Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1895, Page 1

b BEE. s PAGES 1 TO 8 ’ 2993cccecece: ESTABLISHED JUN OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER ATTAINS THE ACME Lord 8ackville Achieves the Highest Possi- ble Point in Diplomatio Deficiency. BOLDLY ADVERTISES HIS OWN FAULTS Effects of His Remarkable Pamphlet Dis- eppoint Its Extinguished Author, TURKISH SITUATION STILL CONFUSED Balisbury's Patience Almost £xhausted and an Issue Apt to Be Foroed, ON FRENCH CONQUESTS IN MADAGASCAR Establishment of a Protectorate Over the Isxland NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—(Special Tele- grem.)—Seldom s it given a diplomatist to misunderstand completely both the nation to which he Is sent as envoy and his own. Lord Sackville has attained that superex- cellence of diplomatic unfitness, It was in order to discredit Mr. Bayard in England that he printed the pamphlet of which Mr. Ballard Smith cabled the chief part to the New York World. It is evident from the comments of the English press that he has succeeded only in discrediting himself. That is proof enough that he does not understand the sentiments of honor and decency which influence his own countrymen, and his pam- phlet is more than proof enough that he knows nothing about the United States, where he lived for seven years as British minister. Lord Sackville was known in Washington as a well meaning, shy, silent, dull man, whose highest ambition was to transact the routine business of his legation. He had been minister before that to the Argentine Republie, and then to Madrid, where he bad previously been secretary of legation. “His position in Madrid was affected by a social indiscretion, dating from his residence as secretary, which later led to some domestic entanglements well calculated to bave caused him trouble, especially in Washington, but for the kindly silence of that American press which he now reviles. Transferred from the legation in Madrid, which he lLa occupled as minister for three years, to ‘Washington, he seems to have disembarra: sed his mind with difficulty of the notion that social ideas are the same In Anglo-Saxon as in Latin races and that the social laxities which were tolerated in Madrid and Buenos Ayres would be condoned with equal fa- cliity in Washington. Some good natured efforts were made to undeceive him before he left London for his new mission and un- successful attempts made to protect him against the consequences of his early mis- takes. They were not oecasioned entirely by sympathy with Lord Sackville himself, SAVED BY A SUBORDINATE. Such measure of soclal and diplomatic suc- cess as he attained in Washington was due to a member of his legation, who had the quickness and tact in which the minister himself was deficient. It happened unluck- fly that this invaluable adviser was absent from Beverly, where Lord Sackville was staying for the summer, when the Murchi- son letter reached him. The bewildered diplomatist, left to himself, fell an easy prey to the designing 0sgoodby, whose share in this enterprise was a discreditable one to himself and his country. Lord Sack- ville's unassisted mind was not open to the tolerably obvious truth that it was not the duty of an English minister to advise Ameri- cans whom they ought to elect as president He wrote the letter and the republicans made use of it, which we all remember. It may be worth recalling, however, that the value of it dawned but slowly on the party leaders, The first eastern paper to publish 1t was the New York Tribune, and of so little consequence did the editor of that paper think the letter that it was printed on an inside page in small type, and, I believe, without editorial comment. A day or two later It was republished conspicu- ously, and the tumult began which was to end lu Lord Sackville's expulsion from the ecountry. MERITED HIS DISMISSAL. He deserved his fate and the lesson of it was a usgeful one, but the manner of his dis- missal was needlessly abrupt. This it was, and not the dismissal itself, which gave Lord Salisbury and the English press what ground they had for complaint. No Euro- pean diplomatist, nobody who knew what reserve diplomacy exacts from him who practices it as a profession, ever justified Lord Sackville or denied that he had made a mistake fatal to his diplomatic reputation, All they urged was that President Cleveland and Mr. Bayard had acted with precipitation and harshness. There was, of course, the imminent presidential election, and there was the telegram from the democratic na- tional committee: Does the president know that the Irish e is slipping out of our hands?” and there was the press in its most tempestuous mood, and th e was be- yond doubt a strong and just popular feeling that the British minister cught to go. It would have been possible, neverthe- less, to avold offense. An attempt was made to Induce Lord Salisbury to recall his pleni- potentiary, but Lord Salisbury refused, on the ground, which was true, that to recall him would be to end his diplomatic career. The only remark needed on that is that the dismissal ended his diplomatic career just as eftectually. Lord Sackville has been in retirement ever siree, d emerges now with a confidential fletter frcm Lord Salisbury which he brandl hes In the face of the world. That of itselt shows the man. He is incapable of learning a lesson. He has brooded for several years over his grievances and the hoarded venom, to use Macaulay's phrase, of his pamphlet 1s the expression of his seven years' medi- tations. HASN'T HARMED BAYARD, He wished, they say, to drive Mr. Bayard from London. He accumulates charges against him. He accuses him of trickery, discourtesy, duplicity, mendacity, and other things ending In y, and circulates his indict- ment among the ambassadors and foreign ministers in London to convinee them that Mr. Bayard Is thelr unworthy associate, The act has brought down only reproaches on his ovn head. Me. Bayard will uot b> harm-a in England, still léss will he suffer in the es. teem of his countrymen. His diplomatic and personal attitude has sometimes been criti- cised at home, but nobody will believe that | Mr. Bayard's loog and distinguished career has been stained by uny act of such dis- houor as Lord Sackville implies to him The current Impression In Awerica from this Pamphlet scems to be made up io pretty cqual proportions of amazement and amusement. We fasten first on what strikes that sense of humor of which Lord Sackville has none, and when we find him complaining solemnly that he was offered $2,000 a week to exhibit himself in a dime musenm we cannot but ad- mire the showman who so well understood his business, CONFUSION MORE CONFUSED. The situation at Constantinople is as con- fused as ever, though some kind of order has been restored in the streets and the Armenian victims of Armenian plots have thought it safe to leave the churches, which for a time were their only protection against Mussulman mobs and’' the sultan’s police. The Il effect of these disturbances is wearing off. Sir Philip Currie presses the porte day by day and Lord Salisbury’s patience, never superabundant, is sorely tried, and the British fleet Is at Lemnos, three hours' steaming from the mouth of the Dardanelles. Those are conditions out of which a disaster to Turkey and a peril to European peace may easily spring. There secms no reason to doubt that the new grand vizier, Kiamil Pasha, 1s doing his best in the interests of peace, but much doubt whether his in- fluence with his master will avail, FRANCE IN MADAGASCAR. The French are in Antananarivo “after a brilliant action,” says General Duchesne, who commands the invading forces. Particulars of killed and wounded on either side are yet to come. The last “brilliant action” before this resulted in the rout of 6,000 Hovas, with a French loss of no killed and three wounded, which seems a pretty cheap kind of glory. A considerable portion of the American press applauds this conquest of Madagascar, pure buccancering though. it be. samo journals have «aid it Bngland had at- tacked an almost defenseless people on equally frivolous pretexts and annexed a vast territory to which she has no shadow of rightful claim?_The French, it Is true, to whom words often mean more than things, call their annexation a protectorate. We know what that is. It is true also that Gen- eral Duchesne's success has a political value at home and strengthens the Ribot ministry, which a defeat would probably have over- thrown. The lost independence of Madagas- car becomes the foundation stone of a re- publican cabinet in France, which is forever proclaiming its respect for ideas and for human rights and trampling on both when 1t can. WHAT LIEBKNECHT HAS ACHIEVED, The German socialists have had an inter- esting week at Breslau. Their congress can hardly be called a success from their own point of view, but they have done a public servico by exhibiting under a strong light a great number of foolish persons and pro- posals. They have raged against the em- peror, clamored for {he uverthrow of the Ger- tan empire, denounced society, complained of their exclusion from parliamentray office, or- ganized a procession to the tomb of Lasalle and a show of tableaux vivants, both of which the police pfohibited, and have taken a firm stand against the employment of wet nurses. It is melancholy to have td add that Herr Liebknecht, their chief orator and fire- brand, seems likely to have a disagreeable in- terview with the puplic prosecutor and to stand his trial on a charge, not, I think, of high treason, as the dispatches say, but of in- sulting the emperor, which is a lesser form of treason. Anywhere but in Germany Herr Liebknecht might well enough be let alone. But Germany, as Mr. Louls Stern knows to his cost, is a country where it is a crimital offense to speak with unabated breath to the manager of a watering place casino, and the German emperor s a personage even more sacred than a Bavarian baron who superin- tends admissions to a concert room. STILL A RAW SORE. here has been a recrudescence of yacht- ing literature In the shape of violent letters to a sporting weekly in London and violent editorial comments on them. None of these deserve notice. The Field, the sporting weekly T refer to, is as unmannerly and rancorous toward America as if it were a radical London dally. The remark of Mr. Watson, the yacht designer, that nobody yet knows whether Defender or Valkyrie be the better boat, will not be acceptable to Amer- fcans, but undoubtedly expresses his own and Lord Dunraven's belief. There has been also a Parnellite conven- tion in Dublin, in which Mr. John Redmond announces when the next war breaks out the Irish will sing, not “Rule Britannia,” but “The Marseillalse.”” The English are, never- theless, still so unreasonable as to doubt whether the advocates of Irish home rule are loyal subjects of the English crown. GEORGE W. SMALLEY. CONFIRMED, st Was Made to Protect Him fiom Anticipated Danger, WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—That portion of Lord Sackville-West's pamphlet in which be asserted that Lord Granville, at the time of the Irish exccutions in 1883, had, upon the representations of Lord Spencer, cabled the assistant secretary of state that he believed Lord Sackville-West's life was in danger, owing to the heated Irish agitation in this country at fhat time, and that as a result Lord Lionel was taken on a ten days’ cruise by General Sherman, was confirmed from an unexpected quarter today, When the publica- tion was first made it was received with in- credulity here, as no one at the State, War or Navy departments could be found who could confirm It. Today J. C. Baneroft Davis, who was for a time assistant secretary of state under Frelinghuysen, but who had retired before this fucident oc curred, received the following letter from Brevet Brigadier General John C. Tibball (retired) of the United States army, detailing circumstances heretofore mot made public ", BROOKLYN, Dear Sir—I have not ckville's pamphlet and do not know in what convection he brings forward the circumstances referred to (the cruise on the Ch ke), but do know, as a matter of fact, that it did occur. It was in the first part of May, 1883, General Sherman took Lord Sackville-West and family on a navy vessel (the Tallapoosa perhaps) down the Chesapeake on an ostensible junketing trip. They were gone a week or ten days. Meanwhile I, as aide-de-camp to General Sherman, took care of the British legation in Washington, So far as I know, no one knew the reasons for this action, except President Arthur, Secretary of War Lincoln, General Sherman and myself, But I pi sume there were those in the State depart- ment who were aware of it. Of course the British mioister was in the secret, but I Qo not think it was known to his secretaries at the time. General Ayres, commanding the troops at Washington barracks, and the chief of police, Colonel Dye, were to a de- gree aware of what was going on. The se- cret was so well kept that it never got into the papers, and as Lord Sackville has di- vulged it, 1 have no hesitation in mentioning what 1 know about it. Very truly, JOHN C. TIBBALL, ieneral United States ecretary N, Y., Oct. 12, 1895, seen Lord € Brevet Army. Brigadier No Criminal Cases In Sight. CASPER, Wyo., Oct, ~(Special Tele- gram.)—The county commissioners at their meeting held bere last Friday decided to do | away with the November term of the dis- triet cou owing the fact that there are no crimngl cases ou the docket, to RADICALS IN POWER 8till Too Numerous for the More Oonserva- tive of the Socialists, CONVERT FROM THE TITLED CLASS Duchess Pauline Mathilda Applanded the Most Violent Utterances, HER MARRIAGE A ROMANTIC AFFAIR Cologne Plot Considered the Most Important Discovered in Years, SOME OF THE GUILTY ONES ESCAPE we the Pay of Pab- 00l Tenchers. (Copyrighted, 15! Assoclated Press.) BERLIN, Oct. soclalist conven- tion at Breslau has been followed by the general public with a great deal more inter- est than was the case with the convention of 1894 at Frankfort. The warring elements | within the socialist party have been sharply What would the | arrayed against each other. The younger, wore practical and moderate wing of the party, though two of its ablest leaders, Her- ren Vollmar and Grillemberger, were absent through ill-health, displayed great strength. This was more especlally the case during the long and bitter fight which was waged over the agrarian program. The Liebknecht wing of the party, however, is still dominant and the small farmers and farm hands throughout Germany will therefore not yet be welcomed within the ranks of the socialist army. The convention was in accordance with the special instructions issued by Herr von Koeller, the Prussian minister of the interior, and was under severe police supervision. Consequently the noisy party demonstrations which had been planned could not be carried out. A number of foreign delegates, especially the Austrian delegate, Dr. Ellenberg, were ex- pelled by the police on the ground that they were obnoxious foreigners. A sensational feature of the convention was the presence of the Duchess Pauline Ma- thilda of Wurtemburg, now the wife of a wealthy physiclan of Breslau named Wil- liam. This lady, who is decidely eccentric, was attired in a flaming red blouse, and she manifested her Intense soclalism by fre- quently applauding the most excited utter- ances of the speakers, to demonstrate, appar ently, that she was in hearty sympathy with the most radical remarks and propositions made. CORRECTED THE CLERGYMAN. The marriage of Duchess Pauline Mathilda of Wurtemburg to Dr. Willlam was a most romantic affair. The doctor, who is a hand- some and amiable gentleman, was summoned to Carlsruhe to attend a member of the ducal family of Wurtemburg who was seriously il This was in 1880, and the Duche:s Paul- ine, who was frequently thrown into the soclety of the doctor in the course of his professional visits to the castle, fell in love with him, and finally notified her family that she intended to marry the good looking physician. At first the family strongly op- posed the match, but when it was seen that the duchess would have her way in any case, a reluctant consent was given. At the wed- ding ceremony, the clergyman who officiated pointed out the different positions in life of the young couple, remarking incidentally that the duchess had come down to the rank of her husband. This caused the bride to ex- m warmly that she ‘did not share the clergyman’s view of the case, and that, on the contrary, she looked up to her husband as an equal. Contrary to general expec tions the marriage has been a most happy one, and the duchess assists her husband v effectively In his practice, accompanying m, especially on his visits to poor patients, and bestowing gifts upon those she finds to be the most In need of assistance. CONFEDERATES ESCAPED. All the persons arrested in the Cologne esplonage case lave been taken to Leipsig, where they will be tried in the new Reichs- gorig building, which Is to be dedicated on October 16 in the presence of Emperor Wil- liam of Germany and the king of Saxony. The minister of war, General Bronsart von Schellendorf, has personally jnvestigated the case, and the opinion of the large gencral staff has beer obtained of the affair, which is considered one of the most important of its kind which has been discovered in many years, The principal defendant is a man named Paul Schoren, a native of the duchy of Luxembourg, but a naturalized French- man. He graduated in Paris at the Ecole Centrale, which he left with an engineer's diploma. Schoren, it appears, had a num- ber of confederates in Luxembourg, but the most important of them seemed to have es- caped to Switzerland, having in some unex- plained manner been warned that they were under suspicion, and their arrests were con- templated. The evidence against all the rs in any case suffices to ensure their tion. The persons in custody are kept strictly Isolated in the prison at Leipsig. ANTI-SOCIALIST LAWS, The Prussian cabinet held a meeting, which lasted four hours, on Wednesday last and discussed the intended modification of the Prussian law, which Herr Von Koeller has been working at for some time past. It is understood that the minister came to the decision that he should submit his project for approval at a meeting of the cabinet to be held mext we:k, emhodying his idea in a measure, which will be of a reaction- ary character, curtailing the right of public and political meetings and modeled largely after the Saxon law, which is the strictest and most llliberal of all the German laws dealing with associations. This is Intended to hinder the further growth and spread of soclalism in Prussia. It will be the only attempt at anti-socialist leglslation. which will be made during the coming wiuter, and it Is confidently expected that the bill will pass the Prussian Diet, whose composition is widely different from that of the Reichs- tag. A bill also be Introduced In the Prus- sian Diet to increase the salaries of public teachers, who are notoriously underpaid. The question of sugar bounties is again un- der discussion. International negotiations for the abolition of the export premium on beet sugar are being vigorously pushed, and it is hoped that France and Austria will agree to this proposition, It the negotiations fail, & reorganization of German sugar legis- lation is contemplated. As the law stands, Germany is bound to cease paying hounties in 1897, DEFENDED VON BOETTICHER, The statement, signed by Chancellor von Hohenlohe and other minlsters, which ap- peired in the Reichanzeiger on Wednesday last, denying the charges made against Dr. von Boetticher, imperial ‘minister of the interfor, which have been published In the soclalist organs to the effect that he at the time when important financial reforms were imminent, borrowed from prominent bankers large sums which he did not intend to repay, and that he had received a large sum of money from the Guelph fund in order ta save his father-in-law from ruin, appears to have been due to the emperor's personal wish to set at rest the fumors, which were still current. The truth, according to the Reichsanzelger, was that’ a bank director, who Is a relative of Dr. von Boetticher, was threatened with financlal ruln in 1886, and Dr. Boetticher sacrificed his whole fortune to pay his relative's debts; but, it s added, he never borrowed money from bankers. The publication of this statement, however, was a most un- usual proceeding, the customary method in such cases being the adoption of a legal means to obtain redress. The latter, in this instance, was eschewed, because Prince Bis- marck’s personal testimony would have to be required and this, in view of the ex-chan- celior’s animosity toward Dr. von Boetticher, might have been difficult to obtain. CONFERRING WITH THE EMPEROR. The North German Gazette tonight makes the significant announcement that Prince Lobanoft-Rostovsky, the Russlan minister for foreign affairs, who arrived here today from Paris, will have an audienee with the em- peror at Hubertus Tock tomorrow, and the chanceilor, Prince Von Hohenlohe, will also be present, as fe reports to his majesty on current affairs early in the day. Naturally the presence of the chancellors of the two em- pires at Emperor William's hunting seat is re- garded as having more than ordinary coincl- dence and as being not unifkely to have im- portant political results, The sociallst congress at Breslau concluded its labors today. Gotha was selected as the next meeting place, and Berlin was chosen as the headquarters of the socialist party. Herren Singer and Bebel were elected presi- dents and Herren Aur and Pfannkuch were Chosen secretaries, The decision of Mr. Louls Stern of New York to forfeit his bail of §0,000 marks in preference to undergoing the two weeks' im- prisonment to which he had been condemned, in_addition to being fined 600 marks, for in- sulting Baron Von Thuellgen, the deputy com- missioner of Spa, at Kissengen, was a sur- priso to people generally, as on the advice of his friends he had intimated his intention to submit to his sentence and'serve the two weeks in prison when called upon to do so. Incidentally it may be added an article pub- lished in the Cologne Gazette strongly pro- tests against diplomatic and newspaper “in- terference’” in the Stern affair, and says: ““We in Germany are very sensitive to such for- eign attempts to influence German courts, and more especlally 5o in the Stern case, because an attempt was made to Influence a ruler ex- ercising the pardoning prerogative. The re- ligion of Mr. Stern had nothing whatever to do with the case. We trust that German- Americans will appreciate the peculiar fea- tures of the affair.” Miss Minnie Kraefft-Korteze of Chicago has signed a three years' contract with the Royal opera house management. She is to sing Carmen, Nanon, Rosina and simllar roles, Italy has sent a special opresentative -to Berlin with instructions to.study the Call- fornian products which are being exhibited here, with the view of determining the ex- tent -to which such products will compete with those of Italy in the European markets. GOSSIP OF LONDON PLAY HOUSES. Prospects of n New Drama with South Africn Coloring. (Copyrighted, 159 a LONDON, Oct. or some time past the rumor has been current In theatrical circles that Haddon Chambers, the dramat- ist, would, in connection with Mr. Henry Barnatti, the South African millionaire, known as “the king of the Kafiirs,” write a play that was founded on the experience of the latter, who has had a most eventful career. It is now stated that Mr. Chambers recently accompanied Mr. Barnatti to Paris, where th: plot and scenery of the drama were decided upon. When. questioned about the matter by a representative of the Asso- clated press, Mr. Chambers said that he was not yet in a position to either affirm or deny the report. It Is stated that Miss Eastlake, who will be remembered as playing the leading part in the company which toured the United States with Wilson Barrett on his first visit there, will, after a long retirement, again appear on the London stage. Miss Fastlake, who has appeared in almost every line of character, from broad comedy to Ophelia, will, upon her return, be seen in a drama of the romantic school. The 90th birthday of Mrs. Keeley, the veteran actress, will be calebrated In be- coming style upon the date of its occurrence, November On that day a matince per- formance will be given at the Lyceum thea- ter, and Mrs. Keeley will recite an address which will be written for the occasion by Mr. Ashby Starry. The proceeds of the matinee, in which all the leading actors in London will taks part, will be distributed among seven deserving theatrical charlities. Mrs. Keeley made her first public appear- ance upon the stage of the Ipswich theater in 1820, Pinero is finishing his new play, which Comyns Carr will shortly produce at the Comedy theater, Whitstable. In describing this new drama, which fs entitled “The Ben- efit of the Doubt,” Pinern says: “It will be in a much lighter vein than either Mrs. Ebbsmith or Mrs, Tanquétay.” “The Artist's Model,”, which, In its third edition, has been transfgrred to Daly's the- ater, Is nightly drawing crowded audiences. It is understood that Geprge Edwards has selected a musical comedy dealing with a Japanese subject, which will be produced when the popularity of the present piece shows signs of waning, The English version of “Die will be presented at Conyent Garden on Wednesday, October 16. The cast will in- clude Lillian Tree, Susan Strong and Olitz- ka and Messrs. Hedmondt and David Bis- bam. La Rochelle, the new wirector of Theater Libro of Parls, is now in London engaged in collecting designs for the seemery and cos- tumes for the new Fraseh translation of Shakespeare's “King Lear,” which will shortly be produced at that theater. An opera having for hs title “King Ar- thur” will also be produded at the Theater Libro during the winter. Insurgents Capture n Cruiser. HAVANA, Oct. 12.—The Insurgents at Asefs Press.) Waulkre" radero bay, near Santiago de Cuba, have cap- | tured a pi‘ot boat, commanded by a lieutenant In the Spanish navy and having twelve ma- rines on board, which was doing crulser duty along the coast. This small warship was at- tacked by a number of Ingurgents, who selzed the crew, the latter being forced to surrender in the face of the overwhelming numbers of the enemy. The insurgents carried away the armament of the crulser, consisting of a gat- ling gun, and all the ammunition, stores, ete., i+ Which they found on board, together with the weapons of the Spanish ‘marines. FROM GRAVE 10 GAY; England Turns from Constantinople to Newmarket, RACES DRAW THE ATTENDANTS OF ROYALTY Prince of Wales Disappointed Over His Il Luck, QUEEN VICTORIA TAKING DAILY RIDES Her Health Continues Good Despite Many Recent Reports, QUEER WILL OF A NOTED OPERATIC SINGER Leaves the Bulk of Her Large F the § Be Paid Chil e of Annult to to Orphan ren. (Copyrighted, 1895, by the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, Oct. 12.—The attention of the world of politics has been turned almost en- tirely toward Constantinople during the past week, while the interest of the world of fashion and sport has been centered at New- market, especially on Wednesday, when Mr, Ballier's filly, Rock Dove, won the Czare- witch stakes, and yesterday when Mr. Leo- pold de Rothschild’s colt, St. Frusquin, cap- tured the Middle Park plate, the greatest event for 2-year-olds, owing to the fact that 0 many Derby candidates were entered for It. The gathering at Newmarket was large and decidedly aristocratic, in spite of the fact that the weather was cold and stormy. The prince of Wales is understood to be much disappointed at the performance of Florizel 11. on Wednesday. He finished fourth in the race for the Czarewitch stakes, and the prince is said to be equally put out at the fact that his colt, Persimmon, could do no better than third on the struggle for the Middle Park plate yesterday. The prince, it is claimed, had been very confident of cap- turing the Czarewitch, and his eldest son, the duke of York, was aleo present at the Newmarket, mainly in the hope of seeing his father land the prize with Florizel II But both the prince and duke were doomed to disappointment. The former, however, apparently resolved to console himselt as much as possible, for after the races yester- day he started for Warwick castle on a visit to the earl and Countess Warwick. The latter first as Lady Brooke, and later as Countess Warwick, has had the prince at the head of her list of admirers for years, and is still one of the ‘great beauties of England, although she has a son 13 years old. The prince will remain the guest of the carl and countess of Warwick until Monday next. The list of guests in- vited to meet the duke of York at Dunrobin last week included tbe earl and countess of Warwick. QUEEN VICTORIA RIDES DAILY. Thoe weather in Scotland recently has been very cold for this time of year especlally, but it Is understood that Queen Victoria has been driving about Balmoral and its neighborhood at late hours in the afternoon in an open victoria, to the dismay of those who are coutinually dwelling upon the aging and apparently daily increasing helplessness and feebleness of her majesty. Londoners, it appears, are now expected to flock to a new attraction—a floating chamber of horrors, which promises to rival the cham- ber of horrors at Mme. Taussaud's famous exhibition. This floating exhibition of terrible happenings of the past is an old conviet hulk, the Success, which recently arrived here from Australia, after a voyage of five months duration, and which s moored at Blackwall, while b:ing prepared (o receive the public. The Success has been used for exhibition purposes in Australian waters for years past; but just as she was upon the point of being demolished she was purchased from the government by speculators and brought to this country. The hulk Is over 100 years old, and Is the only one remaining of the terrible floating prisons established by the government of the colony of Victoria from 1850 to 1855 as a result of the dis- covery of the gold fields of Bendigo and Ballarat, and the subsequent rush to the colony of, among others, many thousand desperate, lawless men of nearly all nation- alities, Every side of convict life in the old daye on board the hulk will be depicted upon the Success, especially the different modes of punishment and the speculators who have purchased her expect to reap a small fortune as the result of their stroke of enterprise. WILL OF A NOTED SINGER. The will of Mme, Albani (Maria Marsia Albani Sieger), who died near Villa d' Avray in June of last year, has just been proved and its contents attracted much atten- tion In the world of amusement. It is quite a remarkable document. After leay- ing her jewelry and snug sums of money to her sisters, brother and brother-in-law, nephews and niecss (the latter receiving 80,000 francs each), and remembering her butlers, cook, linen women and chamber- malds, the will continues, saying: “I desire a funeral of the second class and to be ac- companied 'to my last resting place by fifty male orphans and fifty female orphans, to each of whom 20 francs by way of gratulty shall be given; These orphans shall be selected by the manager of the charity depart- ment and the bureau de blentaisance of the Eighth district, acting in concert, I desire no publicity of any kind with reference to my death. Letters announcing the fact only are to be sent a few days after. I bequeath to the town of Lugo, Italy, the portraits in oll of Rossini, «n order to carry out a wish expressed in past times by the great master. I established myself in France, at Paris, in 1847, and In all circumstances, I have found in that adorable country the most sym- pathetic reception and the most perfect courtesy. In one word, as a woman and an artist the French have always treated me with the greatest consideration. 1 wish, therefore, to show my gratitude for the same. For this purpose I bequeath to the city of Parls 10,000 francs of 3 per cent rentes In the French state which will go to form savings bank books of 250 francs each, These books shall be inseribed and distributed annually by way of emcouragement to work to the pupils of both sexes, having attained | the age of 13 years, without distimetion of natlonality or religion, who attend the classes of the public and grataltous schools main- tained by the city of Parls, at the rate of two books for each district, one for the boys and one for the girls. 1 desire that en- | couragement to work shall always be given {in my name. 1 bequeath to the communes of Villa ' Avray and Marnes la Coquette a yearly sum of 200 franes, to form four savings bank books of G0 francs each. I bequeath to the charity department of (he city of Paris the sum of 100,000 francs, in order to found. maintain In parnatuitv. in SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS . THE BEE BULLETIN. Weather Forecast for N Falr; C iraskn der; Northerly Winds, Page. 1. Lord Sackville's Pa Radical Socialists Sti London Takes England Overawes the Turk, Trial Telp, 8. G. W. E. Dorsey Must Stand Trinl, Harry Shaeffer Not Exonerated, Knute N s Rike In Prominence, Coreans Rebel Against Their Rulers, 4. Last Week In Local So 8. Democrats Brouteh 3 Pops Also r Ways and ¥ rbllt's Prospectiv and Distribution of Solar Trousseau, Amus. t 2 14. Recollections of llon. Nat Turner's 15 16. 17, clal and Financlal efinger. s Byrne's Paper on Re Magie of Artificial Molstur 18. Weekl ist of Sporting Comme tes from the Foot Ball Fiel ‘A Woman Intervenes. ontinued, my name (Albani) In one of the hospitals the city of Paris, two beds (or more if the sum should permit), which shall be set apart exclusively for persons of Italian nationality without distinction of occupation or religion. I bequeath after the death of my husband my portrait in ofl, by Perignon, to the Carnavalet museum. T bequeath to the city of Parls 36,000 francs, of which my husband, Charles Denis Sieger, shall have the usufruct.”” Mme.Albani appointed her husband, Charles Denis Sieger, universal legatee, sub- ject to tho depositions, and added: “It is by singing and by following that supreme and above all others, consoling art, that I have acquired all the fortune which I pos- sess, and 1 shall quit this life with the sweet thought of having disposed of the same in such a manner as to encourage and console,” MAY PURCHASE TURNER'S HOLU Following upon the purchase for use as a museum of the house formerly occupied by the late Thomas Carlyle at Chelsea, and the successful accomplishment of that undertak- ing, it has been proposed to purchase the house formerly occupied by Turner, the great Englisk painter, which is also located at Chelsen. The first idea was to convert the Turner house Into a museum, but that propo- sition, well under way, was cuddenly killed by the fact that some person wrote to the Times, throwing doubt upon the statements that the house was really occupied by Turner, and hinting that if he did stay there for a time it was for purposes other than those of art. The price asked for the prop- erty was $7,600 and a woman has also guar- anteed to pay this sum for the property in order that it might be converted into a Turner museum, but the intimation conveyed in the communication to the Times was more than the woman referred to could be expected to bear up under, and she promptly withdrew her offer to supply funds for the purpose of the house. Since then, how- ever, It has been definitely established that the house at Chelsca was really Turner's residence and steps are again being taken to purchase the house and convert it, with others adjoining, into refuges or homes for unfortunate landscape painters, There seems to be a prospect that the latter plan may be adopted. SAY TWO HUNDRED WERE‘KILLED, Lutest Estimate of the Massncre of Armen » nt Trebizond, CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 12.—Adyices re- celved here from Trebizond say that 200 per- sons were killed or wounded during the riot- Ing thero between the Turks and the Armeni- ans. Communication made public by the Turk- ish government states that the Armenians, at Treblzond, attacked the Mussulmans before the authorities could intervene and that fifty per- sons were killed or wounded on both sides. It is added that Armenians at Rodosto, Ar- menia, also tried to attack the Mussulmans of that place, but they were provented from so doing by the police. During the disturbance an Armentan was killed by a policeman, The Russian government has cancelled ths order for the dispatch of a war ship to Trebizond, owlng to the representations of the Russian consul there that it might lead to further excitement and disorder. The last of the Armenians left the churches of Stamboul in which they had sought refuge vesterday In the presence of the dragomans of the different embassies, tho government hav- ing promised that the refugees should not be molested. Nono of the Armenians were ar- rested. The dragomans recelved an ovation from the Armenian population, The sultan during the day sent a message to Sir Philip Curry, the British ambassador, expressing his satisfaction at the success of the measures taken by the ambassadors to clear the Armenian churches of refuge Later Sir Philip Curry had an audience with the sultan at the latter's request, man Bey has been sent to Besika bay, near the entrance to the Dardanelles, to sur- vey sites for forts there, Three vessels laden with ammunition have been dispatched to the forts of the Dardanelles, and it 1s now known beyond & doubt that the work of laying submarine mines in the stralts has commenced. SAYS FOUR HUNDRED WERE KILLED. ATHENS, Oct. 12.—The Greek consul at Trebizond, Armena, has sent & report to his government In which he says that 400 per- sons were killed or wounded during the re- cent conflicts there between the Turks and Armenians, WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Secretary Olney this evenlng received a cable from Vice Consul Chelton, dated Trebizonde, which con- tained but one word, “Quiet.” Trebizonde is the place in Armenia where the rioting occurred a few days ago, resulting in 200 fatalities. The State departmnent constries Vice Consul Chelton’s cable o mean that the rioting bas ceased. Vice Consul Chelton is on his way to his post at Erzeroum, a new consulate established by the last congress after the Armenlan rioting last year, Cnuse of the Cuban War. HAMBURG, In., Oct. §.—To the Editor of The Bee: Wil you state the cause of the war between Spain and Cuba and what par- ticular act or fact precipitated hostilitics? ~P. H. No particular act or fact precipitated the uprising among the Cubans, but it grew out of oppressive government and petiy wrongs continued and repeated for years, which led to secret organiza of the Cubans and tion in the hope of saluing ultimata sl fndenendence, fon on the part | MENACED THE PORTE Looking Askance at the English Fleot Ane chored at Lemnos Islands, AFFAIRS NEARING THE ACUTE STAGE Cabinet Officers Suddenly Summoned Home. from Their Vacation, SPECULATION AS TO FRANCE'S ATTITUDE Influx of Gold Taxes the Storage Capacity of the Bank of England, WORKMEN BUSY BUILDING NEW VAULTS: Papers Great Interested in New Congress Dis- nday Obwe Hectio York—( cuss § (Copyrighted, 1895, by the A LONDON, Oct. 12.—There is no denying: that the condition of affairs at Constantinople during the past week has been most serlous, 50 much 5o that the people are wondering why it s not still more alarming today. The enstern question reached quite a crisis when the envoys of the six powers presented what seems to have been very much like an ulti- matum to the porte, In the shape of an identical note, and when the Turkish govern- ment, by one wriggle and another, failed to , it looked very much as if the British flect of nineteen warships, peacefully rocking and pitching at its anchorage off the island of Lemnos, within convenient distance of the mouth of the Dardanelles, would be called upon to still further impress upon the Turk- ish minds that Europe Is in earnest in dee manding reform for Armenfan and protection for the Christian subjects of the porte. If there is any doubt as to the grave turn of events which affairs in the east glided into. during the week, it may probably be dis- pelled by the statement that the situation fs. about serious enough to call for the sudden return from Diepp France, of the marquis of Salisbury, who was ene joying the autumn breezes at his estaty near that seaport, and in the equal hurried return from Switzerland of Rt. Hon. J. hen, first lord of the' ad- iralty, and the call for a cabinet council, which 1s to be held early next week. The British Mediterranean squadron, cabled (o the Assoclated press from Con- stantinople, has been off the island of emnog, not far from the entrance to the straits of Dardanelles, for two weeks past. ho ordinary cruise of (he fleet, it fs trus, would have brought the British warships to this island, but the crufse would have been continued and no prolonged stop would under ordinary circumstances have been made near the Dardanelles. Therefore it is ot surpris- ing that even the Turks have become cone vinced of the fact that the ships of Gibraltar, now off the igland of Lemuos, are thers under direct Instructions from the British government, FRENCH POSITION IN DOUBT. Although it outwardly seems as if there is perfect accord between the six powers in regard to the eastern ‘question, the position of France Is exciting some uncasiness in certain circles, and the question whether France will attempt to go to war is occupy- ing many minds In England, as well as in Germany, the general opinfon being that she would be guided In this, as well as in many other matters, by Russi Strange to record, the nglish newspapers are greatly interested in New York elections. The Daily Chronicle, for example, said yos- terday: It will be of supreme interest to the whole world if the bad government of most of the American cities has been a sotback for democracy everywhere. If New York can reverse her fallure in this respect she will strengthen the democratic institutions of the world. The recent remarkable influx of gold and silver Into the Bank of England is severely taxing the capacity of the “strong rooms” of that great financial institation and workmen are busily at work building extra steel- chambers for the storage of bullion. dentally, it is said that the influx of stable metals indicates a substantial revival of trade, It is reported here, via Paris, that the count of Turin, nephew of the king of Italy, is s00n coming to England, and that he will marry one of the daughters of the prince of Wales. The prince was born in 1870, The church congress, which has been site ting at Norwich this week, devoted yesterday to discussing Sunday observance., The bishop of Norwich, who presided, says that the upper classcs were the greatest sinners in the mate ter of secularization of the Sabbath, as among them wag the growing habit of spending it in games, amusements and novel reading, One vaper read before the congress advocated playing tennis and ericket on Sundays under Judicious restrictions, but it was added that it ought to be, in the case of golf, conditioned that no ‘“‘caddie” should be employed, that 10 refreshments should be furnished and that golfers should not play during the hours of divine service. Another paper read sald that it was useices for the church to lead a cru- sade agalust Sunday papers, which, it was added, had come to stay, and it should be the mission of churchmen to win over the editors to reduce the Sunday labor of those employed in their production and distribution to the minimum. On the discussion which followed the fashionable Sunday was strongly con- demned. Most of the speeches disapproved of opening the museums on Sunday. of D A MARKET FOR FRUIT. Harry Woods, from California, sails for home today from Southampton. He says that while the season has not been profitable, it has served to secure a market for fruit from the Pacific coast and has created a permanent demand for such products from America. The California growers, It is sald, Intend to ship large quantities of fruit to England In 1896, beginning tn the month of June. Mr. Woods, during his stay here, has iearned much about the condition in which fruit should be sent and has inside pointers as to just what fruit is wanted. He fs confident the shipments of 1896 will be profitable. A representative of the Assoclated press learns from outside sources that great dissatisfaction prevails in regard to the manner in which the California truit is handled here, and it is probable that next year's consignments will be differently handled and with results that will be more satisfactory to the growers, ag % Attack the Abyssinia H, Abyssiula, Oct. 12.—The It fan native troopa have attacked 1,800 Abyssin. oceupled & strong position near The latter fled, leaving twenly men 1 uumbers of wounded. The Itallan lost eloven killed and had thirty tans Braailat killed a troops wounded who