The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-20
ITEMS FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

sion of a howitzer shell at Secunderabad,
India, yesterday.
Snow and northeast gales were general
throughout northern England and the mid
lands yesterday.
1t has been decided that the national
memorial TO Queen Victoria shall be
erected in front of Buckingham Palace.
a special dispatch from Rome says eight
soldiers and customs officers have been
killed by an avalanche near Lake Como.
A severe dynamite explosion occurred yes
terday at Darbeck, near which
is believed to have been the work of a spy.
Dowager Empress Marie Feodoroyna Of
Russia. arrived at Copenhagen yesterday
and was welcomed at the railway station
by King Christian.
The Rio de Janeiro Court of Assizes has
discharged from custody several persons
who were arrested on a charge of being i'm
plicated in a monarchist plot.
General SEWERS telegraphs that the
French mission to the GASES of Tuat and
Gurara against the hostile tribesmen is
nearing. conclusion and that Talmin. IN
the oasis OF Guara, was occupied March 10.
Captain KemIer. a retired German officer,
residing in Charlottenburg, who had been
in trouble in consequence of the alleged
misuse of borrowed funds, has disappeared.
1t is believed that he has come TO the
United States.
try because of its action regarding the tax
alton bills failed by a slender majority in
the lower house. The question of Russia's
action in Manchuria is about TO be con-
sidered by the chamber.
Herren Liebrtan and Book. Socialists.
were yesterday elected president and vice
president, respectively. of the United Diet
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the first Ger
man parliament to choose both presiding
officers from the Socialist party.
There will be-a plenary sitting of the
Netherlands state council next Thursday,
when Prince Henry will be installed a
y0amhar DIrnnn NAi1hnIrnfpn mill D-,~fl1 g.
the first time, and will conduct the cere-
mony of installation. Her Majesty will de-
liver a speech. and Prince Henry will reply.
The jury in the trial of John II. Donald.
charged will killing William Snyder. at
Higginsport, o., in August, 1899, yesterday
returned a verdict at Batavia of assault
and battery and the prisoner was fined 500
and costs. Donald was convicted of murder
IN the first degree at d former trial in
Georgetown
The steamer Port Morant, the pioneer
vessel of the imperial direct West India
mail service, which sailed March 6 from
Kingston, Jamaica, for Bristol. with the
first fruit shipped direct from Jamaica to
England. has signaled at Lundy island
that her cargo of bananas and oranges is
in good condition.
The latest investigation shows Dietrich
Wieland, the man who recently threw a
piece of iron at Emperor William i'm the
streets Of Bremen, was attacked epilepti-
cally while throwing the missile at His
Z llS det lAt nl1h ~ ldIl dllQ
he was not thrown to the ground by the
mounted police riding>over him as at first
reported.
The palace of the imperial chancellor
at Berlin is undergoing interior recon-
struction, Countess Won Buelow being the
moving spirit. The Reichstag has appro-
priated 200.O 600 marks for the work. Count
Won Limburg-stirum, Bismarek's old
friend. securing a provision that Bis
marck's study shall be preserved I'M
changed.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung to-day prints
private correspondence from the Cars
immediate encourage which says the epilep-
tic attacks which formerly occurred every
four or six weeks have not occurred since
his Majesty's illness. 1t is also said that his
headaches have disappeared and his face
has grown full and round. His complexion
is healthy.
Lord Cranborne, the British foreign under
secretary, in the House of yes
terday gave the quietus TO the stories Of
Turkish excuses at Uskub. European Tur-
key, and its vicinity, by saying the British
consul reported that a policeman and two
Bulgarians We're killed in January at Ishtib.
during a search for arms, and that fifteen
BulgaTians had since been arrested there.
Chile is facing a new political crisis. The
Liberal Cabinet, which succeeded the Con-
sentative Ministry forced out by Congress
recently, has failed to satisfy the Liberal
adopted by the Valparaiso Chamber of Dep
uties declaring the Cabinet ministers do not
represent the political tendencies of the
majority of the chamber. The Ministry
then resigned.
After a long debate the German Reichstag
yesterday rejected the proposal of Herr
Bebel. the Socialist leader, for a bill whereby
children born of house-slaves in German
colonial territory should be free. The house
accepted a proposal Of Herr Groeber, Cen
trist, and Count Won Oriola, National Lib
eral, that the Reichstag should consider the
relations between masters and slaves. with
the view of preparing for the liberation of
the latter.
The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon Of Ke-
dleston, has t~elegraphed to the India Of