The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-15
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

1t is rumored that a crisis is imminent
In the Portuguese Cabinet.
Charles t. Yerkes is in England looking
after the construction of the Charing Cross
q Hampstead Railway.
The Berlin Street-railway Company has
adopted the American system of safety APP
pilances TO prevent running over pedes-
TRANS.
The official laboratory at Hamburg has
discovered that the sand which fell during
the recent snowstorm IN Ger
many came from the African Sahara.
William j. Bryan, on his way home from
New York, stopped off LONG enough in Chi
oago to pay his respects TO j. G.. johnson.
chairman Of the Democratic national exec
utive committee.
The general of the Dominicans has con-
voked a general chapter to meet at Client
June Is for a discussion of the situation
of the Dominicans in the Philippines,
France and South America.
The following Americans have been APP
pointed chevaliers of the Legion of Honor
in connection with the Paris exposition:
Col. Charles Chaille Long. James Deering,
Humphreys, the artist, and Mr.. Puig. an
engineer.
The London Times says II believes that
in addition to the sugar tax and the reim-
position of the registration duty of a shill-
ing on corn the British income tax will be
increased by twopence tax, or four pence
on the pound.
A French torpedo boat which had been
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Lerhin, sprang a leak at Brest yesterday
and suddenly began to fill. sinking in a
few minutes. The crew narrowly escaped
in the boats.
The annual report of the Hamburg-Amer-
lean Steamship Company, which has just
been published, shows net earnings for 1900
of 2~3,S65,92f marks. or an increase OF SOIL .SS5
marks upon the figures for 1899. The divi-
dend declared is 10 per cent, as against s
for the previous year.
Answering a question in the British House
of Commons yesterday Lord CranbOrne, the
under secretary for the Foreign Office, said
no steps had been taken by his Majesty's
government to revise the H~ay-Pauncefote
treaty, but the government would be ready
TO consider in a friendly way any pro-
posals made toward that object by the
United States.
Counsel for Miss Portia Knight has writ
ten a letter to the London papers denying
the statement. purporting to have been
made by the Duke of Manchester, to the
effect that he considered the action taken
to be quite unjustihed and that he believed
it had been dropped. According 10 counsel
the breach of promise suit Is proceeding
and the courts will decide whether it is
justified or not.
The invitation to participate in the shoot
ing contests to be held at Seagirt under the
auspices of the American National Rife
Association was brought TO the attention
of the Foreign Office at the proper time by
the United States embassy at Berlin and
by the German ambassador in Washington.
The matter has been referred to the proper
channels and notice of the meeting has
been made in the organs of the shooting
societies.
From a Berlin source usually reliable it
is ascertained that the negotiations be
tween the Prussian Cabinet and the i'm
perial secretaries of state regarding the ad-
visibility OF adopting the maximal and
minimal tariff system will require another
fortnight for completion. Count Won Bue-
low is understood not TO have reached a de-
cision on the subject. In the present nego-
tfotfonc MipfCfario1 DfraCtor Wprmnfh who
was German commissioner at the Column
bian Exposition in Chicago. Is the main ad-
vocate of maximal and minimal tariffs as
eth only available safeguards against the
tariff chicanery of foreign countries
AS a result of the Cabinet council. Cen
erat Andre. French minister of war. will
ask the senatorial commission on finances
10 adopt and submit TO the Senate the
clause in the budget, already voted by the
Chamber of Deputies, which authorizes the
minister of war to re-engage a certain
humble of privates at increased pay for re-
Movable periods, from one 10 five years,
and TO release a number of soldiers who are
the support of their families and who have
served one or two years under the cOlOrs.
The number OF engagement depends
upon the expense. which must not exceed
the economies resulting from releases. IL
years system VIII be definitely considered.
Its establishment would cost 20,000,000
francs a year.
Now that the British government has
admitted that II is building submarine
boats. the Vickers Company has given out
their corrected dimensions and other par
ticulars. They will be sixty-three feet
four inches long, have eleven feet nine
inches beam and have a submerged dis
placement of 30 tons. The main engine.
OF the gasoline type. viii be OF 100 horse
power. The boats will carry enough fuel
to enable them to steam 400 knots. The
maximum surface speed will be nine knots.
The main motor will be electric, giving
a submerged speed of seven knots. Means
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under a variety of conditions. The arma-
ment of these boats will consist of a single
torpedo expulsion tube. located In the bow
OF the vessel. They will be able 10 carry
five torpedoes. each eleven feet five inches
long.