The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-25
He Will Consult the Powers Before
Sending Troops Into ROumelia.
The Bulgarian Parliament Votes fo,OOO,OOO
to Carry Out the Unity Programme and
Prepare for Defensive Campaign.
Prince Alexander Appears at Philip
opolis and Is Warmly Greeted.
Former Dictator of Peru Ordered to Leave
the Country-Sympathy for English
SOcialists-Notes by Cable.
WAITING AN ANSWER.

WAITING AN ANSWER.
The Sultan Will Not Send Troops into Rou-
meiia Until He Hears from the Powers.
LONDON, Sept 24.-The Porte is awaiting an
| answer from the signatory powers to the treaty
of Berlin to the circular of yesterday respecting
the insurrection in Roumelia, before taking ac.
tion for the purpose of reasserting the rights of
the Sultan in the province.
NJ Nelidoff, the Russian ambassador to Tur-
key, has received his instructions from his gov
ernment, but is waiting for the envoys of the
other powers interested to be instructed. that
all may notify the Porte simultaneously of the
desires of their respective governments in the
matter.
The Bulgarian Parliament has voted Ell, ,000,-
| 600 for the purpose of carrying out the unity
programme between Roumelia and Bulgaria, and
adonted resolution petitioning the Gar to al
low the Russian officers of the Bulgarian army
to remain in the service.
The Bulgarians are angered at the action of
the Russian officers in resigning from the Bull
garan army, according to orders. The Rus
slams jeered at and called traitors, and
Prince Alexander has been asked to expel them.
LIE Paris to-day publishes dispatch from its
London correspondent, stating that the Marquis
of Salisbury has obtained promise from the
Porte not to send Turkish troops into Roumelia
until the signatory powers to the treaty of Ber
lin have been consulted as to the advisabilty of
the Sultan adopting such a course. The Mar
quis of Salisbury, the correspondent says, has
taken the initiatery step toward sounding the
powers interested as to their policy respecting
the insurrection in Roumelia.
Prince Alexander, accompanied by his staff,
net the Bulgarian cavalry on the outskirts of
Philipopolis, and, placing himself at the head of
the column, entered the town amid much en-
thusiasm the people cheering the Prince and his
soldiers along the whole line of march, The
| Prince Immediately afterward started for the
| frontier to inspect the soldiers located there.
Everything points to active preparations for
defensive campaign. A number of committees
of ladies are working hard making clothing for
the soldiers.
The National Assembly of Bulgaria has unani-
| mousy approved of Prince Alexander's action,
and proclaimed union between the two nations
| The North German Gazette says that the Bull
| garians ought to have discovered by this time
| that the hope of Russian support is fallacious,
and 1t needs no divination to predict the nature
OF the reception that will be given the Bulgarian
| deputation who are about to visit the Car at
Copenhagen.
The Roumelian government has sent circular
| to the powers. stating that the Mussel,nans in
Roumelia are forming armed bands Prince
| Alexander therefore begs the powers to inter
vene and compel the Sultan to say categorically
| whether he refuses to recognize or agrees to the
| union. The Porte circular insists upon the
| necessity of maintaining the treaty of Berlin,
| and asks the friendly intervention of the sigma
| tory powers to that treaty.
St Petersburg advices state that Russia
will demand that tue conference of the sig
natory powers to the Berlin treaty depose
| Karageorglevitch the son-nlaw of Prince
| Nicolas. of Montenegro, as his successor.
Prince karageorgievitch is desirous of leading
an armed force against Servia, and hopes to gain
the support of Austria in such a movement.
Servian army corps are marching from Niche,
Kurscheni and AleXinatz towards the Macedon-
ian frontier.
The Roumelians have formed an intrenched
camp at Hermanli to defend the route from
Adrianople
Turkish force has occupied small village
near Mustapha Pass. town in Roumelia.
There were no Bulgarian troops on the ground
when the place was entered by the Turks
The London Standards Berlin correspondent
| teegraphs that the governments of Turkey,
| Germany, France. Italy and Russia have con-
| sented to conference on the Roumelian ques-
| tion
| 1t is reported that the Sultan of Turkeys cir
J
must remain the frontier of Turkey.
| Kamel Pasha has been appointed Grand
| Vizier, to succeed Said Pasha. Mudir Pasha has
| been appointed Minister of the Interior and Ali
| Said Pasha Minister of War. Other changes in
the Turkish Cabinet are imminent.
Reports have been received at Vienna that a
Servan prefect is leading a revolt on the Bull
garan and Servian frontier. There are no de-
tails of the movement.
When the Roumelan government was over
| thrown, General Nicoloff the commander of the
militia, attempted to arrest NJ. Todoroco the
postmaster general. whereupon the latter drew
revolver and fired at him, inActiDg a slight
wound. The enraged populace then seized To
| doroco and tore him literally limb from limb.
The Movement Not the Work of the People.
| Cable Special.
| The result of diligent inquiries at Vienna
shows that optimism prevails in Austrian Off
cials and court circles in regard to the Roume-
! liam revolution. Every one seems confident that
| there will be no war and no serious demonstra-
tion by Turkey. This confidence is due especially
to the belief, which amounts to certainty, that
| Turkey is powerless to reconquer Roumelia if
the Central Powers object and that they willy OBJ
ect The latter portion of this belief is strength
| ened hourly by every official utterance that
leaks out from Vienna Berlin and st. Peters
burg. There are, to be sure many semi-oficial
publications of Prince Alexander's action. and
| general disinclination to discuss the ques-
ton Of initiative, but there is also such
general desire to let the matter
main as it is that the conclusion is in
| evitable that the whole farce prearranged
| in far higher quarters than, the Bulgarian
| Princes palace at Sofia. The impression sought
to be conveyed to the public is that the rising of
Roumelia was wholly spontaneous, and that the
| appeal to the Prince Of Bulgaria to annex the
country was natural cry for aid, inasmuch as
three-quarters of the inhabitants of Eastern
Roumelia ara Bulparians. huf in Orieptal noificr