssinia gave to the Pope a year or two ago, have been found dead in the private zoo in the Vatican gardens. It is believed the animals have been poisoned. London. King George is making good. That is the general verdict, and the new king is becoming very popular popu-lar with the general masses,, of the English people. King George. Is even more of a democrat than was King Edward. He always mixed with the common people and the laboring classes, and for many years has taken an exceedingly, active part in the work of bettering the conditions of the working classes of Great Britain. He has Just decided to become patron and president of not only all of the charities wiht which King Edward was associated, but of numerous other charities King Edward patronized, patron-ized, and although several which the easy-going King Edward loaned his name to may be dropped from the list as questionable. King George will be president of more charitable societies than any other man living. The greatest interest has been aroused in scientific circles by the discovery dis-covery by a British expedition of a new pigmy race in New Guinea. The intelligence was conveyed in a communication com-munication from Walter Goodfellow, the noted ornithologist, who is in charge of the.expedition. The explorers explor-ers are cut off from all communication, communica-tion, but it is supposed they had commenced com-menced tho ascent of the Charles Louis mountains, running east and west of Dutch New Guinea, and the discovery was made there. Chief Interest In-terest now centers in the news of a gigantic beast whose tracks had been reported in New Guinea. The tracks of this creature, which appears to be nooiea animal of great size, have been reported as having been seen in the higher altitudes. Steps have been taken to -extend the stay of the expedition for at least another year. The crusade against bucket shops in the United States by the government govern-ment has apparently driven many American bucket shop owners to England. En-gland. There i3 a perfect fiood of rew bucket shops in London. The same old bait is given, and Judging from the number of new bucket shops springing up on all sides, not only in London, but in Manchester and other large cities of England, the English peoyle are in for a great fleecing. f th6se pools are offering 12 shillings for every 2 Invested per fortnight, and the capital guaranteed against loss. It is understood that a crusade Is about to begin against the Lngllsh bucket shops somewhat along the lines of the one carried out successfully suc-cessfully by the United States government. govern-ment. Boston. New England waters claimed a toll of nine lives by accidental drowning Sunday. In nearly near-ly every case the victims, were seeking relief from the torrid temperature by a plunge in the water. Detroit While sailing alone across the river at Charlevoix, Sunday, Michael Mich-ael McCaylay, quartermaster on the government supply boat Hyacinth, fell overboard and sank before live savers could reach him. New York. Astray in the marshes of Jamaica bay, William Eibrecht of Maspeth, L. I., set foot in a quicksand pool last night and was swallowed alive before his friends could reach him. Lake Placid, N. Y. Oscar P. Nicholas Nich-olas of Brooklyn, superintendent at the Lake Placid Yacht club, was drowned here Sunday while bathing. Oswego, N. Y. The bodies of Eddie Ed-die Hammond and Harold Driscoll, both 9 years old, were found Sunday In the Varick canal. Albany. N. Y. John Whalen and Francis Fortl were drowned while bathing in a cree.c Sunday. Watertown, N. Y. Frank Namo was drowned Sunday while bathing in the Black river. fc New Haven, Conn. There were seven accidental drownings in Connecticut Connec-ticut Sunday. St Petersburg. The attention of the authorities at St. Petersburg is being directed to the fact that in several sev-eral towns on the Volga Mohammedan Mohamme-dan girls have lately been sold in the open market. Inquiries go to show that the girls have been forcibly abducted ab-ducted and sold to agents from Turkey and Persia at prices ranging from $25 to $225, according to age and appearance. appear-ance. The local officials are said to have raised no obstacles. Paris. Italian anarchists have taken an extraordinary revenge on a French soldier who had exposed one of their plots. A man named Beau deserted from the Fench army, went to Italy, and got mixed up In an anarchist an-archist plot. He exposed the conspiracy con-spiracy to the police, and the anarchists anarch-ists were arrested. Fearing the anarchists', an-archists', vengeance, Beau fled back to France and gave himself up to the military authorities, being condemned to the period of imprisonment and ordered or-dered to complete his term of service. He thought he was safe in the army, but the anarchists were on his track, with a novel scheme, of vengeance. One of them, named Boschini, made friends with Beau, and while the latter lat-ter was on sentry-go at night at Cherbourg Cher-bourg battery, induced him by the offer of-fer of a big bribe to allow the anarchist anarch-ist to steal pieces of the breech block of a certain gun. Boschini got clear away with the mechanism, and omitted omit-ted to give the promised bribe to Beau, who has been arrested on d. charge of stealing the breech block parts. Vienna. The unsuccessful attempt to assassinate General Baron von Va-resanin Va-resanin as he was returning from the opening of the first Bosnian Herzego-vinian Herzego-vinian diet at SeraveJo has served to show the splendid loyalty of the provinces prov-inces to the empire. Everywhere in Bosnia-Herzegovina is heard execration execra-tion for the anarchistic attempt, and had the would-be assassin not taken his own life he would probably have been torn to pieces by the crowd. Boydan Kavajic, the assassin, was a student and an anarchist. It is not believed be-lieved he had any accomplices. Dtfblin. The American invasion is now at its height and there have never before been so many Americans in Ireland. Every ship which lands at Queenstown drops three or four hundred hun-dred home-coming Irish-Americans. Sometimes the number is greater than this, rarely less. One steamer had nearly 700 passengers for Queenstown. And Ireland is taking care of them. From one end of the country to the other I hear tales of the good times being prepared for the homecomers. So successful has been the movement this year that I understand it is to be made a permanent institution, and it is probable next year the number of tourists will be even greater than it has been this year. Pittsburg. A card torn from a freight car was filed in probate court as the will of Rubort J. McElroy, who, after being fatally injured by a freight train, scribbled on the card, "Mary, all that Is mine is thine." This leaves an estate of $5,200 to his wife. After writing his wife McElroy signed the letter "R," but was unable to finish and another trainman completed the signature. McElroy died June 12. Chicago. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is the . fee which is demanded and may be paid to Attorney Attor-ney Clarence A. Kright for services rendered in straightening out the estate es-tate of Charles T. Yerkes, the late traction magnate. Master in Chancery Chan-cery Granvile W. Browning, who was appointed as referee by Judge Cutting of the probate court, declared that fee was just and not exorbitant. He not only gave it as his opinion" that Knight was entitled to the full quarter million, mil-lion, but that he well deserved it Paris. Continuous cold and wet weather is beginning to cause serious alarm. There has been daily rain for six weeks, and the precipitation since the first of January has already exceeded ex-ceeded the average annual rainfall. A recurrence of floods is threatened. Many streams are full and some are out of their banks. The grape crop has suffered heavily and mildew has made its appearance in the champagne cham-pagne district The hay crop is almost al-most destroyed. The loss in the champagne district is officially estimated at $6,000,000. Berlin. The , American-German trade war, of which we have heard so much, is assuming definite and acute shape in and out of the empire. So far, the Germans seem to be the aggressors. ag-gressors. The Americans are minding their own business, going "after the trade on merit and generally speaking, speak-ing, getting it. This latter fact is what seems to be grieving the German Ger-man official and industrial world, and is leading to measures that are, to say the least, somewhat unprofessional. These measures apparently have the active support of the highest authority which means the emperor. Under his majesty's stimulation the imperial government is going right after the American trade captains wherever they can be found. A peculiar situation situa-tion regarding trade with America has come to a head at Hamburg with the collapse of the government's case against the Standard Oil company. This unexpected fiasco has left the German business and official world in something of a mild daze. For instance, the illuminating oil we sell in Germany Is produced in the extreme ex-treme middle western section of the j United States, mostly in the new state j of Oklahoma. To handle it economically economic-ally we have built an unbroken pipe line to the ocean 2,000 miles away. The oil therefore flows directly out of the Oklahoma wells into our tanks at the refinery at Bayonne, near New York City. Then, after it is refined, it is pumped into tank steamers, which carry it to Hamburg and other German ports. At Hamburg it is pumped into large storage tanks. From these storage tanks it goes by railroad in tank cars into the interior of Germany, where we have supply centers with smaller storage tanks. Out of these the oil is pumped into local tank wagons, which carry it to the premises of the retail dealers. London. The latest fad of society women in connection with their pet dogs is to have a special French maid to Iqok after them. One well-known dame, possessing a French poodle, keeps it in a luxuriously furnished room, and has had shoes made so that when the animal goes out he shall, if it has been raining, not put his feet on the wet pavement. Rome. Bishop Corbett of Sale, Australia, who has been seriously ill for three months in the hospital of the Little Sisters of Mary here, presented to the Pope recently Father Guy Ga-van Ga-van Duffy, son of a barrister of Melbourne, Mel-bourne, whose father was Sir Charles Duffy. Father Gavan Duffy has just been ordained in Switzerland. Paris. In the gentle art of ballot box stuffing, intimidation of voters and stealing of elections generally the French colonies not only have nothing to learn of the most expert American exponents of the shady side of politics, but in view of the disclosures in the examination of the returns from Guadeloupe, Gua-deloupe, Martnlque and La Reunion, Just made by the new chamber of deputies, these colonists could qualify as teachers to any aspirants who wish to learn the trick of carrying elections elec-tions without votes. One result of the election was the unseating of the negro ne-gro deputy, Legitimus, famous because he was absent so long during the last parliament that his existence was considered as a myth by some, though he happens to be in Paris Just now. Another consequence may be to raise the whole question of the advisability of any parliamentary representation for the colonies at least, those of the West Indies. A remarkable operation discovered during the parliamentary inquiry was as follows: A ballot box on the first count was found to contain 324 papers pa-pers for A candidate and 127 for B. The box . 1 the signed return were conveyed to le town hall. When it II I) . n reached there the votes were 22 for A and 701 for B. A spurious certificate of the returning officer had simply been substituted with his signature ! forged. Under these circumstances, does it really seem worth while to ask the colonies to send representatives to the home parliament? This question is being very seriously asked ln the chamber, and it is regarded as altogether alto-gether probable that action will be taken modifying if not cutting off colonial co-lonial representation. Berne. The prompt bravery of a fireman on the Swiss federal railway system averted a terrible disaster. The fireman in question was working on the engine of a passenger train and had just thrown a shovelful of coal into the furnace when he saw in the midst of it a dynamite cartridge. Without a moment's hesitation he thrust his hand into the firebox, and, thought terribly burned, succeeded in pulling out the cartridge before an explosion ex-plosion could occur. The railway directors di-rectors have awarded him a large sum of money for his heroism. Dublin. The profits of the Belfast corporation electricity department last year amounted to $55,000, $25,000 of which was handed over In relief of rates. |