The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-25
Cable Notes.

King Edward held a privy council at
Marlborough House. yesterday. when Mr..
Cecil Rhodes was resworn as d member or
the council.
In the pigeon-shooting competition at
Spa, Belgium, the prize of 600 was d.
yiGed between Robert A. WEIGH, OF Phila-
delphia. and Macintosh, the Australian,
each having a score OF twenty-one Kills.
The Sherry Corporation. according to the
London Daily Express. has paid eSeo.Oo for
a Seventy-year lease OF the Walslngham
House, hotel and restaurant. on Picea-
dilly, the reconstruction of which VIII De-
gin next September.
Premier Sagasta has announced the Span
ish governments programme. which Will
include the reorganization OF the army
the establishment of bases Tor naval opera
tions and the construction of an arsenal
on a vast scale.
According 10 the native intelligence"
says the Shanghai correspondent OF the
London Standard, Chinese and Russian
troops have been defeated by insurgents
In the southeastern part of Manchuria, and
the rebels are now destroying the telegraph
wires"
"The Rev. Mr.. Todd, an American clergy
man. was robbed of f1.0o while on the
Paris-Geneva express, says a ispat
from Geneva to the London Daily Mail.
fashionably dressed women and two pre-
sentable men,"
A British parliamentary paper gives the
numbers of persons i'm the concentration
camps In South Africa. in June. as follows:
| White. $3.50; colored. %. zS9. There were IA
I deaths among the whites in the camps, the
list including $40 children. The deaths
among the coiOred persons numbered D.
DIR. Kuyoer. the premier, will certainly
advance a scheme of mediation between
Great Britain and the Beers" says the
NleuesblaG Van Nederlanden. of Amster-
dam, soon after the new Ministry Is or
ganized. He has had long interviews with
the secretary of The Hague arbitration
court, Baron Won Tynden.'
I'll. Mill - go N-ilInl~ - DD+hr-
child. late head OF the RotEschild banking
house of New Frankfort. which was filed
In London because certain properties In
Great Britain were affected by The tesla
meEtary dispositions. leaves 100000 marks
and two houses TO Jewish charities. The
fortune of the deceased banker is not es-
timated.
The recent alleged attack by Albanians
upon the Russian consul at Uskub mas ere
ated considerable excitement at CONSTANT
nople. 1T appears that while the consul was
! proceeding 10 investigate the troubles In
the Kolashin district a party OF Albanians
pursued him and forced him to take refuge
in a school building, which they besieged.
until troops effected his release.
AT a largely attended meeting of Vienna
shoemakers a most determined protest was
lodged against the projected establishment
Of American shoe houses in Vienna, ano
the meeting resolved TO send a deputatior
to the minister of m and to the
provincial Governor begging them to in
terdict American houses from embarking
in the shoe business In that country.
In the British House OF Lords, Tuesday
night, the second reading of the bill alter
ing the terms of the royal declaration was
carried by an overwhelming majority. The
Roman Catholic peers did not, however.
yote for the bill and as the extreme Protest
ants will be alarmed lest security Tor the
maintenance of "A Protestant succession
should be diminished. it is impossible TO
expect the measure Will be passed into law
without a prolonged and acrimonious de-
bate.
Cash" Sloan, the American jockey. who
has been riding in Russia, had an exciting
experience at the Moscow races, where he
narrowly escaped death at the hands OF a
furious mob. Sloan had been riding with
such continuous success that his mounts
were always favorites. On the occasion in
|. question he rode a horse which had no
chance of winning. The unsophisticated
crowd, however, backed the Americans
mount, as usual, and when he was beaten
their Indignation boiled over. and a raging
mob of males and females savaeely at
tackled the jockey. who was rescued with
difficulty by a military contingent and a
powerful detachment Of police.