Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-11-29

lonia during her last voyage from Madrid
to Havana is officially denied.
Sir Henry Ponsonby, formerly private
secretary to Queen Victoria and keeper
of the privy purse, died at Cowes. Isle Of
Wight. Thursday morning of paralysis.
The authorities of the Congo Free
State have decided that Capt. Lothairc,
who is charged with The irregular execu-
ton of the English trader Stokes, shall
be tried before Belgian courtmartial.
The Amer of Afghanistan, enraged
because his son, NaZrullah Khan, failed
to arrange for a permanent Afghanistan
representative during his recent visit to
England. is said To have burned and i'm
prisoned a number of subjects. 1t is eX-
.pected the son will be banished when he
returns home and noble who accom-
panied him is to be tortured.
The Empress of China, just arrived 1t
Victoria, Il. c.. from the Orient. reports
cholera practically eXtinguished in Japan.
All the Asiatic coast, when she sailed was
looking TO Kin-Chow, where. on Oct. IS,
Il combined boiler and magazine explosion
on the troop ship Kung-Pai sent 600 men
TO death The boilers were old and IN
| servceable, but ordinary caution would
have prevented the catastrophe.
Robert Harding Milward, the Duke of
Marlborough's lawyer, who represented
him in New York when the marriage set
Elements We're signed previous To the
Dukes marriage TO Miss Consuelo Van
derhill in an Interview at London is
quoted Is saying that the rUmorS current
Is 10 the amount of the settlements are
grossly untrue. He also desired 10 Off
cially contradict the statement that there
Is Il heavy mortgage on the Blenheim es-
tatcs. and added that the Duke of Mari
borough declined To touch shilling of his
brides money and that the whole of ii is
settled upon her in the ordinary way.
Chinese papers recci~ed ut Vancouver,
y. e.. by the steamer Empress of China
ARE bitter in their attacks on the Japanese
authorities in Corea, whom :hey blame
for the murder of the queen. They as
Sert that Japan is nation pretending
- be civilized but it is the most barbar-
olIs on earth. The queen was hung up
10y the hair and, after being otherwise
abused tied hand and foot, soaked in oil
and burned iii the rear of the palace. her
remains being reduced TO ashes, So that
all trace might be lost. Thirty attend
ants of the queen, it is alleged, were
butchered. their corpses being left about
the palace. When the palace was at
tackled, of some 800 guards on duty only
six remained at their posts and they were
quickly dispatched. According to Chi
nese reports. there were fifteen women
of title in the court, the queen, her moth
err. and 100 ladies in waiting. They were
nearly all soaked in oil and burned while
the mems throats were cut.
Constantinople dispatch: The attitude
of the Porte or of the Sultan, has under
gone decided change since the other
fleets began 10 join the British fleet in the
naval demonstration i'll SalOnica Bay.
There is no doubt that the pressure
brought to bear upon the Sultan has been
strong enough to make him take personal
charge OF the work of reform in Armenia,
and it is now hoped there will be no FUR
ther blOodshed. except in the case OF put
ting down the Instructions which have
broken out against Turkish rule i'll differ
ent parts of Asia Minor. 1t is hoped,
however. that the Armenian clergy will
be able to induce their cO-religionists To
lay down their arms, especially as the SEN
timent of the whole of Europe is now in
favor of the Sultan, whose evident desire
To meet the views of the powers is thor
oughly appreciated and has undoubtedly
tided over most difficult crisis in the
East There is 10 longer any talk of TIE
armed Intervention of the powers in the
Turkish Empire, and if any display Of
force is necessary upon the part of Eu-
rope. it might be in the direction of sup
| porting the authority of the Sultan, as
Great Britain. Russia and France are
extremely DESTROYS that order should
promptly be restored throughout Asia
Minor