The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-12
THE BULGARIAN ELECTION.
The Government Overwhelmingly Sus-
tained'in All Districts Reporting.
Alexander Willing to Accept the Throne If He
Shall Be Chosen-Statement that Russia
Will Declare the Elections Illegal.
BULGARIA,s CHOICE.

The Government Sustained at Almost All
Points-Intentions of the Gear.
SOFIA. Oct lin the city elections for mem-
bers of the Great Sobranie to elect successor
to Prince Alexander, all the government candi-
Russian, received but fifty votes out of the 800
cast in his district.
The governments attach little Importance to
the action of NJ. Neklindoff, the Russian agent
here, in suspending diplomatic relations
A Macedonian Voivoide who was arrested here
admitted that he was the leader of a band of
Macedonians organized id Yeni Zagra and Eski
Zagna to act against the govern ment.
On Saturday a crowd hooted at a number of
peasants who were assembled in the garden at
the Russian consulate The peasants replied
by throwing blocks Of wood and stones The
crowd retaliated, whereupon the Montenegrins
and Cavasses in the garden of the consulate
fired upon the mob. Fifteen revolver bullets
struck the walls of the British and German con-
sulates. The peasants subsequently, left the
consulate. They said they didn't know for
what purpose their presence was required, but
that they had been induced to come to Sofa by
six chiefs Several persons disguised as gen
darmes have been arrested for denouncing the
government
A crowd of fully FIVE thousand persons met
General Kaulbars upon his arrival at Shumla.
The spokesman told him that the people had
full confidence in the government. Afterward
crowd assembled near window where Gen.
Kaulbars was seated and hooted at him.
Twelve Zankovists who were going to pay their
respects to the General, appealed to officers to
dispense the crowd. but they refused to do So
All the members of the Ministry have been
elected by immense majorities. The returns
thus far received show the election of 400 Min
isterialists and twenty Zone Zankovsts.
A dispatch from Vienna says that meeting at
Rustchuk, to-day d. Stone read dispatch from
Prince Alexander. declining the money voted to
him by the Sobranie, and saying that he was
prepared to accept the throne of Bulgaria if re-
elected
Returns from eighty of the eight-six electoral
districts show that seventy are in favor of the
government. Rustchuk gave i. $40 votes for the
government and 80 for it's opponents.
Macedonian rioters at Dabnitza murdered the
government deputies Zacra and Grancier and
Project Dimitroff. The elections were aban-
doned in Vratza, Slaven and Buccino. all of
which are pro- Russian districts
M. Neklindoff has addressed three notes to the
government and foreign consuls. In the first he
says he will resume diplomatic relations with
the government in accordance with the instruc-
tons of General Kaulbars, but condemns the
Bulgarian circular, which. he says, may lead to
a rupture In the second. he SAYS that Russia
will 0qc1are rho eloctiOiNa illnOal nd
in the third lie officially protests against the at
tack on the Russian agency and the peasants
who had sought refuge there
A dispatch from St Petersburg says that the
Gear. while discussing. recently, the Bulgarian
crisis. said: 'If the Bulgarian question can he
settled peaceably. well and good; bat I will not
go to war for the sake of the disorderly Bull
garians."