The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-05-26
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

Fired Into the Portuguese at Close Range
Natives Punished by the French.
LONDON. May 25.-Further details con-
corning the fight which took place on May
IL, near MASH Kesse, between the British
and Portuguese. lave been received here
from Lorenzo Marquee. 1t appears That
the Portuguese were marching upon Fort
Salisbury aud when they were within
South Africa C%ompany's police fired on
them. killing seven and wOundlng two or
the Portuguese force.
The conflicting accounts of the Anglo
Portuguese trouble lead TO the belief that
there were two conflicts; that thefrst was .
collision with the South African COmpany's
police. at Mutassa, and that the defeated
Portuguese thence went to the coast by the
Pung1e 90 route and came into collision
with Commissioner JobnsCn's force of plo-
neer miners, who were opening O transport
route.
Dispatches received at Paris from Grand
Bassam. a French town of upper Guinea.
on the gold coast Of Africa. near the mouth
of the Bassam river. say that the French
expedition sent into the interior in order
to avenge the death of two French travel
ers, has fought q battle with q force of
about eight hundred natives, killing many
of them and subduing the surrounding
country.
Leo's Labor EDcycItcal.
ROME, May 25.-His Holiness. the Pope.
has ordered popular translations of his
recent encyclical letter to be distributed
to w~orkingmen of all countries. The en-
cyclical is considered as a definitive conse-
Grafton of the tendencies of Cardinal Man.
ming and Cardinal Gibbons as opposed to
the French economic school. under Bishop
Freppel. and as . direct development of
Cardinal Gibbons's attitude in regard to
the Knights of Labor. President Carnot.
Emperor William and Emperor Francis
Joseph lave sent messages to the Pope con-
graduating his Holiness upon the encych-
cal letter.
The Pope has ordered that all newspaper
on the encyclical, especially
those of British and American papers, be
sent to him.
Twenty-Five persons were killed in the
Cordova revolt in the Argentine Republic.
Italy is about to advance the duty on pc
troleum. 1t is said that this step is being
taken on account of the large quantities of
petroleum which are en- route to Italy from
the United States.
yesterday. Fifteen thousand men are idle.
The employers threaten to lock out the
masOns, plasterers and the men employee
in other branches of the building trades.
Fifty-six military officers, mainly belong
ing to guards regiments, have been arrested
in st. Petersburg in the past fortnight for
critlcisIng the degradation of Grand Duke
Michael. Semi-oficial journals are forbid
den'to speak of the arrest of the officers.
La Presse, of Paris. reports that General
King. the United States co~nsul-general in
Paris, is about to be recalled to explain his
connection with certain matters, which La
Presse declares to be OF serious import.
General King says that the report is un-
founded.
The fight between Dick BurRe. of New
castle. and Jem Carney, of Birmingham,
for f1.000 and the lightweight champion
sfip of England, was awarded to Burge on
q claim of foul. The fight lasted fOrty-two
minutes. Carney showed his superiority
TO Burge throughout the battle.
An inquiry into the recent explosion at
Pozzo Pantaleo, near Rome. shows that the
magazine was largely overloaded. 1t is be-
lieved that vibration caused by trains was
the cause of the explosion. The commission
OF inquiry advises the separation of loose
powder from bombs and f~ulminators.