The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-08
GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

A dispatch from Stockholm says August
~Strindburg, the poet, and Harriet Bosse, the
actress, are engaged TO be married.
The statement of the British Board of
Trade for the month of February shows
an increase of e2,0 69,6 COO in imports, and a
decrease of e2,1S2. 40rin exports.
The German Reichstag has passed the
second reading of the naval estimates and
Endorsed almost unanimously the budget
committees recommendation for the eS-
adjustment of governmental works to
manufacture armor plate.
The Naples correspondent of La Reforma,
Of Brussels. says that the Duke of Orleans,
moved by the insults offered to the royalist
party, intends to go to Brussels with a
view of intervening in the conflict provoked
by the Deroulede-Buff affair.
The London Board of Trade Jurnal warns
British manufacturers that the report of
a British commercial agent in the United
States shows that American boots and
shoes are capturing markets where British
goods ought TO have a practical monopoly.
Ten persons were killed and many in
jured at Gelsenkirchen, Prussia, yesterday,
solidation mine. 1t is feared that others
are entombed. The adjoining shaft COL
lapsed, and at present it is impossible to
reach them.
A soldier employed in the castle in Cape
Town has been attacked by the bubonic
plague. Two Europeans have also been
attacked by the disease and a European
child has died of it. Twenty-four additional
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tact with those stricken.
Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry,
who are at Amsterdam, have received depu-
tations bearing wedding gifts. The nations
two bracelets of diamonds and Sapphires.
Other presents consisted of silver and
China service. The railways furnished a
complete royal train.
General Weyler, minister of war in the
new Spanish Cabinet. asserts that he will
use all his energy in the recognition of the
army in order to render ii useful for serv-
ice in all circumstances. He does not yet
know whether he will maintain as a whole
the reforms proposed by his predecessor.
General Linares has been appointed a cap
tain general.
Prince Ferdinand. in the course of his
speech at the opening of the Bulgarian
Sobranje yesterday, said the new Cabinet
should devote itself TO terminating the
strengthen the ties uniting Bulgaria with
her liberator, Russia, as well as TO culti-
waiting close relations with others, notably
Wit bordering states.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Daily Express says: Several Hungarian
villages have been isolated by the floods.
All along the banks of the Danube and it's
tributaries great damage has been done;
The lower quarter of Buda-Pesth is flooded
TO a depth of five feet. The bitter cold
is driving wolves from the Carpathian
mountains TO the villages below: They
have killed twelve people during the last
four weeks"
The French Chamber of Deputies yester-
day adopted Article II of the law of asso-
Citations after rejecting by a vote of Az
to 80 an amendment proposed by NJ. Vail
liant, Socialist, adding the word religious
to associations with the object of not him
dering the spread of labor associations. The
premier, M. Waldeck-Rousseau pointed out
that the law must deal with all associa-
lions in order TO place the government in
a position TO protect national security.
Baron Won Stumm-Halberg and Herr
krupp have now offered Admiral Won Tir-
pitt, the German naval secretary. armOr
plate at a reduced price, but the figures
are still 22 marks above American prices.
Consequently the budget committee of the
Reichstag. with but one dissenting vote,
that of Count Won Kardoff, has adopted the
resolution asking the cooperation of the
Bundezrath in establishing works for the
manufacture Of armor plate. Baron Won
Stumm-Halberg is now lying critically Ill.
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies yes
terday the new premier, SignOr lamar
dell, made the ministerial statement. He
said the Cabinet would devote its efforts
TO a liberal reform policy and would give
full attention TO assuring an honest adj
ministration of m and provinces,
and the rapid working of the public serv-
ices. A reform of the judicial system would
be undertaken in order TO enhance the
prestige OF the magistracy. He thought 1t
indispensable TO give the working classes
prompt pledges of the interest and SYM
pathy OF the government and Parliament.
Two British officers. Major A. II. Tracy
and Captain r. p. Cobbold, start to-day
for the capital of Abyssinia, where they
Will act as advisers to the Abyssinian
commander-in-chief, Ras Makonnen, in his
approaching expedition against the Mad
Mullah, who has been causing a disturb
ance in northern Somaliland. King Menelik
Will place twenty thousand men in the
field and the British will cooperate with
has Majesty's army by simultaneously
dispatching a force of troops from Berbera,
the seaport or east Africa on a bay OF the
Gulf of Alden. King Menelik's consent to
the presence of British officers with his
army = regarded here as Signalling the
restoration in Abyssinia OF British prestige.
so long overshadowed by Franco-Russian
activities.
The proposal that the Victorian memoir
ial shall take the form of a structure near
the Abbey. or possibly at Buckingham
Palace, with a statue OF the Queen as its
most prominent feature. is condemned as
Inadequate. says the New York Tribune's
London correspondent, and the King is
expected to refer II back 10 the committee
with a suggestion for a more comprehen-
sive scheme. II would probably involve the
erection of an isolated and inartistic val
halla, with a statue by Onslowford and
would be a commonplace memorial OF a
unique character and reign. The dean Of
Westminster. who consulted Queen Vic
toria respecting tie construction OF a
chapel as a memorial OF the jubilee, was
told By her that Il would be more appro-
pirate 10 her death than TO an anniversary
OF her coronation