The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-12
Redress to Be Demanded for the Al
legged Unlawful Arrest and Inn
prisOnment of Herr Lenders.
MOUNT VESUVIUS .AFLAME
FIRE, SMOKE AND CINDERs BELCH-
ING FROM THE VOLCANO
British Oficer and Twelve Soldiers
Marriage Law to BE Changed.

BERLIN, Nov. 1.-THE German war ship
Gefon is under orders to sail for Fort-au-
Prince, Haiti, this month, in order to insist
on redress for the arrest there of Herr
Lueders, a German subject, and his unlaw
full Imprisonment, for which Count Schwer-
in, the German minister at Port-au-Prnce,
has demanded indemnity. Lueders is now
believed to be in Germany, having been re-
leased from prison in order to avoid further
complications, the natives Of Port-au-Prince
having threa tened to mob the German le-
cation and lynch Lueders The fitting out
of the war ship is being FASTENED as much
as possible. The officials of the German
Foreign Office do not believe the matter will
be adjusted for some time to come, because
the Haitian government has assumed
stubborn attitude. The German newspapers
are blaming the government for the delay
In bringing Haiti to terms.
The German version of this affair is that
Lueders was sentenced to pay fine of $4S
and to undergo months Imprisonment for
resisting a policeman, which Lueders de-
MES. Thereupon he demanded a second trial,
obtained it and witnesses testified that they
had not seen him strike the policeman, but
in spite of this, Lueders was resentenced,
this time to pay fine of $500 and to under
go a years Imprisonment. The original
trouble between Lueders and the police, it
is claimed in his behalf, was due to the lat
ter forcing his way to his residence, con-
trary to the law, in order to arrest one of
his servants. After Lueders'S second trial,
the German minister took the matter in
hand and on Oct. II he went to the Presi-
dent of Haiti Augustin Simon Sam, and
demanded, in the name of the German En-
peror, that Lueders be set at liberty and
also demanding for every day the latter
had spent in prison, twenty-three days in
all, an indemnity of 81 900 in gold. The min
lister added that for every other day
Lueders was kept prisoner, after Oct. IL,
he the representative of Germany, would
demand an indemnity of S. 900 in gold. Pres
ident Sam at first refused to grant the
minister's demand, and Lueders remained
In prison six days longer. Thereupon the
German minister notified the Haitian gov
eminent that he had hauled down his flag
and had sent the archives of the German
legation to the legation OF the United
States, thus severlng all diplomatic reia-
lions with the government of Haiti. The
action of the German minister caused a
great deal of excitement at Port-au-Prince.
There were threats to lynch the prisoner;
the life of the German minister was threat
ened; it was proposed to attack the lega-
ton and, acting upon the advice of his
counseiors, no were not desirous OF pre-
cipitating further trouble, LuederS was re-
leased, reached New York on Oct. 80. and
sal ed for Europe the same day.
The United States is credited with oner-
ing it's intervention in the difhculty. but
The German government is waiting for the
arrival of the report of Count Schwerin,
due by the next mail packet