The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-21
Gable Notes.


Two deaths from cholera are reported at Mar
settles.
The British House of Lords has passed the
registration bill.
The Gear will review the entire Russian feet,
between Cronstadt and Sveaborg, in June.
The International Sanitary Conference has as
sembled at Rome. Count Cordova presides.
The Earl of Rosse has been chosen to succeed
Earl Cairnes as Chancellor Of Dublin University.
Powell will contest South Tyrone against
Dickson, and O'Brien will contest another di-
vision.
Four leading Nationalists will contest Tyrone
in the coming election and will attempt to carry
all the seats.
Minister Phelps has accepted al invitation to
a banquet rendered the judges by the Lord
Mayor of London.
The German authorities have forbidden the
proposed performances of Nine Bernhardt in
Metz and Strasburg in June.
Prince Bismarck has recently given several
long advances to Count Schouvaloff the new
Russian ambassador to Germany.
The committee on initiative Of the French
Chambers has refused, IL to 8, to consider the
proposal to impeach the Ferry Ministry.
A gunboat with number of police and seventy
marines on board, has arrived at Partree island
of Skye, to arrest crofters on the Kilmuir
The royal assent will be given, to-day, to the
complete the legislation for the extension of the
franchise.
In Difference to the protests of the various
consuls the Khedive has decreed that the per
cent. deducted from The Egyptian coupons shall
be refunded.
The st Petersburg Svet predicts an outbreak
in Macedonia and Bulgaria against the Turks
and Greeks, which will set the whole Slavan
world in revolt
The London Daily News denies the report that
the Earl of Selborne is to resign the Lord High
Chancelorship and be succeeded by Sir William
Vernon -Harcourt. e
The German admiralty have chartered three
merchant steamers. which have been sent to sea
under sealed orders. 1t is believed their deSti-
nation is the African coast
1t is reported that Canton will be fortified and
that three frstclass fortresses will be erected on
tho frontiers of Tonquin by German engineers
which will probably be oficered by Germans.
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs de-
clared in the Senate that the rupture OF COM
mercial negotiations with England was due to
misappr ehension on the part of the British Cab
met
At the Newmarket races, yesterday, the
Payne stakes, for three year-olds was won by
Lord Hastingss Melton, with Sir G.. Chetwyn's
Kingwood second and Lord Cadogans Lonely
third. Only four started.
The Amor Darya Steamship Company, formed
of Russian and German capitalists will open a
regular service between Balkh and the Aral sea,
and binds itself, in the event of war to place its
steamers at tho disposal of the Russian govern
ment.
The London Times considers the completion
of the Canadian Pacific railway most import
ant step toward the consolidation of the empire,
since it affords the means of uniting the two
oceans by line remote from danger of attack
or the restraints of possibly embarrassing
neutrality.
An American concert will be given in London,
June 9, in aid of the national relief fund
Miss Van Zandt with the permission
of M Mayor Miss Sterling; Lady Churchill
Mr. Ronalds, and numerous iAmerican artists,
will assist The Prince and Princess Of Wales,
the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the Mar
quis and Marchioness of Lorne and other men,
bers of the royal family will give the concert
their patronage.