The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-15
Cable Notes.

Senior Rio Branco has been appointed
Brazilian minister to Germany.
King Oscar. of Sweden and Norway. has
recovered his health and will resume the
reigns of government Jan. Il.
Two talented Berlin artists, Herr Guido
Frohberg and Herr Won Der Wonde, were
drowned yesterday while skating on Lake
Schwielow.
According to the Paris Gaulois. NJ.
Pichon, French minister to China, will
shortly be recalled from Peking at his own
request, owing to i'll health.
Four deaths from Bubonic plague &C.
CURED on the steamer Highland Prince.
which arrived in Shields England harbor
yesterday from the River Platte.
Pierce, Watts & Co., timber merchants,
one of the oldest firms in the business at
Liverpool, have been declared bankrupt.
Their abilities are estimated at ESQ., 900 and
their assets at $4,000.
In the Reichstag yesterday Herr Roe
sicke, Agrarian, said the fact that the Ger
man meat inspection bill not having, I'M
fortunately, been put in operation, could
easily be traced TO certain irresponsible
influences"
The United States ambassador. Andrew
d. White, will present President McKin-
ley's congratulations to Emperor William
on the occasion of the celebration of the BIZ
centenary of the Prussian kingdom, to-
gether with other diplomats, Jan. is.
According to the Moscow correspondent
OF the LONDON Ddlly MILL, Nt1tSlCudSll, tDt
painter, is going to China to paint a series
of pictures in the Chinese campaign. He
will break the journey at Manila In order
to portray incidents in the Philippine
operations.
The Madrid police have ransacked the
residence of the Marquis of Berralbo, a
representative of Don Carlos, failing. how
ever. to secure the they were
seeking. The authorities are closely watch
ing the movements of the Carlists, who are
believed to be Matching an important
scheme.
The results of the elections for the Aus
TRAN Reichsrath leave the relative strength
of parties in Vienna unchanged. In the
towns of lower Austria the Christian So
cfalists have lost a seat to the German
Peoples party, and the German Pro-
gressives have gained a seat from the IN
dependents.
Edward Bernstein, the Socialist, who was
expatriated from Germany many years ago,
has arranged for his return to Prussia next
month, the Prussian government having
abandoned the prosecution Of his offenses.
1t Is expected that he will lie Immediately
able to stand for the Reichstag.
Lady O'Hagan has been elected to preside
over the Burnley tEngland) School Board
as a Progressive by a majority OF one,
against the Church party. A Socialist gave
the deciding vote. She Immediately took
the chair, though a lively legal controversy
has been going on as 10 whether a woman
* eligible.
Private aQX1CeS from NOme assert tnat
the King and government of Italy have ac-
cepted a great project by Count Czapski
and Baron Douglas, Germans. for drying
out the Pontine marshes and rendering
them habitable and fertile. Negotiations
with opposing owners along the marshes
rave taken a favorable turn.
A Bordeaux hospital. where died a Span
ish gypsy as the result OF a wound re-
ceived in a quarrel, was the scene to-day
OF a grewsome incident. The death had
created great excitement in the gypsies'
quarter, and a delegation visited the hos
pital, rushed with wild cries TO where the
corpse Law and carried IL of rather than
suffer ii TO be touched by profane hands.
The case against Harriet Plathe and Hugo
Arndt which grew from the Sternberg case.
was tried at Berlin yesterday. The defen-
dants were charged with falsely accusing
States ATTORNEY isenbiel of favoring Stern
berg and with being bribed to do so. Plathe
was acquitted on account OF insufficient
evidence. Arndt was sentenced TO nine
months Imprisonment
An enormous crowd gathered at st. Savin,
guard. who last Friday, when pursued by
the police, shut himself In the garnet with
a quantity of arms aid ammunition and
threatened 10 kill any one who approached.
The gendarmes fired shots into the building
in the hope OF inducing him 20 appear. but
there was no response. and IL is believed ne
escaped or hanged himself. Ihe house
will be entered to-day.
The Odessa correspondent OF the London
Daily Mall, giving details OF the experiences
of the railway passengers who were snow
bound while on the way TO Odessa, says:
"All the trains have now arrived here.
The drifts have hardened TO the consistency
of ice, and In one case a tunnel had to be
cut through q drift 100 yards long and
thirty-eight feet deep. Many passengers