The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-10
BRIEF CABLEGRAMS.

The Dowager Empress Frederick con-
tinues in fairly good health, driving out in
the park daily.
The young Grand Duke of Oldenburg has
been entirely cured of his recent attack of
enlargement of the heart.
Adelbert S. Hay, former United States
consul at Pretoria, is a passenger on the
Southampton for New York yesterday.
In all the Catholic and Protestant
churches in Germany thanksgiving services
will be held to-day for Emperor Williams
escape from serious injury in the recent at
tack upon him.
The new German ambassador at St.
Petersburg, Count Won Alvensleben, in a
report recently made, states that at his
reception the Car said: Between myself
and the Kaiser there is never any misun-
d~erstanding."
has minated his intention TO defray the
budget deficiency Of $1,000 600 out of his pri-
vate purse. He has already betrayed per-
sOnaliy the cost of new batteries compris-
ing one hundred guns.
Placards posted in Stamboul by the young
Turkish party threaten to meet violence
on the part of the government with vio-
lence. One passage, directed against Rus
STA and Germany, asserts that Turkey is in
the bands of those powers.
The Macedonian committee has sum
moned an extraordinary ongres for March
81, at Sofia, TO consider the complications
in Macedonia. Great excitement prevails
ir Macedonian circles. and the expectation
is that there will be lively developments in
Macedonia.
Upon instructions received from Secre-
tary Hay, United States Ambassador White
has expressed President McKinley's SYM
pathy with the German Emperor over the
Bremen incident, together with the PreSi-
dents congratulations that the Emperor
had escaped more serious injury.
The officials of the Foreign Office at CO.
rNnnhnoan 1nnu that tho naOnffof innC rvffI
the United States for the sale of the
Danish West Indies nave been discontinued
and they confirm the statements from
Washington that no peremptory note has
teen sent to Denmark by the United States.
A special dispatch received by the Co.
logne Gazette from st. Petersburg says that
tfaffic should be opened on the whole Man
churian Railroad at the end of MAY. by
on the section between Khalar and TsIt-
sihar. The rest of the road has been CON-
pleted.
The former monk, Victor Ruthven, who,
March 4. drew a revolver TO protect him.
self against an Infatuated mob which at
tackled him at Shanlin, in the Isle of Wight,
while he was delivering an anti-Cathoiic
lecture, has been charged in the county
court of Newport, Isle of Wight, with
shooting with intent to kill. Ruthven plead
cd that he acted in self-defense. He was
remanded in custody for one week.
The German government has lately as
sumed a much milder attitude toward AL
sace-Lorraine, especially since the Emperor
was presented with the old castle of Hob
koenigsburg by the Diet of Alsace-Lor-
raine. A number of the old acerbities be-
tween Germany and Alsace-Lorraine have
been removed, the latest evidence of this
being in the shape of a permit for $50 ex-
PEELED Franco-Alsatians to return to the
country. 1t is also remarked that the atti-
tude of the Reichstag delegates from AL
sace-Lorraine, this session, is quite con-
ciliatory, and that they take an active part
in almost every subject under elaboration.
King Edward has bestowed an unusual
token OF recognition OF services upon Sir
Spencer Creil BrabazOn P~OnSonby-Fane. a
lifelong officer OF queen Victoria's house
hold. The recipient of the Kings favor,
who is broken down by old age, and is
retiring TO private life. was 10
Marlborough House, where the King, in a
few simple phrases of thanks for his
loyalty TO his mother. presented him with
the cane with which Queen Victoria walked
for thirty years. The old mans relatives
say that If the King had raised him to a
dukedom he could not have so kindled OF
touched his heart.